<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,<br>Terra Edwards will be talking about her new book,
<em>Going Tactile: Life at the Limits of Language</em> in two weeks -- noon east coast time on August 30th.<br></div><div><br></div><div>
The meeting can be reached by clicking on this Zoom link:<br><br><a href="https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698" target="_blank"> https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698</a></div><div><br>
</div><div><br>She
has asked us to read chapter 3, and offers the introduction for anyone
wanting more background. Please read as much as you can, but do
feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read everything.<br><br>The reading can be found here:</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 3 -- <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B538PkUkbylHy-F3vlYeEntvumyErqPz/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B538PkUkbylHy-F3vlYeEntvumyErqPz/view?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div>introduction - <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ci7vr_yLmSG-tsE_qsq0aBeolgfhItXr/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ci7vr_yLmSG-tsE_qsq0aBeolgfhItXr/view?usp=sharing</a><div><br>PLEASE NOTE: The reading group meets from 12-1 pm EST<br>on the last Friday of the month in a semester based US-American academic calender.<br><br><br>Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,<br><br>Ilana</div><div><br></div><div>Press blurb: <span style="color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">In the 2010s, leaders of the DeafBlind community in Seattle called into question the community's dependence on sighted interpreters and sought new ways of communicating, interacting, and navigating through touch. This effort became the "protactile movement," and it spread quickly across the country. </span><span class="m_-8080143509877589124a-text-italic" style="color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><i>In Going Tactile</i></span><span style="color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">, Anthropologist Terra Edwards draws on thirty months of ethnographic fieldwork with DeafBlind artists, intellectuals, political leaders, and community members, to show how autonomous spaces away from sighted norms were created and life was re-imagined. In doing so, she offers a new perspective on the nature of language, its limits, and what it means to find a new way of being in the world.</span></div></div>