<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:x2" class="gmail-Am gmail-aiL gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:240px" aria-controls=":zh" aria-expanded="false"><div>Dear Colleagues,<br>Terra Edwards will be talking about her new book,
<em>Going Tactile: Life at the Limits of Language</em> in an hour<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(88,89,91);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.32px">In the 1990s, leaders of the DeafBlind community in Seattle (people who started out as Deaf children, acquired American Sign Language, and eventually became blind) 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. In </span><em style="color:rgb(88,89,91);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.32px">Going Tactile</em><span style="color:rgb(88,89,91);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.32px">, Terra Edwards explores life in DeafBlind communities in the U.S. through an ethnographic lens. Drawing on thirty months of anthropological fieldwork with DeafBlind artists, intellectuals, political leaders, and community members, the author shows how the protactile movement created autonomous spaces away from sighted norms. These spaces of communication call into question the nature of language and the relationship between being in, and representing, the world. Highlighting the possibility of life after collapse, </span><em style="color:rgb(88,89,91);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.32px">Going Tactile </em><span style="color:rgb(88,89,91);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.32px">assesses the limits of language and representation and, ultimately, what it means to find a new way of being in the world.</span></div></div></div>