<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div>I
am so pleased to announce that the CaMP reading group is starting up
again this year with Courtney Handman as the featured author tomorrow. <br>Courtney
Handman has asked us to read her introduction and chapter 3. 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><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VU3KfKBskb3se1Ov2nqJfFrpc63BMpP/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VU3KfKBskb3se1Ov2nqJfFrpc63BMpP/view?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div><div>The whole book is available open access here: <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/circulations/paper" target="_blank">https://www.ucpress.edu/books/circulations/paper</a></div><div><br></div><div>The
meeting will be at noon to 1 pm east coast time -tomorrow -Friday,
January 30th and 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><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>If you want to see the full line-up for this year, you can find it here: <a href="https://campanthropology.org/virtual-reading-group/" target="_blank">https://campanthropology.org/virtual-reading-group/</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,<br><br>Ilana</div></div><div><br></div><div>Press blurb:<br>In <i>Circulations</i>,
Courtney Handman examines the surprising continuities in the ways that
modernist communications discourses shaped both colonial and decolonial
projects in Papua New Guinea. Often described as a place with too many
mountains and too many languages to be modern, Papua New Guinea was seen
as a space of circulatory primitivity—where people, things, and talk
could not move. Colonial missionaries and administrators, and even
anticolonial delegations of the United Nations Trusteeship Council,
argued that this circulatory primitivity could be overcome only through
the management of communication infrastructures, bureaucratic
information flows, and the introduction of English. Innovatively
bringing together analyses of radios, airplanes, telepathy, bureaucracy,
and lingua francas, <i>Circulations</i> argues
for the critical role of communicative networks and communicative
imaginaries in political processes of colonialism and decolonization
worldwide. </div>
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