<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 in an hour. <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><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VU3KfKBskb3se1Ov2nqJfFrpc63BMpP/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VU3KfKBskb3se1Ov2nqJfFrpc63BMpP/view?usp=sharing</a><br><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 in an hour 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></div>
</div>