<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 Christina Schwenkel as the featured author tomorrow -- beginning at <b>noon,</b> ending at 1 pm east coast time.</div><div><br>She has asked us to read Act 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: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w8-n9Tl5UaigrhgeQJo5fikDYKAry8ji/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w8-n9Tl5UaigrhgeQJo5fikDYKAry8ji/view?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>For readers who would like to access the audio and audiovisual files within the text itself (rather than through QR codes), I would suggest they read or download the Open Access version of the ePub directly through Luminos: <a href="https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.249" target="_blank">https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.249</a></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The meeting happens tomorrow 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: <span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(99,99,99);font-family:__Montserrat_a6ed1b,system-ui,sans-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> In an era dominated by visual information, what can the sounds of a pandemic reveal about crisis and care? How might attuning to sonic atmospheres uncover new dimensions to states of emergency and their implications for collective life? In </span><i style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(191,191,191);color:rgb(99,99,99);font-family:__Montserrat_a6ed1b,system-ui,sans-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Sonic Socialism</i><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(99,99,99);font-family:__Montserrat_a6ed1b,system-ui,sans-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">, Christina Schwenkel examines the use of sound in COVID-19 response efforts in urban Vietnam. Based on "soundwork" conducted in Hanoi in 2020 during the pandemic's first year, she shows how acoustic technologies played a pivotal yet overlooked role in state efforts to achieve record-low infection rates worldwide. Across lived experiences of quarantine, lockdown, and spatial distancing, Schwenkel explores sound-based interventions to curb virus transmission, and the public's response to these auditory measures. From instant messaging alerts to public health videos and neighborhood loudspeakers, sonic governance sought to transform urban sounds and listening practices to mobilize action, drawing people into networks of care and control. As anthropology stands at a crossroads, </span><i style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(191,191,191);color:rgb(99,99,99);font-family:__Montserrat_a6ed1b,system-ui,sans-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Sonic Socialism</i><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(99,99,99);font-family:__Montserrat_a6ed1b,system-ui,sans-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> makes the compelling case for the value of sensory autoethnography in reimagining a more careful and caring ethnographic practice in a post-pandemic world.</span></div></div>
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