From lalarkin@u.washington.edu Mon Sep 30 11:31:14 2002 Received: from mailscan2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g8UIVBFD022116 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:31:11 -0700 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan2.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Sep 30 11:31:10 2002 -0700 Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g8UIV9Is028551 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:31:10 -0700 Received: from mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.17]) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g8UIV9OZ009124 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:31:09 -0700 Received: FROM hymn08.u.washington.edu BY mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Sep 30 11:31:07 2002 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn08.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.08) with ESMTP id g8UIV7Ls002681 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:31:07 -0700 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:31:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Lesley A. Larkin" To: Transnational Studies Group Subject: Re: Transnational Studies Project (fwd) In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020929163951.00abbb70@jeffchiu.deskmail.washington.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hey everyone, I hope you're all having a good first day back! Proposal Draft Meeting: Thursday after 2:30 would be my first choice of the dates Jeff mentioned for a draft meeting. I'm looking forward to seeing Jeff's draft. We can plan then to ask for the recommendation letters Todd mentioned; I don't mind following up with Alys. Funding: Sounds like Todd and Rahul have the funding requests under control. I may follow up with Cynthia Steele from Spanish, as I should be meeting with her in the next couple of weeks. Constitution: Everything looks fine to me. I like Jeff's revision--it is much less limiting and sounds really nice! Do we also want to maintain the goal of reinvisioning the public university? If so, we could simply add "at our public universities" in between "critical perspectives" and "in transnational times." That small revision, however, might create a burdensome string of prepositional phrases. I'd like to see mention of the public university, but I don't think it's absolutely necessary--it certainly falls within the breadth of Jeff's revision. Workload/New Members: I would support the inclusion of another core member, and I think Brian definitely has a lot to offer. With some of us expecting a decrease in participation over the course of the year, it certainly makes sense to share the work. This goes for Todd and Rahul co-chairing as well: Whatever will make this year go smoothly for all of us is fine with me. Looking forward to seeing you all soon, Lesley -- Lesley Larkin Teaching Assistant Department of English Box 354330 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-4330 206-685-1845 On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Jeffrey Chiu wrote: > > Hi all, > > I think Article II ("purpose" section) of the constitution should be more > broadly inclusive of "transnational literacy" without referencing pedagogy > per se. Todd, Rahul and I ran into one another Friday and discussed this-- > while pedagogy is the focus of this year's lecture series, I don't think > the purpose of the Project should be limited to dealing with institutional > practices of teaching. Lesley, Kellie, feel free to add your thoughts on this. > > How about something like: > It shall be the purpose of this organization to promote and organize > collaborative and interdisciplinary graduate study of "transnational > literacies": the knowledge, skills and strategies for creating and > sustaining critical perspectives in transnational times. > > By defining literacies in this broad fashion, we can keep ourselves open to > a wide range of possible directions for the organization in the years to > come, while staying faithful to the thrust of our current work (I hope). > > Lesley & Kellie: I've been working on the proposal today, and will try to > finish a draft by the time we meet. This week sounds good to me... Tue > through Thursday after 2:30 works best for me, and anytime Friday is good too. > > Todd: Lowe's connection to the Asian American Cultural Critique series is a > surprise to me as well. You might want to ask Chandan about this, since > he's been working with us to get Lowe and is also involved with the > A.A.C.C. series as well. > > Regarding more group members: I support this wholeheartedly, and have some > other ideas about organizing that I'd rather talk about in person than over > email. > > Jeff > > .