From jeffchiu@u.washington.edu Mon Sep 30 18:12:23 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 g911CKFD058056 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:12:20 -0700 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan2.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Sep 30 18:12:20 2002 -0700 Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.5]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g911CKdY000595 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:12:20 -0700 Received: from mailscan-out3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan-out3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.18]) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g911CJ0Q023921 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:12:20 -0700 Received: FROM smtp.washington.edu BY mailscan-out3.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Sep 30 18:12:19 2002 -0700 Received: from jambalaya.u.washington.edu (rdslppp113.sttl.uswest.net [63.224.35.113]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.08) with ESMTP id g911CHql007226 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:12:18 -0700 Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20020930180435.03f3bf40@jeffchiu.deskmail.washington.edu> X-Sender: jeffchiu@jeffchiu.deskmail.washington.edu (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:12:16 -0700 To: transgroup@u.washington.edu From: Jeffrey Chiu Subject: Re: Transnational Studies Project (fwd) In-Reply-To: References: <5.1.1.6.0.20020929163951.00abbb70@jeffchiu.deskmail.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I'll mark Thursday on my calendar unless I hear otherwise. Let's meet in the grad lounge. A small afterthought about my revision: the train of thought was to use "critical" to signal a difference from other projects located in academia that merely advocate, however implicitly, adaptation to the changes accompanying globalization and transnational phenomenon (ex. projects that a business program might sponsor). A critical perspective would include pedagogical concerns but also other lines of inquiry that resist complicity with, say, taking globalization simply at face value. Hmm, that was probably more convoluted than necessary. Sorry. I'm tired. Thanks, Jeff At 11:31 AM 9/30/2002 -0700, you wrote: >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 > > > > .