From tietchen@u.washington.edu Sun Jan 12 10:07:41 2003 Received: from mxu7.u.washington.edu (mxu7.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.165]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0CI7fCK013534 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 10:07:41 -0800 Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mxu7.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0CI7bGO009539 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 10:07:37 -0800 Received: from dante59.u.washington.edu (dante59.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.109]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0CI7abL012802 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 10:07:36 -0800 Received: from localhost (tietchen@localhost) by dante59.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0CI7avw154264 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 10:07:36 -0800 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 10:07:36 -0800 (PST) From: todd f tietchen To: transgroup@u.washington.edu Subject: Lisa Lowe Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report="SPAM_PHRASE_01_02" Hi everyone...It was good seeing all of you the other day. Thank you Kellie and Brian for the work you've done on the reading group. I thought it was, for the most part, a productive meeting. I would like to suggest that in the future we consider having one or so members of the reading group produce a set of 4 or 5 questions for our consideration. That would give us a document to focus on in those situations when the conversation starts to stray too far from the text. I mentioned this to Jeff and some others after the reading group meeting, and Jeff volunteered to generate some questions for the next reading group. Does this sound like a good idea to everyone else? Lisa Lowe business: Lowe's visit is approaching and there's much to be done. In terms of event promotion, Rahul, Leslie Jackson and I composed a Simpson Center flyer which I suppose we should start posting by the end of this week. We'll need volunteers to help post flyers in Padelford and other relevant departments (History, Geography, etc.) I will stop by the Simpson Center tomorrow and pick up copies of the flyer. Please let me know what you'll be able to do in this regard. There's also the issue of promoting the workshop, which we can probably do over the Simpson Center site. We want to keep this to 30 spots, and of course several of those spots go to us. We'll need to draft a Simpson Center announcement ASAP. But we'll first need to know what it is Lowe is going to discuss (Rahul, have you heard from her yet?). As far as the talk goes, I have asked Chandan to do an introduction. I'll prepare some brief introductory comments for the workshop. If anyone is feeling ambitious, you might consider drafting a document which explains what the TSP is and events for the rest of the year to distribute at the talk and workshop. It might also be a good idea to start building an e-mail list at some of these events. Finally, there's the issue of food and the reception. There are a couple of ways to handle this. We can either offer to take Lowe to dinner before or after her talk (that'd be pretty late) or on the day of the workshop. What does everyone think? Where should we go to dinner and who should be included? As far as the reception goes, we'll need to cater this ourselves and get reimbursed from the department. I'll need someone to volunteer to do this. I'd be happy to put the money up if necessary, then get reimbursed Susan Williams. Let's try to keep ourselves to $200--just some wine and other (not too elaborate) snacks. I will also talk to Kathleen Woodward who typically springs for lunch for speakers and grad students. If she's willing to do this, I say we restrict dinner to ourselves and some faculty members, and reserve some lunch spots for Caroline Yang, David Cho and others who would benefit from speaking with Lowe. As my exams are approaching quickly, it would be helpful to know how much of this work others are willing to do...? I hope this covers it all--is there anything I left out? Rahul: does Lowe need someone to picke her up from the airport, escort her around, etc.? Looking forward to hearing from all of you--T. _______________________________________________________________________________ Todd F. Tietchen Department of English University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-4330 .