From kholzer@u.washington.edu Mon Jan 13 20:16:31 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 h0E4GUCK042760 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:16:30 -0800 Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.134]) by mxu7.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0E4GSGO026846 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:16:28 -0800 Received: from hymn01.u.washington.edu (hymn01.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.155]) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0E4GRpG021947 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:16:27 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn01.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0E4GRrt000392 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:16:27 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:16:27 -0800 (PST) From: kholzer@u.washington.edu To: Transnational Studies Group Subject: Re: Lisa Lowe In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hi group, I'd also like to help hang fliers/posters. I don't have a car, but I can help someone else (Lesley?) with the reception catering. Brian also has excellent skills in that department. Regarding a large group meal, and who to invite, I think David went back to Chicago--perhaps someone can confirm this. There is a grad student in the History dept. who specializes in Asian-American immigration history--Seema Hossein. I'd love to include her, along with Caroline, in our large group meal. I agree with Rahul, that a more intimate meal and conversation would also be wonderful. Congratulations to Todd! And thanks, all, for attending the reading group and making it a fun and educational experience for me. I'm looking forward to the next one. Kellie On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 lalarkin@u.washington.edu wrote: > Hey everybody, > > Nice to see you all at the reading group last week! Here are my brief replies to Todd's message: > > I would be happy to help hang posters, just let me know where. > > I also don't mind offering transportation. I see that Rahul is planning to pick Lisa Lowe up at the airport, but if she needs to be otherwise taken here or there, I'm happy to drive as well. Rahul, will you let me know? > > I can certainly help make food arrangements for the reception. Perhaps two of us can plan to pick up and assemble some inexpensive fare. How many attendees, by the way, should we expect? Does someone else want to work on this too? > > All the lunch and dinner plans sound fine. Where is it customary to go for that kind of thing? Are we planning to have lunch on the day of the workshop (I imagine several of the workshop attendees would be invited to the lunch). Or is it better to reserve Friday for the dinner? > > Thanks again to all of you for all your hard work this past quarter. I look forward to the next reading group (yes, questions sound like a good idea) and to the Lisa Lowe events. > > Lesley > > > > -- > Lesley Larkin > Teaching Assistant > Department of English Box 354330 > University of Washington > Seattle, WA 98195-4330 > 206-685-1845 > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, todd f tietchen wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > .