From jeffchiu@u.washington.edu Mon Oct 7 14:03:45 2002 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g97L3fFD075598 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:03:42 -0700 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Oct 07 14:03:41 2002 -0700 Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.19]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g97L3fdY030004 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:03:41 -0700 Received: from mailscan-out1.cac.washington.edu (mailscan-out1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.17]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g97L3e7J010251 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:03:41 -0700 Received: FROM dante52.u.washington.edu BY mailscan-out1.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Oct 07 14:03:39 2002 -0700 Received: from localhost (jeffchiu@localhost) by dante52.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.08) with ESMTP id g97L3dm4118214 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:03:39 -0700 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:03:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Chiu" To: transgroup@u.washington.edu Subject: stuff to do Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hey All, Here's some stuff from Thursday's meeting, which was tremendously helpful for me and I hope for Kellie and Lesley as well (you two rock!). There are several key issues I think we need feedback on as a group, so feel free to reply with your thoughts and concerns. The items below are a mish-mash of our collective thinking, and the proposal due in Nov depends on resolving many of them. Expansion/change in the core group: to justify our characterization of the project as a truly "transdisciplinary" one, we need to have core members from outside the English dept to help us plan, organize and direct. Perhaps in our constitution, we should even have a provision for group membership and its distribution among different depts? We drew up a list of depts that might be interested in the Project: cultural anthropology, geography, poli-sci, the Jackson school, women studies, sociology, history, communications, public affairs. If you know of anyone who might be interested, it'd be a good idea to invite them to meet with us and see if they're interested in assuming a major role. Which brings us to the reading group: we've agreed the readings should prep us for Lowe's visit in Jan. In addition to her intro to _The Politics of Culture_, maybe we could also read her 1998 article from Cultural Critique (1998 Fall; 40: 29-47), titled "The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique." Kellie, Lesley, can we schedule the first reading group meeting to be sometime in the next three weeks or so? That would give us a chance to have individuals from other depts attend, contribute ideas to the group's activities, and sign on to the core group if the vibe is right. The form of next year's activity: will it be a "collaborative research project"? A lecture series? A conference, even? What will we spend the money from the Simpson Center on? Will we continue to explore pedagogy and questions of field, or find some other focus in transnational studies? One interesting suggestion that came up is that we could focus on inviting people at UW for lectures, workshops, etc. This would limit expenses and also allow us to do a lot more with less, so to speak. I plan to talk with Chandan about some of these things and ask for a letter of recommendation to accompany the proposal. Someone mentioned that Alys would be a good person for the other required letter; could someone approach her about it? I don't know her very well. Sorry if I've seemed jittery or pushy about this stuff. I'm just feeling the urgency of having all this come together in order for a strong proposal to be made. Thanks, Jeff .