From tietchen@u.washington.edu Tue Oct 8 09:03:27 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g98G3LFD055934 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:03:21 -0700 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Tue Oct 08 09:03:20 2002 -0700 Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.5]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g98G3Kng030379 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:03:20 -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 g98G3K0Q008554 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:03:20 -0700 Received: FROM dante10.u.washington.edu BY mailscan-out3.cac.washington.edu ; Tue Oct 08 09:03:19 2002 -0700 Received: from localhost (tietchen@localhost) by dante10.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.08) with ESMTP id g98G3JDw099796 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:03:19 -0700 Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:03:19 -0700 (PDT) From: todd f tietchen To: Transnational Studies Group Subject: Re: stuff to do In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hey all...I am happy your meeting went so well. I think the strategy you've come up with is the correct one. As far as other group members go, I have exchanged e-mails with Gina Aaf (Geography) and Arda Ibokuglu (Political Science) who are interested in participating in this project. I will also talk to the history people in Nikhil's "black globality" class, as a few are interested in theories of globalization. This is very exciting... I suppose we should probably gauge interest from these other students and set up a meeting in which a possible direction for next year is discussed, along with the re-composition of the core group along more pronounced interdisciplinary lines. Kellie had mentioned discussing possible readings with grad students from other disciplines--this can be done at that time as well. As should have been clear from other e-mails, while I plan to be involved in the group's activities next year, my involvement will most likely be minimal. That doesn't mean, however, that I'm not committed to making sure this project continues to evolve into next year and I will work very hard to assure that it does. I appreciate the work and commitment everyone else has shown in this direction. This project will no doubt fly. I should have concrete news in terms of series funding by the end of next week. Rahul has a meeting with CIDR today--they appear interested in paying for the Walker Ames room for the Lowe talk in addition to paying for the reception afterward. Nice work, Rahul. Let's all hope this works out. In any case, it appears we'll have enough funding for the second speaker as well. More on this later. Hope all is well with your quarter--T. _______________________________________________________________________________ Todd F. Tietchen Department of English University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-4330 On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, J. Chiu wrote: > > 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 > > .