From rgairola@u.washington.edu Tue Oct 8 17:01:52 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 g9901jFD118530 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:01:45 -0700 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Tue Oct 08 17:01:45 2002 -0700 Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g9901idY031637 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:01:45 -0700 Received: from mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.17]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g9901i8t001611 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:01:44 -0700 Received: FROM hymn08.u.washington.edu BY mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu ; Tue Oct 08 17:01:43 2002 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn08.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.08) with ESMTP id g9901hLs023551 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:01:43 -0700 Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:01:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Rahul Gairola To: Transnational Studies Group Subject: CIDR update In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hello all: I wanted to debrief you on all on the meeting I had today with the folks at the CIDR. The meeting generally went well though we did encounter a salient problem along the way. Lana and Brenda were quite nice though a little eager to persuade us to do things their way. This is what CIDR would like to do. It wants to fund Lowe's lecture on 1/30 and include it as one of their quarter forum events on their website. This means CIDR would specifically: -- Cover full cost of Lowe's honorarium -- Cover full cost for use of the Walker Ames Room -- Host a food and drink reception the night of the lecture (not the workshop) -- Extensive campus-wide publicity This truly is an exceptional offer but there is one outstanding problem: their traditional time for quarter forum events has always been 3:30-5pm, and they made quite a fuss about not knowing that our event was an evening event (this is not mentioned in the grant prop). I explained that this part of Lowe's visit was scheduled far in advance, and that I had faithfully reserved the Simpson Center seminar and main room for the syllabus workshop during that time. They, however, seem to be more enthusiastic about her lecture. They wondered whether we might ask Lowe to speak at 3:30pm instead of 7pm because the audience will, according to their estimates, be more inclusive of campus faculty (who the CIDR is committed to working with). I basically apologized and said that I would inquire about changing the time but as far as I knew this had been established well in advance. They said despite what happens, this DOES NOT mean they won't fund us or at least help us widely publicize the event, but they do hope we can move up the time and attract a wider campus audience that wouldn't cut into people's commuting/ dinner times. They also made the point that since so many UW folks have kids and other post-5pm responsibilities, this might limit the number of UW people we attract. They said their main goal is to fund our event if it is specifically tailored to benefit UW faculty, staff, and students. Lana and Brenda have asked me to get back to them about the time and confirm when Lowe will talk as soon as possible. We have also reserved the Walker Ames Room for Lowe's lecture. They fully understand that she must have booked a flight and may have other plans that prevent her from speaking earlier. However, they told me that their time slot might conflict and that they might consequently re-think some of the funding they initially promised (see above). In their words, "It doesn't make much sense for us to extensively fund this event if the people we would like to benefit from it cannot attend." Though I assured them that Lowe would equally draw a massive crowd in the evening, they nonetheless asked me to check on the time and they will go back to Dr. Wulff, the director of the Center, and let him knwo that our event is at 7pm not 3:30pm. Any thoughts? Rahul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rahul Krishna Gairola Department of English Office: Padelford B33 University of Washington Hours: M, W 10:30-12pm Seattle, WA 98195-4330 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .