From rgairola@u.washington.edu Mon Jan 13 12:41:08 2003 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0DKf7CK022988 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:41:07 -0800 Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.134]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0DKewHA012547 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:40:58 -0800 Received: from hymn08.u.washington.edu (hymn08.u.washington.edu [140.142.16.149]) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0DKevpG005146 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:40:57 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn08.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0DKevkK031185 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:40:57 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:40:57 -0800 (PST) From: Rahul Gairola 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 all, Please see my replies below to each of T's concerns: ************************ Rahul Krishna Gairola Department of English Box 354330 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-4330 ----- USA ----- ************************ 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? Yes for me! I'd also encourage folks to bring with them at least three or four salient passages they have marked. This allows us to compare and contrast what jumped out to others, and lets us engage with a whole passage rather than a single word (proletarianizing). Any thoughts? > 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. I would greatly appreciate it if folks could help me wallpaper the campus. WHo would be willing to commit to putting up at least 15 posters in different halls? We can assign halls so we don't doublt up and we can do this according to folks' teaching and class buildings. Volunteers? > 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?). Still waiting to hear from Lowe myself... > 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. Excellent... > 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. I say we meet Lowe before the talk and restrict at least one dinner/ lunch for just ourselves. We must be generous to ourselves as well when pannign out these professional experiences. Of course we should also open the dinner up to others. Do you folks think that we could also ask for others' help in putting up posters. I'm sure an invite to dine with Lowe would be a great incentive! What do others think? > 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.? It is crucial that we allow Todd to focus on exam stuff while we take the reigns for this event. Iwill pick up Lowe and be her host -- no worries about that. One question: can I be reimbursed for campus parking on Friday? Please let me know how else I can help... PS> In case you didn't hear: CONGRATS TO TODD for winning a Simpson Center dissertation fellowship!! > Looking forward to hearing from all of you--T. > _______________________________________________________________________________ > Todd F. Tietchen > Department of English > University of Washington > Seattle, WA 98195-4330 > > > .