Hello Gradcoll,
The end of first semester, the holiday, the beginning of the second,
on-going projects-commitments-responsibilities and on, have perhaps (I hope)
been the prime reason why we may have lapsed into a familiar rut. We've done
the personal introductions, placed our personal positions into view, and I
imagine that's a step that we're used to as graduate students: who you
(individually) are and what you (individually) are doing along with some
fantastic reasons about WHY. I can't help thinking that this is the easy
although certainly necessary part. It was great to hear the voices, to read
the investments, to notice the tremendous overlaps in our individual concerns.
Except, of course, they aren't simply individual concerns, they are OUR
concerns but haven't quite been stated as such. And I'm still interested in
working for this to be collectively enACTED. Here's an immediately practical
offering:
A Pot Luck chez-moi, 718 S. College
Friday, January 31, 6:30
Meet, chat, connect, build.
Bring what you want, we'll eat what's there.
This is contingent on the consent of my roommate, but he's on this listserv
too. So Dave . . . I hope it's OK. I know this is short notice, we can
arrange something else if we need. Aled mentioned earlier the possibility of
having us go over a short essay about the fate of the academy by Gillory (sp),
a Bourdieuian who has some provacative (and not so rosey) things to say about
university and their attendent academics. In any case, what do people say?
--Rich
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