Ben,

I am delighted to get this message and you can certainly count on me to be on board with these plans! I'll be there on Wednesday.

-Debbie

Deborah Reed-Danahay, Ph.D.

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Associate Professor of Anthropology

College of Liberal Arts

University of Texas at Arlington

Arlington, TX 76019

817/272-3291

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Agger [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:52 AM
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Subject: Center for Theory rises from the ashes!

Let's reinvigorate the Center for Theory! I'm proposing a meeting on Wednesday, February 26^th, at noon in University Hall 213. If you can't come, we'll send you a summary of the meeting. In the meantime, feel free to send me/us ideas about what you want on our emerging agenda.

1. For myself, I'd like to have some discussion about launching a speakers series, bringing in national and international people.

2. I 'd like the Center for Theory to play a more active role in graduate-student recruitment (so that we faculty have students with whom to work and so that our courses 'make'!)

3. We already have a Web page (www.uta.edu/center-for-theory/) and we could use someone to update and improve this.

4. At the risk of utopianism that may be unjustified in these times, I'd really like to start a conversation about converting the Center for Theory into an academic home.

Also, please send me the names and e-mail addresses of faculty and grad students who may not know about this group because they are new to UTA so that I can include them on the Center's listserv and thus invite them to this meeting.

And please inform interested parties about this meeting and bring them along.

Best,

Ben Agger