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Dear list members, If you will be attending the MLA Convention in Chicago at the end of this week, you may be interested in participating in the "idea jam" session that I am helping to facilitate. Text-nology Idea Jam: Doing New & Old Things with Old & New Books Special Session Saturday, January 11th 5:15 to 6:20 pm Chicago H, Chicago Marriott Organizer: Tamara O¹Callaghan (Northern Kentucky University) Facilitators: William Germano (Cooper Union) Andrea Harbin (SUNY Cortland) Clarissa Ai Ling Lee (Duke University) Katherine M. Ruffin (Wellesley College) Eleanor Shevlin (West Chester University) Sarah Werner (Folger Shakespeare Library) There are no formal paper presentations. The session will be driven largely by audience participation. Each facilitator will quickly propose an open-ended question about how new technologies could/should (not) change the textual form and reading experience of the ³book.² Audience members will work in groups with the facilitator whose question most intrigues them, and then each group will present their findings to the rest of the room. An idea jam is rather like crowdsourcing in situ. For more details on the MLA event, including brief outlines of the questions that will likely be proposed, please see the following webpage: http://www.nku.edu/~ocallaghant/IdeaJamMLA2014.htm <https://email.nku.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=vznU4JjNcUezM7MIkbJYujXKlGhh39AIsfTk 8OIE6R1wW_yYFGktUHHpZ7qB9xPF34s7CauGmz0.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.nku.edu%2f%7eo callaghant%2fIdeaJamMLA2014.htm> Hope to see some of you there! Andrea Harbin (with apologies for cross-posting)