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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">On behalf of the SIGCIS organizing committee -- Morgan Ames, Steph Dick,<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span class="x_ContentPasted3 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Xiaochang
Li, </span>Laine Nooney, Colette Perold, Gili Vidan, and myself -- I am happy to announce that the program for the 14</span><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><span class="x_x_x_GramE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><sup class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">th</sup></span><span class="x_x_x_GramE x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Annual</span></span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted2 x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span>Meeting
of SIGCIS is now live and can be found here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yc4xssv2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" class="x_ContentPasted0 OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px" id="OWA94331ee2-c5ef-fb5a-bf26-5396f3e0a35f"><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>https://tinyurl.com/yc4xssv2</b></span></a></span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our keynote for the event is Tung Hui-Hu (University of Michigan), the author of<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0">Digital
Lethargy: Dispatchers from an Age of Disconnection</i></span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span>(2022)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span></i></span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">and<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0">A
Prehistory of the Cloud<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span></i></span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(2015). </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This year, the conference will take place<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><b class="ContentPasted0">on
Zoom</b><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>on Sep 21-23, 2023. For registration</span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">,
please use Eventbrite: <b class="ContentPasted0"> </b></span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/ycxz384s" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" class="x_ContentPasted1 OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px" id="OWAc128c2df-04f0-1451-f144-4b1282083015"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"><b>https://tinyurl.com/ycxz384s</b></span></a></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted2 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In order to maximize access to all members of the SIGCIS community, the conference fees are donation-based
this year. We offer suggested rates for academic and non-academic participants<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted2 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://meetings.sigcis.org/registration.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://meetings.sigcis.org/registration.html" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="2" class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted2 OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px" id="OWA5a04a009-5a97-2096-6597-a5f48ee910a1"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>here</b></span></a> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and
trust that you will select the fee that makes sense for your context, especially for scholars with limited research funds</span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="x_ContentPasted2 ContentPasted0">.</b></span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted2 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="x_ContentPasted2 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span> Please
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