Hello everyone, I'm just putting together a draft schedule for the SIGCIS workshop, details of which can always be found at http://www.sigcis.org/workshop13. (The CFP is still there right now, but will be replaced with the provisional schedule very soon). As always we need chairs and commentators for a number of sessions. For those of you with potential access to travel funds from your institutions this can be a great way to get onto the program and attend SHOT. There is still some time to the SHOT registration deadline and still space in the conference hotel. It's going to be a great workshop, with a mix of well known scholars and exciting new voices. So please let me know if you are interested. As we always want to maximize the number of participants, our general order of priority in filling these slots will be 1) People not currently on the main SHOT or SIGCIS program. 2) People currently on the main SHOT program but not the SIGCIS workshop program. 3) People already on the SIGCIS program. However there are a large number of slots open at present, so if you are willing to help our please let me know even if you are already presenting in another SIGCIS workshop session. Those committed to a morning event with another SIG should mention this, but there would still be a good chance of accommodating you in an afternoon session. For those of you unfamiliar with the rituals of history conferences, a chair just introduces the panelists, polices time, and manages the discussion period. The commentator receives the papers ahead of time and prepares an informal discussion of maybe ten minutes drawing together themes from the papers and offering helpful suggestions to the authors. Chairing is easier than commenting, and with commentators we take care to match the expertise of the commentator to the topic of the panel. Best wishes, Tom