Jitters

A zany and intense week about to get underway here. The MITH/ELO Symposium on the Future of Electronic Literature is now now maxed out at 120 registrants, the room’s capacity. In addition to a diverse audience of students, faculty and staff from the College Park campus, we will have ELO board members, speakers, and invited guests coming from as far away as Colorado, California, Washington state, Puerto Rico, Quebec, Norway, and Spain. (Check here for a current list of exactly who’s coming.)

For locals who are reading, while we’ll be closing out registration for the symposium proper the Open Mic and Mouse Wednesday evening (6:15, 2203 Art/Soc) is free and open with no registration required and no seating limit (we’re in a massive lecture hall).

This is the largest and most complex event I’ve ever been responsible for coordinating, and I may not get much sleep the next few days. There are only about 700 things that can go wrong. Fortunately, though, I’ve got great people from the staff at MITH backing me up. Even if I go to pieces, they’ll make sure we pull this off!