Happy new year everyone. We’re looking forward to seeing you all at the Institute for the Humanities bright and early tomorrow.

As always, the program is up to you, so it’s time to start proposing sessions. We’ve had a few already posted to the site, and it’s easy to propose your own. If you haven’t been to an unconference before, you can read about proposing a session at aha2018.thatcamp.org/propose/. If you don’t get around to proposing something before January 3rd, or if you’re unsure about the process, no worries: you can always suggest an idea on the morning of the unconference or even after it’s underway.

Most THATCamp sessions in my experience tend to be discussions (Talk sessions), which are plenty valuable in themselves, but we *strongly* encourage you to propose hands-on collaborative writing or coding sessions (Make sessions) or digital skills workshops (Teach sessions) that will let everyone learn and work together productively. You’d be surprised at how useful even a spontaneously organized workshop can be: I’ve been at THATCamps where someone mentions a tool in one session and then by popular demand agrees to teach it in the next: unconferences are great at determining what the people in the room really want to learn and do.

To propose a session, click the “Log in” link on the site’s home page, then choose Posts –> Add New, write notes in the text box, and hit “Publish” when you’re done. See codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts for more help, or just play around in the THATCamp AHA-MLA website itself.

And one more important detail: coffee and lunch will be provided.

See you tomorrow.