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I'm not going to be at this year's Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, but if you are, let me recommend to you three events (in one case, a set of events):

• AVISTA is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the availability of facsimiles of the Villard de Honnecourt manuscript, a nifty set of fourteenth century drawings of architectural details, building plans, devices, animals, and people.
  
  • Check out session 219 for information about the manuscript (Friday, 10 am)
  
  
  • Get involved at the business meeting on Friday at noon (p. 75) AVISTA always needs new members interested in any aspect of medieval technology, art, or architecture.
  
  
  • Session 275 for artistic aspects of the ms. (Friday, 1:30 pm)
  
  
  • Session 328 for architectural and mechanical aspects of the drawings in the ms.
  
  
  • The annual reception with cash bar on Friday evening (p. 110)
  
  
  • Session 525 for a medieval architecture session
  
  
  • Session 575 for an all-Gothic architectural session.



• Elisabeth Carnell and I have organized Session 511: "Weblogs and the Academy: Professional and Community Outreach through Internet Presence." It's in Bernhard 213 on Satuday at 3:30. Debbie Gascoyne has had to cancel, but everyone else is a go! This year, the session will be comprised of three formal papers, and a Q&A session.


• This year's blogger meetup will be on Friday at 7:30 am at Mug Shots.

I look forward to reading and hearing how everything goes next week!