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MLA CONVENTION GUIDE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 9–12 JANUARY 2014 CONVENTION LOCATIONS WI-FI ACCESS The MLA is providing free wireless Chicago Marriott Internet access in the meeting rooms Most English language sessions and public areas of the Chicago Marriott, the Sheraton Chicago (not including MLA registration and welcome center the exhibit hall), and the Fairmont. Follow these instructions to connect Sheraton Chicago (connectivity is not guaranteed): Most foreign language and Chicago Marriott. In the lobby, comparative literature sessions select Marriott_Lobby then Free Exhibit hall High Speed Internet. In the meeting rooms, select MLA2014, agree to MLA registration and terms, then enter MLA2014 (case welcome center sensitive) as the password. Fairmont Sheraton Chicago. Select Sheraton Lobby or MLA14 depending on your Job Information Center location in the hotel. Child care Fairmont. Select Fairmont Meetings and log in with MLA2014 (case sensitive) CONTENTS for group name and access code. CONVENTION DAILY Reconnection is required after a session Policies .................. 2 has been active for twenty-four hours. The Convention Daily prints special MLA Registration and notices, changes in schedule, and Welcome Centers ...... 2–3 brief reports on convention activities and appears Thursday, Friday, and WHAT TO DO IN On-Site Resources ....... 3–4 Saturday during the convention. A WEATHER OR Job Information Center ..... 4 Copies are available free at the MLA OTHER EMERGENCY registration and welcome centers and Exhibits .................. 4 If weather or an emergency in Chicago at various other locations throughout should delay or otherwise affect the Event Highlights ........... 4 the hotels; the 9 January issue will scheduling of convention sessions, full appear on the MLA Web site before Informational Sessions information on such changes will be the convention. and Workshops ......... 4–5 posted on the MLA Web site (www.mla .org/convention). If a local or personal Governance .............. 5 emergency should cause you to have to Emergencies .............. 5 PROGRAM delay or cancel your attendance at the ONLINE convention, you should contact your 2015 Convention .......... 5 hotel as early as possible. Registrants A searchable Maps program for the who booked their travel through convention MacNair Travel should call 877 410- Hotels ................. 5 is available (www 8195; others should call their carrier Fairmont ............... 6 .mla.org/program), as is a streamlined directly. Requests for registration Chicago Marriott ....... 7–9 version for mobile devices (mla14.org). refunds must be postmarked by 10 January. Visit www.mla .org/ Sheraton Chicago .... 10 –11 conv_registration for more information. If you are scheduled to speak or Exhibit Area ........... 12 TWITTER participate in a session, please notify the Tweet sessions using the convention session organizer. You may also want hashtag (#mla14) and session to annotate your session listing in the hashtags (e.g., #s421). online Program. Please remember to wear your badge. Pres s R HIBITO ESS EX -ACC FULL POLICIES given by that speaker. These passes must convention and the association; free copies be requested at the MLA registration and of the Convention Guide and the Convention Audio- and Videotaping at Sessions welcome centers by the speaker on the day of Daily; and badge holders, guest passes, and the session, before the centers close. Passes other convention-related materials. Neither audiotaping nor videotaping of may not be requested by guests of speakers, sessions is normally permitted. Occasional MLA members who have not registered for Chicago Information and exceptions may be made for members of the convention, or by speakers for guests Restaurant Reservations the media taping short segments designed for any reason other than to see that person to convey the convention atmosphere. speak in a particular session. MLA registration and welcome center, Such arrangements must be made through Chicago Marriott, 5th floor the press office and require the consent of Guest Passes to the Exhibit Hall 9 January: 12:00 noon–5:00 p.m. all speakers at a session. When taping is approved, a representative of the media MLA convention registrants may obtain free 10 January: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. staff will accompany the reporter and crew. passes to the exhibit hall for guests they 11 January: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. The session organizer will announce to accompany in the hall. Persons who are the audience that audio- or videotaping not registered for the convention and who Disabilities, Facilities and will take place during a part of the are not accompanied by registrants may Services for Persons with session. Only background taping is purchase a one-day pass to the exhibit hall allowed, not the taping of an entire for $10. These passes are available at the The MLA is committed to making session. Requests to film the convention exhibit registration booth, Sheraton Chicago arrangements that allow all members of the as part of a creative or documentary (River Exhibition Hall, level 1). association to participate in the convention. project must have been submitted to Desks for Attendees with Disabilities the Executive Council by 17 October. Identification Chicago Marriott, 5th floor and lobby level You may need to have a government- ([email protected]) Badges issued photo ID when you check in to Sheraton Chicago, Lobby level 3 your hotel. Security personnel may ask Badges are required for admission to ([email protected]) convention sessions, the exhibit hall, and to see a hotel room key or may ask that the Job Information Center. Badge holders you be accompanied by a hotel guest Fairmont, Lobby level are available at the MLA registration and with a room key. ([email protected]) welcome centers in the Chicago Marriott These desks will be staffed with personnel and the Sheraton Chicago and at the satellite Reading in Absentia who can provide assistance to convention registration and badge replacement center To encourage discussion and dialogue attendees with disabilities, including making in the Fairmont. Lost badges can be among panelists and attendees at convention arrangements for the accessible shuttle. replaced for $10. sessions, reading in absentia (whether by Skype, videoconferencing, audio delivery, Housing Desk Canceling Sessions or presentation by surrogates) is not MLA registration and welcome center, MLA sessions should be canceled only if normally permitted. Presenters who are Chicago Marriott, 5th floor nearly all the participants are unable to unable to attend the convention because Convention registrants who need assistance attend the convention. In such a situation, of unforeseen emergencies are reminded with their hotel arrangements may go to please contact the MLA headquarters that they may include a link to their papers the housing desk, where a representative office immediately ([email protected]; in the online Program. of CMR, the MLA housing service, will be Chicago Marriott, extension 5163; Sheraton available to help. Chicago, 312 329-7067) so that convention Smoking attendees can be informed of the cancellation. Smoking is prohibited in most buildings Organizers should also inform all the session Membership Desks in Chicago. participants of the cancellation. Join the association while registering for the convention to register at members’ Fragrance rates. MLA membership runs from MLA REGISTRATION 15 January through 14 January of The Committee on Disability Issues in the AND WELCOME CENTERS the subsequent year. Membership desks Profession reminds attendees that refraining are located at both registration and from using scented products will help ensure welcome centers. the comfort of everyone at the convention. About the MLA Registration and Welcome Centers Guest Passes to Sessions Chicago Marriott, 5th floor MLA Commons Account activation and assistance. MLA All MLA members and members of the Sheraton Chicago, Lobby level 3 registration and welcome center, Chicago profession that the MLA serves are required 9 January: 8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. Marriott, 5th floor to register in order to participate in or 10 and 11 January: 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. attend sessions. Live presentations. 10 January, 4:50–5:10 12 January: 8:00 a.m.–12:00 noon p.m., and 11 January, 9:50–10:10 a.m., A convention speaker may obtain a pass Exhibit Hall Theater, Sheraton Chicago, for a guest who has no professional interest Visit the registration and welcome centers River Exhibition Hall, level 1 in language or literature to hear a paper for answers to general questions about the 2 Please remember to wear your badge. Pres s TOR FULL-ACCESS EXHIBI MLA Commons is designed to facilitate active Chicago Marriott. Launch a browser and Palmer House Hilton. You will receive a member-to-member communication, to select the Marriott_Guest network. Agree to special promotional code at the front desk support the work of divisions and discussion the terms, then you will be prompted for a when you check in. groups, and much more. password. The password is your last name Radisson Blu. Connect to the Radisson Blu and room number. router. Open an Internet page (on a mobile Print Copies of the Program Conrad Chicago. Wired and wireless device, open a new Internet page and search Copies of the Program can be connections are available. For a wired for any Web site), enter your room number purchased for $15 at the registration connection, connect from your Ethernet card to when prompted, accept the terms and and welcome centers. the GlobalSuite desktop connector. For wireless, conditions, and wait for the log-in to connect. activate your wireless network card and, if Sheraton Chicago. Connect to Sheraton Guest prompted, connect to the Conrad Chicago and enter your last name and room number. network. Open your Web browser to connect ON-SITE RESOURCES You will need to accept the Internet charges, to GlobalSuite or enter login.globalsuite.net into but you will not be charged. the address bar. Accept the terms of service and Business Centers follow the on-screen instructions.