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Many 2015 presenters at CCCC Tampa have uploaded their materials to the Connected Community.. Browse through the materials!

CCCC accepted proposals for posters for the first time ever for its 2015 conference in Tampa. The response was outstanding: 61 presenters shared their posters in the Action Hub, where members milled around on their own time to study the posters, and where authors held sessions at specified times with an audience. By all accounts, the space was exciting, informative, and creative [twitter link to pictures and tweets about the event].

As program chair, I wanted to reward our members who took a chance on this new format, so I pulled together a committee and walked around to evaluate posters, eventually settling on these four winners. But it was quite difficult -- we were impressed with the care that went into the creativity, the design, and the research that all our members put into their posters. After much debate, the following four posters were chosen and given a cash prize. Congratulations to the authors.

Best Overall Poster

Anne Geller (St. John’s University), Michele Eodice (University of Oklahoma), Neil Lerner (Northeastern University)

Best Information Design

Joshua Lenart (University of Utah)

Most Creative Poster

Melissa Yang (University of Pittsburgh)

Best Research Design

Andrea Beaudin (Texas Tech University)

A week post-conference, Les reflects on the three outfits she wore to two major national academic conferences in her respective fields. Les has been struggling to find profesh appropriate–and affordable–academic wear that fits her pregnant body. Les is 5’2”, curvy by birth, and is disinclined to wear dresses, heels, and skirts. Today, Les explains the cost of dressing her version of conference profesh with a body that won’t give in any way.

Day One: ATTW

On the first day of conferencing, Les chose her most “profesh” conference outfit: those expensive Jessica Simpson pregnancy jeans that cost around $80, a bright yellow designer jacket that *surprise* still buttoned around her waist, a blue and white striped top that costs around $60, and her Roxy flip flops that allow her to walk with feet that were already swelling in Tampa’s heat. In an effort to better “professionalize” the fact that she is wearing flip-flops, Les had her toenails painted–an act she rarely does in her everyday life.

Day Two: 4Cs begins!

For the first day of the 4Cs, Les chose to blend in more with the crowd by wearing dark, neutral colors. These jeans are a few bucks cheaper than the other pair at a whole $60. She paired them with a blue knit sweater that was also $60 and a black top that draped across her bust and belly in a way that almost completely masked the size of both. This top, she found on sale for only $35 at the only maternity clothing store in her city. She also wore those flip flops again because ohwell! 

Day Three: 4Cs friends day

Here’s the playlist for the music I was playing as members of the CCCC filtered into the ballroom for the opening session of our 2015 convention. 

Charmer, Aimee Mann

We Both Go Down Together, Decemberists

Girlfriend in a Coma, Smiths

One Love/People Get Ready, Bob Marley

National Anthem, Lana Del Rey

Drown, Son Volt

Dirty Harry, Gorillaz

Short Skirt/Long Jacket, Cake

That’ll Be The Day, Buddy Holly

We Can Work It Out, Beatles

The Coast, Court Yard Hounds

Scott Pilgrim, Plumtree

Wagon Wheel, Old Crow Medicine Show

El Cuchipe, Los Lobos

Bohemian Like You, Dandy Warhols

Personal Jesus, Depeche Mode

Higher Ground, Stevie Wonder

Sophie, Beausoleil

Friend of the Devil, Grateful Dead