Associate Professor Bonnie Mak will present, "On Interdisciplinary Endings," as part of a panel at the upcoming Modern Language Association Annual Convention (MLA 2017) in Philadelphia.

Doctoral students Ming Jiang and Shubhanshu Mishra will present research papers at the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), which will be held December 11-16 in Osaka, Japan. The COLING conference is one of the top international conferences in the field of natural language processing and computational linguistics.

Associate Professor Victoria Stodden will present her research at A University Symposium: Promoting Credibility, Reproducibility and Integrity in Research on December 9 at Columbia University

Professor Emeritus Abdul Alkalimat will give the keynote presentation at the 30th Symposium on African American Culture and Philosophy, which will be held from December 1-3 at Purdue University. This year's symposium will explore the "humanity" in the digital humanities as well as Africana/Black studies' perspectives.

Assistant Professor Emily Knox will participate in the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention, to be held November 17-20 in Atlanta, Georgia. She will serve as a panelist for the session, "How Teachers, Parents, and Communities Can Keep Students Reading."

Three iSchool students will participate in the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Forum, which will be held November 17-20 in Fort Worth, Texas. The LITA Forum is the annual conference for professionals in archives, libraries, and other information services.

Doctoral candidates Ana Lucic and Henry A. Gabb will present work with Associate Professor Catherine Blake at the 40th annual American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium held from November 12-16 in Chicago.

In early November, Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn presented a talk and served on a "Neapolitan" session panel at the 2016 Charleston Conference–Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition in Charleston, South Carolina. The conference is an annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials.

Assistant Professor Jana Diesner will moderate a panel on Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Big Data Summit on November 10 in Champaign. The annual summit brings together experts from the University of Illinois Research Park, industry, and academia to share knowledge about big data and its business applications.

Allen Renear, professor and dean of the iSchool, will deliver a keynote at the 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice (A-LIEP), which will be held on November 3-4 in Nanjing, China. In the talk, “Data Science and the Information Professional,” he will discuss the ethical and social obligations of information professionals from the perspective of data science.