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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Fraser Easton
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 11, 2016 1:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Margaret Ulbrick <mulbrick@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Subject:</b> English + Innovation showcase at The Tannery, June 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This email is to let colleagues in the Faculty of Arts know that the Department of English Language and Literature will be hosting a unique showcase of imagination, creativity, and projects for high-technology
sectors featuring the work of students and the insights of alumni.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">English + Innovation is open to anyone who wants to understand how today’s English students apply their skills and ingenuity to high-tech innovation:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Follow us on Twitter: @uw_englishPlus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“Waterloo Region continues to experience rapid change, especially as the new Innovation Corridor with the City of Toronto develops. Our English + Innovation event highlights the ways in which good
communicators are crucial to the content creation, documentation, and usability that this evolution requires,” says Kate Lawson, professor and chair of English.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Date: Thursday, June 2, 2016<br>
Time: 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm (programme begins at 6 pm)<br>
Location: The Tannery Event Centre, 151 Charles Street, Kitchener<br>
Cost: $20 per person or $160 for a table of eight<br>
Tickets: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Reserve tickets on the </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="https://events.attend.com/f/1383773976#/reg/0/"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">event website</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(Note that this event is not a fundraiser; the ticket cost is to cover food and drink costs only.) Student displays will showcase their research and development on the technological frontiers of
gaming, geolocation, creative media, and user documentation. Meet the students and see such projects as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">• Places, Please!: Capturing Theatricality at the Stratford Festival in Video Games<br>
• Around the Clock: Robot Autonomy, Robotic Labour, and the Time of Work<br>
• Everybody’s Everybody’s Autobiography: Radio, Gertrude Stein, and the Modernist Soundscape<br>
• Alice and Schrodinger’s Excellent Adventure<br>
• Gendered or Neutral? Considering the Language of HCI (Human Computer Interaction)<br>
• The Female Voice: .NET and .NET Core Documentation in Light of Gender<br>
• February 23, 2016: Specimens from the Kitchener Public Library Makerbot<br>
• Mind/Control: Neurofeedback, Gameification, Mindfulness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A moderated panel of English alumni and employers from the tech sector will speak, including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">• Iain Klugman (President and CEO of Communitech)<br>
• Elizabeth Chesney Hanson (Manager of Strategic Communications at OpenText)<br>
• Patrick Hofmann (User Experience Designer, Google Australia)<br>
• Richard Lander (Principle Program Manager Lead on the .NET Team, Microsoft)<br>
• Gian Mancuso (Product Designer, D2L Corporation)<br>
• Sherry McMenemy (Director Global Intranet at Volaris Group)<br>
• Scott Wahl (Director of Software Projects at Dematic)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">High-tech firms need good communicators as much as they need engineers and computer scientists. Come join us to celebrate the success of UWaterloo English’s outstanding students, their presence in
the local community, and the insight and imagination they bring to the fields of writing, media, and communication.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dr. Fraser Easton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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