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<div>Dear humor scholar,</div>
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<div>The 2017 Humor Research Conference in Dallas, Texas, is less than a month away:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.tamuc.edu/humor">http://www.tamuc.edu/humor</a></div>
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<div>If you plan to be a participant, please make sure to:</div>
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<li>Register as soon as possible, so we know how many people will be attending. As you register, please indicate the free workshops on Thursday you’d like to attend. If you are a presenter, you need to register by March 1st or we will remove your paper from
the program before it’s posted: <a href="http://marketplace.tamuc.edu/HumorConference">http://marketplace.tamuc.edu/HumorConference</a></li><li>Book your stay at Hotel Indigo, the on-site conference hotel, as soon as possible (linked from the conference page). There is only a limited number of rooms left at the discounted hotel rate of $155+tax/night and
<b>the hotel will only honor that rate until Feb. 22nd for the remaining rooms</b>.</li></ol>
<div>Hope to see you in Dallas in March!</div>
<div>Kiki</div>
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<div style="font-weight: bold;">Christian F. Hempelmann, PhD | Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics</div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Department of Literature and Languages</span></div>
<a href="c.hempelmann@tamuc.edu">c.hempelmann@tamuc.edu</a> <br>
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Texas A&M University-Commerce<br>
P.O. Box 3011 | Commerce, TX 75429-3011<br>
Tel. 903.886.5291 (email preferred) | Fax: 903.886.5980 | www.tamuc.edu<br>
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