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egistration desk coordinator. His staff of Matthew Coate, Tom Was, and Matt De La
Torre (each of whom were also contributors to the IAPL staffing last year in Taiwan) has
made it possible for the whole registration procedure to run very smoothly. We hope
that you will each appreciate the valuable contribution that they each provide. And
finally, for more than five years, Aaron Krempa, Nahum Brown, and Arsalan Memon
have each served as the animators of the Book Exhibit staff. Aaron and Nahum have
devoted much time and energy throughout the year, contacting pubishers and guiding
them into sending their books so that conference participants have a special chance
to see some of the newest and ground-breaking publications of publishers whose work
intersects with that of the IAPL. We hope you enjoy these exhibits, and do notice
that even the display tables are a repetition of the arch, the Gate of the Moment, the
Augenblick, that is celebrated in these Tallinn days of IAPL 2012.
I welcome you heartily to the 36 th annual IAPL conference, and invite you each to
submit papers or sessions for next year’s conference that will be held 3-9 June 2013
in Singapore at the National University of Singapore. Submission forms will be ready
soon after this conference. So please enjoy this year’s conference in Tallinn and have
a wonderful, intellectually stimulating, and research-intensive experience in Estonia.
May the research exchanges that take place in Tallinn animate the writing and thinking
that you will carry back with you to your home institutions around the world!
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