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2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Program

January 15, 2023 in Conference, Conference Announcement, International Congress on Medieval Studies

2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Program

58th ICMS (11–13 May 2023)

To occur in a transitional ‘hybrid’ form
with Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Sessions
—  to be held either in person or online (with some options) —
and with an Open Business Meeting
and Co-Sponsored Reception

[Posted on 17 January 2023, with updates]

Façade of the Celsus library, in Ephesus, near Selçuk, west Turkey. Photograph (1910): Benh LIEU SONG, via Creative Commons.

Façade of the Celsus library, in Ephesus, near Selçuk, west Turkey. Photograph (1910): Benh LIEU SONG, via Creative Commons.

Building upon the successful completion of our activities at the 2022 ICMS (see our 2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies Program), we announce our Activities for the 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies, following our Preparations for them, with the completion of the Call for Papers (15 September 2022) and the selection and submission of the Programs for our Sessions (by 15 October 2022).

For information about the Congress, registration for it, and the current version of the 2023 Congress Program (plus the extra Corrigenda), see the Congress website.

With the turn of the calendar year toward the year of the Congress, we published the selected Programs for our Sessions and announced our other Activities, while we awaited the promulgation of the official Schedule for the 2023 Congress as a whole.  With the publication of a Sneek Peak for the Congress Program, we can add the times and venues for our Sessions.  As the Congress approaches, new information guides additional features of our planning, with Virtual options now possible for some of our In-Person events, through extra arrangements by the RGME.

This year, with some Sessions on line and some in person in a transitional ICMS, we prepare six Sessions, an Open Business Meeting, and a Reception. Our co-sponsors:

  • Societas Magica:  2 Sessions and the Reception
  • Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): 2 Sessions
  • Polytheism-Oriented Medievalists of North America (P.-O.M.o.N.A.): 1 Session
  • Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University: Reception

This year marks Year 19 of our co-sponsorship with the Societas Magica; the second (non-consecutive) year of co-sponsorship with POMONA, the third of co-sponsorship with the Index of Medieval Art, and the first year of co-sponsorship with SIMS.

As always, we thank the host, organizers, co-sponsors, presiders, speakers, respondents, advisers, and participants for our activities at the Congress, along with the Congress staff and support staff.

Here we list our Sessions (arranged in the order in which they are scheduled for the Congress), with the Links to the Abstracts for the individual Papers, then turn to our other Activities (Open Business Meeting and Reception).  A Note on our Congress Sessions describes the Indexes of the Abstracts for Papers as published on our website, listed both by Alphabetical order of Author’s Surname and by Year.

Logistics

This year, the partly in-person, virtual, and hybrid modalities to the Congress add to the complexity, tasks, resources, and expenses for preparing for our events there.  The complexity encourages us to create more flexible and resourceful our arrangements for some events held in person or virtually, so as to accommodate attendance in these different modalities directed by the Congress, while any fully hybrid event is not permitted for us in the arrangements by this online/offline Congress.

1) Optional RGME Zoom Meeting Room in live time for some In-Person events.  For Congress participants unable to travel to the place, but registered for the Congress, we offer an optional Virtual Meeting Room by RGME Zoom subscription.  In this way, an In Person Congress event might be accessed virtually — with registration for each of them through our RGME Eventbrite Collection.

We provide the RGME Zoom option (by specific registration, without charge) for

  • our In Person Open Business Meeting on Thursday lunchtime and
  • our pair of co-sponsored In-Person Sessions on Saturday afternoon.

2) Especially Reserved In-Person Room for In-Person Attendees of the Congress who will log-on to our Virtual Sessions.  These reserved rooms are prepared (in different, but adjacent, buildings) for:

  • our first, Virtual Session on Thursday morning, with an In-Person option (Session 50 / Schneider 1220)
  • the pair of our co-sponsored Virtual Sessions on Thursday afternoon, with In-Person option (Sessions 87 + 137 / Fetzer 1030)The second dedicated room is located a few steps away, on the same floor, in the same building, from the two In-Person events before and after that pair of Sessions, namely the Open Business Meeting and the Reception.

Details below, including information about how to register with us for the access by Zoom for the In-Person events.

In brief:

Day 1 of the Congress (Thursday 11 May) has a full set of events. They open with the Morning Session, lead to the RGME Open Business Meeting (with lunch provided), follow with a pair of Sessions, and round out with the co-hosted Reception.

  1. Session 50 on “Words as Agents”
    held Virtually
    from 10:00-11:30 am EDT (GMT-4)
    — with In-Person option:  By arrangement, Schneider 1220 is reserved for us for that time period for those attending the Congress in person, to be able to gather for accessing the online Sessions with their own computers
  2. RGME Open Business Meeting
    held In Person
    in Fetzer 1035 from 12:00-1:00 pm EDT, with catered lunch (donations are welcome)
    — We recommend registering if you plan to attend in person, so that we could know how many to expect.
    In Person Reservation for RGME Open Business Meeting
    — We also offer the option to attend virtually through the RGME (not via the Congress), for Congress participants unable to travel.  With your registration for the event itself, we will send the Zoom link ahead of time.
    Virtual Registration Option for RGME Open Business Meeting
  3. Sessions 87 and 137 on “The Eloquence of Medieval Book Bindings”, Parts 1-2
    (“Bindings from German Lands” and “Diverse Regional Techniques”)
    held Virtually from 1:30-3:00 pm and 3:30-5:00 pm EDT (GMT-4)
    — with In-Person option:  Fetzer 1030 is reserved for us for the afternoon for those attending the Congress in person, to gather for accessing the online Sessions with their own computers
    Update on 7 May: The order of the three Papers in Session 87 is changed from that advertised in the Congress Program Booklet. The Paper by William H. Campbell, formerly in first position, has moved to third, as indicated below.
  4. Co-hosted Reception
    held in Person
    in Fetzer 1035-1045 from 5:30-7:00 pm EDT (GMT-4).

For the RGME Open Business Meeting held In Person, open to to Congress attendees, it would help us to know how many to expect if you would please register for it through the RGME Eventbrite collection.  See below.

Day 3 of the Congress (Saturday 13 May) has a pair of Sessions.

  1. Sessions 369 and 419 on”Moving Parts and Pedagogy”, Parts I–II (“Teaching Magic and Other Occult Arts” and “Teaching Astrology and Other Liberal Arts”)
    held In Person in Fetzer 2040 from 1:30-3:00 pm and 3:30-5:00 pm EDT (GMT-4)
    (If requested, we will set up an RGME Zoom Room for these Sessions.)

Note:  If you have questions about these arrangements, we apologize for the complexity, and ask that you contact [email protected].  Safe travels!

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2023 Spring and Autumn Symposia

December 5, 2022 in Announcements, Manuscript Studies

2023 Spring and Autumn Symposia
on
“Materials & Access”

"Centered". Photograph Ⓒ 2014 Mildred Budny. Image of Dew at the center of Sedum.

“Centered”. Photograph Ⓒ 2014 Mildred Budny.

[Posted on 5 December 2022, with updates]

The Research Group prepares a pair of Symposia in 2023, continuing the pattern of paired Spring and Autumn Symposia launched in 2022.

[Update on 25 October: With both the 2023 Spring and Autumn Symposia now accomplished, the illustrated Symposium Booklets for both are published.  You could download both of them or ask for printed copies to be sent to you.  See below.]

The New Tradition

2020 Symposium "From Cover to Cover" Poster 2

2020 Symposium Poster 2

Before then, up to 2022, there would be only one Symposium in a given year, although the span could vary from one to three days, and the Symposia occurred only in person.  Also, previously, the pattern of Symposia did not always appear each year, except notably for our first Symposia, beginning in 1995 at Barnard College, which occurred for five years as a series:

  • “The Transmission of the Bible”: A Series of Annual Symposia (1995‒2000)

Then, after an interval, when we focused instead on other activities and tasks, including the incorporation of the RGME as a nonprofit educational corporation (1999), our resumption of Symposia in a “New Series” would examine a wide variety of themes in turn.  The New Series not only resumed our Symposia, with a difference, but also adopted other forms of Events, such as Colloquia and Workshops:

  • The “New Series” of Symposia, Colloquia, Workshops & Seminars (2001–)

The variation in the usage of terms for the events depended partly on their characteristics and partly on their host institutions’ preferences or requirements for given genres.

2022 Autumn Symposium Program Booklet, Front Cover (Page 1)

With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic by 2020, RGME events shifted for a while from in-person to online.  After the cancellation of events in 2020, the RGME adopted online events in 2021, to resume Symposia in 2022.  In both 2022 and 2023, we held a pair of Spring and Autumn Symposia.  In this way, our tradition of Symposia comprises several forms or series:

  • RGME Symposia: The Various Series (1995–), in person or online.

And so, with paired Symposia for 2023, we affirm the momentum of our series of Symposia after the Covid-induced hiatus. Formerly, the Symposia were held at various centers, before the cancellation of our 2020 Spring Symposium, “From Cover to Cover”, intended for Princeton University. The illustrated Program Booklet for that Symposium reports its intentions.

The Revived Series

In resuming the series in 2022, we are able to return to some of its subjects, as the contributors make presentations, as their timetables allow, for one or other Session in the revived Symposia.  Some of those contributors propose to participate in our 2023 Symposia.

In 2022, the pair of Symposia addressed the year’s Theme of “Structured Knowledge”, for which the Spring Symposium considered “Structures of Knowledge”, and the Autumn Symposium considered “Supports for Knowledge”.  The webposts for them describes their scope and coverage.  The illustrated Program Booklet for the Autumn Symposium, available freely for download as a booklet of 54 pages in quarto (‘letter-size’) format.  The Symposia for 2023 and for 2024 already have their Year’s Theme as an overarching guide and a central focus, while other subjects also may be explored, sometimes interconnected.

2023: “Materials & Access”

For 2023, the Year’s Theme is “Materials & Access”.

The Spring Symposium has this focus: “From the Ground Up”.
The Autumn Symposium:  “Between Earth and Sky”.

Themes and Subjects for Sessions include some in our continuing series and others. Those subjects and interests are described, for example:

  • for our 2022 Symposia and
  • the Episodes for our series “The Research Group Speaks”.

Each Symposium will have the span of one day and take place on a Saturday.  The selected time-zone is Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5) / Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4), depending upon time of year.  That is, this year, EDT for the Spring Symposium and EST for the Autumn Symposium.  The Symposia would take place online by Zoom.

Perhaps, conditions permitting, the Autumn Symposium might be hybrid, with attendance both in person and online.

The date for the Spring Symposium has been set.  It is planned for Saturday 25 March 2023, to span a full day (like the two Symposia in 2022) on the timezone of EST (GMT-5) and to take place online via Zoom.

We gather participants for the Presentations (of about 20 to 25 minutes each) and Responses (about 10 to 15 minutes each), for Sessions of 1 1/2 hours duration, with scope within them for Discussion (Q&A) and with Breaks between Sessions.

Participants, variously as Presenters, Respondents, Presiders, Moderators, and Advisers, include:

  • Linde M. Brocato, Mildred Budny, Katharine C. Chandler, Justin Hastings, Atria A. Larson, Ann Pascoe-van-Zyl, Ronald Patkus, David W. Sorenson, and others.

We look forward to your suggestions and participation.

The Program

As the Program for each Symposium gathers, we can post more information both here and on the individual webposts for the two Symposia.  Their webposts appear as

  • 2023 Spring Symposium
  • 2023 Autumn Symposium

If you have questions or comments, please Contact Us or leave your Comments Here.

Now see the developed Program for the 2023 Spring Symposium “From the Ground Up” on Saturday 25 March 2023.  It also has a half-day Pre-Symposium of Lightning Talks on “Intrepid Borders”, organized by Katharine C. Chandler, Jennifer Larson, and Jessica L. Savage, on Friday 24 March 2023.

See the webposts for these companion events, with their Programs and registration information:

  • 2023 Spring Pre-Symposium on “Intrepid Borders”

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS. W.148, folio 33v, bottom right, with fighting creatures. Image via Creative Commons.

  • 2023 Spring Symposium “From the Ground Up”
Photograph of the stems and white blooms of Snowdrops emerging from a patch of bare ground in the sunlight. Photograph Ⓒ Mildred Budny.

The blooms of Snowdrops emerging “From the Ground Up”. Photograph Ⓒ Mildred Budny.

2023 Spring Pre-Symposium/Symposium Program Booklet

The 64-page illustrated Program Booklet is published ‘on the day’ or first day of the event (24 March 2023).

2023 Spring Pre-Symposium/Symposium Booklet Front Cover with photograph of snowdrops flowers rising from the earth.

2023 Spring Pre-Symposium/Symposium Booklet Front Cover.

See 2023 Spring Symposium “From the Ground Up” for information about how you could receive, order, or download a copy of this Booklet free of charge.

2023 Autumn Symposium

Plans advance for the 2023 Autumn Symposium “Between Earth and Sky”.

  • 2023 Autumn Symposium “Between Earth and Sky”

[Update: This event has been successfully accomplished.  See its post, with information for downloading its illustrated booklet of 54 pages.]

2023 Autumn Symposium Booklet Cover.

2023 RGME Events

Other Events are planned for the Year.  See

  • “The Research Group Speaks”: The Series
  • 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Program

2024 RGME Events

“Study on a Medieval Bridge” at Amares, Braga District, Portugal. Image by Pedro Nuno Caetano (2019) via Wikimedia Commons via Creative Commons 2.0 Generic.

For activities planned for next year, an Anniversary Year for the RGME, with the year’s theme of “Bridges”, see:

  • RGME 2023 and 2024 Activities.
  • “Bridges” for our 2024 Anniversary Year

They include episodes for “The Research Group Speaks”, conference sessions at two international congresses for medieval studies (at Kalamazoo and Leeds), anniversary celebrations, and two symposia.

  • 2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut, RGME WebMaster Emeritus
  • 2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College

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Donations and contributions, in funds or in kind, are welcome and easy to give.  See Contributions and Donations.

We look forward to hearing from you.

*****

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Otto Ege Collection, Volume II of Ege MS 51, View toward Gutter with Reused Manuscript Fragments. Photograph by Mildred Budny.

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Otto Ege Collection, Volume II of Ege MS 51, Displaced Folios 29v-26r. View toward Gutter with Reused Manuscript Fragments. Photograph by Mildred Budny.

*****

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2022 Autumn Symposium Program Booklet

October 21, 2022 in Abstracts of Conference Papers, Conference, RGME Program Booklet

2022 Autumn Symposium
Program Booklet

Symposium on “Supports for Knowledge”
Saturday, 15 October 2022
Online via Zoom

56-page illustrated Booklet with the Symposium Program,
Abstracts, and Illustrations
compiled and edited by Mildred Budny
laid out in RGME Bembino (our multi-lingual digital font)
according with our RGME Style Manifesto

2 of 2:  2022 Spring and Autumn Symposia
on “Structured Knowledge”

[Posted on 20 October 2022]

© British Library Board, London, British Library, Add. MS 1546, folio 262v, detail. Opening of the Book of Sapientia (“Wisdom”) in the Moutier-Grandval Bible, an imposing Carolingian manuscript of the Latin Vulgate Bible.

We announce the publication of the illustrated Program Booklet for our 2022 Autumn Symposium, for circulation in printed and digital forms.  A Preview Version as a downloadable pdf was available to participants and attendees of the Symposium, held online on Saturday, 15 October 2022.

See

  • the 2022 Autumn Symposium on “Supports for Knowledge”
  • the 2022 Autumn Symposium Program and
  • the series of 2022 Spring and Autumn Symposia on “Structured Knowledge”.

The high-quality version of the 2022 Autumn Symposium Program Booklet, incorporating a few small corrections, is now ready.

This 56-page Booklet marks a return to our Research Group tradition of preparing Program Booklets for Symposia and some other events.  (See our Publications.)  Most recently, the Program Booklet for the 2020 Spring Symposium — which had to be cancelled at the start of shutdowns for the Covid pandemic — was produced as a form of record, souvenir, and promise for the intentions for the two-day event at Princeton University. You may find it freely as a downloadable pdf in either consecutive pages or foldable booklet.

Printed copies of the 2022 Autumn Symposium Program Booklet will be distributed on request, to the participants and others.  If you wish a printed copy, please contact please contact [email protected] and provide your mailing address.

The digital version can be downloaded freely here.  We provide two formats, or ‘flavors’, of the digital Program Booklet, in consecutive pages and as a foldable booklet.  The choice depends upon your printing facilities and preferences.  Experience shows us that the choice can be helpful for downloads of our Program Booklets and Research Reports.

  • Consecutive Pages (quarto size, or 8 1/2″ × 11″ sheets)
    consecutive pages
  • Foldable Booklet (11″ × 17″ sheets), to be folded in half, producing a nested group of bifolia
    foldable booklet

2022 Autumn Symposium Program Booklet, Front Cover (Page 1)

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2022 Spring and Autumn Symposia

March 2, 2022 in International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Manuscript Studies, Research Group Speaks (The Series), Uncategorized

Spring and Autumn Symposia 2022
2 April and 15 October

2020 Symposium "From Cover to Cover" Poster 2

2020 Symposium Poster 2

The Research Group prepares a pair of Symposia in 2022. In this way, we return to our series of Symposia (formerly held in person). The series underwent an interruption with the cancelled 2020 Spring Symposium. That Symposium was planned for subjects extending From Cover to Cover:  Activities Dedicated to Manuscripts, Early Printed Materials & Beyond, From Collecting & Cataloguing to Deciphering & Beholding.  It has its record in the illustrated Program Booklet, with Abstracts of the planned presentations and workshops.  Its core and its promise inspire this renewal.

This year, each Symposium in the pair is designed as a one-day event, with sessions and workshops of about 1 and 1/2 hours, giving scope for discussion. The dates are set for Saturday 2 April and Saturday 15 October (The “Sweetest Day”). The Spring Symposium will be held online by Zoom. The Autumn Symposium would be held online, but, conditions permitting, it might be hybrid, that is, partly in person, as well as online.

These events, by request, flow in addition to — and partly from — our other activities during the year:

1) Continuing Episodes in the online series of The Research Group Speaks (2021–)

  • https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/the-research-group-speaks-the-series/

2) Our four sponsored and c0-sponsored Congress Sessions at the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies (online) in May

  • https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2022-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program
    (Abstracts of the Papers are included).

“Structures of Knowledge” (Spring)
and “Supports for Knowledge” (Autumn)

The interlinked pair of Spring and Autumn Symposia examine themes of Structured Knowledge.

Some proposed presentations at these Symposia offer refreshed materials which had been planned for the cancelled 2020 Spring Symposium.

  • See https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2020-spring-symposium-save-the-date, with a published Program Booklet including illustrations and Abstracts.
Sessions under consideration include approaches to databases and library catalogs; specific case studies and projects; issues relating to reproductions and display, research and teaching, and more.

A Monk Reflects Upon the Text. Eugene, Oregon, University of Oregon, Knight Library, MS 027, folio 34v, detail. Latin Decretals of Pope Gregory IX. Rome, 1290, folio 34v.

For example:

  • “Catalogs, Metadata, and Databases, Continued (Parts II and III)”
    — building upon our Roundtable in February on Catalogs, Metadata, and Databases, Part I.
  • “The Living Library”
  • “History and Uses of Paper”
  • “Hybrid Books, I and II”
  • “Manuscripts, Works of Art, Photography, and Facsimiles, I and II”
  • “Teaching with Manuscripts”
  • “Pattern in and on Books”
  • Etc.

Spring Symposium
(2 April 2022 online)

[Now see 2022 Spring Symposium on “Structures of Knowledge”]

Speakers and respondents for the Spring Symposium include Phillip Bernhardt-House, Linde M. Brocato, Mildred Budny, Katharine C. Chandler, Barbara Williams Ellertson, Howard German, Hannah Goeselt, Thomas E. Hill, Eric J. Johnson, Zoey Kambour, David Porreca, Jessica L. Savage, Ronald Smeltzer, and David W. Sorenson.
Presentations examine such subjects as:
  • “The Warburg Institute Library: Where Idiosyncracy Meets User-Friendliness”
  • “Psyche’s Library:  Reading the Library as a Text Illuminated by the Cupid and Psyche Tapestries in the Frederick Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College“
  • a collector’s view of a series of limited-edition fine-printed publications in mixed media on esoteric subjects, with accompanying amulets and related materials
  • medieval scribes’ and readers’ responses to the text in a copy of the Latin Decretals of Pope Gregory IX (University of Oregon, Knight Library, MS 027), formerly owned by the Abbey of San Bartolomeo di Azzano d’Asti
  • experiences in “Teaching Cataloging Today”, with an Update on the DACT (Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission) Fragments Campaign (https://dact-chant.ca/ ) and Controlled Vocabularies for the Fragmentarium (https://fragmentarium.ms/ ) and CANTUS Chant (https://cantus.uwaterloo.ca) databases.
  • Cover Page for Sorenson (2020 Spring Symposium Paper as a Draft For Comment), with an array of illustrations and the title "Introduction to Indian Manuscripts"

    Cover Page for Sorenson (2020 as Draft for Comment).

    a discussion about the published “Draft for Feedback” from David W. Sorenson’s planned 2020 Spring Symposium paper on An Introduction to Indian Manuscripts for the NonSpecialist: Draft for Feedback, with updates

Suggestions for Reading and Browsing

  • Catalogs, Metadata, and Databases: A Handlist of Links.
  • David W. Sorenson, An Introduction to Indian Manuscripts for the NonSpecialist: Draft for Feedback (2020).
  • _____, Paper-Moulds and Paper Traditions: Draft for Comment (2020).
  • [Mildred Budny and David Sorenson,] Watermarks and the History of Paper (2020–).

Vassar College, Frederick Thompson Memorial Library, Entry, Ceiling and Gobelin Tapestry Series.

Autumn Symposium
(15 October online or hybrid)

Plans for the Autumn Symposium develop some of these themes, and add more.

See 2022 Autumn Symposium on Supports for Knowledge.

Watch this space.

And There Is More . . .

Workshops, Webinars, Interviews, etc.

Subjects for episodes for The Research Group Speaks include, by request, a workshop to follow up the episode on How to be Indiana Jones in the Catalog (December 2021), with a demonstration by Linde M. Brocato:
  • “How to be Tarzan in the Catalog” (with audience requests invited ahead of time).

A Pointer to the Text. Eugene, Oregon, University of Oregon, MS 027, Latin Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, folio 3r, detail: manicle with an extended forefinger and flounced cuff.

RGME at the 2022 ICMS

Note that the RGME activities (4 Sessions and our Open Business Meeting) at the Kalamazoo Congress (online in May 2022) will provide more ways to announce the Autumn Symposium and the series of “The Research Group Speaks”, to plan further activities, and to gather their audiences.

  • See https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2022-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program
    (Abstracts of the Papers are included).

Pre-Congress Business Meeting

Like 2021, before the online Congress in May, the RGME will precede its Open Business Meeting online at the Congress with a Pre-Congress Business Meeting, likewise online.  Thus it may gather participants from within Congress-goers and beyond, so as to prepare for the planning in the Congress Business Meeting, for example about which Sessions the RGME might wish to propose for its sponsorship and co-sponsorship at the 2023 Congress.

More details about events will follow. Watch this space.

Woodcut Illustration for the First Sunday of Advent in "Postilla" (Lyons, 1527). Photograph by Mildred Budny

Creation. Woodcut Illustration for the First Sunday of Advent (Postilla, 1527). Photograph Mildred Budny.

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