Proposal Guidelines

All panel proposals must include complete contact information on participants, plus a non-presenting moderator. Incomplete panels with less than three participants will not be considered for review. Workshop and roundtable proposals that feature multiple participants must include all participants' names and contact information at the time of proposal submission. One-person workshops will also be considered.

Abstracts for all proposals should be 50-100 words. Abstracts explain to potential attendees the topic, foci and/or goals of the presentation reading in a clear and succinct manner in the conference program book. Abstracts may be revised or edited for the printed program.

One to two-page proposal descriptions (250-500 words) will serve as the basis for evaluation by the Proposal Review Committee and thus should include some or all of the following as appropriate: (1) Objective and purpose of the paper panel, workshop, etc. (2) Perspective and theoretical framework and/or reference to relevant, specific text, authors, or research, or on-going debates in related fields; (3) Results and/or conclusions and point of view; (4) Relevance to the conference theme; (5) Discussion of how the session will be structured. Proposal descriptions will assist proposal reviewers' evaluation of and appropriateness of the session or paper for inclusion in the conference program. Abstracts and proposal descriptions may not exceed the word limits given above.