Submission Guidelines

Each proposed presentation should represent work in progress rather than published work; each presentation should offer unique, original work not presented elsewhere.

Each paper proposal should include a 250-word abstract of the paper. Each session proposal should include a cover sheet that clearly lists the session's title, its format (e.g., papers, workshop, roundtable, conversation, performance) and the presenter's name and affiliation; including a 250- to 500-word summary of the proposed session will be especially helpful.

For a proposal consisting of papers, the proposal must include an abstract for each paper; a proposed session following another format needs the 250- to 500-word description but not, of course, any abstracts.

In the interests of involving as many people as possible, we limit each participant to a maximum of two appearances in the program. A person presenting a paper on a panel may chair that panel or may, of course, be involved in another session. If your proposal includes the name of someone who is also part of another proposal, please be sure both proposals clearly mention that fact. If a panel has a commentator, he or she should not be the dissertation director of any member of the panel.

While we applaud the ideal of interdisciplinarity, we do not plan to reject proposals out of hand that consist only of people from within one discipline. We encourage sessions with panelists reflecting a range of institutions and rankings within those institutions, from graduate students to senior scholars. Rather than encouraging proposals that segregate graduate students into separate sessions, we hope to schedule sessions that include graduate students and faculty members. The program committee reserves the right to accept a proposal in whole or in part.

Final deadline for proposals is August 30, 2002, and we will respond to everyone who has submitted a proposal.