AATSEEL Annual Meeting: How to Participate

[David J Birnbaum]

Dear AATSEEL Members,

In the interest of clearing up some misunderstandings that have arisen
about the AATSEEL Annual Meeting, please note the following rules about
participation.

1) Only paid AATSEEL members who register for the conference are permitted
to participate. Exceptions to the membership requirement (but not to
conference registration) may be granted individually for people who reside
permanently outside the United States and for non-Slavist members of other
professions. You must contact me to request an exemption.

2) In order to increase the opportunities for participation in the
conference, an individual may chair no more than one panel, may give no
more than one paper, and may serve as discussant on no more than one
panel. Participation in a roundtable counts as serving as a discussant.
This means that an individual may participate no more than three times,
and no more than once in each capacity. There are no exceptions to this
rule.
        There is no limit on serving as secretary, but secretaries
normally become chairs the following year, and if you are the secretary of
two panels, you should ensure that you arrange for someone to replace you
as chair for one of them for the 19967 conference.

3) AATSEEL tradition has been that panel chairs have the authority to
select participants for their panels according to their own criteria. Some
chairs accept papers on a first-come, first-served basis, others referee
all submissions and announce acceptances only at a certain deadline,
others prohibit participation by people who gave papers at the same panel
the preceding year, etc. If the membership would prefer to see uniform
policies introduced for all panels, please attend the business meeting in
Chicago and raise the issue there.

With best wishes,

David J. Birnbaum
Chair, AATSEEL Program Committee
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