CFP: AAASS 35th National Convention

Tue Oct 29 18:21:25 UTC 2002

Please feel free to forward this announcement to all interested parties. If
possible, please also reprint in your organization's newsletter and/or
print out the pdf version of the Call for Papers and post it on your
bulletin board or distribute among your colleagues and/or students.

Call for Papers for the AAASS 35th National Convention, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, 20-23 November 2003.

AAASS invites proposals for the AAASS 35th National Convention, which will
be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 20-23 November 2003, at the Fairmont
Royal York Hotel. Deadline for receipt of all proposals is 15 January 2003.

See below for detailed guidelines for submission. Call for papers  and
proposal forms were printed in the September 2002 issue of NewsNet, and are
also available at AAASS Web site: www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass.

The theme of this conference is "Opening Doors: Opportunities and
Innovations in Scholarship and Teaching in the Post-Communist Era." Robert
E. Johnson of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at
University of Toronto will chair the Program Committee.

In the past 15 years, Eurasian and Central European studies have undergone
vast changes. All of these openings have transformed the ways we and our
students engage with the region we study.  Programs of study, internships,
NGO services, exchanges of personnel and research materials, and
collaborate research projects are all now possible. Simultaneously, whole
fields of study have been transformed by archival access, new channels of
communication, and the opportunities to conduct first-hand research in the
region. Panels dealing with these themes are strongly encouraged.

Proposals must be for complete panels (individual paper proposals cannot be
considered) and should normally involve the presentation of prepared
papers. Special consideration will be given to panels reporting on recent
field or archival research, especially those that include presentations by
advanced graduate students and/or junior faculty. The Program Committee
also encourages the submission of panel proposals that include both women
and men. Proposals for roundtables should be submitted only when the topic
clearly justifies this format. Please note that proposals can be accepted
only from AAASS members or foreign non-members.

In recent years, the AAASS has experienced a welcome increase in attendance
at the national convention, and we are grateful to all of our members who
seek to participate. Unfortunately, due to limited affordable convention
space, the increase in convention attendance cannot be matched by an
increase in the number of panels given. Please observe the following
restrictions on panel/roundtable participation: No participant may serve in
more than one role on a panel or roundtable; No participant may present
more than one paper at the convention; No participant may appear more than
twice in the convention program.

If a participant is proposed for more than one paper or more than two
panels, all proposals listing that person will be returned to panel
organizers for clarification of the conflicts, which will delay
consideration of the panels involved.

Procedures for Submitting Panel/Roundtable Proposals:

1. By 15 January 2003 mail two copies of the proposal form and one copy of
a one-page c.v. for each participant to:  Wendy Walker, Convention
Coordinator, AAASS, 8 Story Street, 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA 02138. AAASS
will conduct initial screening of all proposals and forward them to the
appropriate members of the program committee. All proposals must be
received by the above deadline for consideration by the program committee.
Late proposals will be discarded. WE WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT PROPOSALS SENT
VIA FAX OR E-MAIL. We have had problems in the past with incomplete/missing
proposals using these methods. Proposals submitted via these mechanisms
will be discarded.

2. Indicate in the appropriate space on the form the category under which
you would like your panel/roundtable to be considered. Choose only from the
list of categories shown below to ensure that the appropriate member of the
program committee receives your proposal.

3. Provide complete information on all panel/roundtable participants: name,
affiliation, full address, phone, e-mail, and paper title. One-page c.v.'s
for all participants must accompany the form. Incomplete proposals will be
discarded. Each participant may only have one role on a panel/roundtable,
may only appear on two panels/roundtables, and only give one paper. (i.e.,
you cannot be chair and discussant or chair and give a paper on the same
panel). You may give a paper on one panel and be
chair/discussant/participant on another one and you may organize as many
panels or roundtables as you wish, but please do NOT sign up for more than
two panels/roundtables.

4. All participants on panels/roundtables must preregister and pay the
registration fee. All Slavic scholars living in the U.S. must be current
AAASS members. Only foreigners and scholars outside the field of Slavic
studies do not need to join AAASS.

5. Type or print very clearly, especially when title of the panel includes
words in languages other than English and when names of the participants
include special characters not used in English. Illegible forms will be
DISCARDED.

6. Affiliate organizations of the AAASS are each allowed one
panel/roundtable, which must be specified on the proposal form. Each
affiliate-sponsored panel/roundtable will be screened in the usual manner
by the Program Committee; we will not accept unscreened proposals.

7. Be sure to include any requests for audiovisual equipment.  Please
specify types of equipment (i.e., "overhead projector," not simply
"projector"). Please keep in mind that the AAASS can provide up to $100
worth of equipment; you will be charged for anything above this amount. The
deadline for all audiovisual equipment requests is 1 July 2003.

8. We will only honor specific scheduling requests for religious reasons.
Please make sure to include such requests on your panel/roundtable proposal
form.

Categories for Submission of Panel/Roundtable Proposals:
Arts/Film/Electronic Media
Comparative Politics
Economic History/Transition Issues/Emerging Markets
Geography
History: Central and Southeast Europe
History: Russian and Eurasian
International Relations/Security Studies/Foreign Policy
Linguistics/Language Pedagogy
Literature
Library/Information Sciences
Miscellaneous
Religion/Philosophy
Sociology/Anthropology

With any questions regarding the convention, please contact AAASS
Convention Coordinator, Wendy Walker, e-mail: walker at fas.harvard.edu, tel.:
617-495-0678, fax: 617-495-0680.

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