Call for Papers for the AAASS National Convention in November 2005

Tue Dec 14 16:21:35 UTC 2004

The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies invites 
proposals for its 37th National Convention One area or parts of several? 
Political, economic, and cultural boundaries of the AAASS region in the 
21st Century,which will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Grand 
America Hotel, Thursday through Sunday, November 3 through 6, 2005.

The venue for the 2005 convention, the Grand America Hotel, is a wonderful 
property. It is on the list of Top North American Hotels and has received a 
coveted five diamond designation from AAA for 2005. The hotel 
accommodations include 380 very spacious Premier Rooms (each 700 sq. ft.) 
and 395 even bigger Suites (each 880 sq. ft.) 127 of which are suites with 
balconies overlooking the garden courtyard and pool. The Grand America 
Hotel will offer special room rate of $135.00 single or double for the 
AAASS convention participants. For more information about the hotel and its 
accommodations and amenities, including pictures of the rooms and meeting 
rooms, please visit: www.grandamerica.com.

If you have never been to Salt Lake City, believe us when we say it that it 
is a destination worth visiting. If you have a spare moment, among the 
places worth seeing are: Clark Planetarium, www.clarkplanetarium.org; The 
Living Planet Aquarium, www.thelivingplanet.com; The Family History 
Library, the largest repository of genealogical records in the world, 
www.familysearch.org; Museum of Utah Art & History, www.muahnet.org; or the 
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, www.utah.edu/umfa. For more information about 
Salt Lake City and its environments, please see: 
www.visitsaltlake.com/home.shtml.

And in case you were wondering, according to the Salt Lake Convention and 
Visitors Bureau it is just as easy to get a drink in Salt Lake as it is to 
order a meal. For more information about Utahs Liquor Laws, see: 
www.visitsaltlake.com/go/liquor.html.

We are pleased to announce that starting this year panel or roundtable 
proposals and meeting room requests may be submitted online through its Web 
site, www.aaass.org. To enter a proposal online, select Submit a completed 
convention proposal form on the AAASS home page. All information must be 
entered as requested. Please remember that the organizer is responsible for 
the accuracy of the information entered and must include c.v. form for each 
participant. Deadline for entering proposals and meeting room requests is 
January 14, 2005 at midnight EST. The system will be taken off line 12:01 
a.m. EST on January 15.

Please keep in mind the following general rules for proposals:
 Each participant may only have one role on a panel or roundtable, may 
only appear on two panels or roundtables during the convention, and only 
present one paper during the convention. You may organize as many panels or 
roundtables as you wish and you may give a paper on one panel and be the 
chair, or a discussant, or a participant on one other, but you cannot be 
chair and discussant or chair and give a paper on the same panel, and you 
can not sign up for more than two panels/roundtables.
 Panels can only have: one Chair; maximum of 3 papers; maximum of 2 
discussants. Roundtables can only have: one Chair; maximum of 5 participants.
 All participants who are 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. All participants on 
panels/roundtables must preregister by the deadline and pay the 
registration fee.
 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 July 1, 2005.  WE WILL NOT 
PROVIDE ANY POWER POINT EQUIPMENT  IT IS TOO EXPENSIVE TO RENT  PLEASE PLAN 
ACCORDINGLY.
 If you agree to participate in the AAASS Convention, you are agreeing to 
be scheduled during any of the planned sessions. We will honor specific 
scheduling requests only for religious reasons. Please make sure to include 
such requests on your panel/roundtable proposal form.

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

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