CFP in Slavic Linguistics!

[Sibelan E S Forrester]

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CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS!

PLEASE ADVERTISE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE!

In view of the fact that the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) is 
meeting this year in August in Berlin, and as a way of stimulating 
participation by linguists in American Association of Teachers of 
Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), SLS will sponsor a 
winter meeting at AATSEEL 2007 (Chicago, 28-30 December). We would 
like to function as an affiliate of AATSEEL and to follow their 
deadlines and guidelines as much as possible. Here is the plan:

What do I need? Send your panel proposals directly to AATSEEL Program 
Committee chair Bill Comer (wjcomer at ku.edu), but please also copy 
Steven Franks at franks at indiana.edu. It would help if you can do this 
by 31 January if possible; later declarations can of course be made, 
but this deadline will ensure fuller publicity and help to avoid 
conflicts.

What does this mean? All we require at this point is your name, 
contact information, and the title of the panel you intend to 
organize. This information will be posted on the AATSEEL and SLS web 
sites.

What happens next? It is your job to fill the proposed panel. You 
will eventually need to obtain an abstract for each paper, where the 
abstract should conform to standard AATSEEL guidelines. Each panel 
will last two hours. There are several options: you can select three 
abstracts or four abstracts. If you select three abstracts, you 
should have a discussant (which could be you, but then someone else 
must ultimately be assigned to chair the panel). If you select four, 
you are ordinarily expected to chair it, but if you cannot (either 
because you cannot attend the meeting or you are organizing more than 
one panel, since you can only chair one), then all you need to do is 
organize the panel and a chair will be assigned later.

Who can present? Anyone who is a member of SLS or AATSEEL. AATSEEL 
will waive membership for SLS panel presenters who are not in 
departments of Slavic Languages // Russian // Modern Languages and 
Literatures. Of course, all participants must however register for 
the AATSEEL conference.

What if you get more than four good abstracts? You do not need to 
turn these away. There are two straightforward options. You can 
either break your topic into two panels (although you would only be 
able personally to chair one of them). Alternatively, you could 
advise authors of those you cannot accept to submit them directly to 
AATSEEL. Please remind them the AATSEEL Program Committee needs to 
receive abstracts submitted directly to them by 1 August.

What to do with the abstracts of the papers you want in your 
panel(s)? You should send these as a set to the AATSEEL Program 
Committee (specifically, Linguistics Division head Grant Lundberg 
grant_lundberg at byu.edu) by 1 August. It is your responsibility to 
ensure high quality abstracts, so you are encouraged to work with the 
presenters to submit appropriate abstracts. Official confirmation 
will be received from AATSEEL Program Committee by 1 September. 
AATSEEL will schedule papers and notify participants of their time 
slots by 20 September. If an abstract requires some revision, the 
revised version must be received by the program committee by 1 
October in order to be published on the web site and in the program 
book.

PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ON TO YOUR COLLEAGUES, PLEASE POST TO 
YOUR DISTRIBUTION LISTS, AND OTHERWISE DISSEMINATE AS BROADLY AS 
POSSIBLE!

Steven Franks

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