1998 AATSEEL Conference-First Abstract Deadline-Wed, April 15

[David J Birnbaum]

1998 AATSEEL Conference
First Deadline for Abstracts
Wednesday, 15 April 1998

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Dear SEELANGers,

As has been announced previously, members who wish to present papers at
the 1998 Annual Meeting (San Francisco) are asked to submit one-page
abstracts, which will undergo double-blind refereeing, to the Program
Committee. There are two deadlines for the submission of abstracts, 15
April and 1 August, and this message is a reminder that the first deadline
is close at hand. A few details:

1) Acknowledgements of abstracts that have already been received will go
out this week. If you have submitted an abstract and do not receive an
acknowledgement by Friday, 10 April, please get in touch with me (contact
information is at the bottom of this message).

2) Submissions received by 15 April and not accepted will be returned to
their authors with comments, and may be revised and resubmitted by the 1
August deadline. The results of the first round of refereeing will be
communicated to the authors shortly after 15 May. Alternatively, members
may bypass the 15 April deadline entirely and submit their abstracts only
by 1 August, although there will not be an opportunity for revision and
resubmission after that time.

3) Guidelines for the preparation of abstracts were published in the 1997
Conference Program book and in the AATSEEL Newsletter, and are available
at http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/aatseel/abstract_guidelines.html.
General information about the refereed abstract process and the overall
conference structure is available at
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/aatseel/aatseel_guidelines.html.

4) The current Call for Papers, available at
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/aatseel/call.html, includes information
received after the most recent AATSEEL Newsletter went to press. Abstracts
may be submitted for specific panels, but they may, alternatively, be
submitted to the conference in general, and the Program Committee will
construct new panels as needed to accommodate all accepted papers. This
means that the absence of a suitable panel need not deter anyone from
submitting an abstract.

5) Abstracts should be sent directly to the following members of the
Program Commitee: abstracts in linguistics should be sent to Jane Hacking
(jhacking at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu), abstracts in pedagogy should be sent to
Benjamin Rifkin (brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu), and all other abstracts
should be sent to David J. Birnbaum (djb at clover.slavic.pitt.edu). Full
contact information for these Program Committee members (postal addresses,
fax, etc.) was published in the 1997 Conference Program Book and in the
AATSEEL Newsletter, and is available at
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/aatseel/contact_persons.html.

6) Members who would like to participate in the refereeing process may
contact any member of the Program Committee to volunteer. For more
information, see
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/aatseel/call_for_referees.html. For
full contact information for the Program Committee (telephone, fax, postal
addresses, email), please see
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/aatseel/divison_heads.html.

7) Chairs of declared panels should have received confirmations and
preliminary information from the Program Committee. These confirmations
identify a specific member of the Program Committee as the person
responsible for coordinating your panel.  If you have declared a panel and
have not received a confirmation, please get in touch with me (contact
information below).

Looking forward to seeing you all in San Francisco,

David J. Birnbaum
Chair, AATSEEL Program Committee
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Professor David J. Birnbaum     email: djbpitt+ at pitt.edu
Department of Slavic Languages  url:   http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/
1417 Cathedral of Learning      voice: 1-412-624-5712
University of Pittsburgh        fax:   1-412-624-9714
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA