AATSEEL 2003
Sibelan Forrester
sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU
Tue Jan 7 22:04:13 UTC 2003
At 3:39 PM -0500 1/7/03, Edward M Dumanis wrote:
> > The Program Committee would like to emphasize that panel chairs are
>> welcome to shape their own panels and to invite participants to
>> submit abstracts for a specific panel. (Chairs may not, however,
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > present papers at their own panels.)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>I am just wondering: What is the reason for the underlined policy?
>I am not sure I understand its rationale.
One possible answer: the panel chair is responsible largely for
making sure that the various panelists observe the time limitations
-- so a chair who read his or her own paper on that panel might
succumb to a conflict of interest ("This paper of mine is so
interesting that I will let myself drone on for 45 minutes!").
Please note that a chair of one panel may present a paper at another
panel -- anyone interested in chairing a panel on any topic is
invited to let the program committee know about it.
All the best,
Sibelan Forrester
("At Large" member of the Program Committee)
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