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Submission Requirements

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Submission types and requirements are summarized below; for more detailed information, please click on each submission format.

Rules that apply to all submissions:

  • •   Undergraduates may not submit proposals nor may they be a part of any proposal;

  • •   Submissions may not be based on prior publications/presentations;

  • •   All submitters and presenters must be members who will be required to pay a separate registration fee upon proposal acceptance

  • •   No one can submit more than two proposals and only one of them can be a paper (individual paper, as a co-author, as part of a panel, or as part of a lightning round)

  • •   All submissions must be complete by the deadline (incomplete submissions are more likely to be rejected;

  • •   All submissions must be in English

  • •   All submissions are for in-person presentations. (No hybrid or virtual presentations, including DIY video presentations, will be permitted.)

  • •   Proposals may not be memorials or tributes

  • •   A/V requests can only be made at the time of submission. Because A/V equipment will not be available in all conference meeting rooms, please only request A/V if it is essential to your session. We cannot guarantee that all A/V requests will be honored.

Additional rules that apply to session (panel, lightning, seminar, workshop, performance/scholarship) proposals:

  • •  The Program Committee reserves the right to make adjustments to pre-formed sessions (e.g., add or remove a paper, change the chair, discussant, or respondent) in response to program needs. The Committee will make every effort to notify the session organizer regarding such changes.

  • •  Session leaders (chairs or moderators) cannot be presenters in the same session.

    • •  Eg a panel chair cannot present a paper on the same panel; a roundtable moderator cannot be a discussant on the same roundtable.

  • •  All submissions must have career diversity, gender diversity, and institutional diversity among the presenters.

    • •  Sessions must have at least one presenter who does not identify as a cis-male.

    • •  Presenters must be from two or more institutions

    • •  Presenters must have a diversity of academic ranks