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