ASA: American Studies Association 2012

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Annual Meeting: Call for Proposals 
"Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future," November 15-18, 2012
 
Puerto Rico Convention Center (All Events) and the Caribe Hilton San Juan, Puerto Rico
 
http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/page/submitting_a_proposal/
 
APPLICATIONS DUE JANUARY 26, 2012
 
The submission site is now open!
 
 
The 2012 ASA Program Committee invites current individual members of the ASA (or an affiliated international American studies association) to submit proposals for individual papers, entire sessions, presentations, performances, films, roundtables, workshops, conversations, or alternative formats described below on any topic dealing with American cultures.
 
All proposal submitters must be current ASA members (or an affiliated international American studies association) at the time of submission. Each panel submission should also include a second current ASA member (in addition the panel organizer) at the time of submission.
 
Please note that if you had a user account for the 2011 submission site you will need to create a new account for the 2012 submission site.
 
Register here after December 1, 2011 to submit a proposal through the ASA's 2012 submission site. 
http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/theasa/theasa12/index.php?
 
All panelists, including chairs and commentators, must be current individual members of the ASA (or an affiliated international American studies association) in order to participate. All participants must buy *both* a membership and a registration in order to be properly registered for the conference. There is no log in required.
 
 
Membership includes subscriptions to American Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online, and the ASA Newsletter (quarterly publication). Membership also includes discounts on conference registration and hotel.
 
We encourage you to consult Getting on the ASA Meeting Program: A Practical Guide before you submit a proposal.
 
Follow the submission instructions precisely and start the application process early. Emailed, faxed, scanned, or posted proposals will NOT be accepted. It is not possible to extend the submission deadline or accept late submissions for any reason. The submission site will automatically shut down at 11:59 PM (Pacific) on January 26, 2012.
 
There are a number of ways that our membership could help both themselves and the program committee when using the on-line system. 
 
First, ASA guidelines clearly state that a member may appear only once on the program. When members do not heed this advice, they create more work for the program committee as well as jeopardize both of the panels for which they have committed themselves. 
 
Second, we encourage members who have agreed to participate in a panel or have submitted a paper not to then double register as commentator and chair. 
 
Third, ASA guidelines state that sessions should reflect institutional and disciplinary diversity. One of the benefits of attending a national conference is to interact with scholars from institutions and fields other than our own. So, when proposals arrived with presenters from only one institution or field they are less attractive to a program committee regardless of content. 
 
Fourth, you may submit only one proposal. Finally, it is important to remember that the competition for these slots is extremely competitive.
 
 
Submission Restrictions and Guidelines
  • You are allowed to make only one submission. The Program Committee will eliminate from consideration those who submit more than one proposal.
  • So that as many members as possible will have the opportunity to be actively involved in the Annual Meeting, you may participate in one scholarly session on the program. If your name is listed on two or more proposals in whatever role you will render those proposals ineligible for consideration by the Program Committee.
  • The Council has charged its nine standing committees with organizing professional development panels. You may serve on one professional development panel and on one scholarly panel.
  • Sessions submitted without a chair will not be considered. You may chair and comment on the same session. You may chair and present on the same session without papers. You may not chair or comment and present a paper on the same session with papers.
  • If a panel has a commentator, he or she should not be the dissertation adviser of any member of the panel.
  • Session organizers should seek out a mix of junior and senior panelists, as well as a mix of institutions represented by faculty and graduate student panelists.
For further information about the Call for Proposals, you may contact Matthew Jacobson, President-elect of the American Studies Association, matthew.jacobson@yale.edu, or the Program Chairs Frances Aparicio frances-aparicio@northwestern.edu, Elizabeth Dillon e.dillon@neu.edu, and Natalia Molina nmolina@ucsd.edu .
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