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MSA X: Call for Seminar, Panel, and Roundtable Proposals

Deadline for Submission of Seminar Proposals: March 3, 2008

Deadline for Submission of Panel Proposals: May 12, 2008

Deadline for Submission of Roundtable Proposals: May 12, 2008

The 2008 meeting of the Modernist Studies Association will take place at the
Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, November 13-16, 2008.  The
organizationıs annual conference regularly brings together in excess of 500
scholars from a variety of disciplines and features an engaging mix of
keynote addresses, small seminars, panel presentations, and roundtable
discussions.  This yearıs event, ³Modernism and Global Media,² will be
hosted by Vanderbilt University with generous financial support provided by
the Office of the Dean, Vanderbiltıs Center for the Americas, and various
Vanderbilt departments and programs, including English and Film Studies.
With the title ³Modernism and Global Media,² conference organizers wish to
foreground issues such as transnational and international aesthetic
interaction, modernism in the Americas, Diaspora, cinema and mass media
(print, radio, phonography, etc), media in various colonial and
anti-colonial projects, war, global economics, migration, the Jazz Age, the
Harlem Renaissance, mass culture, and popular music as well as the ways in
which global media shapes racial, ethnic, gendered, classed, and regional
identities and affiliations.  Participants are welcome, however, to submit
panel and roundtable proposals on any topic: the primary criterion for
selection will be the quality of the proposal, not its link to the
conference theme (capacious as it is).  Detailed information about the
conference‹including updated calls for proposals, housing arrangements,
travel information, and details regarding subsidiary events‹will soon be
found on-line at www.vanderbilt.edu/msax.  All email queries should be
directed to the conference organizers at [log in to unmask]

CALL FOR SEMINAR PROPOSALS
 
Deadline: Monday, March 3, 2008
 
Leading a Seminar (Information for Seminar Leaders)
 
Seminars are one the most significant features of the MSA conference.
Participants write brief "position papers" (5-7 pages) that are read and
circulated prior to the conference. Because their size is limited to 15
participants, seminars generate lively exchange and often facilitate future
collaborations. The format also allows a larger number of conference
attendees to seek financial support from their institutions as they educate
themselves and their colleagues on subjects of mutual interest. Seminars are
two hours in length.
 
Please note that this is the call for seminar leaders. Sign-ups for seminar
participants will take place on a first-come, first-served basis starting in
mid-April, coinciding with registration for the conference.
 
Seminar Topics
 
There are no limits on topics, but past experience has shown that the more
clearly defined the topic and the more guidance provided by the leader, the
more productive the discussion. ³Clearly defined² should not be confused
with ³narrow,² as extremely narrow seminar topics tend to exclude many
potential applicants. To scan past seminar topics, go to the Conference
Archives http://msa.press.jhu.edu/archive/archive.html on the MSA website,
click the link to a prior conference, and then click on "Conference
Schedule" or "Conference Program." You'll find seminars listed along with
panels and other events.
 
Proposing a Seminar
 
Seminar proposals must be submitted via email and must include the following
information. Please assist us by sending this information in exactly the
order given here:
 
* Use as a subject line: SEMINAR PROPOSAL / [LAST NAME OF SEMINAR LEADER]
(e.g., SEMINAR PROPOSAL / GORMAN)
 
* List the seminar leader's name, institutional affiliation, discipline,
position or title, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail address
 
* Provide a brief curriculum vitae (including teaching experience) for the
seminar leader
 
* Give a brief description (up to 100 words) of the proposed topic
 
 
Submit proposals by MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2008 TO:
 
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Seminars will be selected in late March 2008.
 

CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS

Deadline: Monday, May 12, 2008

Topics are not limited to the theme ³Modernism and Global Media.² Successful
proposals will introduce topics that promise to expand research and debate
on a topic, and will present a clear rationale for the papersı collective
goal. Please bear in mind these guidelines:

* We encourage interdisciplinary panels and discourage panels on single
authors.

* In order to encourage discussion, preference will be given to panels with
three participants, though panels of four will be considered.

* Panels composed entirely of participants from a single department at a
single institution are not likely to be accepted.

* Graduate students are welcome as panelists. However, panels composed
entirely of graduate students are less likely to be accepted than panels
that include degreed presenters together with graduate students.

Proposals for panels must be submitted via email and must include the
following information. Please assist us by sending this information in
exactly the order given here:

* Use as a subject line: PANEL PROPOSAL / [LAST NAME OF PANEL ORGANIZER]
(e.g., PANEL PROPOSAL / GORMAN)

* Session title

* Session organizer's name, institutional affiliation, discipline, position
or title, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail address

* Chair's name, institutional affiliation, discipline, position or title,
and contact information (if you do not identify a chair, we will locate one
for you)

* Panelists' names, paper titles, institutional affiliations, disciplines,
positions or titles, and contact information

* A maximum 500-word abstract of the panel as a whole

* Brief (2-3 sentence) scholarly biography of each panelist

Submit proposals by MONDAY, MAY 12, 2008 TO:

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Panels will be selected mid-June.


CALL FOR ROUNDTABLE PROPOSALS

Deadline: Monday, May 12, 2008

Unlike panels, which generally feature a sequence of 15-20 minute talks
followed by discussion, roundtables gather a group of participants around a
shared concern in order to generate discussion among the roundtable
participants and with the audience. To this end, instead of delivering
full-length papers, participants are asked to deliver short position
statements in response to questions distributed in advance by the organizer,
or they take turns responding to prompts from the moderator. The bulk of the
session should be devoted to discussion. No paper titles are listed in the
program, only the names of participants.

Other MSA roundtable policies:

* Roundtables may feature as many as 6 speakers.

* We particularly welcome roundtables featuring participants from multiple
disciplines, and we discourage roundtables on single authors.

* Panels composed entirely of participants from a single department at a
single institution are not likely to be accepted.

* Graduate students are welcome as speakers. However, roundtables composed
entirely of graduate students are less likely to be accepted than
roundtables that include degreed presenters together with graduate students.

Proposals for panels must be submitted via email and must include the
following information. Please assist us by sending this information in
exactly the order given here:

* Use as a subject line: ROUNDTABLE PROPOSAL / [LAST NAME OF ROUNDTABLE
ORGANIZER] (e.g., ROUNDTABLE PROPOSAL / GORMAN)

* Session title

* Session organizer's name, institutional affiliation, discipline, position
or title, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail address

* Moderator's name, institutional affiliation, discipline, position or
title, and contact information (if you do not identify a moderator, we will
locate one for you)

* Speakers' names, institutional affiliations, disciplines, positions or
titles, mailing addresses, phones, faxes, and e-mail addresses

* A maximum 500-word rationale for the roundtable

* Brief (2-3 sentence) scholarly biography of each speaker

Send proposals by MONDAY, MAY 12, 2008 TO:

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Roundtables will be selected mid-June.

Derrick R. Spires
Department of English
Vanderbilt University
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"He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will
not reap."  Ecclesiastes 11:4
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Derrick R. Spires
Ph.D. Candidate, Ford Predoctoral Fellow
Department of English
American Studies
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
Email: [log in to unmask]

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