call for panels
SUBMISSION CRITERIA: The Left Forum encourages sessions on a wide range of topics of interest to progressive movements. Panels are organized to reflect a diversity of views. We ask that panelists engage different, even opposing viewpoints around your chosen topic. Panel formats such as debate, author meets critics, panels with a respondent, or a moderated roundtable can help accomplish this. We also urge gender, age, and racial diversity to the extent you can. We hope many panels will critically engage the themes of the conference as they relate to our 2010 Conference Statement.
For ideas on panel topics look at last year's conference program. We will accommodate proposals that our vetting committees think will be of interest to the broad Left Forum constituency.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Please note that the conference is a month earlier than it was in 2009. The submission deadline is December 1st, 2009. The sooner you get your proposals in the better we can accommodate them.
SUBMISSION PROCESS AND PROCEDURES:
Click here to submit your proposal online!
This online submission process will enable you to update the proposal as needed. Follow the instructions on the page and fill in the information requested and press submit. You will be asked to create a login name (we recommend a familiar one) and your email address. You will then be emailed a password and every time you want to change or update the proposal you will be asked to give your login name and password. After this you will hear back from us about your panel proposal. While all the panel information is not required right away, you will be asked to provide a title, participants (including a chair) and their affiliations with a paragraph/abstract or so explaining what you intend to do. Please include your contact information. It would be helpful if you could also include a brief paragraph describing each participant on your proposed panel. These will be included as bios in the printed program for panels that are accepted.
In order to cover conference costs we require that panelists register for the conference (panelist-conference registration fee TBA); requests for scholarships will be considered. We invite foreign participation but unfortunately we cannot pay for travel costs for panelists or provide translators.
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