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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due

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Nominations for 2012 Lora Romero Publication Prize for the best-published first book in American Studies due

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Annual Meeting

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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

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 members of the ASA (or an affiliated international American studies association) at the time of submission.

Each panel submission should also include a second current ASA ( or affiliated international American studies association) member in addition to the panel organizer at the time of submission.

All other panelists, including chairs and commentators, must become current individual members of the ASA (or an affiliated international American studies association) immediately upon notification if their proposal is accepted.

Only current members will be listed in the annual meeting program.

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.

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 are expected to pay their conference registration fees early by June 1, 2012. 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.

Only registered participants will be listed in the annual meeting program.

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.

The submission site will open on December 1, 2011. 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.

Meeting Theme

Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future

The Caribe Hilton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The site of the 2012 conference calls on us to continue thinking deeply about the conceptual and methodological demands of a truly transnational American Studies. From Christopher Columbus's second voyage in the late fifteenth century to the irony of an African American president's state visit to Puerto Rico in the early twenty-first, the long history of this island and its peoples evokes many crucial themes regarding the transnational traffics generated by imperialism and anti-imperialism: indigeneity, conquest, and resistance; the administrative and juridical structures of empire; slavery and emancipation; migrations and diasporas; the mutually constitutive relationship between gender and sexuality on the one hand and imperial practice, subjugation, resistance, or citizenship on the other; the politics of inclusion and exclusion; militarism; local, national, and transnational feminisms; the footprints of corporate capitalism, from extraction to tourism; globalization and neoliberalism; the circuits of slavery and escape, political exile, and cultural production that link Puerto Rico with the larger Caribbean and the Americas; the travel and syncretism of circum-Atlantic arts and musics; the aesthetic traditions of a transnational imaginary; drug traffic; environmental degradation; appalling inequities and the endurance of genius and spirit. Equally important for a transnational American Studies is Puerto Rico's unique relationship to the United States. From the perverse imperial logic of the Insular Cases, whereby the Supreme Court could define Puerto Rico as "foreign in a domestic sense" -- that is, somehow "in" the United States but not "of" it -- to Sonia Sotomayor's ascendance to that very bench (amid dissenting characterizations of her as perhaps more "foreign" than "domestic") a century later, the history of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans sheds a very particular light on the ongoing contradictions of the United States: the limits of U.S. citizenship, the displacements stimulated by neoliberal capitalism, the culture and politics of migration and diaspora. Finally, the simultaneously local and transnational specificities of Puerto Rican history and culture -- from the Ta�no revival movement to the Young Lords and the Nuyorican Poets Caf�, from bomba and plena to Salsa and Reggaeton, from the island's rich journalistic tradition to the alternative political movements of squatters, students, and anti-military activists -- remind us that a transnational American studies must also be a truly interdisciplinary inquiry into how the material and symbolic are imbricated, how "culture" encompasses the imaginary and the everyday, how big political events and ideologies, are lived in intensely translocal ways.

Dimensions of Empire and Resistance. Since the publication of Donald Pease and Amy Kaplan's Cultures of United States Imperialism in 1994, empire has come to hold a central place in American Studies scholarship, resulting in a rich and varied literature devoted to the topic in direct, unblinking, and sophisticated ways. The current call goes out to the many scholars working on US empire and its "others," to be sure, whether focusing on Manifest Destiny, the Philippines, Vietnam, or the Middle East, for instance. But by the word dimensions we also seek to broaden the conversation significantly, to set the Hilton Hotel alongside the Baghdad Green Zone, so to say -- to consider the vast spectrum of political and cultural practices running from colonial administration and military occupation; to tourism; to the history of sugar or rum or baseball; to the power dynamics either fostered or legitimated by educational practices and institutions -- in places like Puerto Rico, for instance -- or by "knowledge" and the disciplines themselves; to the quotidian imperialist slanders carried in US popular culture -- and equally, the constant articulations of dissent; to metaphorical usages, like "media empire," which are nonetheless embedded in histories of empire proper; to the transnational logic of a canonical "national treasure" like Moby-Dick; to the thick traces of the imperial past and the anti-imperialist present in a text like Empire of Dreams, by Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi.

Past, Present, and Future. Although "past" in this context is likely to concentrate the mind on the "splendid little war" of 1898 or on the cartography of US interventionism across ensuing generations, here we also mean to invoke the deep past and its most enduring trajectories, beginning with "encounter" and with conquests now many centuries distant. If European exploration and conquest continue to cast a long shadow across the lands currently under the purview of American Studies, so was the struggle among contending empires a crucible for the political culture of what eventually became the United States. It is one of the great intellectual losses to American Studies in recent years that so many specialists in the colonial and early national periods have withdrawn, as the field itself has gravitated toward the more recent past and the present. The ASA ought to be a natural locus for the rich conversation among specialists in many periods and many social science and humanities disciplines around conceptions like the "extended Caribbean," or reckoning the stakes of "the global South" for the study of the United States. We seek to re-engage the insight and energy of early Americanists across the disciplines. A high value will be placed on papers and sessions that touch upon aspects of pre-1865 history and culture, panels that span different periods in thematic or comparative perspective, and panels that challenge standard categories of periodization -- colonial, early national, antebellum -- in the light of a truly transnational perspective.

In recent years, "empire" has become an increasingly complicated word in the US political lexicon -- openly and quite positively embraced in some quarters in the early years of the Iraq War, and now increasingly discussed -- also openly, even amid ongoing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya -- as something that is quite evidently at its end, as in "the fall of the American empire" or "the end of the American Century." Even Time magazine recently announced on its cover, "Yes, America Is in Decline." Both meanings seem to be integrally embedded within and conveyed by a text like The Wire, for instance, and there is much to explore here from an interdisciplinary perspective. By "present and future," then, we mean to provoke discussion of these complexities as they affect the peoples both within and without the United States. The behaviors of neoliberal states are crucial here -- the shift, as Phillip Bobbitt puts it, from the "nation-state" to the "market-state" -- as are the ways in which the corporation has displaced the state as the most significant aggregation of power in many hemispheric or regional contests and has displaced the citizen in many local ones. These developments, though traceable to the longer trajectories of "empire," have begun to unite the working people of Michigan and Wisconsin with the working people of San Juan in new and unforeseen ways. The Caribbean vantage point of the 2012 conference is also a compelling invitation to rethink or reinterpret the United States' geopolitical strategies and discourses, both historically and in the future, and to reckon with artistic and literary work that has been devoted to reimagining the boundaries of utopianism and futurity.

Proposal Submissions

We encourage you to consult Getting on the ASA Meeting Program: A Practical Guide before you submit a proposal.

Please carefully read the proposal submission requirements and guidelines below before proceeding to use the online submission site. Follow the submission instructions precisely and start the application process early. The help menu on each page of the submission site should answer your site related questions.

The ASA staff is eager to help people navigate the submission site, but that work is possible only when the staff is not pushed up against the deadline. Contact us at least 72 hours before the submission deadline if you need technical assistance. The ASA staff will also respond to emailed questions until 2 PM (Pacific) on January 26, 2012 at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). 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.

Submit a proposal through the ASA's 2012 submission site.

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.

Proposal Types

Proposals on any topic dealing with American Studies may be submitted for traditional paper sessions. Proposals may be submitted for sessions with alterative formats including sessions with papers and sessions without papers (see below). Proposals may also be submitted for individual papers.

Proposals for sessions with papers, including traditional paper sessions, as well as those in talk, online, or exhibit formats, should indicate in a one-page description the session subject/s and the proposed format. Such proposals should also include all relevant information requested below in the submission guidelines and instructions and must include abstracts for each individual presenter.

Proposals for sessions without papers, such as workshops, dialogues, and performances, should indicate in a one-page description the session subject/s and the proposed format. Such proposals should also include all relevant information requested below, though they need not include individual presenter abstracts.

Proposed presentations should represent work in progress, rather than published work. Presentations should offer unique, original work not presented elsewhere.

Standing Committee, Caucus, Taskforce, and Program Committee members are authorized and encouraged to submit session proposals. Proposals from organizations affiliated with the ASA are also welcome.

All Standing Committee, Caucus, Taskforce, Affiliated Society, and Program Committee member proposals must adhere to the same conditions, deadlines and restrictions as other session proposals, and are subject to review by the Program Committee.

Alternative Proposal Formats for San Juan, Puerto Rico 2012

The Program Committee supports innovative formats that disrupt the conventional "three people reading papers" format.

The Program Committee believes that we cannot think about new, powerful connections between the academy and the world if we use only conventional academic forms. The Committee is proposing, therefore, several formats different from conventional paper-reading sessions. The Committee urges you to consider them if they seem appropriate and useful.

In order to broaden the modes of presentation and discussion in the Annual Meeting program, we invite proposals in two broad categories of non-traditional formats:

A. Sessions with Papers.

Although these resemble conventional sessions in having a chair, presentation of papers to an audience, and commentary, papers in these sessions will not be read aloud, allowing more time for informed, informal, and engaged discussion. These sessions require an abstract.

"Talk" format. Presenters will write papers, as usual, and distribute them to the chair, commentator, and other panelists by the deadline. But in the session they will "talk" their paper from notes, speaking directly to the audience rather than reading line-by-line.

On-line format. Presenters will post their papers on the Internet one month before the meeting. These sessions will be prominently marked in the program as intended primarily for an audience that has read the papers in advance and followed whatever on-line discussion they may have generated. The session will be devoted to formal commentary and group discussion. The panel will set up the web site on their own server, post the online papers, and provide the forum for discussion of those papers. The ASA will publicize the on line sessions and install the links from the on line program to the panel's web site and discussion blog.

Exhibit format. Presenters will post their materials on a large bulletin board that can accommodate text pages in large type, graphics, primary source extracts, etc. Video and audio clips can also be used. These sessions will feature three or four such presentations grouped around a common theme. The first half of the session gives the audience time to read and discuss each exhibit with the presenters. The second half encourages group discussion, facilitated by a chair and commentators.

B. Sessions without Papers.

In past meetings, the ASA has already sponsored many kinds of alternative sessions: roundtables, conversations, performances, multi-media presentations, readings of creative work, workshops involving audience participation, and presentations linked to the community outside the hotel (community centers, museums, secondary schools, prisons, etc.). These formats will experiment with creative forms of expression, performance and dialogue that represent a significant departure to conventional presentations of papers. These sessions require an abstract.

Performative format. Presenters will perform their work. This could include the range of artistic performing arts (dance, music, drama, spoken word, performance art) to multi-media presentations (video, film, audio, digital media) and readings of creative fiction and non-fiction.

Dialogue format (Roundtables).Presenters will engage in dialogues with each other and the audience. Possible formats could include roundtables of academics; forums with scholars, community activists, mass or alternative media-makers and public officials; conversations between performing and/or visual artists, curators, and educators about aesthetic and expressive innovations or the challenges of developing public cultures in diverse communities. This format might be particularly well suited to creating linkages with the communities outside the hotel (community centers, performing arts centers, museums, secondary schools, prisons, libraries, and other public sites).

Workshop format. Presenters will create venues to verbally and physically interact with the audience. Educators, artists, and curators, for example, could lead these workshops to emphasize the interactive challenges and possibilities of interdisciplinarity and American Studies.

We are excited about the possibilities for San Juan, Puerto Rico 2012. We hope you will join us in making this a stimulating, conversational, and useful conference for the American Studies Association and its members.

ASA Individual Paper Submission Instructions

YOU ARE PERMITTED TO SUBMIT ONLY ONE PROPOSAL.

All individual paper submitters must be current members of the ASA (or an affiliated international American studies association) in order to propose an individual paper.

All accepted presenters must buy *both* a membership and a registration in order to be properly registered for the conference. There is no log in required.

All individual paper submitters will need the following:

Individual Paper Title (maximum of 15 words per title. Do not begin the title with quotes or other characters.)
Paper Abstract (maximum of 500 words per abstract)
Session Keywords
Special Requests
Individual Author information including: first name, last name, affiliation, e-mail address, and one page vitae.
Confirmation of current membership status

IIMPORTANT: type all information as it should appear in the program. Use appropriate grammar, punctuation, sentence construction, and do not use abbreviations. The information you type in this form will be included in the ASA program book (if your proposal is accepted). Type title as it should appear in the program (limit to fifteen words). Do not type in all capital letters. Use initial caps only. Do not include quotations or other characters at the beginning of your title.

Those submitting individual paper proposals will receive a confirmation e-mail that the paper has been submitted. The Program Committee will organize as many individual papers as possible into sessions. Individual paper submitters will each have to create a brand new user account at the convention submission site, even if he or she submitted last year, and the submitter can edit his or her personal information, paper titles, and abstracts. Proposals may be edited after submission only until January 26, 2012, but personal information may be updated at any time.

ASA Session Submission Instructions:

YOU ARE PERMITTED TO SUBMIT ONLY ONE PROPOSAL.

All session submitters must be current members of the ASA (or an affiliated international American studies association) in order to propose a session. Each panel submission must also include a second current ASA member (in addition the panel organizer) at the time of submission.

All accepted 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.

The session submitter will need the following:

Session Title (maximum of 15 words)
Session Abstract (maximum of 500 words)
Session Keywords
Special Requests
Paper Title from each session participant (maximum of 15 words per title) for sessions with papers only
Paper Abstract from each session participant (maximum of 500 words per abstract) for sessions with papers only
Contact and biographical information from each session participant (presenters, chair, commentator) including: first name, last name, affiliation, e-mail address, and one page vitae
Confirmation of current membership status from each session participant

IMPORTANT: type all information as it should appear in the program. Use appropriate grammar, punctuation, sentence construction, and do not use abbreviations. The information you type in this form will be included in the ASA program book (if your proposal is accepted). Type title as it should appear in the program (limit to fifteen words). Do not type in all capital letters. Use initial caps only. Do not include quotations or other characters at the beginning of your title.

Standing Committee, Caucus, Task Force, Program Committee, and Affiliated Society proposals should state the organizational sponsor's name at the beginning of the session title.

AN INDIVIDUAL MAY NOT SUBMIT MORE THAN ONE SPONSORED PROPOSAL.

Session submitters: You will receive a confirmation e-mail upon submission. You will find copies of all emails in the message center of your All Academic user account. You will serve as the primary contact with panelists and the ASA. You are responsible for editing paper titles, abstracts, and vitae. The proposal may be accessed only through your account. You may edit the session proposal until January 26, 2012. You will automatically create an All Academic user account for each panelist . You are also responsible for ensuring your panelists join the ASA (or are members of an affiliated international American studies association) and register for the annual meeting.

Panelists: You will find copies of all emails in the message center of your All Academic user account. You may not access the proposal through your All Academic user account. You may only update your account profile, affiliation, and contact information. You must join the ASA (or be a member of an affiliated international American studies association) and register for the annual meeting.

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.

A major headache at all Annual Meetings is papers that go on for too long, wearying the audience and disrupting the schedule. Session organizers should make sure that their session begins on time, and that participants do not abuse the time limits. All sessions are 105 minutes in length. This includes the reading of papers, responses by the commentators and comments from the audience. When an audience has sat through a typical session of three papers and one response by a commentator, they quite rightly feel cheated and frustrated if no time is left for audience participation. The following chart can be used by the session chair as a guide to allocating time during the session, assuming that one takes five minutes for introductions.

Session Length	Number of Papers or Presentations	Time Allowed per Paper or Presentation	Time Allowed for a Single Commentator	Time Allowed for Audience Comments
105 minutes	3	20 (2000 words)	20	20
105 minutes	4	16 (1600 words)	16	20
105 minutes	5	13 (1300 words)	15	20

Participation Requirements

The association expects that people agreeing to appear on the ASA program should recognize their professional responsibility to support the organization with their dues as well as conference registration fees. The session organizer should inform the members of the proposed panel of these requirements before submitting a proposal. The session organizer is also responsible for ensuring that their panelists promptly compliance with these requirements.

All proposal submitters must be current members of the ASA (or an affiliated international American studies association) at the time of submission.

Each panel submission should also include a second current ASA ( or affiliated international American studies association) member in addition to the panel organizer at the time of submission.

All other panelists, including chairs and commentators, must become current individual members of the ASA (or an affiliated international American studies association) immediately upon notification if their proposal is accepted.

Only current members will be listed in the annual meeting program.

All participants are expected to pay their conference registration fees early by June 1, 2012. Only registered participants will be listed in the annual meeting program.

On occasion, non-academic participants or specially invited distinguished academic speakers may, with written permission of the Executive Director, be exempted from the membership requirement. Applications for exemption shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of ASA by April 1, 2012. These non-members, however, must register early for the annual meeting by June 1, 2012 at the non-member rate.

The Journals Publishing Division of the Johns Hopkins University Press is responsible for membership and subscription fulfillment. If you have any questions or problems concerning your membership please contact JHUP Customer Service directly at toll free (US and Canada only) at 800-548-1784 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

The Program Committee advises each participant of his or her professional and ethical obligation to appear, and also to locate suitable replacements in the event of an unavoidable withdrawal.

Fees and Funding

Participant Pre-Registration Fee (due June 1, 2012):

ASA Member or International Affiliate $90.00
ASA Member or International Affiliate-Income under $15,000 $65.00
ASA Member-Student/K-12 Educator $40.00

Non-Member $115.00
Non-Member-Income under $15,000/year $90.00
Non-Member-Student/K-12 Educator $65.00

After June 1, the pre-registration fee for all registrants will increase by $10 in each category

All participants are responsible for obtaining the funding they need to attend the Annual Meeting. Neither the ASA nor the Program Committee can underwrite travel funds, honoraria, per diem, or other subsidies for any chair, commentator, or panelist; breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, cocktail parties, receptions, and the like; professional or individual video tape recording of sessions or events.

Membership and registration fees are neither refundable nor transferable.

Forfeited registration fees will automatically transfer to the Baxter Travel Grant Fund. The Baxter Grants provide partial travel reimbursement to advanced graduate students who are members of the ASA and will travel to the convention in order to appear on the Annual Meeting program.

Audio-Visual Equipment

The ASA will supply all session rooms with a Digital Equipment Package. Included: LCD/multimedia data projector, with speakers, laptop (MS Powerpoint, CD, & DVD capable, PC but MAC compatible), screen, and on site technical support. Not included: live internet connection. If you want additional digital equipment, WIFI, or live internet connection you will have to rent it at your own expense. If you want to use analog equipment such as an Overhead Projector, Slide Projectors, or TV/VCR/DVD's, you will have to bring your own equipment or rent it at your own expense.

Program Decisions

The Program Committee will organize sessions from individual paper proposals and, on occasion, will combine individual papers with proposed full sessions. If your paper or panel is not accepted, the Committee may call upon you to play an alternative role at the meeting as a chair or commentator. To facilitate the Committee's work, please indicate on the online submission form whether you are willing to act as chair or commentator on another session. The Committee also invites self-nominations from ASA members to serve as chairs and commentators exclusively on sessions constructed from individual submissions.

After the January 26, 2012, deadline for submission of proposals, the Program Committee will meet to review the proposals and select the sessions to be held at the upcoming Annual Meeting. The Committee will approve proposals on the basis of their quality in relation to the others submitted. The Committee will also: attempt to include sessions on a wide variety of subjects and approaches, including scholarly, pedagogical, and professional subjects; consciously support the inclusion of panels focused on topics of concern to different minority groups; strive to balance its selections between topics of continuing interest and new topics to which little or no attention has been paid; look for sessions in which scholars in different fields engage one another on a common topic; and try to span different time periods and subject matters in sessions constructed from individual papers. There will be room for specialized sessions on particular subjects.

To avoid favoritism, the Committee will take care not to overload the sessions with faculty and graduate students from institutions represented by members of the Committee. This does not disallow members of the Committee from presenting papers. The Committee will make every effort to assure diverse representation through the inclusion of minorities, women, graduate students, and international colleagues, and will seek to reflect the regional and disciplinary diversity of the Association's membership.

Notification and Participation

Once the Committee has finalized the program, all persons who have submitted proposals will be notified by email of the Committee's decisions by April 1st. All emails are also delivered to the message center of your All Academic user account. Session organizers are responsible for notifying the members of the proposed panel of the Program Committee's decision. If you do not receive an official e-mail by April 15, it may be because you did not complete the submission process properly, your email address is incorrect, or your email has very sensitive spam blockers that are blocking the incoming email. Please e-mail the conference director at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

The session chair will coordinate contact among the session participants to ensure maximum integration of presentations. Participants should send the session chair a brief biographical statement to be used in introductions.

It is not possible to guarantee any session or panelist a day or time on the program. If notified by May 1, 2012, the Program Committee will try to honor requests not to schedule a presentation on a religious holiday.

Scheduling will not be completed until June 1, 2012. We suggest that you do not purchase airline tickets or male travel plans before the schedule is finalized.

If a session has a commentator, that session's participants must send copies of their completed papers to him or her by October 15, 2012

No-Shows

The ASA reminds participants of their professional and ethical obligation to appear in person at their session at the annual meeting. No-shows are conspicuous in their absence. They inconvenience the chair and fellow presenters, as well as those attending their session. The American Studies Association defines a no-show as someone on the program who is not physically present at her/his session at the annual meeting and who (1) has not notified ASA in advance that s/he cannot attend the meeting by October 15, 2012, and/or (2) has not submitted a presentation to be read by the chair or another person at the meeting by October 15, 2012. No-shows will not be considered for the following year's program. If you notify ASA in advance and submit a presentation to be made by someone else at their session, you will not be penalized. You are responsible for finding your own alternative presenter.

Contact Us

For further information about the Call for Proposals, you may contact Matthew Jacobson, President-elect of the American Studies Association, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), or the Program Chairs Frances Aparicio .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Elizabeth Dillon .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), and Natalia Molina .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .