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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
Jun. 30 | 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies Teaching, Advising, and Program Development due
Oct. 1 | Travel Grants for Graduate Students
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Annual Meeting: Call for Topics
The American Studies Association invites members to advertise possible sessions for the 2013 annual meeting to be held November 21-24: at the Hilton Washington, Washington, DC. Interested members are invited to examine these abstracts and contact the authors to construct session proposals for the 2013 Annual Meeting.
These proposed abstracts are an excellent way for both established scholars working in new fields and graduate students seeking panel members to find and network with interested colleagues. Proposed topics should include a tentative session title, 200-word description, and proposer’s contact information. Indicate your due date for receiving an abstract or paper.
After the suggested topics have been published, individuals can send abstracts or papers to the session organizer who will then be responsible for accepting papers, finding a chair and commentator, and submitting the session for consideration to the Program Committee. In the recent past, the odds of acceptance of a pre-packaged session have been much higher than for acceptance of individual papers, which not only need to pass the test of excellence but also must fit with other individual papers to form a panel with internal coherence. Pre-proposal networking circumvents this problem.
The session abstracts are posted on the ASA website as a service to the association’s members who are developing panel proposals for the annual meeting. But this does not imply endorsement of the proposals by the 2013 ASA Program Committee. In fact, the Program Committee will not have seen the abstracts prior to their publication.
If you do plan to post a topic abstract please be aware of your responsibility to inform each person who may submit an abstract or paper directly to you, in a timely and collegial manner, whether or not you intend to include his or her abstract in your proposal. This is important because each person is allowed to make and/or be listed as a participant on only one submission.
Submit your topic abstract (“work in progress”) using our announcements submission form Please limit your topic abstract to a maximum of 200 words.
Submit your final proposal using our proposal submission form. The ASA submission site will open on December 1, 2012 and should be used only for the submission of final proposal. The final deadline for actual session proposals will be January 26, 2013.
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. All other panelists, including chairs and commentators, must become current individual members of the ASA (or an affiliated international American studies association). All participants must buy *both* a membership and a registration in order to be properly registered for the conference.
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