SHAKSPER 2002: Call for Proposals: 2004 Meeting of the Shakespeare

From: Hardy M. Cook (editor@shaksper.net)
Date: 06/13/02 

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.1515  Thursday, 13 June 2002

From:           Thomas Cartelli <cartelli@muhlenberg.edu>
Date:           Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:03:32 -0400
Subject:        SAA Announcements

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

The Program Planning Committee for the 2004 Meeting of the Shakespeare
Association of America in New Orleans is now beginning to accept
proposals for seminars, workshops, and panel-sessions from prospective
seminar and workshop leaders and panel-organizers.  The final deadline
for making formal proposals is March 1, 2003.

You may contact any or all members of the Program Committee (preferably
via email) between now and then with questions you may have regarding
protocols and procedures.  Before doing so, please be sure to consult
the attached General Guidelines for Proposals.  Please note that no one
playing a principal role as either a panel presenter or workshop or
seminar leader at next year’s meeting in Victoria may play a similar
role at the 2004 meeting in New Orleans, and that all participants must
be members of the SAA.  Also note that the vagaries of summer travel may
delay our individual responses to your questions and queries.  Thanks
for your time and attention.

Tom Cartelli, Program Committee Chair
Email: cartelli@muhlenberg.edu
Phone: 908-479-4858 (summer & Spring semester); 484-664-3310/3311 (Fall
semester)
Post: Department of English, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
18104-5586

Heather James
Email: hjames@usc.edu
Phone: 213-740-2808
Fax: 213-741-0377
Post: Department of English, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA 90089-0354

Katherine Rowe
Email: krowe@brynmawr.edu
Phone: 610-526-5312
Fax: 610-526-7477
Post: Department of English, Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Avenue,
Bryn Mawr, PA 19019-2899

Bruce Smith
Email: smithb@georgetown.edu
Phone: 202-687-7431
Post: Department of English, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
20057-1131

GENERAL GUIDELINES  FOR PROPOSING  AN SAA PANEL, SEMINAR, OR WORKSHOP
FOR THE 2004 MEETING IN NEW ORLEANS

All proposals should be as detailed as possible and include a rationale
as well as a list of problems or questions that the seminar, panel, or
workshop seeks to address or explore.  They should also include brief
academic biographies of the proposed leaders and panel-participants.
Would-be seminar organizers should have some past record of
participation in SAA seminars, and would do well to list such
experiences in their own bio-entries.

Any member of the SAA who is no longer a graduate student may propose an
SAA panel, seminar, or workshop.  Graduate students may be included in a
proposed list of panel presenters, all of whom must be or become members
of the SAA by the time the New Orleans program is announced in the
Bulletin that is sent out the summer before the meeting.  They should
not, however, be listed as members of a panel that includes a faculty
member from their home institution.  Nor may a graduate student serve as
director of a seminar or workshop.

No one may play a principal role as either a panel presenter or workshop
or seminar leader at two consecutive SAA meetings.  The listing of a
person on a proposal for the 2004 meeting who is scheduled to present a
paper or lead a seminar or workshop in Victoria in 2003 may eventuate in
the failure of that proposal to be approved.

All proposals, including those that are directly solicited by members of
the SAA Program Committee, undergo a series of reviews.  First, members
of the Program Committee discuss all proposals before bringing them
forward to the Board of Trustees.  Second, the Program Committee meets
with incoming and outgoing SAA Presidents and Vice-Presidents as well as
the organization’s Executive Director to develop recommendations for the
full Board.   Third, all SAA officers undertake a final round of
discussion and debate before reaching consensus regarding which
proposals will go forward in New Orleans.


SPECIFIC GUIDELINES FOR SEMINAR, WORKSHOP, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

Seminars:
Seminars are the distinguishing feature of SAA meetings and in most
cases include a representative sampling of junior and senior scholars
and graduate students, most of whom presumably have an established
interest in the subject matter under discussion.  Seminar proposals and
descriptions should be written in a manner that opens a number of
pathways into the subject in question and that encourages participants
to conceive of the seminar meeting itself as an occasion for shared
discussion as opposed to individual presentation or summation.  Seminar
leaders should construe their own role as that of facilitator as opposed
to established authority on the subject in question.  The number of
seminars normally offered at an average SAA meeting (30 or so) affords
sufficient breadth to broach matters of both broad and fairly
specialized interest.  Seminar proposers should, however, be wary of
proposing a seminar that is so esoteric that it will fail to attract a
sufficient number of subscribers.   While we can certainly afford to
offer seminars that appeal more to the few than to the many, we cannot
afford to offer more than a few at a time.

Workshops:
Workshops are another distinguishing feature of SAA meetings and are
always in high demand.   If you are planning to offer a seminar that has
the potential to work just as well in the format of a workshop, please
consider adapting it to a workshop format.  Workshops that involve
editing, working with archival material, acting and direction, digital
presentation in the classroom, teaching Shakespeare through film, for
example, often prove very welcome.

Panels:
While panels should be organized in a manner that addresses a generally
shared subject area, some variety in the choice of panelists is always
desirable (e.g.  a mix of senior and junior scholars).  The most
commonplace format of a panel is to have three speakers present talks
that are roughly 20 minutes long with the remaining time given over to
discussion.  Proposals for roundtable panels consisting of 4-5 members
speaking for considerably shorter periods and engaging in open
discussion are also welcome.  Panel proposers should include both the
title of the talks in question as well as a brief abstract or prospectus
of each presentation in addition to bio-entries of all participants.


DEADLINES, ETC.:
All proposals should be in the hands of the Program Committee no later
than MARCH 1, 2003 in order to receive our fullest attention.  Should
the committee find changes advisable in panel composition or in the text
of a seminar description, it is imperative that we receive the proposal
early enough to negotiate such changes before bringing it to the
attention of the SAA officers at the Victoria meeting.  All queries
about the practices and processes outlined above may be directed to
members of the Program Committee, each of whom looks forward to hear
what you have in mind.

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