Subject: CFP: Modernist Studies Association (2/15/02 & 5/1/02; MSA, 10/31/
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:48:38 -0500


CALL FOR SEMINAR AND PANEL PROPOSALS 

MSA 4 

THE MODERNIST STUDIES ASSOCIATION 
FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 

31 October - 3 November, 2002 
University of Wisconsin, Madison 

The MSA 

Founded in 1999, the Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study 
of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts 
from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth. Through its 
annual conferences and its journal, Modernism/Modernity, the organization 
seeks to develop an international and interdisciplinary forum for exchange 
among scholars in this revitalized and rapidly expanding field. For more 
information, please see our web site at 
http://www.press.jhu.edu/associations/msa. 

The fourth annual Modernist Studies Association Conference will be held at 
the Monona Terrace Convention Center, a building designed by Frank Lloyd 
Wright on the shores of Lake Monona in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. 
Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the conference will 
feature plenaries, panels, seminars, poetry readings, and film screenings 
related to the study of modernism and modernity. 

Calls for seminar and panel proposals follow. Please note that the deadline 
for seminar proposals is 15 February 2002, the deadline for panel proposals 
1 May 2002. Please note also that MSA rules do not allow participants to 
lead a seminar and present a paper for a panel at the same conference. 
Participants may present a panel paper and participate in a seminar, or 
chair a panel and lead a seminar. 

All who attend the MSA Conference must be members of the organization with 
dues paid for 2002. 


CALL FOR SEMINAR LEADERS 

Deadline: 15 February 2002 

SEMINARS 

Participation of conferees in seminars is one of the most significant 
features of the MSA conference. Seminars are small-group discussion 
sessions for which participants write brief "position papers" that are read 
and circulated prior to the conference. Seminars generate lively and 
valuable exchange during the conference and in some cases have created a 
network of scholars who have continued to work together. Further, the 
seminar model allows most conferees to seek financial support from their 
institutions as they educate themselves and their colleagues on subjects of 
mutual interest. 

SEMINAR TOPICS 

There are no limits on topics. Past experience has shown that the more 
clearly defined the topic and the more guidance provided by the leader, the 
more useful the discussion has been to people's individual projects. 
Seminar topics at the 2001 MSA conference included "Literary Modernism and 
Visual Culture," "Modernism and Masculinity," and "New Approaches to Little 
Magazines." For a full listing, see the MSA Web site. 

PROPOSING A SEMINAR 

Seminar proposals must include the following information. Please assist us 
by sending this information in exactly the order given here. Use as a 
subject line: MSA 4 SEMINAR PROPOSAL / [LAST NAME OF SEMINAR LEADER]. 

* The seminar leader's name, institutional affiliation, discipline or 
department, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail address 
* A brief description (up to 100 words) of the proposed topic 
* A current curriculum vitae for the seminar leader 

Send seminar proposals by 15 February 2002 to: Elizabeth Evans, 
efevans-AT-facstaff.wisc.edu. 
Email submission is strongly preferred. 

For more information, visit our website: 
http://www.press.jhu.edu/associations/msa. Questions not addressed on the 
website may be directed to David Chinitz, msa-seminars-AT-luc.edu, or Douglas 
Mao, dmao-AT-fas.harvard.edu. 

Seminars will be selected in late March. Please note that participants may 
not present a paper and lead a seminar at the same conference. Participants 
may present a panel paper and participate in a seminar, or chair a panel 
and lead a seminar. 

LEADING A SEMINAR 

The MSA will advertise seminars and register participants. To promote 
discussion, the size of seminars is limited to a maximum of 15. Leaders 
may, at their option, invite one or two individuals to join the seminar in 
some special role. Some leaders will wish to share the work of reading and 
responding to papers with the invited participants; others will simply want 
to assure a high standard of discussion by involving scholars whose work 
they know to be important for their topic. Please note that invited 
participants will not be specially listed as such in the conference program.


E-mail addresses for all seminar registrants will be provided to seminar 
leaders in May. At that time, leaders should: 

* Initiate communications by e-mail, introducing themselves and providing 
addresses to all participants. 
* Set guidelines for the seminar. These might include questions to be 
addressed, reading to be done, and a specified length for the position 
papers (normally 5-7 pages). 
* Set firm deadlines, no later than mid-September for the actual exchange 
of papers. 
* Exchange and read papers during the 6-8 weeks before the conference. 
* Plan the seminar format. The MSA will provide guidance, but leaders are, 
within reasonable limits, free to use the time (two hours) as they see fit. 


CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS 

Deadline: 1 May 2002 

Proposals for panels must include the following information. Please assist 
us by sending this information in exactly the order given here. Use as a 
subject line: MSA 4 PANEL PROPOSAL / [LAST NAME OF PANEL ORGANIZER]. 

* Session title 
* Session Organizer's name, institutional affiliation, discipline or 
department, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail address 
* Chair's name, institutional affiliation, discipline or department, and 
contact information (If you cannot identify a moderator, we will locate one 
for you.) 
*Panelists' names, paper titles, institutional affiliations, disciplines or 
departments, and contact information 
* A 250-word abstract of the panel as a whole. 

MSA policy on panels: 

1. No participant may present more than one paper at one conference, and no 
participant may both present a paper and lead one of the conference's 
seminars. 
2. We do not accept proposals for individual papers. 
3. We encourage interdisciplinary panels, and discourage panels on single 
authors. 
4. We encourage panels with three participants. Panels of four and 
roundtables of five or six will be considered. 
5. Panels composed entirely of graduate students or of participants from a 
single institution are not likely to be accepted. 
6. All MSA panels must have a chair who is not giving a paper. Please 
attempt to locate a moderator, but if you do not have one, we will locate 
one for you. 

Send panel proposals by 1 May 2002 to: Elizabeth Evans, 
efevans-AT-facstaff.wisc.edu. 
Email submission is strongly preferred. We will accept those sent by other 
means when access to e-mail is unavailable. 

For more information, visit our website: 
http://www.press.jhu.edu/associations/msa. Questions not addressed on the 
website may be directed to Jesse Matz, matzj -AT-kenyon.edu or Douglas Mao, 
dmao-AT-fas.harvard.edu. 

Panels will be selected in early June.

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Dr. Steve Spence
Assistant Professor of English and Media Studies
Program Coordinator, Communication & Media Studies BA
Clayton College & State University
http://a-s.clayton.edu/spence/
stevespence-AT-mail.clayton.edu



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