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Subject: MSA4 Conference: CFP
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:42:47 -0500 (EST)



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 Febrary  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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