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@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@luc.edu, or Douglas
Mao, dmao@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@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 @kenyon.edu or Douglas Mao,
dmao@fas.harvard.edu.
Panels will be selected in early June.
Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Professor and Chair
Department of English
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Mailcode 4503
Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4503
(618) 453-6854
(618) 453-8224 (fax)
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