Description
These panels are organized by standing SCS committees and approved by the Program Committee. All SCS committee submissions are judged anonymously and require a letter of endorsement from the committee's divisional Vice President. These letters should be sent separately via e-mail to Heather Gasda in the SCS Office. Note: Some committees issue calls for abstracts for their sessions. In these cases, abstracts accepted by the committee's organizers will be reviewed again by the Program Committee.
Submission Requirements
- Please see the eligibility requirements and related policies for submitting a proposal or abstract to the Program Committee.
- Link to the submission system and select “Abstract and Proposal Submission” from the menu at the top of the page with the tan background. Follow the system prompts to complete your submission. You will be required to provide:
- A title for your session and the name of the Committee submitting the panel
- The name, academic institution, and contact information of the organizer(s)
- The name, academic institution, and length of presentation (in minutes) for anyone giving an introduction to the session.
- The name, academic institution, paper title, and length of presentation (in minutes) for each speaker (maximum of five).
- The name, academic institution, and length of presentation (in minutes) for any discussant or respondent
- An anonymous, 650-word Organizer's Statement (to be typed or pasted into a text box). The organizer's statement should provide a clear overview of the panel, describing its theme and focus and explaining the particular contribution made by each paper. Individual participants are to remain anonymous in this statement; individual presenters should be referred to as "panelist #1”, panelist #2”, etc. The statement should also explain plans for incorporating discussion into the session, and whether the responsibility will rest with the session chair, with the presenters themselves, or with an invited respondent. If a respondent is used, the respondent's qualifications should be described, without, however, identifying the individual.
- An abstract (maximum of 650 words excluding bibliography) for every paper to be presented in your session (each to be typed or pasted into a text box). Make sure these abstracts are anonymous, but identify them as "Paper #1", "Paper #2", etc. This will inform the Program Committee of the order of presentation and will make it easier for you to refer to individual abstracts in your Organizer's Statement (see above). Before the speakers in your session prepare their abstracts, please ask them to become familiar with the instructions for authors of abstracts.
- Confirmation that a letter of endorsement from the Committee's divisional Vice President has been requested. The Vice President should not submit the letter via the online submission system but should send it separately via e-mail to Adam Blistein in the SCS Office).
- Speakers' audio-visual needs (if any). The Program Committee reserves the right to limit the audio/visual equipment requested.
You will also be asked to indicate whether you have submitted this proposal to the AIA and that you have confirmed the membership status of all participants in the session.