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MACSEM 2008
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
MACSEM 2008
March 29-30, Columbia University, New York, NY
Deadline for electronic submission of proposals and abstracts: JANUARY 15, 2008
The Mid-Atlantic
Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (MACSEM) is pleased to
announce that the 2008 annual meeting of MACSEM will be held on March
29-30, 2008, on the campus of Columbia University in New York City,
under the sponsorship of the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia
University.
MACSEM conference events will occupy
the full day on Saturday, March 29, from 9AM to 10PM (including a
keynote lecture and an evening concert); and a half day on Sunday,
March 30, from 9AM to 1PM. Featured performers and a keynote speaker
will be announced in early January, 2008. Most events will be held in
the Davis Auditorium in the Fu School of Engineering on the Morningside
Campus of Columbia University.
Travel information will be announced
shortly. Please be advised that New York City hotels are quite
expensive, and the lowest-priced hotels in the Columbia area are still
close to $200/night. The Local Arrangements Committee will make
every effort to find shared crash space for as many participants as
possible.
The Program Committee for MACSEM/2008
invites proposals for individually presented papers, organized panels
of 4 paper presentations, film screenings (limited to 30 minutes), and
practical workshops (30 or 60 minutes). We encourage submissions
from graduate students, independent scholars, and faculty from both
within and beyond ethnomusicology. While there is no thematic
restriction on submission, the program committee would like to
encourage proposals with an emphasis on interdisciplinary applications
of musical ethnography, especially.
Workshop and film screening proposals
must be of significant general interest to MACSEM members and may be
scheduled parallel with paper presentations due to space and time
limitations.
Individual papers will be 20 minutes
in length, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Panels of four
20-minutes papers may be proposed, as per the instructions below.
Proposals for non-traditional panel formats (i.e., round tables,
debates) are encouraged, but must fit within a 1 hour or 2 hour block
of time.
A complete suite of A/V equipment will be available to all presenters, including projection and audio playback.
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MACSEM 2008 -- HOW TO SUBMIT ABSTRACTS and PROPOSALS by the JANUARY 15th DEADLINE:
Abstracts will be blindly reviewed by the full program committee.
All presenters must be members of the
Society for Ethnomusicology at the time of selection for the program. A
limited number of waivers of this requirement may be available
for scholars based in disciplines other than music. Such a waiver must
be requested concurrently with abstract/proposal submission.
For ALL Abstracts and Proposals:
Please list the proposer's full name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), SEM membership status, e-mail address, and telephone number at
the top of the abstract. Please provide a complete title for your
proposed presentation. For panel proposals, event proposals, and
workshop proposals, designate an organizer
and provide complete contact information for the organizer at the top
of the panel abstract or event/workshop proposal. Also include
complete contact information for all participants in a panel, event, or
workshop proposal, and submit all such proposals as a single document.
For panel proposals, please submit all abstracts (panel and individual
papers) and contact information together as a single document.
How to Prepare Abstracts and Proposals:
Individually volunteered paper presentation (20 minutes):
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words for an individually volunteered paper. Be sure to include your paper
title, full name, email address, telephone number, SEM membership
status, and institutional affiliation (if applicable), at the top of
the abstract.
Panels of four paper presentations (2 hours):
Please submit a panel abstract of no more than 250 words, ALONG WITH 250-word abstracts for each paper proposed for the panel. Submit all of these abstracts in a single electronic document.
Identify one member of the panel as the Organizer, and provide name,
contact and affiliation information for the Organizer at the top of the
panel abstract, along with name, contact and affiliation information
for each individual paper author, at the top of each paper abstract.
All other proposed events (film screenings and workshops, or panel events not based on separate paper presentations):
Other event proposals should be presented in a description of no more
than 500 words and should list all confirmed participants in the
presentation/event with full contact information for each
participants. Identify one member of the panel as the Organizer,
and provide name, contact and affiliation information for the Organizer
at the top of the proposal. All such proposed events should be 30
minutes or one hour in length.
Where, When, and How to Submit Abstracts and Proposals Electronically:
Please submit ALL proposals electronically by email attachment to Prof. Aaron A. Fox, Chair of the Program Committee, at the following email address only:
aaf19@columbia.edu
IMPORTANT: PLEASE PUT
"MACSEM PROPOSAL" in the SUBJECT LINE of your E-Mail submission.
ALL email submissions will be confirmed promptly. If your
submission is not confirmed by return email, contact Aaron Fox
immediately.
Proposals and abstracts must be received by Tuesday, January 15, 2008. Proposals
should be in the format of an Adobe PDF document, Microsoft Word (.doc)
document or a Rich Text Format (.rtf) document only, or they may be the
body of a plain-text email. Please do not send audio files or
images with abstracts or proposals.
If you are unable to submit via email, please MAIL proposals so that they ARRIVE by the Jan. 15 deadline to:
Prof. Aaron Fox/MACSEM Program Committee
MC 1822 Department of Music
621 Dodge Hall
Columbia University
NY NY 10027
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