MASCEM 2008: Call For Papers

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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. The deadline for electronic submission of proposals and abstracts is JANUARY 15, 2008.

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.

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.

• 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, (CC Blair Mosner) at the following email addresses only:

aaf19@columbia.edu
CC to: blair@ethnocenter.org

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 and Blair Mosner 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