Graduate Consortium of Women's Studies: How to Apply

Presentation Formats

We invite proposals for presentations on humor as a political tool or subversive strategy. Graduate students, advanced undergraduates, performers, practitioners, artists, and activists are encouraged to examine, reflect upon, or demonstrate the uses of jokes, irony, satire, parody, and performance from a literary, theatrical, multimedia, historical, scientific, sociological, anthropological, or interdisciplinary perspective. Hands-on workshop proposals also accepted.

Presentations may take three formats: individual papers, prepared performances, and workshops. 250-word presentation abstracts are due on February 15, 2008. The conference will begin on the evening of April 4 and extend all day on April 5. It will take place at MIT. Presenters are encouraged to attend as many of the conference events as they can throughout the weekend.

Individual Papers:
Selected papers will be divided into interdisciplinary topic-based panels. Panels will include three student presenters and one discussant and will last for 90 minutes. Each presenter will have exactly 20 minutes to presend her/his work and there will be a half-hour Q&A afterward.

Opportunities for meeting fellow panelists, workshopping papers and presentations, and working with mentors on presentation style and format may be available. More information will be provided upon acceptance of your proposal.

Prepared Performances:
There will be an opportunity during the weekend for music, theater, poetry, performance art, and other performances (specific format TBA). If you have a relevant piece of work that you would like to be considered, please submit an abstract below and indicate the length of time you will need for your performance. Please do not submit proposals for performances that are longer than 20 minutes. Also, we are interested in having Q&A and talk-back sessions after performances. Please indicate in your submission whether this will be of interest to you.

Workshops:
Performance-based presentations may take the form of a hands-on workshop. Please include a detailed description of the activities that will occur in the workshop and a maxmum number of participants.

Deadlines

Priority deadlines are as follows:
All submissions are due on February 15, 2008

Notification of proposal acceptance will occur no later than March 1, 2008.

Please submit a 250-word abstract with title for proposals for individual presentations and workshops using the submission form below or email directly to gcws@mit.edu . Workshops and performances should include bios for each of the presenters and a brief description of the topic as well as the activities that will occur.

All presentations must include a list of AV needs you will have. Please also include a short biographical statement.

If you have any questions about the conference or submission process, please contact the GCWS. Contact information is below.

You can submit your proposal online (application below), or prepare the application in a Word document and email or mail it to:

Andi Sutton
Program Coordinator
Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building 16-287
77 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617) 324-2085
Email: gcws@mit.edu

Online Proposal Submission Form


Paper/Panel Title:
Name (primary contact for presentation):
Institution(s):
Discipline(s):
Panel Moderator :
Additional Panelists:
Degree Program (NOT REQUIRED if not currently a student):
Projected Date of Graduation:
Home Phone :
Cell Phone :
Mailing Address:
Email:
Permanent Address:
Paper/Panel Abstract and Biographical Statement:	Please fill in your paper/panel abstract and biographical statement in the field below.
	The individual paper, performance, or workshop proposal should be 250 words. Please note all AV needs and additional activity descriptions in another paragraph.
	Biographical statement should include current interests or research, and institutional affiliation(s) (university, school, organization, collective, etc.)

Call for Proposals submission deadline is February 15, 2008

Notification of proposal status will occur no later than March 1, 2008