<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;" lang="EN-US">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;" lang="EN-US">Please forgive cross-postings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;" lang="EN-US">Thanks,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;" lang="EN-US">Susanne <br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;" lang="EN-US"></span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;" lang="EN-US"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">Call for Abstracts and
Proposals: Theory and Criticism Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in
Higher Education (ATHE), 2012 conference</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">Washington, DC, August
2-5, 2012</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">I.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                  
</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Theory
& Criticism 6^th Annual Roundtable Series (individual paper
abstracts)</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">II.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">               
</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Session
Proposals (Theory & Criticism or Multidisciplinary focus)</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black" lang="EN-US">I. </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">"Criticism as Activism</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black" lang="EN-US">” – An Interactive Roundtable Event</span></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong style="font-weight: normal; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">In response to the 2012
ATHE conference theme of “Performance As/Is Civic Engagement: Advocate,
Collaborate, Educate,” the Theory and Criticism Focus Group desires to create a
series of roundtables that takes up the notion of Criticism as Activism.
Tertullian, the French Academy, Zola, Brecht, Boal, Butler, Dolan, and . . .
you!</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Theatre is a cultural product,
revealing who we think we are in a historic moment, and who we might want to be
in the future. Theatre, like all art, engages with the political. It responds
to, comments on, and shapes how we see the world and how we imagine the future.
In propaganda performance, for example, the politics are overt. But often the
politics of a piece of performance or work of criticism lies in unquestioned
assumptions about how the world works. In the past, some critics scorned actors
for their lowly social status, or resented their spectacular performances that
pulled people away from more sober, and often religious, pursuits. Some
monarchs embraced performance as a political tool, one that could be employed
to bolster support or crush dissent. Critics have culled from Shakespeare
evidence of Romantic sensibility, of racial bigotry, of queer subversion. As
artists and pedagogues, we engage with the political each time we create a
performance, or teach a script. As scholars and critics, we take up politics
when we take up our pen. Our art, our voices, our writing, matters because it
expresses who we are right now, and who we wish to be in the future.</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Inspired by the ATHE 2012
conference theme, the Theory and Criticism Focus Group (T&C) responds to
the challenge of considering performance as civic engagement with a roundtable
series that encourages participants and audiences to explore the notion of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Criticism as Activism</b>.</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">We aim to create a series of panels
where scholars, teachers, and practitioners can investigate, challenge,
re-imagine, and explode how</span></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"> <span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-weight: normal;">historical or contemporary theorists
and critics have used dramatic and/or performance criticism to intervene in
social and political debates. How does performance criticism empower voices, on
stage and off? What can we learn from critical attempts to engage with publics
and counterpublics? How do we theorize and apply historical criticism that
supports diverging ideological viewpoints? What can theatre and performance
criticism offer to contemporary debates in the field about new media or
academic publishing? How are critics activists? What is activist criticism? What
does criticism mean today? </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> T&C seeks
submissions from theatre artists, pedagogues, scholars, activists, and critics
interested in exploring these questions specifically or the notion of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Criticism as Activism</b> in general.
Building on the tradition of our previous panel series, we strive to include a
diverse range of participants from graduate students and emerging scholars, to
professional critics, established artists, and senior scholars. For the 2012 ATHE
conference, we will host a series of roundtable discussions, with each participant
presenting a position statement or paper of up to 8 pages, which take up
questions of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Criticism as Activism</b>
from a wide range of starting points, including but not limited to:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>

<ol><li><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span></strong><strong style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">How has theatre or performance
criticism engaged with individual artists or performing companies, or empowered
specific social groups? <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>How does
performance criticism empower voices, on stage and off? What ethical questions
surround the critical relationship? How can theatre and performance scholarship
be sensitive to critical ethics?</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></li><li><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></span></span></span></strong><strong style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How has theatre or performance
criticism engaged with notions of nationalism and the nation state? In what
ways have activist critics challenged or reified national ideologies,
transnational identities, or diasporic imaginaries?</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></strong><strong></strong></li><li><strong></strong><b><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">How has the changing media landscape
supported or resisted the creation of the celebrity critic, that star author
who wields great power? What historiographical strategies encourage or
transcend the narrative of the celebrity critic</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">?</span>  </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""></span></span></strong></b></li>
<li><b><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"></span></span></span></span></strong></b><strong style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US">H</span></strong><strong style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong><strong style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US"></span></strong><strong style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US">ow have fields or schools of
criticism shaped theatre and performance historiography? How do specific
schools of criticism consider and frame the notion of activism? How do we
theorize and apply historical criticism that supports diverging ideological
viewpoints</span></strong><b><strong style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">? </span></strong></b><strong style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></li><li><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"></span></span></span></strong><strong style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How does theatre or performance criticism
engage with its relationship to the media in an activist way? How has the
changing academic landscape supported or resisted activist criticism</span>? </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></li><li><strong style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-weight: normal;">What can we learn from critical
attempts to engage with publics and counterpublics? How are critics activists?
What is activist criticism? What does criticism mean today?</span> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></li></ol>











<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-add-space:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">T&C will be accepting individual, 250 word
abstracts for position statements or papers for this roundtable series
until: <u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Monday, October 24^th,
2011</span></u>.  At that point T & C will group these papers
into a panel series and seek out respondents.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> 
</span>Participants will be informed of their acceptance by Thursday, October
27^th, and T&C will oversee the submission of the series panels
through ATHE’s online proposal process. Send your paper abstracts to <u><a href="mailto:cab0023@auburn.edu">cab0023@auburn.edu</a></u></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;" lang="EN-US">II. Complete session proposals</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">We also seek complete
session proposals as well for the 2012 conference that include a broad range of
theoretical interrogations and applications. We encourage multidisciplinary
dialogues across the fields of performance scholarship and seek participants
from a variety of focus group affiliations. Note that all
multidisciplinary proposals must be authorized by <b>three sponsoring ATHE
focus groups</b>; please contact the appropriate focus group conference
planners and or committee chair for authorization. For a list of the ATHE focus
group conference planners visit </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.athe.org/getinvolved/focusgroups/index"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">http://www.athe.org/getinvolved/focusgroups/index</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> and click on the
desired focus group.  </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong style="font-family: times new roman,serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">The Theory and Criticism
Focus Group supports broad definitions of criticism and performance, and
therefore encourages a wide range of examples and topics. Feel free to explore
both historical and contemporary critics and theorists, in popular culture and
academic scholarship. Panel proposals that engage scholarly conversation in
creative ways are highly encouraged.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold" lang="EN-US"></span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">Complete session
proposals</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black" lang="EN-US"> (separate from the roundtable series) should be submitted directly
to ATHE: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.athe.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">www.athe.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">  All
participants must be included in these proposals.  The website
includes submission information and forms.  The session proposal
deadline is <b><u>November 1^st, 2011</u>.</b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">A Final Summary of Submission Guidelines for Both
Options:</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">For the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">“Criticism as Activism” <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Roundtable Series:</span></b></span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">Individual submissions
for the series should be submitted to the T&C focus group representative,
Chase Bringardner: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:cab0023@auburn.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">cab0023@auburn.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">. Submissions
should include an abstract (250 words or less), title, contact information
(name, institutional affiliation, email address, and phone number), a brief bio
(50 words or less), and any specific A/V requirements. Deadline for these
submissions is:  <b><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Monday,
October 24^th, 2011.</span></u></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold" lang="EN-US">For <b>complete session proposals</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> (separate from the
roundtable series): </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">Session proposals should
be submitted directly to ATHE: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.athe.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">www.athe.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">  All
participants must be included in these proposals.  The website
includes submission information and forms.  The session proposal
deadline is <b>November 1^st, 2011</b>.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">For <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">single paper submissions</b> (outside of our annual panel series) looking
for a session home</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">contact either </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:cab0023@auburn.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">cab0023@auburn.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> or </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:sshawyer@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">sshawyer@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">.</span></p>


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.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>

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font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black" lang="EN-US">Individuals do not need to be a member or T&C or ATHE to
submit abstracts or session proposals. However, if chosen and scheduled,
participants must become members of ATHE by the time of the conference.</span></p>

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