SCSC Montréal Conference 2010

Guidelines for Submissions

Assessment Standards

A successful paper and panel proposal should

• Raise a significant question for the discipline;
• Address this question through precise analysis of a particular genre, text, work, event, person, or place, which must be named in the proposal;
• Have aims that are feasibly achievable in twenty minutes.

Necessary Materials

Before submitting your proposal to the SCSC via the online submissions program, you should prepare the following information:

• Complete Contact Information, including full mailing address, phone number, fax number, and email address.
• Academic Affiliation and Professional Level (MA, PhD, professor). You will need to upload a brief bio during the submission process.
• Title and Abstract for the paper or panel. The abstract should be no more than 250 words.
• Audio-visual Equipment Needs. The SCSC Council has decided that LCD/PowerPoint equipment is only available in essential situations, such as art historical or other image heavy presentations. If you need further clarification, please send an email message to: montreal@sixteenthcentury.org.

Submission Process

After you have read the instructions on this page click the link below to begin the submission process.

Submitting an Individual Paper Proposal

Before entering your paper submission, you will be asked to create an account at the [Sixteenth Century Conference registration site].

The link to create a user account can be found in the RED BOX at the top of the page.
You will enter your email address and choose a password. Then you will fill in your name, highest academic degree, your current institution, mailing address, etc. Most of these fields are required. Once you have completed the form, you will see a box confirming that you have correctly created your account. You will also receive an email message confirming that you have created your account.

After you have created your user account [Click here for the conference submission site].

Now you can now enter your paper by following the “submit proposal” link below and following the link, “Click here for abstract submission.” You will be asked to login using the email address and password you previously created, and complete the submission process. Choose the link “Click here to make a new submission” for a new paper submission. You will be asked to fill in the required information on several screens. Please note that the SCSC allows an individual to present only one paper at the conference. You may participate in two additional roles (panel chair, commentator, roundtable discussant) in addition to presenting a paper.

If you have been invited by a panel chair to a to submit an abstract for a particular panel, choose the correct panel from the list and complete the submission process outlined above.

Submitting a Roundtable Proposal

Roundtable proposals should be submitted as individual papers (NOT panels). Please follow the instructions above, with the following exceptions: When entering the Roundtable information, list all the participants as "authors." In the drop-down menu for "presentation type" choose "Roundtable." In the Notes box, you can identify which of the participants will be the Roundtable Chair, respondent, etc. The participants will need to create a user account on the submission site, but do not need to make individual submissions in order to participate in the roundtable.

Submitting a Complete Panel Proposal

Before entering your panel proposal, you will be asked to [Create an account here]

The link to create a user account can be found in the RED BOX at the top of the page.
You will enter your email address and choose a password. Then you will fill in your name, highest academic degree, your current institution, mailing address, etc. Most of these fields are required. Once you have completed the form, you will see a box confirming that you have correctly created your account. You will also receive an email message confirming that you have created your account.

After you have created your user account go to the [Conference Submission Site].

Now you can now enter your panel information by following the “submit proposal” link below and following the link, “Click here for abstract submission.” You will be asked to login using the email address and password you previously created, and complete the submission process. Once you have logged in, choose the link “Click here to set up a new panel or edit panel information.” After you have entered the required information, you will receive an email that includes your panel reference number and the panel name.

Next, please contact each individual who has agreed to present in your panel and ask them to create a user account and submit their paper information remembering to provide them with the panel reference number and name. Presenters will follow the information listed above for Submitting Individual Paper Proposal, including clicking the link “Click here to make a new submission” except that they will select your panel from a list of panels and submit their paper proposal to your panel.

Panel organizers must not try to enter information for the presenters in their panel. Doing so will delay consideration of the proposed panel. Each participant in the conference needs to create their own user account.

Links

To create an account for submitting a proposal for an individual paper, a full panel session, or a paper that is part of a panel click the link [Create Account]

If you have already created your account and want to submit your proposal click [Submit Proposal]

If you have any questions or if you experience any difficulty setting up your account or submitting your proposal contact: montreal@sixteenthcentury.org

SCSC 2010 Program Committee

Cathy Yandell	SCSC VP and Program Chair	cyandell@carleton.edu,
Sigrun Haude	History Track Director	sigrun.haude@uc.edu
Scott Lucas	English Literature Track Director	lucass@citadel.edu
Bethany Wiggin	German Studies Track Director	bwiggin@sas.upenn.edu
Meredith Ray	Italian Literature Track Director	mkray@udel.edu
Ward Holder	Theology Track Director	wholder@anselm.edu
Bruce Janacek	History of Science Track Director	bnjanacek@noctrl.edu
Jean-Claude Carron	French Literature Track Director	carron@humnet.ucla.edu
Elizabeth Lehfeldt	Spanish Studies/Latin American Track Director	e.lehfeldt@csuohio.edu
Cynthia Stollhans	Art History Track Director	stollhcj@slu.edu