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.
For further clarification,
please
contact a member of the program committee or 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.
You will be asked to create an account. The link 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.
Now you can now enter your paper or panel proposal by following the “submit
proposal” link below and following the link, “Click here
for abstract submission.” You will be asked to login, and complete
the submission process. Choose the correct link for a new paper submission,
or you can follow the panel convenor/chair link to submit a full panel
proposal. Panel organizers must tell presenters in the panel to submit
their abstracts using the process outlined above. 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.
Note for Roundtable organizers: Roundtable proposals should
be submitted as individual papers (NOT panels). When entering
the Roundtable information, list all the participants as "authors." In
the drop-down menu for "presentation type" choose "Roundtable." The
participants will need to create an account on the submission
site, but do not need to make individual submissions in
order to participate in the roundtable.
Please read the instructions above before following the links to the
conference submission site.
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 experience any difficulty setting up your account or submitting
your proposal contact: montreal@sixteenthcentury.org.