WisCon 32: Call for Paper Proposals for Academic Track
WisCon 32, the world’s leading feminist science fiction convention, will be held on Memorial Day weekend, May 23 - 26, 2008, at the Concourse Hotel in downtown
We invite individual papers and panel presentations on science fiction and fantasy, with an emphasis on issues of feminism, gender, ‘race’, and class. Scholarly work on fandom is also invited. We especially welcome papers on the work of this year's guests of honor, Maureen McHugh and L. Timmel Duchamp. The due date for proposals of 300 words is Monday, January 14, 2008. For panels, one abstract of 300 words should be submitted by each panel member: all three panel members, and the panel title, should be identified by name on each abstract. They should be sent to the convener of academic programming at academic32@wiscon.info In addition to your preferred paper title and the full abstract, please supply a short title (60 characters max) and a brief abstract (no more than 100 words) for inclusion in the program book if your abstract is accepted. Acceptance of abstracts will be notified by 31st January 2008 so no extensions to the stated deadline will be available.
Please note that academic panels have a total duration of 75 minutes. As an individual speaker, you should therefore expect that your maximum allotted speaking time will be 20 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. If you would like to give a longer presentation, this will be considered, subject to space availability in the academic program. At WisCon 31, however, the space was fully occupied with 3 papers per session.
However, if you would like to suggest a more extensive presentation and / or a participatory session, please do consider submitting your ideas to WisCon by filling in a Program Idea Submission Form. This online form can be found at (insert URL. WisCon programming tracks have been restructured this year, under the headings of:
For detailed information about WisCon, the world’s leading feminist science fiction convention, see: http://www.wiscon.info/index.php
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