IMPORTANT NOTE
Session Chairs
Session Times: All Session Chairs are requested to respect the allocated time-length for each session. Sessions should begin promptly at the time indicated. They should also end at the designated time so as to make room for the next session.
Speaker Times: Session Chairs are asked to maintain strict observance of the time-limits for each paper. With a few exceptions, papers are restricted to 20 minutes presentation time. Chairs are asked to remind speakers to keep their papers within these parameters. Each speaker is entitled to 10 minutes discussion time. General Session Chairs may wish to group closely related papers so as to allow for discussion of two or more papers together.
Discussion Time: All sessions should make ample use of discussion time since this is a special feature and pleasure of IAPL conferences. Speakers are specifically requested to keep to their allocated presentation time. Speakers should not be allowed to use up available question and discussion time with presentational material.
Other Formats: Organized Sessions, Proposed Sessions, Invited Symposia, Special Panels, and Plenary Sessions may follow a different format, in some cases holding a more substantial discussion period at the end of all the presentations. Close Encounters have unique presentational criteria which each Organizer will announce at the beginning of the session.
Publications: Chairs are asked to remind speakers of the following:
Conference speakers are asked to leave a copy of their papers with a disk version in PC WordPerfect or Word format at the Registration Desk before leaving the conference. Thereby papers will become eligible for publication in the IAPL series. All papers submitted will be considered for publication in the IAPL volume series.
Henk Oosterling and Ewa Ziarek will serve as editors of the volume resulting from the conference. The volume will be produced for the new Continuum Books series of IAPL volumes entitled Textures: Philosophy/ Literature/ Culture edited by Hugh J. Silverman.
The editors will begin to review submissions right after the conference. Any final versions are due by Sept 1st. The editors will endeavor to notify those who have submitted papers by Dec. 1st.
Disk versions should contain six different files: (1) paper, (2) endnotes (first reference in endnotes, all others as abbreviations in text), (3) abstract of paper, (4) list of abbreviations used, (5) bibliography, (6) brief biographical note.
Chair's Comments on Papers: Session Chairs are also asked to inform Henk Oosterling and Ewa Ziarek, who will be preparing a volume from this year’s conference, of their judgment as to which papers would merit publication. This will be useful information in making selections of papers to include in the volume resulting from the conference.