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Submissions

• Session Proposals (deadline: June 1)
  • Session Proposal Form
• For Those Who Have Had Sessions Approved (deadline: October 1)
  • Organizer Contract
  • Session Organizer Form
  • Advice and Admonitions

Session Proposals

Proposals for Sponsored and Special Sessions are made on the Session Proposal Form, which is available on the Congress Web site beginning in February.

Proposals for Sponsored and Special Sessions—including sessions of papers, panel discussions, roundtables, poster sessions, workshops, and performances—are due on June 1 for the following year’s Congress. The Congress Committee considers the proposals in June, and would-be session organizers are informed of the Committee’s acceptance or rejection of sessions by post in July.

Session Proposal Form

The Session Proposal Form for the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 12-15, 2011) will be available in February.

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For Those Who Have Had Sessions Approved

Complete paperwork for a Congress session comprises a signed Organizer Contract, a Session Organizer Form, and Participant Information Forms for all paper presenters, discussants, workshop leaders, demonstration participants, respondents, and performers (deadline: October 1).

Organizer Contract

Organizer Contract to print out, sign, and send to the Medieval Institute by October 1.

Session Organizer Form

The Session Organizer Form is available in two formats, as a Microsoft Word form and as an interactive PDF file.

Session Organizer Form (Microsoft Word form to download or complete online, save, print out, and mail to the Medieval Institute by October 1)

Session Organizer Form (interactive PDF file to complete online, print out, and mail to the Medieval Institute by October 1)

Advice and Admonitions

Completing and Submitting Session Paperwork
Advice for Session Presiders

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Organizers of Sponsored and Special Sessions are obliged to forward unused abstracts, together with their Participant Information Forms, to the Medieval Institute by October 1 so that the papers can be considered for inclusion in General Sessions.