First Call for Papers: Crossroads in Cultural Studies, 2018

Submission Guidelines

Call for
Papers

You may submit pre-organized panel proposals or individual paper proposals. Proposals must be submitted through the "Easy Chair" online system, this means that if you do not already have an "Easy Chair" account from a previous conference you will need to create one.

You will get the access to submit your proposal here later on Jun. 20th, 2017, for both main conference and student's pre-conference.

Please note:

  • Panel duration: 90 minutes
  • Optimal number of presentations per panel: 4
  • Presentation duration: Not exceeding 20 minutes per paper
  • Panel format: presentation of individual papers followed by discussion and Q&A.
  • Other panel formats may also be used if suitable.

Submit your proposal here.
For Conference: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xroads2018
For Pre-conference: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pcxr2018

More Submission Details as Below.

Pre-Organized Panels

1.  The conference welcomes full panel proposals that include a nominated chair, three paper presenters and discussants (if desired). Panel proposals may also contain 4 papers but must adjust the presentation time to fit within a 90 minute Panel.

2.  Panel organizers should encourage and actively help their panel participants to communicate among themselves before the conference. This will aid effective presentation and discussion at the panel.

3.  For panels attracting more than 4 paper presentations, panel organizers must ask the Organizing Committee to arrange additional panel(s) for the topic; or refer the extra papers to the Organizing Committee to be included in other panels.

4.  For additional panels, panel organizers should organize the papers into themes and give informative name(s) to the additional panel(s) rather than adding I, II, etc.to the same title. The panel organizer should nominate another person (or one of the presenters) to act as chair for additional panels.

Acceptance of Pre-Organised Panels and Papers

5.  Panel organizers have the right to choose the papers to be included in their panels. However, they are encouraged to give priority to papers which reflect original empirical or theoretical research and have not been presented previously at other professional meetings. They are also encouraged to accommodate interesting paper proposals related to their panel theme as well as the paper(s) suggested by the Organizing Committee if possible.

6.  All panel proposals, with full details of included papers, must be submitted for approval by the Organizing Committee. Panels will not be included in the conference programme without being formally accepted by the Organizing Committee.

7.  All panel organizers and participants (i.e. chairs/presenters/discussants) must be registered for the conference. A panel is considered as "Proposed" rather than "Confirmed" if all its participants have not completed registration and will be listed as "Proposed" on the conference website. The status of "Proposed" panels will be updated to "Confirmed" once all registration is completed. In cases where not all participants register, the Organizing Committee may make arrangements to reorganise the panel with other registered participants and may change the title of the panel if necessary.

8.  In cases of multiply authored papers in pre-organized papers, those authors who are actually presenting the paper must be registered for the conference. Otherwise the paper will be dropped from the conference programme.

9.  Proposed panels will not be included in the conference programme book and will be taken off the conference website after the closing day of the registration if none of the participants has completed registration by then.

10.  If, for any reason, a panel organizer is unable to follow through on the commitment of organizing a panel, the panel organizer should contact the Organizing Committee immediately.

Submission of Panel Proposals

11.  Panel organizers should submit panel proposals through the online system set up by the Organizing Committee with the following information:

  • Panel title;
  • Panel abstract of 150 words maximum;
  • Related paper abstracts of 150 words maximum;
  • Brief introductions of every chosen participants including chair, presenters and discussants (if applicable).The introductions should be including their names,email addresses, and the names of the institutions that they are associated with or nationality if they are independent scholars,etc. 100 words maximum.

Download the panel submission sample here. (For Conference)
Download the panel submission sample here. (For Pre-conference)

Submit your panel proposal here.
For Conference: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xroads2018
For Pre-conference: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pcxr2018

Submission of Individual Paper Proposals

12.  Individuals may submit paper proposals responding to a particular panel or as independent papers.

13.  All individual paper proposals must be submitted through the online system set up by the Organizing Committee with the following information:

  • Paper abstract of 300 words maximum;
  • Title of the specific panel, if applicable;
  • Brief introduction of the author .The introduction should be including the name of the author,email address, and the name of associated institution if any or nationality if they are independent scholar,etc. 100 words maximum.

Download the paper submission sample here. (For Conference)
Download the paper submission sample here. (For Pre-conference)

Submit your individual proposal here.
For Conference: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xroads2018
For Pre-conference: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pcxr2018

14.  The Organizing Committee will issue a conditional acceptance of the proposed panel and papers to the participants concerned by email and list the panel and the related papers as "Proposed" on the Conference website with an assigned time slot.

15.  Upon completion of registration, the Organizing Committee will issue a formal acceptance letter to the participants.