SCMS LA Update

Looks like the Tokyo crowd has been brought into the LA conference...if they so choose of course!

From the SCMS Website: http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1136&Itemid=1

Dear SCMS members:


We are writing to you with important news about our 2010 Los Angeles conference and our plans to incorporate as much of the Tokyo conference program as possible into it.

Please be assured that there will be no shortage of space for new panels and workshops in Los Angeles. We have added a full day to the 2010 conference schedule as well as additional rooms and slots for each day of the five-day event, which will now take place on March 17-21 (Wednesday through Sunday). We typically schedule 220 panels and workshops at our annual conferences. In Los Angeles, we are anticipating having nearly twice that amount. The 2010 Los Angeles conference will not be compressed.

In order to facilitate conference planning, please carefully read the following information:


1. All papers, panels, and workshops listed in the official 2009 Tokyo conference program [http://www.cmstudies.org/documents/SCMS%202009%20INT-web%203.pdf] are automatically accepted for the 2010 Los Angeles conference, pending notification to the SCMS office by 1 August 2009.

2. We request the cooperation of panel and workshop Chairs--including Chairs assigned to panels assembled from the 2009 Open Call proposals--in determining whether their panel or workshop will be included in the 2010 Los Angeles conference and which participants will be presenting papers. Chairs must be in touch immediately with each participant of their panel or workshop to determine whether they will attend the 2010 Los Angeles conference.


3. Panel and workshop Chairs must communicate via email with the SCMS Office by 15 July to confirm whether or not their panels or workshops will be part of the 2010 Los Angeles conference. Please send this email to office@cmstudies.org. If the SCMS Office has not heard from a panel or workshop Chair by 15 July, the SCMS Office will directly contact participants on that panel or workshop to determine their interest in participating in the 2010 Los Angeles conference. The deadline for all Chairs and individuals to inform the SCMS Office of the status of their panel, paper or workshop is 1 August.


4. The SCMS Office will work with the 2010 Program Committee to facilitate the scheduling of the 2009 Tokyo panels and workshops within the 2010 Los Angeles conference. In order to accommodate as many participants as possible in the 2010 conference, the Program Committee may add participants to those 2009 Tokyo panels and workshops that have open slots, where appropriate, including originally pre-constituted panels and workshops.


5. For those individuals who had papers accepted for the Tokyo conference but did not register for it, and who are therefore not listed on the official Tokyo conference program, you will need to apply to the 2010 Los Angeles conference via the normal submission process. You may submit the same paper you submitted for the 2009 conference. There is no guarantee, however, that your previously accepted paper will be accepted for the 2010 conference.


6. Normal deadlines (September 1) and procedures will apply for new participants in the 2010 conference. The online proposal submission form is available at http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=476&Itemid=87]

7. Individuals from the Tokyo conference who agree to participate in the Los Angeles conference are subject to the posted restrictions on SCMS conference participation, as are new applicants for 2010. Individuals can present only one paper and can serve in only two different capacities (e.g., present a paper and serve as a panel chair; present a paper and participate in a workshop; present a paper and serve as a respondent; serve as a panel chair and participate in a workshop, etc.). These policies are in place to assure the widest participation of all SCMS members in our annual conferences and can be accessed on the SCMS website: http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=100


Thank you very much for your immediate attention to this matter. We appreciate your assistance and look forward to the celebration of our 50th year as a Society in Los Angeles in 2010.

Sincerely,
The SCMS Board of Directors
Patrice Petro, President
Stephen Prince, Past President
Chris Holmlund, President-Elect
Mary Celeste Kearney, Secretary
Paula Massood, Treasurer
Scott Curtis, Member of the Board
Hollis Griffin, Member of the Board
Michele Hilmes, Member of the Board
Victoria Johnson, Member of the Board
Diane Negra, Member of the Board
Jacqueline Stewart, Member of the Board
Michael Zryd, Member of the Board