TimesDear Don, I'd like to alert everyone to the VNS panel (of which I'm chair) at the next AATSEEL meeting in December 2005, to be held in Washington. If you think this excerpt from the site is too long, feel free to pare it down. Thanks, Priscilla Contact Information. The contact person for literature for the 2005 Annual meeting is: Prof. William J. Comer (Literature and Culture) Department of Slavic Languages University of Kansas 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Rm. 2135 Lawrence, KS 66045 Phone: 785-864-4701 (office), 7785-864-3313 (dept) Fax: 785-864-4298 Email: 0000,0000,EEEDwjcomer@ku.edu To Submit a Paper. Any member may submit a paper either for a specific panel or to the conference as a whole (in which case the Program Committee will assume responsibility for assigning the submission to an appropriate panel). In either case, members must submit their abstracts by the deadline (see below) to the appropriate 5554,1A19,8B8AProgram Committee contact person, who will share them with panel chairs. (If your proposal is suitable for more than one division [e.g., linguistic approaches to pedagogical problems]), you may submit the abstract to any appropriate 5554,1A19,8B8Acontact person.) The opportunity to submit papers to the conference as a whole, rather than only to a specific panel, means that members no longer need to find or create panels for their papers, and it also means that members will no longer be closed out of the conference because appropriate panels have either not been proposed or become filled. Abstracts. All submissions must be accompanied by a one-page abstract (see the 0000,0000,EEEDGuidelines for Preparing Abstracts). Abstracts must be submitted to the appropriate 5554,1A19,8B8AProgram Committee contact person by the 15 April or 1 August deadline (see below). Abstract Deadlines. There are two deadlines for abstracts: 15 April and 1 August. Abstracts received by 15 April and not accepted will be returned to the author with suggestions for revision, and authors are invited to resubmit for the 1 August deadline. Members who do not require early notification of acceptance or the opportunity to revise and resubmit are welcome to bypass the first deadline and submit their abstracts only by 1 August. Please note that the 1 August deadline is firm, and no submissions can be accepted after that date. Note also that abstracts cannot be accepted until authors have met the membership obligations mandated by the AATSEEL bylaws and summarized below. Anonymous Peer Review of Abstracts. All abstracts will be refereed anonymously by qualified reviewers selected by the Program Committee, and the criteria for refereeing are described in the 0000,0000,EEEDGuidelines for Abstracts. Members are invited to nominate themselves or others to serve as referees by contacting any of the Program Committee 5554,1A19,8B8AContact Persons. Referees need not be senior scholars, but should have sufficient area knowledge and conference experience to be able to evaluate submissions according to the published guidelines. Competition. There isn't any, and all abstracts that conform to the Guidelines are guaranteed acceptance. The purpose of peer review of conference abstracts is not to limit participation, but to encourage all members to submit work that conforms to certain professional standards. The guidelines, coupled with the revise-and-resubmit option, are designed to assist members in preparing abstracts, and members are encouraged to contact panel chairs or any member of the 0000,0000,EEEDProgram Committee with questions about the abstract process. Multiple Participation. A member may appear on the program a maximum of three times. Possibilities for the three appearances include the following: • once as an author of a titled paper; • up to twice as a discussant (or once as a discussant and once as a roundtable participant); • once as a panel chair. World Wide Web Site. The general World Wide Web site for the 2005 AATSEEL annual meeting will continue to be 5553,1A18,8B89http://www.aatseel.org/program/. All conference-related information, including the 0000,0000,EEECCall for Papers, the Preliminary Program, and abstracts, will be posted there as soon as they become available. Priscilla Meyer Russian Department 212 Fisk Hall Wesleyan University Middletown, CT 06459 (860) 685-3127 Until May 31, 2005: 3 Steele's Road London NW3 4SE (44) 0207 722 0919