BRITISH INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION
35th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
MANCHESTER CONFERENCE CENTRE 27TH -29TH APRIL 2011
Conference Programme Chair: Professor Inderjeet Parmar
Conference Programme Assistant: Patrick Thomas
CALL FOR PAPERS
BISA invites individual paper, panel and roundtable proposals for its Annual Conference in April 2011. The deadline for submission of proposals is 5:00pm, Friday 5th November, 2010.
BISA is also interested in proposals for innovative panels and sessions which do not follow the usual format of academic paper presentations, such as workshops, posters, film and media presentations, interview conversations, and others. Proposals for innovative sessions only, should be sent directly to the BISA Secretary, Professor Richard Jackson (
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) by the above submission deadline.
Proposals and abstracts must be submitted online via the BISA website (http://www.bisa.ac.uk). Instructions for online submission of proposals can be found under the Conference link, sub-link: Panel/paper guidance. If you are submitting a panel or roundtable, please ensure you have all the details to hand before starting to complete the online forms, including contact details of convenor, chair and discussant (if included), panel/round table title, description, paper giver/participant contact details, paper titles and short abstract no more than 200 words. Panels should comprise either 4 papers or 3 papers plus a discussant. Round tables should comprise up to 4 panellists and a chair.
Any queries about paper/panel submissions or the wider conference should be sent to
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. The provisional Conference Programme will be published on the BISA website on 18th January, 2011. Registration for the conference will also open on 18th January, 2010 and close on 8th April, 2011 (no further bookings will be taken after this date). Early bird registration discounts will close on 11th March, 2011. Please note the conference is open to BISA members only and you will need to register (i.e., pay) to attend the conference in order to participate in the panels.
Provisional conference packages are as follows:
Early Bird Registration before 11 March, 2011:
DD1 Wednesday 27th April only: Staff £95.00, Students £85.00
DD2 Thursday 28th April only: Staff £115.00, Students £105.00
DD3 Friday 29th April only: Staff £95.00, Students £85.00
DD4 All three days 27th April – 29th April inclusive: Staff £200.00, Students £180.00
Registration after 11 March, 2011:
DD1 Wednesday 27th April only Staff £125.00 Students £105.00
DD2 Thursday 28th April only Staff £145.00 Students £125.00
DD3 Friday 29th April only Staff £125.00 Students £105.00
DD4 All three days 27th April – 29th April incl Staff £230.00 Students £200.00
These packages include registration costs, room hire, and refreshments. These packages do not include accommodation and there is no conference dinner at this year’s conference.
Guidelines and Regulations for Participants at BISA Annual Conferences
1. Frequency of Appearances
The number of panels and papers submitted to the annual conference increases every year and it is therefore increasingly difficult to provide maximum opportunity for participation in the conference by all BISA members. In order to ensure the maximum number of participants in the annual conference, BISA members can present only ONE paper at the annual conference, including co-authored papers. BISA members can also appear as Discussant or Chair on two further panels. These limits should better ensure increased opportunities for participation by all BISA members.
2. Participation of Graduate Students
Graduate student participation in the BISA annual conference is encouraged, but panels comprising only Graduate Students will not be permitted. In taking this decision, the BISA Executive (which includes Graduate Student reps) felt that Graduate Student participation is most effective when students interact with full members on panels and that all Graduate Student panels tend to attract smaller audiences. At least one paper-giver must be full-time academic staff. BISA also encourages representation from a range of institutions all panels.
3. Paper Submission
All participants presenting a paper will be required to submit an electronic copy of their paper in advance of the conference via the BISA web site paper upload facility. The deadline for submission is 20th April, 2011. If necessary, BISA will be able to restrict public access to papers if there is a subsequent copyright issue, but asks that all papers be uploaded to ensure completeness of the conference archive.
4. Costs of Attendance
We are sending out approximate details of the costs to attend the annual conference with the Call for Papers. This is to ensure that all members can make an informed judgement about whether they can afford to attend the conference prior to submitting a paper/panel proposal. This advanced notice of costs should also ensure that members have more time to apply for funding from their departments or elsewhere to attend the conference. Please note: you need to be a member of BISA to participate in the conference and must have paid for a relevant package within the deadlines stated. If not, you may find your paper is withdrawn by the Conference Committee. Please also note that BISA invites applications for Postgraduate Conference Bursaries, and the BISA Conference hardship Fund, to assist attendance at the conference for scholars facing financial hardship.
5. No –Shows
Where panellists have not notified BISA before the start of the conference that they are unable to attend, they will be prevented from appearing on the conference programme for a period of two years. BISA has been forced to apply this new regulation due to the large and increasing number of no-shows at past conferences and the financial losses this incurred to BISA. At Cambridge 2007, 128 panellists (42%) did not turn up to their panels. Four panels were cancelled ahead of the conference so that we had a total of 108 rather than 112 panels at Cambridge.
6. Working Group Panels
Working Groups are guaranteed 1 panel on the programme, to be identified by each individual working group. BISA requests that all subsequent working group submissions be ranked in order to aid the BISA conference committee in allocating slots (the panel ranked number ‘1’ will receive the automatic slot.) Working groups can make up to a maximum of 5 panel submissions. Panel submissions to the BISA conference can later be included in the Working Group Annual Reports.
7. Other Misc
• The use of discussants is optional. Convenors can include them at their discretion, depending upon the number of papers.
• Convenors are also responsible for informing the conference programme co-ordinator of any changes to the original panel, roundtable or paper submissions.
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