WORKING GROUPS AND ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS
ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS
Deadlines for Abstracts and Papers:
March 5, 2010 |
Deadline for abstracts which should be submitted electronically, as Attachments. |
May 20, 2010 |
Deadline for full papers |
• Follow this link to the form for submission of abstract (will open in a separate window)
An Abstract should contain no more than 4000 characters, including spaces and title and contact information on the author(s). Normally an Abstract would show the structure of the paper and would use one or two key words from the rubric of the Working Group for which it is intended.
Abstracts, as well as full papers, should be submitted electronically as Attachments. Please click on the relevant button above.
Experience has shown that papers and abstracts benefit from a structure like the one illustrated below, but feel free to compose your abstract in the ways that fit the kind of paper you are going to create.
- Title of paper
- Author(s)
- Themes and and aims
- Theoretical framework or research design or both, and methods
- Conclusions or expected conclusions
Please do not
- submit Abstracts and papers in hard copy or send Abstracts of papers by fax or as e-mail ‘letters’
Please do not
- submit more than two abstracts or papers, including jointly prepared papers.
At the Conference:
The language used in CESE Conferences is, increasingly, English but papers and paper presentations in French are also very welcome (though in such cases some assistance – e.g. a PowerPoint in English – would be helpful for Conference members coming to Uppsala from outside of Europe).
On arrival at the Conference (on the assumption that the Conference fee has been paid), you will receive a book of Abstracts and (on CD) those papers which have been submitted by the May 20th deadline.
After the Conference
Only papers recommended by the Chair of the Working Groups to the Editor appointed by CESE will be published in a book or ‘reports’ after the Conference. It would be seen as a courtesy if you would let the chair of your Working Group know if you are planning to publish the paper elsewhere in the two or three months after the Conference.
Type of sessions
PLENARY SESSIONS AND WORKING GROUPS
The Plenary Lectures are highlights at the CESE conference, but the Working Groups are a major feature of the CESE conference, and are a little bit like week-long seminars, so participants are invited to become involved for much of the Conference in the Working Group of their choice.
Your paper will be given in a Working Group. A Working Group session is 90 minutes long and, normally, three papers are presented in each session so each paper is allocated 30 minutes. Most people use about 15 minutes for presentation and thus their papers are discussed for about 15 minutes. Our tradition is that if you use all of your 30 minutes to ‘read out’ your paper, the Chair of the Working Group thanks you – and moves on to the next paper without any discussion. Please be alert to this tradition.
For each Working Group a maximum of 24 papers is accepted. About six Working Groups run, simultaneously and in parallel, throughout the Conference, except when there is a Plenary Lecture.
Please indicate the Working Group in which you would prefer to give your paper. Two Working Groups should be indicated, please, in case the first Working Group you ask for is full.
There is no requirement that the paper deal with ‘Europe’. Papers which draw illustrative material from a range of societies, including those outside of Europe, are welcome; but it is expected that papers will link with the general theme of the Conference and with a specific Working Group.
In the New Scholars’ Working Group, new scholars are invited to explore, in a seminar format, their work-in-progress. The New Scholars’ Group is different from the other Working Groups: it is not thematically framed; it will be held for only a small number of working sessions in the first two days of the Conference; and it will offer to each person 45 minutes for presentation and discussion – so please do not think of your contribution to this Working Group as an opportunity to ‘read a paper’ for 44 minutes.
Your initial presentation should be short. Ideally you would be opening up a discussion of any work of yours which is unfinished and puzzling – for example, papers under preparation that just won’t ‘come out right’; or a paper that is emerging from a doctoral thesis which is proving to be difficult to shape properly; or strategic ideas (for post-doctoral work, or for a series of published papers or a first book) that keep slipping out of control.
Abstracts for this Group should be submitted in the normal way. Presentations in this Working Group can also be recommended for subsequent CESE publication.
Documentation
Beyond the conference documentation, two publications are planned; a book and a report. From each Working Group the chair person will choose no more than four contributions. The authors of these will be offered publication in the book or in the report.