How to Make your Academic Conference a Success: The Call for Papers
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 30 Russell Square
No booking required
The Birkbeck Institute for Social Research in collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality.
How do you turn an inchoate idea for a conference into a successful event that intervenes in various debates in your field?
This session for PhD students will focus specifically on how to design a Call for Papers (CFP) and how to give your conference structure and shape.
The CFP will announce your conference so it is an important piece of communication. As you will be competing with many other conferences for speakers you need to craft a clear and compelling CFP to maximise your chances of receiving submissions. Once you've received your submissions, you still need to work out how to give your conference shape. There's a real craft to using the time available in the best way possible.
This workshop will discuss best practice in drafting a CFP and organizing a conference. It will begin with short presentations from Felicity Callard, Kate Maclean and Louise Owen. The presentations will be followed by an interactive section where you will be able to work with either a current CFP that you're developing yourself (please bring relevant details with you), on or past examples (which we'll provide).
This workshop is free and open to all PhD students from Birkbeck and the Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network: Book your place
The second session in the series on 'Making Your Academic Conference a Success' will run in the spring term. It will focus on running the actual conference and its aftermath, including: chairing, introducing the conference, planning a special issue and thinking about its legacy. Full details will be released in due course.
'The Make Your Academic Conference a Success' event series is part of the Birkbeck Graduate Conference - organised by The Birkbeck Institute for Social Research in collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality. The conference will be held on the 8 - 9 June 2018 and is organised by the Birkbeck Institute interns along with a Working Party of Birkbeck Graduate Students. If you are interested in joining the Working Party, please contact bisr@bbk.ac.uk.
Felicity Callard is Professor of Social Research in the Department of Psychosocial Studies and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
Kate Maclean is Senior Lecturer in Social Geography in the Department of Geography and the Director of Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality
Louise Owen is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance in the Department of English and Humanities and the Co-director of the Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre.
Contact name:
Madisson Brown