Dear Simmons community,

SCoSAA is excited to announce that we are hosting the first Graduate Symposium for all graduate students at Simmons College on Saturday, April 21, 2012. This conference is a unique opportunity for students to present on their research interests, prepare for future professional conferences, network with their peers, and learn about how archives, libraries, history, and other disciplines converge.

If you are a graduate student at Simmons College, we invite you to submit your proposal (or a joint proposal) on topics related to archives, rare books, or special collections for presentation at the conference. Historical research is welcome if it covers the convergence of the study of history, archives, and primary source research. Each student can submit only one proposal.

Each paper session will be an hour and fifteen minutes long and will include two to three presenters. Each presenter will have approximately fifteen to twenty minutes to speak, and the session will conclude with a fifteen-minute period for questions and answers.

To be considered as a presenter, please submit a proposal to [email protected] by Wednesday, December 21, 2011. Your proposal should be outlined in the form found here, and needs to include the following information: your name, your email address, your graduate program, an abstract of no more than 250 words, a working title, and any audiovisual needs that you may have for your presentation.

The papers will be discussed and voted on in a blind judging process, and you will receive an acceptance or decline email by January 21, 2012. You will be required to submit the completed paper by April 12, 2012 to have your acceptance finalized.

If your proposal is accepted, you will be sent more detailed information on April 12, 2012. Please do not hesitate to email me at [email protected] or Amanda at [email protected] if you have any questions!

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Best wishes, Camille and Amanda

Download the?2012 Graduate Symposium Paper Proposal Form.

See the proposals here.