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Information for Seminar Leaders

Leading a Seminar
Seminar topics will be listed on this website in late March with instructions on how to enroll in the seminars. To promote discussion, the size of seminars is limited to a maximum of 20.

Leaders may, at their option, invite one or two individuals to join the seminar in some special role. Some leaders will wish to share the work of reading and responding to papers with the invited participants; others will simply want to assure a high standard of discussion by involving scholars whose work they know to be important for their topic.

Please note that invited participants will not be specially listed as such in the conference program.

E-mail addresses for all seminar registrants will be provided to seminar leaders in May. At that time, leaders should:
• Initiate communications by e-mail, introducing themselves and providing addresses to all participants;
• Set guidelines for the seminar. These might include questions to be addressed, reading to be done, and a specified length for the position papers (normally 5-7 pages);
• Set firm deadlines, no later than September 3, 2004 for the actual exchange of papers;
• Exchange and read papers during the 6-7 weeks before the conference;
• Plan the seminar format. The MSA will provide guidance, but leaders are, within reasonable limits, free to use the time (two hours) as they see fit.