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President: Michael Witzel
(Harvard, Cambridge MA, USA) witzel@fas.harvard.edu Secretary: Boris
Oguibénine (Strasbourg, France, EU) |
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Association for Comparative Mythology (IACM): Second Annual Conference (Ravenstein, Netherlands, 19-21 August 2008) |
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The Second Annual Conference of the International
Association for Mythology will be held at Conference
Centre Soeterbeeck, Ravenstein, the Netherlands, on 19-21 August 2008. Details concerning the IACM,
the background
considerations informing the programme,
the conference venue, organisation, participation and fees, and the submission of paper
proposals by prospective participants, are given here below or
under the specific links.
CLICK HERE FOR THE FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (WITH FULL ABSTRACTS AND HYPERLINKS TO AVAILABLE PAPERS, AND LISTING FINAL ORDER OF PAPERS, TIMES, CHAIRPERSONS AND DISCUSSANTS) AS PER 15 AUGUST 2008; nearly all papers are available now
CLICK HERE FOR THE CONCISE FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (AS ABOVE, BUT WITHOUT ABSTRACTS., AND COMPACTLY LAID OUT)
CLICK HERE FOR PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS AS PER 7 AUGUST 2008
| Conference location The International Association for Comparative Mythology Programme rationale and outline Convenors with address information, organising committee, advisory organising committee NEW: 1st Post conference circular on publication, style sheet, deadlines etc. NEW: The CONCISE final conference programme as per 15 August 2008 (as above but without abstracts, and compactly laid out) NEW: Practical information for participants as per 7 august 2008
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THE ORIGINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (please note: the deadline for submission of paper proposals closed 30 March 2008, after an extension of an additional two weeks, the papers and participants have been selected by an organising committee consisting of Michael Witzel, Eric Venbrux and Wim van Binsbergen, and the preliminary programme was compiled as per 23 June 2008) Participation and fees Each
accepted participant pays a conference fee of
EUR€100 / US$150, which entitles the participant to
board and lodging (alcoholic drinks not included). The
fee can be paid as soon as notification of selection has
been made (selected participants will be informed of the
bank account in question), but has to be paid at
conference registration at the very latest.
Accepted participants from outside Western Europe will
in principle receive free air tickets (economy class
return). Accepted participants from Western Europe
outside the Netherlands will be considered for a travel
refund only if the conference finances allow this; this
entirely depends on the success of various applications
for subsidy now still pending. In principle, the costs
for local transport within the Netherlands, including
transfers between the conference location and Amsterdam
International Airport (by train: 1 hr 34 min., 2nd class
ticket €17.30 / US$25.72 one-way, price level to
date), will not be refunded for any of the participants.
No per diem will be paid to any of the
participants. Submission
of paper proposals (deadline: 15 March 2008) Prospective
participants are invited to submit an abstract of your
proposed paper (maximum 500 words or 3500
characters in length) to the organising committee per
email, by filling out and then electronically submitting
(press the 'Submit' button) the ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORM
below. In writing the abstract, please take into account the general programme description,
and then indicate to what section you would like to
contribute. The deadline for the
submission of abstracts is 15 March 2008. The organising committee will select about 15 full papers, and in addition a feasible number of shorter papers and posters for the Work in Progress section. The selected authors will be notified as soon as possible. Conference
website and pre-circulation of paper The
selected abstracts will be placed on the
password-protected 'Papers'
section of the present conference website: http://www.iacm.bravehost.com/index.htm
. The presenters’ papers or Powerpoint
presentations (which therefore must be of manageable
size) are to be submitted to the organising committee by
e-mail, no later than 4 August 2008, in order to be
uploaded onto a password-protected section of the
conference website. All participants will be informed of
the password giving access to this section. In this way
all will be able to read the papers before and during the
conference (where in-house cordless internet is
provided); as a result, presentation time can be minimal,
and conference sessions can concentrate on lengthy and
incisive discussion. We look forward to hearing
from you and to read the abstracts of proposed papers for
what is promising to be a very exciting international
conference with intense discussions and exchanges! The organising committee |
Note. The ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
FORM below has a triple purpose, which explains its relatively
detailed nature:
1. Collecting paper
proposals for the Second Annual Meeting of the International
Association for Comparative Mythology, The Netherlands, 19-21
Aug. 2008
2. Collecting all
necessary official information allowing us to process air tickets
and conference reservations for selected participants
3. Updating the mailing
list of the International Association for Comparative Mythology
Your personal information will be treated as absolutely
confidential and will not be shared with any third party except
– if your paper is selected – for the purpose of travel
and accommodation arrangements. Thank you for your co-operation.
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