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President: Michael Witzel
(Harvard, Cambridge MA, USA) witzel@fas.harvard.edu Secretary: Boris
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Association for Comparative Mythology (IACM): Second Annual Conference (Ravenstein, Netherlands, 19-21 August 2008) |
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convenors: Eric Venbrux & Wim van Binsbergen
organising committee: Wim van Binsbergen, Eric Venbrux
& Michael Witzel
CONCISE FINAL PROGRAMME
as per 15 August 2008
(click here for the FINAL PROGRAMME WITH FULL ABSTRACTS)
Final version: The present, final version of
the conference programme lists the final titles of papers but
retains the original abstracts as submitted and accepted in
response to our Call
for Papers; the order of speakers is
indicated, as well as chairpersons and discussants. A hyperlinked
paper title gives access to a PDF or ppr of the paper as
available to date; when no hyperlink appears, this means that the
paper has not been received yet.
Proposed format for each paper in Sessions II-III-IV: total time available 45 minutes per paper, of which only ca. 10-15 minutes presentation (assuming that the paper has been made available beforehand and has been read), only 5-10 minutes discussion by formal discussant, and remainder for general discussion.
Proposed format for each paper in Session V ('Work in Progress'): total time available 30 minutes per speaker, of which ca. 10-15 minutes presentation (assuming that the paper has been made available beforehand and has been read), 5-10 minutes discussion by formal discussant, and the remainder for general discussion.
Discussants have been selected at very short notice, and even though the papers have been pre-circulated (again with only a narrow time margin), no in-depth, authoritative and exceptionally well-documented statement is really expected -- rather the convenors see the discussant's role as suggesting the first few salient points for a constructive general discussion.
Chairpersons should primarily be occupied with time-keeping. This is a high and honourable responsibility in itself. Our choice of conference format is informed by the desire to have 'endless discussions' -- hence the pre-circulated papers and the discussants, but this format will only work if chairpersons firmly insist that both paper-givers and discussants do not exceed their allotted time (see above). Needless to say that, beyond time-keeping, a chairperson is expected to monitor the discussion, to ensure that it is not monopolised, to bring up important points that may otherwise escape attention, to fuel the discussion in the unlikely case that it would threaten to stagnate, and to use, in whatever other way, her or his prerogatives so as to further incisive but constructive debate
Participants are reminded that the conference fee of EUR€100 and the IACM fee of US$35 / EUR€23 are to be paid in cash at registration; we regret that cheques, credit card or bank drafts cannot be accepted.
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the hyperlink in the above title gives access to the paper in PDF format; however, click here for a shorter powerpoint presentation -- the latter is a large file (c. 10 Mb) which you might prefer to first download before opening, use: Save Target... under your righthand mouse button)
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