Call for Papers
Textile Narratives and Conversations

Deadline: December 1, 2005

Textile Society of America Symposium 2006
Toronto, Canada
October 11-14, 2006
Co-chairs: Nataley Nagy, Executive Director of the Textile Museum of Canada, and Frances Dorsey, fiber artist (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design)

The Tenth Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America
will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Toronto is a site particularly appropriate for such cross-conversation because of its rich international diversity of population and cultural and educational institutions. The main sessions will be held at
Harbourfront, a multicultural arts centre located downtown on the edge of Lake Ontario.

The theme, Textile Narratives and Conversations, will serve as a springboard for discussions across disciplines, as well as for in-depth explorations of specific topics. TSA encourages presentations on textiles from all parts of the globe and from textile-related disciplines including (but not limited to): anthropology, archaeology, art, art history, conservation, cultural geography, design, marketing, economics, history, indigenous tradition, linguistics, theatre, and the physical and social sciences.

Scholars, artists, gallery and museum professionals, educators, and lovers of textiles are encouraged to submit proposals. We are particularly interested in presentations exploring textiles as story-telling media, as mythological objects, as "woven"archetypes, and as evidence of a life lived, showing the interconnectedness of and between culture(s) or intergenerational bonds. Textiles might be a means of communicating cultural values, serve as a medium for social cohesion, or operate in linkage with science and technology, architecture and design, or music and the performing arts.
Many area museums and galleries will participate.

Categories of Presentation
Individual papers are generally slide or PowerPoint presentations and 20 minutes in length.
Proposals will be considered for either 20-minute papers of a formal nature or
10/10 papers (10-minute introduction to new research or current art work, followed by 10 minutes of discussion)

Organized sessions should include 3 or 4 paper presenters, a chair, and, when feasible, a discussant. Speakers' times are flexible: in general, a total time of 1 1/2 hours is recommended for sessions.
Organized sessions should cluster papers according to some logic.
To encourage panel discussion and stimulate audience participation all panelists must send a copy of their working paper to both the chair and the discussant or moderator of their session by August 15, 2006.

Panel discussions might involve 3 or 4 individuals, and a moderator who poses questions to which panelists respond (generally without prepared papers). Speakers' times are flexible; in general, a total time of 1 hour is
recommended for panels.

Video presentations: Screening time for videos and film will be structured around the proposals that are submitted and accepted.

Symposium Submission Guidelines
All submissions, whether for panels, organized sessions, videos, or individual presentations, should be based on original research, reflecting material not previously published. Individual submissions may be grouped into panels by the Selection Committee. Submission of an abstract implies permission for its use on the TSA website and in the published symposium abstracts and Proceedings.

Individual proposals must contain:
1) a title page that includes the title of the proposed paper along with the speaker's name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address if available;
2) a two-page resume; and
3) the abstract itself, containing only the title of the paper and the 250 word abstract. Indicate whether the presentation will be 20 minutes or 10/10 format. The speaker's name should not appear on the abstract.

Organized session proposals, submitted by the prospective chair, should contain:
1) a title page including the title of the proposed session, individual paper titles identifying their authors and name of the discussant, along with the chair's name, his/her address, telephone and fax numbers and email address if available;
2) a two-page resume for each panel participant;
3) an abstract of the panel topic that discusses the theme and the papers' inter-relatedness, containing only

Panel discussion proposals, submitted by the moderator, should include:
1) a title page including the title of the proposed panel, the names of the participants along with the moderator's name, his/her address, telephone and > fax numbers, e-mail address if available;
2) a two-page resume for each > participant and the moderator; and
3) the abstract itself, containing only the title of the panel and a 250-word abstract of the topic to be discussed.
Panelists must submit their materials to the panel moderator who will submit them to the Selection Committee as part of the panel "package."Participants' names should not appear on the abstract.

Video presentations, submitted by the videographer or member of the production team, should include:
1) a title page including the names of the relevant production team members; the presenter's name, address, telephone and fax numbers and email address if available;
2) a two-page resume for each relevant participant; and
3) an abstract of the video contents, containing the title, 250-word abstract, time length, and format. Presenters' names should not appear on the abstract.

Deadline
All submissions must be postmarked no later than December 1, 2005.
Faxes and e-mail will not be accepted.
Send title page, two-page resumes, and 6 copies of abstract(s), without staples, unfolded, in a large mailing envelope to:

Frances Dorsey, TSA Symposium Program Coordinator
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
5163 Duke Street, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 3J6

Program Selection
TSA follows a policy of peer review and merit consideration for submission acceptance and inclusion on the symposium program. Initial review of the submissions by the jury will be without author identification.
Those papers outside of the jurors'expertise will be sent to specialists for review. Final selections will be made by the Selection Committee (composed of the conference organizers and the TSA President), based on jurors'ranking and comments; relatedness to the symposium theme and the interests of Textile Society of America members; originality of the research; and clarity.

The final program will be organized to assure inclusion of papers exploring a variety of geographic regions, subject matter, and scholarly approaches.

The Selection Committee will inform all those submitting proposals of its decisions by February 28, 2006.

Publication.
Deadline for submitting manuscripts for publication: December 1, 2006.
All papers will be published in the conference Proceedings if they are submitted by December 1, 2006.
If a full-length manuscript is not submitted by this date, the speaker's 250-word abstract may be printed instead.
Guidelines for submission will be sent with paper acceptance.

Requirements for Program Participation
All program speakers must be paid TSA members for 2006. Non-members will be invoiced upon acceptance of their proposals. If extenuating circumstances exist, an explanatory letter should be sent to the symposium program coordinator.

Financial Aid
A limited amount of financial aid for speakers is available. Applicants must submit a letter outlining financial need at the time of paper submission, and be members of TSA. Applicants may submit membership application and fee with the scholarship application.

Contact us at:
Textile Society of America
P.O. Box 70
Earleville, MD 21919-0070
Tel. (410) 275-2329
Fax (410) 275-8936
tsa@dol.net
http://www.textilesociety.org/

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Subject: CfP: Textile Society of America Symposium 2006
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:26:28 -0500