Call for Papers for the Allied Social Science Association Meetings, Washington, D.C. January 2-5, 2003

Dear SABE Affiliate,

SABE will hold a poster session in conjunction with the ASSA annual meetings in Washington, D.C., Saturday, January 4, 2:30-4:30 PM, 2003, in association with the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA). You are invited to submit a proposal for a poster-paper to be presented in this session.

The IRRA will publish information on this SABE session including the names of all SABE Poster participants in both its on-line and hardcopy versions of its program.

This year we also invite posters for new books in print or in press.

Poster sessions encourage interaction between presenters and the viewers. Posters can portray succinctly and visually, either a model, theory, or an empirical study, and invite viewers to discuss the paper with the presenter.

The SABE tradition is to allocate about 5 minutes to each poster presenter of a regular paper to discuss her or his work as all presenters and other participants tour the SABE posters.  Posters of books, on the other hand, will simply be on display.

Below are instructions on how to prepare a poster.

If you've attended poster sessions before (such as SABE's poster session at the ASSA meetings in Atlanta, New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and Boston), you know how effective they can be. If you've never attended one—we invite you to try your hand at preparing one.

We look forward to seeing you, either as a presenter or viewer, in Washington.

Please send a brief proposal to Professor Morris Altman

Email: Altman@sask.usask.ca

PREPARING A POSTER

Posters are mounted on poster boards. The space available for SABE's posters permits about 10 poster-papers to be mounted.

Specific Instructions:

1. Prepare 4-5 pages on ordinary letter-sized paper (8.5" x 11"). The written or graphic material should fit inside a box measuring 5" x 6" (11.5cm x 15 cm).

2. Enlarge each page on 11" x 17" paper. For example, if you enlarge each page 41% twice, you get an 11" x 17" page twice the size of the original. If you use 12-point print in your original, then after enlargement your print will be 24 point--big enough to read easily, even from a distance.

3. After enlargement, your poster-paper should comprise 4-5 pages, each 11' x 17'. Each page should be numbered so that they can be arranged in logical order on a Poster Board.

Page One: Title, Author(s), and a short Abstract

Page Two: Main Results (perhaps as a "bullet" list)

Pages Three and Four: Tables, Figures, and/or Verbal Description of the Model.

Page Five: References