Details

Unless previously agreed, talks and presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes duration in order to allow for ample discussion time. The time allotted to workshops will be considered on an individual basis. Other forms of presentation will be considered on request.

Please note: Presenters are strongly encouraged to talk about the research and ideas contained in their papers rather than read the papers verbatim (think of TED Talks as a model). Data projectors are available for showing images and video clips, however presenters should use handouts instead of dense, text-filled powerpoint slides to share other sorts of information. Not only does this allow listeners to engage more fully with the material in the room, it facilitates further reflection on the presentation long after the session ends.

300-word abstracts are to be emailed either as an attachment or in the body of an email to the Organising Chairs: Ann-Marie Cook and Rob Fisher. Attachments may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats. Papers will be minimally double blind peer reviewed (where appropriate); in practice our procedures usually entail that by the time an abstract is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple blind peer reviewed.

Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for publication in a themed ISBN hard copy volume. Our standard model is for such volumes to be strongly dialogical, with chapters showing awareness of and interacting with each other. The decision whether to proceed to hard copy publication will be taken by the Organising Chairs and Steering Group within three weeks of the conference close.

Style Sheets

In preparing your paper for publication, please make use of the Inter-Disciplinary Press house style and formatting guides available   https://www.interdisciplinarypress.net/style-sheets

 

The cost for attending the conference is £ 125 for a single day; £220 for two days; £285 for all three days. This includes:

• conference registration fee
• a copy of the eBook
• discounted rate for an edition of the hard copy themed volume or volumes (should one emerge)
• Morning coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, short cakes.
• Buffet lunch
• Afternoon coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, fresh fruits, cakes
• Evening Wine Reception

The February conferences will be held in the Mercure Hotel, Sydney, Australia. The hotel is located in the heart of the city, and not far from the train station. Discounted rates have been negotiated at the hotel for conference delegates. Delegates are not required to stay at the conference hotel, but those who wish to do so should book directly with the hotel using the special conference code which we will supply on submission of booking form to access these rates.

Delegates must complete the online booking form by Friday 23rd November 2012 at the latest. After the deadline has expired, an invoice will be drawn up and sent to you; the invoice will contain all the necessary information for you to pay by bank transfer, cheque or credit card. The invoice must be settled by Friday 21 December 2012. It is the responsibility of delegates to ensure that payment is made by this date. Failure to receive payment will result in your booking being cancelled.