Eligibility to Submit Proposals in 2012
To submit a proposal to the Program Committee, you must 1) be an APA member in good standing and 2) create a user account for the online collection system. Further details are given below.
APA Membership
All participants in panels, seminars, workshops and paper sessions at the Annual Meeting are required to be APA members in good standing. (In the case of the January 3-6, 2013, Annual Meeting in Seattle, “good standing” will mean that dues have been paid through 2012.) All submitters will be required to provide their APA membership number as part of their submission. (Please note that in the case of multiple organizers, only the primary organizer will be asked to provide their membership number during the submission process.) If you need to look up your membership number, please click here. If you are not sure whether you have paid your APA dues for 2012, contact the customer service staff at the Johns Hopkins University Press at jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu, 800-548-1784 (US and Canada only), or 410-516-6987 (all others). Please note that it can take up to five days for new or renewed memberships to be processed. Absolutely NO extensions of the deadline will be possible because of unpaid membership fees.
The membership status of those invited to participate in a panel, seminar or workshop must be verified by the organizer before the proposal is submitted to the Program Committee. The membership status of individuals who submit individual abstracts for paper sessions is verified by the Executive Director before the abstract is forwarded to the Program Committee. A waiver of the membership requirement may be requested from the Program Committee by the organizer of an at-large or committee panel, workshop, seminar, or roundtable discussion session at the time the session is submitted for review if the participant in question is a scholar in a field not ordinarily associated with classical studies or is a resident of a country outside North America and only a temporary visitor to North America. (Note: At least one organizer of a roundtable discussion session should be a member.) A waiver of APA membership for participation in the Annual Meeting will be granted only once for any given individual. By action of the APA Board of Directors, such waivers may not be granted to a scholar who is either submitting an individual abstract to the Program Committee or who is responding to a call for abstracts from an organizer-refereed panel or affiliated group. Requests for waivers should be sent directly to the APA Executive Director (blistein@sas.upenn.edu).
Submission System Registration
Every member wishing to make a submission to the APA Program Committee must have a collection system user account. There is no charge for obtaining this account. Members who created accounts to use last year’s system should enter the same user name and password in the “Welcome, Please Sign In” section of the login page. Forgotten user names and/or passwords can be retrieved by using the “I forgot my user name” and “I forgot my password” links on that page.
Members who did not use the system last year will need to click on the “Create an Account” link in the “Create a New Account” section of the login page and will be prompted to provide a username, password, and valid email address.
Last updated February 14, 2012.
