call for proposals Annual Conference 2014 Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society (OVPES)

Annual Conference 2014

Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society (OVPES) Call for Proposals

The Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society (OVPES) invites
proposals for the 2014 annual meeting to be held at the Bergamo
Conference Center in Dayton, Ohio, September 12-14, 2014.

PRESENTATION FORMAT, DEADLINE AND NOTIFICATION:
Proposals for individual papers, panels, or symposia involving two or
three speakers on a single topic are welcome. All proposals will be
blind and peer reviewed. (See Proposal guidelines at end of this
document.) We invite proposals related to any topic in the philosophy
of education.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:
Submit your proposal via email with an attachment as a Word document.
All proposals should be received on or before Thursday, May 1, 2014.
Submit to: Sarah Stitzlein, Program Chair at sarah.stitzlein@uc.edu.
Proposals accepted for presentation at the conference will be notified
by May 25, 2014. Full-length conference papers should be no longer
than 15 double-spaced pages, following the Chicago Manual of Style.
Papers meeting all the editorial requirements will be considered for
publication in Philosophical Studies in Education, the refereed
journal of OVPES. (See manuscript requirements at www.ovpes.org)

CONFERENCE PROPSAL GUIDELINES:
Part 1 (submit in the body of your email message)
1. Title of your proposal. 2. Format of your presentation (i.e, paper
session, panel or symposium) 3. Your name, title, institutional
affiliation (should be the contact person) 4. Your address, phone,
email, fax number. 5. The name(s) of other panel or symposium members,
if applicable. 6. An abstract of up to 100 words.

Part 2 (in a Word document with all identifying information removed
for “blind” review)
1. Title of your paper or panel or symposium 2. Provide a brief
summary of your topic in two pages, up to 500 words. Provide a brief
descriptive summary of how your topic will be developed and/or its
line of argument. Explain the significance of your topic. List several
major references upon which you will draw in developing the topic in
order to “place” the scholarly conversation. 3. Provide two or three
terms of reference for your papers. This will guide the program
committee in grouping presentations.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: 1. The proposal should be sent as an attachment
in Microsoft WORD document format. 2. The subject of your message
should read “OVPES--2014 Proposal.” 3. If any special formatting,
presentation, or special characters are essential to the proposal,
please submit a paper copy. 4. The Program Committee reserves the
right to request you to resubmit electronic proposals, to submit them
in the body of an email message or to submit a paper copy within a
reasonable time frame in case of any technical problems with the
electronic submission. 5. Receipt of email submissions will be
notified via email.

OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER AWARD
OVPES is pleased to announce a $100 award for the most outstanding
graduate student paper submitted for the 2014 conference. The
recipient of the award will be determined by the program committee and
will be based on the quality of the proposal. Please indicate your
desire to be considered for the award in the subject of your
submission email. All submissions and inquiries should be directed to
Dr. Sarah Stitzlein.