Time approaches fast! Call for Papers and Posters for the 2018 MLA Annual Meeting

The MAC Contributed Papers and Posters committees invite you to submit your proposals for 2018 MAC MLA Annual Meeting in Ocean City from October 28 through 30, 2018 at the Princess Royale Hotel and Conference Center. The theme for this year’s meeting is “Making Waves”, though your submission is not required to relate to the theme.

For both paper and poster abstracts, please submit via the MAC 2018 Proposal Submission Form. All abstracts must be 300 words maximum. A structured abstract format is required. See MLA’s Research Section for guidance on structured abstracts: http://www.mlanet.org/page/structured-abstract.

Deadline to submit abstract is June 15, 2018.

Authors will be notified of acceptance in early July. Additional information (i.e. time, location, set-up instructions, etc.) will be sent with the acceptance notification.

Those presenting papers or posters must register for the meeting.

You will receive an immediate confirmation receipt upon submission.

All submissions will be blinded before review.

Only Background and Methods sections are required at submission stage. Completed Results and Conclusions sections are required if accepted before the annual meeting.

If you have questions about the submission process, please contact:

For contributed papers: Andrea Shipper (ashipper@hshsl.umaryland.edu)

For contributed posters: Yunting Fu (yfu@hshsl.umaryland.edu)