Roles
PRESENTER A presenter is an individual who has primary responsibility for a paper, roundtable, performance, or poster presentation. Presenter proposals should clearly reflect the content of their presentations. Presenters submitting proposals for group presentations are responsible for informing all participants that they need to register prior to attending the conference. Individual paper presenters must adhere to the time allotted, which includes time for audience discussion (fifteen minutes per paper). All presenters must pay the conference registration fee, and everyone is required to wear the conference badge in order to present papers and attend sessions.
CONVENER Conveners are facilitators who coordinate roundtables, workshops, or sessions comprised of individual papers, presentations, or performances. Conveners introduce sessions and provide brief bios of presenters and performers. Conveners also foster discussion, maintain time limits, troubleshoot, and complete a feedback and audience count form. Conveners may participate in the paper or performance sessions they convene, thus playing two different roles in one session. A convener may also take primary responsibility for the creation and submission of a panel, roundtable, or workshop. If you would like to volunteer as a convener for paper and/or performance sessions submitted by other participants, please e-mail Emily Satterwhite, , with the subject line “ASA Conference Convener” and indicate the modes, formats, and topics that most interest you. Conveners must pay the conference registration fee.
RESPONDENT Respondents are preferably invited prior to the submission process and named in the proposal. We ask established scholars, activists, artists, and educators to volunteer as respondents for our “Mentoring Opportunity” and “Critical Interventions” sessions. Please e-mail Emily Satterwhite, , with the subject line “ASA Conference Respondent” and indicate the modes, formats, and topics that most interest you. Respondents must pay the conference registration fee.
