Topics to be addressed are open, but the organizers encourage participants to confer with colleagues about forming panels of shared interest to submit as a group of three or four. Given the location of the conference, papers on cultural and other connections between Norden and Mississippi/the American South are especially welcome.

Listings of any panels in search of participants along with contact information for the panel organizer will be posted to the updates section of the conference web site at www.croft.olemiss.edu/ sass2006.

If you have an intriguing idea and would like to find others with like interests, consult the web site or submit a suggestion for a panel that can be posted there.

Submissions by e-mail may be made by sending the proposal in the body of a standard e-mail letter to sass2006@olemiss.edu by December 1, 2005. Proposals from those unable to utilize electronic submission must be received by December 1 at:

Sass 2006
Croft Institute for International Studies
P.O. Box 158
University, MS 38677-0158, USA
(fax +1-662-915-1504).

Please note that acceptance notices will be sent by e-mail or fax by January 15, 2006. Those whose papers are accepted for presentation will be required to pay the conference registration fees by February 15, 2006. Please note the following:
All presenters (except for invited overseas guests) must be sass members in good standing. For membership information visit www.byu/edu/sasslink/membership/index.html or contact sass at sass@byu.edu.

Graduate student proposals must be accompanied by certification from their thesis advisers that the work to be presented is sufficiently advanced to merit presentation at sass 2006.

Graduate students wishing to have their papers considered for the Aurora Borealis Prize are to submit copies of their papers as read at the meeting (maximum of 12 double-spaced U.S. letter size pages in 12-point font) to the conference organizers.

Graduate students and independent scholars seeking President's Grants are to submit those requests (addressed to sass President Christine Ingebritsen) to the conference organizers together with their paper proposals. Information about what is to be included in these requests will be available at www.byu.edu/sasslink/.