The conference, “Scholars Without Borders,” is sponsored by The National Coalition of Independent Scholars and Princeton Research Forum and will be held in Princeton, New Jersey on June 16-18, 2006.

The deadline has been extended to December 31, 2005

The program committee invites submissions for panels or individual presentations on participants’ research interests and/or methodologies as independent scholars.

Special emphasis for this conference is on transcending the borders encountered in independent scholarship, such as those that divide academic disciplines, ideologies, scholarly and popular writing/publishing, nations, vocation and avocation, etc.

Prospective participants should submit
1) an abstract (up to 250 words)
2) a brief c.v. (one page maximum)

E-mail submission preferred, by attachment or in the text, to toni.carey@verizon.net/
Alternatively, send by regular mail:
Princeton Research Forum
301 North Harrison Street Box 222
Princeton, NJ 08540.

Poster Session: This year’s conference will include a new feature, a poster session on “Strategies and Tools for Independent Scholarship” during our opening Friday night reception. If you have a good technique for getting published, internet researching, grant writing, gaining access to libraries and archives, marketing your work, etc. please submit a one-page proposal for a 3X4 poster board display (we supply board and double-stick tape). E-mail to writerdsg@comcast.net by February 15, 2006; alternatively, mail to Princeton Research Forum, at the address given above.

For more information on the poster session, visit www.princetonresearchforum.org.