Guidelines

RESEARCH PRESENTATION ABSTRACT GUIDELINES

Clearly state the central research question, problem to solve, or purpose of the presentation.

Provide brief, relevant scholarly, research, or disciplinary context (no actual citations required) that demonstrate the presentation's attempt to make a unique contribution to the field.

Provide a brief description of the research or analysis methodology.

State conclusions or expected results of your research or analysis, and the context in which they will be discussed.

Do not include graphs or visuals in this proposal. Text only, please.

Be articulate, specific, and well organized. Make your proposal accessible to a non-specialized audience. Even as you cite a specific disciplinary context, do so in a manner that would be understandable to a layperson.

POSTER OR EXHIBIT PROPOSAL GUIDELINES

Proposals for posters should be succinct as the poster themselves ought to illustrate and synthesize the purpose, process, methods, and conclusion of your work. In your proposal please touch upon the following points:

• Describe the objective(s) of your research, work, or artistic/thematic vision. What are you adding to current knowledge?
• If relevant, please include an artist statement.
• Explain why your work is important - set the context and pre-empt the question "So what?"
• Briefly explain the methods (be brief unless methodology is key to the subject presented).

Succinctly state results, conclusions, and recommendations, or, if creative/artistic, state the intended audience effect.

If describing an interactive exhibit, describe the interactivity aspect of the display, including how you envision it as being set up and how the interactivity with audiences will occur and to what purpose. Also discuss the principles or methods informing your project, and discuss the expected outcomes or hoped-for audience takeaway. It your exhibit requires special equipment please indicate that in the abstract.

CREATIVE PRESENTATION ABSTRACT GUIDELINES

Clearly state the central motif or driving theme behind your creative project.You may provide an artist statement or a statement of thematic intentions for the work you're discussing. Alternatively, clearly state the purpose of the presentation in terms of what it illustrates about the creative process.

Provide brief, relevant disciplinary context (no actual citations required) and research, if applicable, that demonstrate the presentation's attempt to make a unique contribution to the field. You may discuss professional influences or inspirations drawn from artistic or performance movements, current political/social influences, trends in the field, personal events or experiences that led to insights, etc.

Discuss the composition styles, literary genre, performative style, artistic techniques, creative thinking processes, materials used, etc. - or any information that demonstrates how your process is informed by the discipline.

Conclude by discussing one or more of the following: how the creative work advances the development of your creative output, how it challenged and deepened your understanding of the discipline, how it influenced your thematic interests, and/or how their work adds to, responds to, or challenges an established movement, or school, or established methodology.

Do not include digital or visual files in this proposal. Text only, please.

Be articulate, specific, and well organized. Make your proposal accessible to a non-specialized audience. Even as you cite a specific disciplinary context, do so in a manner that would be understandable to a layperson.

PERFORMANCE ABSTRACT GUIDELINES

Provide a description of your intended performance genre/type and style, and an artist statement or a statement of thematic intentions.

Provide brief, relevant disciplinary context (no actual citations required) that demonstrate the performance's contribution to the field. You may discuss influences or inspirations drawn from artistic or performance movements, current political/social influences, trends in the field, personal events or experiences that led to insights, etc.

Provide a brief description of the methodology or approach. You may discuss the composition styles, genre, performative style, artistic techniques, etc.

To conclude, discuss one or more of the following: how your work advances your development as an artist/musician/performer, how it challenged and deepened your understanding of the discipline, how it influenced your thematic interests, and/or how their performance/work adds to, responds to, or challenges an established movement, or school, or established methodology.

Do not include digital media files or visuals in this proposal. Text only, please.

Be articulate, specific, and well organized. Make your proposal accessible to a non-specialized audience. Even as you cite a specific disciplinary context, do so in a manner that would be understandable to a layperson.