Submission Eligibility 2011-2012
To submit a proposal to the Program Committee, you must 1) be an APA member in good standing; 2)have a working password for the “Members Only” section of the APA website; and 3) create a user account for the online collection system. Further details are given below.
The link to the online submission system will be available on the APA "Members Only" page (http://apa.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi) no later than March 7, 2011.
APA Membership
All participants in panels, seminars, workshops and paper sessions at the Annual Meeting are required to be APA members in good standing. (In the case of the January 5-8, 2012, Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, “good standing” will mean that dues have been paid through 2011.) If you are not sure whether you have paid your APA dues for 2011, make contact with the customer service staff at the Johns Hopkins University Press at jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu, 800-548-1784 (US and Canada only), or 410-516-6987 (all others). Please note that it can take up to five days for new or renewed memberships to be processed. Absolutely NO extensions of the deadline will be possible because of unpaid membership fees.
The membership status of those invited to participate in a panel, seminar or workshop must be verified by the organizer before the proposal is submitted to the Program Committee. The membership status of individuals who submit individual abstracts for paper sessions is verified by the Executive Director before the abstract is forwarded to the Program Committee. A waiver of the membership requirement may be requested from the Program Committee by the organizer of an at-large or committee panel, workshop, seminar, or roundtable discussion session at the time the session is submitted for review if the participant in question is a scholar in a field not ordinarily associated with classical studies or is a resident of a country outside North America and only a temporary visitor to North America. (Note: At least one organizer of a roundtable discussion session should be a member.) A waiver of APA membership for participation in the Annual Meeting will be granted only once for any given individual. By action of the APA Board of Directors, such waivers may not be granted to a scholar who is either submitting an individual abstract to the Program Committee or who is responding to a call for abstracts from an organizer-refereed panel or affiliated group. Requests for waivers should be sent directly to the APA Executive Director (blistein@sas.upenn.edu).
Access to the “Members Only” Section of the APA Website
Access to the online submission system is available only via the “Members Only” section of the APA website. Members wishing to submit a proposal are urged to confirm they have access to that section of the APA website well before the submission deadline. Absolutely NO extensions of the deadline will be possible because of problems with access to the members only page.
If you are sure that your 2011 dues are paid, visit the “Members Only” page of the APA web site (http://apa.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/home.cgi) to make sure that you have a working password.
There are links on that page either to obtain a password for the first time or to receive a reminder of your password. If you ask for a reminder and receive the following message (“We cannot find that username or email address in our records.”) and are sure that your dues for 2011 are paid, then you have either never requested or created a password, or you used a different email address when you did register. If you need further assistance, contact the customer service staff at the Johns Hopkins University Press as described above.
Submission System Registration
Every member wishing to make a submission to the APA Program Committee must create a collection system user account. There is no charge for obtaining this account. Upon accessing the system via the “Members Only” page of the APA web site, you will be prompted to provide a username, password, and valid email address.
Last updated March 16, 2011.
