<div dir="ltr">This may be of interest to CSAAers.<br><div>Vera Mackie</div><div>University of Wollongong</div><div>&lt;<a href="mailto:vera@uow.edu.au">vera@uow.edu.au</a>&gt;</div><div>-------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Call for Papers</strong></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Biennial Conference</strong></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">of the</strong></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Japanese Studies Association of Australia</strong></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">University of Wollongong</strong></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">June 2017</strong></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center"><em style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Debating Democracy in Japan</strong></em></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">The Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia will be held at the University of Wollongong from 26 to 30 June 2017. The Call for Papers is now open.</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">The conference takes place seventy years since the revised Constitution of Japan came into effect on 3 May 1947. The same year witnessed the implementation of several other important legal and social reforms.</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">In this Conference we wish to reflect on Japan’s seven decades of postwar democracy. We invite participants to consider the constitutional and legal system, democracy and civil society, the political economy of postwar Japan and the cultural imagining and reimagining of Japanese society over this period. As new technologies assume an ever greater importance in a changing Japan, this conference will also include a subtheme of Japanese Studies in the Digital Age.</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">We invite papers on any of the following themes. Panels on other themes are also welcome.</p><ul style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px 1.5em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:square;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px"><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Debating the Constitution</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Democracy</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Debating the ‘postwar’</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Debating ‘transwar’ history</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Diaspora</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Diversity</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Dis/Ability</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Demographic Change</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Demilitarisation and Remilitarisation</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Decolonisation</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Deindustrialisation</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Denuclearisation (<em style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Datsu-Genpatsu</em>)</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Dealing with Disasters</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Defining and redefining society through the arts</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Diasporic arts</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Debates in Japanese Studies</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Democracy in the Digital Age</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Digital Age and Japanese Studies</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Digital Age and Japanese Language Education</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Digital Age and the Arts</li></ul><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">For the 2017 conference, we ask that participants submit proposals for full panels rather than individual papers. Panels will be allocated 90 minutes and may either take the form of three 20 minute papers with 30 minutes for discussion, or three 15 minute papers, 15 minutes for discussant’s comments, and 30 minutes discussion. Full panels will include three speakers and a chair or a chair/discussant.</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">We ask senior colleagues to facilitate the inclusion of early career researchers and postgraduates. Panels should include a good mix of senior and junior colleagues, with attention paid to gender balance, diversity, location and institutional affiliation. The JSAA Facebook page &lt;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/The-Japanese-Studies-Association-of-Australia-212204828823231/" style="color:rgb(116,51,153);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.facebook.com/The-Japanese-Studies-Association-of-Australia-212204828823231/</a>&gt; can be used to seek fellow panelists, or you may wish to use lists like H-Japan or H-Asia.</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">Individual presenters may wish to consider a poster session, particularly if the paper makes extensive use of visual materials, graphics, charts, tables, graphs or statistics. We are also open to more creative uses of the poster format, such as a photo-essay, manga, collage or other creative output.</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">If you need assistance in putting together a panel, please contact the Conference Convener, Vera Mackie &lt;<a href="mailto:vera@uow.edu.au" style="color:rgb(116,51,153);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">vera@uow.edu.au</a>&gt;.</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">Individuals may not present more than one paper or poster at the conference, but may participate in other sessions as chair or discussant.</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Panel Proposals should include:</strong></p><ul style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px 1.5em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:square;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px"><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Name, institutional affiliation and contact details of Organiser, Chair or Chair/Discussant, Panelists</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Panel Abstract (100 words)</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Individual Paper Abstracts (200 words each)</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Disciplinary Area (e.g. history, political science, law, literature, cultural studies, gender studies, linguistics, gender and sexuality studies, etc.)</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Keywords (3)</li></ul><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Poster Proposals should include:</strong></p><ul style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px 1.5em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:square;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px"><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Name, institutional affiliation and contact details of Presenter</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Poster Abstract (200 words)</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Disciplinary Area (e.g. history, political science, law, literature, cultural studies, gender studies, linguistics, gender and sexuality studies, etc.)</li><li style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Keywords</li></ul><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">A dedicated space will be set aside for display of posters at the conference venue, with designated times for discussion with poster authors.</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">Posters will be of a maximum size of A1 (59.4 x 84.1cm) (portrait). For guidelines on preparing posters for conferences, see, for example:</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">&lt;<a href="http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/speaking/poster/" style="color:rgb(116,51,153);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/speaking/poster/</a>&gt;</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">For administrative purposes, the main language of the Conference will be English. We will, however, accept panel and poster proposals in Japanese and presentations may be in Japanese. If your proposal is in Japanese, please include romanised versions of personal names and institutional affiliations and an English version of your panel title and paper titles.</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">Please submit proposals through the Conference website online submission system at &lt;<a href="https://www.uowblogs.com/jsaa2017/" style="color:rgb(116,51,153);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.uowblogs.com/jsaa2017/</a>&gt;</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Important Dates:</strong></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">Date for submission of proposals: 9 December 2016</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">Date for notification of acceptance of proposals: 1 March 2017</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">Early Bird conference registration: 7 April 2017</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">Final Date for conference registration: to be advised</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Please note:</strong> All presenters <strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><u style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">must</u></strong> be registered at the conference before they will be included on the official programme.</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Refereeing Procedures:</strong></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px">All panel and poster proposals (other than invited papers) will be refereed by a review committee. Your indicated disciplinary area and key words will be used to select appropriate reviewers.</p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,&quot;bitstream charter&quot;,serif;font-size:16px"><strong style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backgrou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