SEAL News: December 4, 2012 – SEAL XIV Call for Talk Proposals

Posted by Vanderbilt on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 in news.

Dear SEAL Members:

We are now soliciting talk proposals for SEAL XIV – the Fourteenth SEAL Scholarship Conference, which is scheduled for April 5-6, 2013 at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in Philadelphia. The conference will be jointly sponsored by Penn Law and the Penn Center for Neuroscience and Society. You will find the format for proposals at the end of this message. Please submit your proposal by January 21, 2013, to jseaman@law.emory.edu. The selection committee will make final decisions on proposals by February 15, 2013. Please note that the *new and improved* SEAL website will be up and running shortly at www.sealsite.org. Once the new site has launched, it will include registration and payment information, as well as conference details.

For the Proposed Abstract: Please describe your talk in no more than three sentences. If your talk is accepted, the description may appear as an abstract on the Conference Program, which will be posted on the SEAL website as well as distributed at the time of the conference. We require that presenters draw a clear connection in the abstract between the proposed talk and topics within the scope of SEAL’s focus. Relevant disciplines include, among others, evolutionary and behavioral biology, cognitive science, neuroscience, complex adaptive systems, economics, evolutionary psychology, network theory, psychiatry, behavioral ecology, behavioral genetics, primatology, evolutionary anthropology, and gender relations.

For the Proposed Legal Question, please provide a one-sentence question that your talk will address. The legal question should clearly state a legal issue relevant to SEAL’s focus. The legal questions for accepted talks will be published in the Conference Program.

In the past, speakers have been afforded 15-20 minutes for a brief presentation, followed by 10-15 minutes for questions and replies. We expect to follow a similar format again this year.

SEAL XIV will also continue the “early stages” session first instituted at the 2010 conference. This session allows presentation of work in early stages in order to solicit suggestions for the project’s directions. Each early stages presentation is allotted no more than 15 minutes total. A format for submitting an early stages proposal is provided below. We will also accept early stages proposals through February 2011 on a space available basis.

Please send presentation and early stages proposals to me at jseaman@law.emory.edu, and I will circulate them to the selection committee. If you know of anyone who is not currently a SEAL member but who might be interested in submitting a proposal, please pass this message along. Dues paid membership in SEAL is, however, a requirement for making a presentation, so any such person would need to join SEAL before accepting an invitation to present at the conference.

We will be sending and posting further details about conference registration and suggestions for travel and accommodations in the future. As in the past, the registration fee is required of all participants and is designed to cover the costs of the conference, including several provided meals and functions. As always, a reduced registration fee will be made available for students.

Thank you,

Julie Seaman

SEAL President

Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law

Fourteenth Annual Scholarship Conference

Penn Law School, Philadelphia, PA

April 5-6, 2013

Presentation Proposal Format

Name:

Title or Position:

Affiliation:

E-mail Address:

Telephone Number:

Proposed Talk Title:

Proposed Legal Questions (1 sentence max):

Proposed Abstract (3 sentences max):

Early Stages Proposal Format