All authors should have received the following by email. The only difference is that the message on the blog does not contain the link to submit – please dig that out of the email! The offer is open to all those who submitted at the conference (whether as a co-author or presenter, round-table participant, and so on).
We intend to produce a book based on the conference and are currently approaching publishers. In the past, the book has drawn directly on conference proceedings but we are well aware that the one-year delay to the conference means that you may have published already, or that the work has progressed beyond the scope of your original abstract.
We are therefore inviting presenters to submit not only abstracts that are directly connected to their presentations but also those that began one way but have perhaps passed through their own threshold; alternatively, you might have revised your thinking in light of the conference. We are therefore casting a wide net and will assess each submission on its own merits.
We do however very much invite abstracts to engage with the conference’s main heading (‘Thresholds in the Moment’) and the themes that were originally stipulated for submissions. While we expect the book to align with previous formats (an opening theoretical part, then subsequent parts based on similarity of scope) we will allow the final structure to emerge from the submissions.
Our proposed timeline follows:
- brief proposals (500 words): 10 Jan
- decisions: mid-Feb
- full draft: end of May
- returned with comments: end July
- final version: end October.
Please see the list of required details below and upload your proposal by 11.59pm January 10th 2022 to the dropbox link you were sent by email. If your emailer does not recognise the link, it is spelled out fully at the very end of this message (to spare those using screenreaders)
We need, within the one document that contains your proposal:
- name and affiliation (independent scholars are welcome);
- a contact email address;
- A clear statement that the steering group and press have permission to contact you regarding the chapter proposal. We suggest ‘By uploading this file I give permission for the steering group and/or publisher’s agents to contact me for the purpose of publishing this proposal in a collected volume’.
File formats: we prefer (in this order) docx (newer versions of Word), plain text, doc (not preferred), PDF (really not preferred), html (please ensure all subsidiary files such as graphics are included). macOS Pages – please export as docx.
Threshold Concepts 