The Program Committee reserves the right to add papers to panels that include less than 5 papers. The panel abstract should exhibit a clear, scholarly focus and each paper must relate to the presented theme and be academically strong. Sessions will be either accepted or rejected in their entirety. Individual submissions which are accepted will be grouped into panels and assigned a chair and discussant. Workshops are presentations concerned primarily with discussing status and prospects for scholarship in specific fields, or work currently in progress, or new approaches, techniques, technology, models etc.
Open discussion is especially encouraged.
Papers are not required. Only a very limited number of workshops will be accepted. The Plenary Session and Special or Current Issues Presentations often supplement the annual meeting program. They should be of interest to people in all disciplines and should be set apart from the rest of the program by their compelling and unique nature. MESA members and others are welcome to propose special sessions in writing, submitting a letter to the Secretariat including information on the proposed topic, presenters, sources of funding, and a statement explaining why the session deserves special status on the MESA program.