Calling for Submissions!
48th Annual AEJMC Southeast Colloquium
March 2-4, 2023
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN
Submit your papers to the 48th annual AEJMC Southeast Colloquium regional conference, held March 2-4, 2023 in Murfreesboro, TN. Present and receive feedback on your research papers in time to revise and submit them for consideration in the annual AEJMC conference (yes, you can present the same work at this conference and at the August annual conference in D.C.). The conference will be fully in-person, providing great opportunities to formally and informally connect.
Conference registration includes a data analytics preconference in the School of Journalism & Strategic Media’s Social Insights Lab (see below), the keynote address by Dr. Kathy Roberts Forde, co-editor of the award-winning book, Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America (edited with Dr. Sid Bedingfield, Foreword by Alex Lichtenstein), a Friday night reception, optional activities in Murfreesboro, and, of course, multiple days filled with scholarship, advice, and networking!
We encourage undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars to be part of the 2023 Southeast Colloquium.
Ways to participate
- Submit completed research to a participating division or interest group (Broadcast & Mobile Journalism, Community Journalism, History, Law & Policy, LGBTQ, Magazine Media, Newspaper & Online News, and Visual Communication). All groups allow for research-in-progress.
- Submit a completed research paper to the Open Division.
- Submit a panel proposal, either to a specific division/interest group or for the all-conference panel program (Open Division).
- Submit an innovative teaching activity to the Great Ideas in Teaching competition (G.I.F.T.).
- Review for the Southeast Colloquium.
- Serve as a moderator or discussant at the conference.
Research Papers – General Call
Authors should prepare submissions as either a Microsoft Word or PDF file and submit them under the “Paper Submission and Judging.” All submissions must be completed by no later than 5 p.m. CT on December 16, 2022.
Submissions must be original work that has not been previously presented at a conference or under consideration/published in a journal. Remove all author identifying-information from the title page, body of the manuscript, and document properties. Include a 250-word abstract. The page limit for completed papers is 30 pages, including references and tables (50 pages for Law and Policy papers). Papers that do not adhere to these guidelines will be disqualified.
Authors of accepted papers will be notified by January 10, 2023. Authors must present in-person at the Colloquium (at least one author of co/multi-authored papers) or they will not be listed in the final program.
Research in Progress
All of the division and interest groups participating are accepting Research-in-Progress. Your research-in-progress submission should include a title page and up to 1,000 words that briefly address the conceptual idea, background/literature, research questions/hypotheses, method, and either the plan for findings/results or preliminary findings/results, and a reference section (not included in the word count). All research-in-progress submissions should be anonymous – remove identifying information from the title page, manuscript body, and document properties. Submissions will undergo review and be evaluated according to the division/interest group’s specific rubric, including relevance to the division or interest group. Research-in-progress papers are not eligible for Southeast Colloquium awards. No research-in-progress submissions should be submitted to the Open Division.
Panel Proposals Panels are sessions in which scholars present on a common topic. For the Southeast Colloquium, there are two types of panels: Division/interest group-specific panel sessions and panel topics that broadly offer advice and/or would benefit attendees across groups (i.e. “Improving your skills as a reviewer” or “How to get more involved with AEJMC”).
Students, faculty, and independent scholars are all welcome to submit panel proposals. These proposals are not anonymous since they do not follow the standard anonymous review process used in the refereed paper competition). That said, not all panel proposals will be accepted. Email Katie Foss (Katie.Foss@mtsu.edu) with questions.
Panel proposals should contain the following information:
- A title for the panel
- A brief description of the panel
- Names and affiliation of the organizer, potential panelists, and moderator (ask people to be on your panel before writing their names down).
Panelists must attend the conference in person.
