From Bill and Allie P:
OK, everyone, Allie is working with people at the U of Colorado and
the Outlook Hotel to organize the conference schedule and we need
some input. Right now we need to categorize the sessions, probably by
day, and need ideas about what the major categories should be. When
you respond, preferably before Jan. 28, we'll issue a revised
schedule and a call for papers. You can consider any reference to
content for uncommitted times as suggestions only, and make your own
suggestions. Please, make the replies quick so we can issue the final
call for papers as early as possible. If you want to submit a paper
now, that will give us a head start.
The MOL workshop has been absorbed into the main CSG schedule,
because none of the most experienced clinicians in England and
Australia will be able to attend in person. On the schedule for
Friday, July 20, you'll see that there are two uncommitted sessions
at the Outlook Hotel in the morning, then after lunch at CU (the U of
Colorado at Boulder), afternoon sessions on MOL including
teleconferencing with Tim Carey in Alice Springs, Australia, and
Warren Mansell and Sara Tai in Manchester, England. These sessions
are planned for the 400-seat auditorium in the Muenzinger building,
and we want to invite the clinical psych people at CU and perhaps
even local psychotherapists to attend. By starting the teleconference
at 1:30 PM (13:30) we make Tim Carey be ready at 5:00 AM his time,
and Warren and Sara have to wait until 8:30 PM (20:30) their time,
but all three locations can be joined in one teleconference. Yes, the
time zone in Alice Springs is displaced by half an hour and they will
not be on Daylight Saving Time.
The sessions are defined as 20 or 30 minute presentations with the
same length of discussion time for each. The shorter presentations
let us squeeze in a few more presenters. Each presenter can trade off
discussion time against presentation time, though we strongly
recommend a 50-50 split.
To make the discussions more pertinent, we also request that each
presenter supply a printable version of the talk (a .doc file is
fine) which can be duplicated and handed out on the first evening,
Tuesday, or even made available via internet earlier than that. With
the paper having being read in advance, a presentation could, in the
extreme, consist of "Are there any questions?". It is also possible
for non-presenters to distribute papers at the meeting and reference
them as having been presented at the CSG International 2012 meeting.
You'll notice that the meeting is one day longer than the traditional
meetings have been. Arrival day is Tuesday instead of Wednesday which
means Wednesday will be a full day of sessions.
Allie is still working out tradeoffs on the costs. They will probably
be higher than last year, but not too much higher since CU is helping
out with some facilities such as less-expensive bus service and a
meeting room for some sessions. The hotel room discount will be less,
but charges for meeting rooms at the Outlook will also be less -- we
just have to wait and see how that works out.
Please offer your suggestions for categories as soon as you can so we
can issue the call for papers by next week.
Best,
Bill P.
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