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FROM: Joseph Sheldon ñProgram Chair
TO: All members
Be sure to put the ASA Annual Meeting (July 20ñ23, 2001) on your calendar now! We welcome contributed papers and poster presentations on all topics related to Science and Christianity, with special consideration given to those that focus on environmental theology, ethics, ecology, and resources. Two symposia are also planned: (1) Science and Technology; (2) Bioethics/Global Resources. Papers should be based on work in your area of expertise. Where this is not obvious, you may be asked to provide suitable documentation. Please observe the Requirements and Guidelines for Abstracts presented below. If you have a proposal for an additional symposium or group of papers, please contact the Program Chair
jsheldon@mcis.messiah.edu by Dec. 1, 2000.This Call for Papers is designed to be copied and posted. Besides planning your own participation, please personally invite non-members to submit proposals and to attend.
Requirements and Guidelines for Abstracts:
1. Regular contributions must be submitted as abstracts of 200ñ250 words to the ASA office by January 10, 2001. (Undergraduate students presenting posters have until March 1, 2001).
a. The abstract should emphasize what is the new and important material in your presentation and contain as much detail of the work as possible.
2. Authorís (or authorsí) full name, address, phone number, and e-mail address should appear with the title centered at the top of the page. Indicate the preferred mode of presentation: oral or poster and specify if this paper is part of symposium (1) or (2) above.
3. Due to schedule limitations, authors may present only one paper, but they may be included on other multiple-author papers. Schedule limitations may require some individuals submitting requests for oral paper to present posters.
4. Please send abstract via an e-mail attachment to: carol@asa3.org or mail a hard copy to: ASA, PO Box 668, Ipswich, MA 01938-0668.
5. Contributed oral papers will be accorded a time slot of 20 minutes, and 5 minutes for discussion.
6. A separate time and space has been set aside for the poster paper session.
7. Authors of poster exhibits will be supplied with detailed instructions upon acceptance of their abstract.
8. To be included in the final program, presenters must register for the meeting when they receive the Registration Brochure.
Please mail this completed form along with your abstract to:
American Scientific Affiliation
PO Box 668, Ipswich, MA 01938-0668
978-356-5656
http://www.asa3.org
Carol@asa3.org
PROGRAM RESPONSE FORM
Name___________________________________________________________
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During evenings and weekends (______) _________________________________________
E-mail address:_______________________________________________________________
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Proposed Title or Topic:______________________________________________________________
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Preferred mode of presentation: Platform paper (____) Poster (_____)
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Christian Engineers and Scientists in Technology (CEST) SymposiumThe CEST Affiliation invites authors to submit abstracts specifically addressing technological issues from a Christian perspective to the CEST symposium. Abstracts should conform to ASA rules and will be reviewed for appropriateness of topic as well as quality of scholarship.
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Global Stewardship and Environmental Ethics SymposiumThe Bioethics Commission and Global Resources and Environment Commission are jointly sponsoring a symposium on Global Stewardship and Environmental Ethics. Please consider presenting a paper or poster on a topic in global stewardship and/or environmental ethics. The chairs of the two commissions are Hessel Bouma III boum@calvin.edu and John R. Wood jwood@kingsu.ab.ca
Special audio visual equipment needed: ______________________________________________
An overhead and slide projector will be provided.
Please prepare your abstract following the Requirements and Guidelines for Abstracts.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE ó
JANUARY 10, 2001