[Air-L] Call for Proposals to host 2025 AoIR Flashpoint Symposium

[Paloma Viejo Otero]

Thank you for your email. I am currently out of the office on vacation and will have limited access to email. I will return on August 15th and will respond to your message as soon as possible after that date.

Best regards


Vielen Dank für Ihre E-Mail. Ich bin derzeit im Urlaub und habe nur eingeschränkten Zugang zu meinen E-Mails. Ich kehre am 15. August zurück und werde Ihre Nachricht so bald wie möglich nach diesem Datum beantworten.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,


Paloma

On 16 Jul 2024, at 20:54, Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> The Association of Internet Researchers is seeking proposals for one-day
> AoIR Flashpoint Symposia to take place before the end of August 2025. As
> the 2025 AoIR conference takes place in São Paulo, Brazil, only proposals
> for locations outside of South America will be considered.
> 
> An AoIR Flashpoint Symposium is a small event that provides an opportunity
> to deepen or foster conversations about internet research among regions,
> groups, and/or thematic research areas that have thus far been
> underrepresented in the Association of Internet Researchers and its
> conferences. The Association is making available funding of up to US$8,000
> for the purpose of supporting a one-day symposium that will contribute to
> the life and mission of AoIR and feed into its annual conference.
> 
> Each symposium will be a standalone event to take place in a region of the
> world that differs from that of the 2025 annual conference (São Paulo,
> Brazil). Preference will be given to regions and locations where an AoIR
> conference has not yet been held, but where at least one active AoIR
> member, who will be on the Flashpoint Symposium planning committee,
> resides. We also require that the symposium makes a contribution to the
> main 2025 AoIR conference in some way (e.g., a panel, pre-conference
> workshop, or another format that presents key contributions and outcomes
> from the symposium). In addition to local participants, all AoIR members
> are invited to attend the Flashpoint Symposium.
> 
> Deadline for the submission of this proposal is 1 September 2024, with a
> decision returned by the end of October 2024. Proposals should be emailed
> to to symposia @ aoir.org by 1 September, 2024. Proposers are invited to
> engage in conversation with Nik John (prez at aoir dot org) and Sarah
> Roberts (vp at aoir dot org) if you have questions or anything you’d like
> to discuss.
> 
> Proposals should:
> 
>   - Be no more than 1-2 pages in length.
>   - Outline a distinct issue or theme to be addressed by the symposium.
>   - Include a proposed date (between 1 April and 31 August) and schedule
>   for the one-day event, and identify potential keynote speakers (keeping in
>   mind AoIR’s commitment to diversity and inclusivity). Note: the proposal
>   should ideally not suggest parallel sessions but rather envision a day of
>   consecutive sessions (i.e. a single stream only).
>   - Include a brief description of the leadership team’s history with AoIR
>   and their plans for future involvement.
>   - Demonstrate how this Flashpoint Symposium will connect with AoIR more
>   broadly.
>   - Include a preliminary budget that demonstrates in-kind support and/or
>   sponsorship from the host institution(s) and creates a preliminary plan for
>   cost items. Please note that AoIR funding is not to be allocated for the
>   funding of participant travel costs, staff costs in support of the
>   symposium’s organization, or indirect costs (such costs must be borne by
>   local sponsorship), but may include  keynote honoraria, travel of keynote
>   speakers, meals, venue or labor costs.
>   - Indicate how regional and transnational graduate students will be
>   encouraged to participate.
>   - Include a discussion of projected outcomes from this symposium and its
>   potential for ongoing benefit to AoIR more broadly (e.g., AoIR conference
>   panel, special issue, etc.). A selection of organizers and delegates should
>   make a firm commitment to present key contributions and outcomes from the
>   Flashpoint Symposium at the year’s annual conference.
> 
> AoIR’s commitment to the symposium will include:
> 
>   - Support for promotion and administration through our various channels
>   and platforms (e.g. via organization social media accounts and email
>   lists), as well as limited AoIR administrative support.
>   - Up to $US8,000 disbursed in the form of reimbursements and invoices to
>   cover costs related to organizing the symposium.
>   - Mentorship from members of AoIR Executive Committee related to the
>   organization of the symposium and subsequent deliverables/outcomes.
>   - Allocation of one session slot (panel, roundtable, fishbowl,
>   experimental session, or pre-conference workshop) on the annual AoIR
>   conference program to the symposium organizers. This session is invited and
>   will be planned jointly by the symposium organizers, the AoIR Executive
>   Committee, and the AoIR Conference organizers in order to present the
>   symposium’s major themes and outcomes. It must involve several participants
>   selected from among the organizers, keynote speakers, and/or other
>   participants of the symposium in order to allow the symposium conversation
>   to continue at the main annual conference.
>   - An additional $US2,000 in travel awards to help bring a panel of
>   Flashpoint participants to the AoIR conference in São Paulo. (This cannot
>   be reallocated for any other purpose.)
> 
> Proposals will be ranked in relation to their ability to:
> 
>   - Advance AoIR’s goal of diversification of membership and the expansion
>   of geographical presence at the annual AoIR conference.
>   - Address a theme, topic, or issue not yet prominent in AoIR’s annual
>   conferences.
>   - Demonstrate a commitment to encouraging graduate student
>   participation, particularly from those in the host region.
>   - Demonstrate capacity for carrying out the symposium in a manner that
>   contributes to the benefit of AoIR and the individual organizer(s).
>   - Demonstrate a commitment to present outcomes at the annual AoIR
>   conference.
> 
> This listing does not imply any ranking in the importance of these
> requirements.
> Submit your proposals to symposia @ aoir.org by 1 September, 2024.
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