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Mythcon 51
Mythcon 51
A VIRTUAL “HALFLING” MYTHCON
Moving Online - Dates To Be Determined
ANNOUNCEMENT
Due to ongoing health concerns and the realization that we cannot now plan something
that may violate future New Mexico state health and safety regulations, whatever they are in July-August of this year, the Council of Stewards has
decided to postpone the next in-person Mythcon until summer of 2022; the date will be July 29-August 1, 2022. Our venue and
Guests of Honor have all agreed to this change and the conference theme will remain the same.
Because the costs associated with a virtual online event are less than the costs of an in person event,
if you are already a member of Mythcon 51, your membership will automatically "roll over" to next year (Mythcon 52
in 2022) but if you cannot attend next year, please contact
mythcon@mythsoc.org and request a refund of your Mythcon 51 membership.
For those who paid
the non-member prices, your membership in the Mythopoeic Society
associated with joining the conference will be extended by a year
(again!). Thank you
for understanding.
The virtual option will be very different from our usual Mythcons, but
what we miss out on we hope to make up for in new and different ways,
and we’ll see everyone once it’s safe to do so. On some level this is a
chance to get back to our Mythopoeic Society roots and gather with
friends
(if virtually!) to just discuss what we love. Best of all, the cost of
registration will be steeply reduced, though prices have not been set
yet.
Check back for confirmed details in Mythprint #397 as well as Mythlore
#138, and as always on our website, www.mythcon.org. Thank you for
understanding!
Call for Papers (subject to change)
Papers of the traditional Mythopoeic variety are still welcome, though
we are looking forward to trying out a new panel model that we are
calling
Panel Discussions (see below).
Time slots: Individual long papers may still have hour-long time slots
but are now encouraged to be no more than 30 minutes for the paper and
15
minutes for discussion; Individual short papers about 15 minutes for the
paper and 10 minutes for discussion; Panels are now 60 minutes, about
30
minutes for the panel and 20 minutes for discussion. For traditional
paper and panel proposals:
Email papers abstracts of 200-500 words to:
Cami Agan (Papers Coordinator),
cami.agan@oc.edu
Email panels abstracts of 50-150 words to:
Leslie Donovan (Panels Coordinator),
leslie.a.donovan@gmail.com
Presenters who have already submitted have the option of presenting at
Mythcon 51 virtually or being automatically accepted into the Mythcon 52
program. All presenters must register for the conference at which they
wish to present.
Eligible presenters should see details on our Alexei Kondratiev student paper award at:
http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/alexei.htm.
Discussion Panel and Alternative Programming Options
Though we have not formally revised the call for papers just yet, we are
excited to experiment with different presentation models that may work
better over an online platform, privileging panels of short papers or
group discussion panels.
Have a topic in mind you want to discuss, but pandemic brain has got you
down so you don’t want to write a paper about it? Revive the roots of
the
Society by proposing to Moderate a Discussion Panel for Mythcon
51—virtually! Moderators would need to come prepared with a mythopoeic
discussion
topic, some opening remarks, some questions for the attendees, and plan
to facilitate discussion.
Want to submit a Discussion Panel, or have an idea for Alternative Virtual Mythcon programming?
Email 200-500 word proposals to:
Megan Abrahamson
mythprint@mythsoc.org
The new deadline for submissions is May 15, 2021. Please check in on Facebook, Twitter, or www.mythcon.org for
an updated and complete Call For Papers as well as other updates about the now-virtual conference.
