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2012 Call for Sunday Papers

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Call for papers TAM 2012

Following our now ten year tradition, the James Randi Educational Foundation will once again invite proposals for short (15 minute) presentations on the Sunday morning of The Amazing Meeting in July.

The Sunday Morning Papers session of TAM was established to recognize new voices and ideas and shine on them the spotlight of the TAM community. If you have had success in communicating rational skepticism, teaching critical thinking, combating pseudoscience, or furthering the mission of JREF is some new and significant way, we want to hear from you!

Please follow the this link for an application and instructions for your 15 minute talk proposal.
http://csufresno.edu/physics/rhall/jref/tam10p/papers_tam10.htm

I look forward to hearing from you all!

Ray Hall
 
Yay, awesome! The Sunday Papers was what got me involved in skepticism. I highly recommend submitting if you have something relevant to talk about.
 
Stage-fright! Dang! I'd have submitted a paper presentation proposal years ago if it weren't for that. But oh well...
 
Damn. I just decided over the weekend that if I could get on stage at TAM, then I would. Then I found this thread and got excited. Then I read this thread and got sad. Now I am sad.

Tim, think there is any chance a submission this late could still be considered? (we're already post final selection!) Well, I will submit anyway: they might have not had many submissions?
 
Aegist said:
Tim, think there is any chance a submission this late could still be considered? (we're already post final selection!) Well, I will submit anyway: they might have not had many submissions?
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Don't get your hopes up, the last few years they've had a lot more submissions than they've had time slots for.
 
Yeah, no real hopes, but always ask :) The whole submission process completed 3 days ago, so everything should already be finalised. Such a shame, because I would have had a great talk :( and can't really be sure I will be able to make it next year...
 
Yeah, I heard they had 20-something submissions this year, and the final results were decided the other day. I haven't heard who is in, the only team who submitted that I've had contact with was the Odds Must Be Crazy folks. I know some academics submitted too.

Sorry, Aegist, I didn't think to suggest a paper presentation - when I heard you were coming was already after the initial deadline.
 
If I get accepted, I'm basically going to stand on stage and sexually harass the female attendees for 15 minutes. Then take questions for 5.

At least my talk will be topical.
 
krelnik said:
Yeah, I heard they had 20-something submissions this year, and the final results were decided the other day. I haven't heard who is in, the only team who submitted that I've had contact with was the Odds Must Be Crazy folks. I know some academics submitted too.

Sorry, Aegist, I didn't think to suggest a paper presentation - when I heard you were coming was already after the initial deadline.
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No need to apologise, I only just realised that I should even try to get on the stage the day after the whole thing was finalised - let alone the close of applications a month or so before I even decided I was coming.... So yeah, nothing to be done here sadly :(
 
In fact, I will probably prepare a talk, and carry the PPS around with me on my wallet flash drive - ready to jump in to action just in case someone is late to the presentation or talk. I'll be there, ready, to save the day.
:D
 
Horatius said:
Don't get your hopes up, the last few years they've had a lot more submissions than they've had time slots for.
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I don't know about the last few TAMs, but for TAM2, I had about three times the number of submissions as available time slots. Of those, I'd guess that there were enough solid ones to fill the slots twice over. Out of the rest, some would have been fine if the topic had been "How to teach Skepticism to Kids" or "Skeptical Art".
The most bizarre submision was from some guy I never heard of from the other side of The Pond who insisted I approve his talk without providing a title or abstract. He also insisted I arrange to pay for his travel and hotel expenses.
 
Jeff Corey said:
The most bizarre submision was from some guy I never heard of from the other side of The Pond who insisted I approve his talk without providing a title or abstract. He also insisted I arrange to pay for his travel and hotel expenses.
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Can you guess what I would have insisted of him? :D
 
No, I can't. I recall politely requesting that he "get stuffed" at one point.
 
krelnik said:
Yeah, I heard they had 20-something submissions this year, and the final results were decided the other day. I haven't heard who is in, the only team who submitted that I've had contact with was the Odds Must Be Crazy folks. I know some academics submitted too.
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Do you have any further news on the final results that you can share?
 
Ray replied, he's gonna get me the info, but bear with him as he's got workmen crawling over his house replacing the roof right now.
 
Ray sent me the list, and I have entered them into Lanyrd. This allows you to load the schedule into your smartphone, find the speakers on Twitter and lots more.

The Sunday papers can be seen here:
http://lanyrd.com/2012/tam2012/on/paper/

Congratulations to:

Martha Keller
Ivan Alvarado
David Gamble
Eran Segev
Jeffrey Rosky and
Christine Shellska

Looking forward to seeing the presentations.
 
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