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rivkaAfter Society of Behavioral Medicine last year I wound up corresponding with a prominent researcher in my field who recently published a book on HIV denialists. He said something to me about how we should really try to put together a symposium on the subject for next year's SBM.
A symposium is an extended session, 90 minutes for just three presenters and a discussant. (Compare to paper sessions like the one I was in last year, in which each person gets just 15 minutes to present.) The presentations are supposed to relate to each other, providing multiple perspectives on an issue. It's a format with a lot of possibilities, and of course I was flattered that he suggested it.
Well, the SBM submission deadline is fast approaching, so I got a steely grip on my usual diffidence and wrote to him to ask if he was still interested. And he is. And he thinks that I should be the one to chair the symposium. Yikes! I've never done this before, and I was kind of hoping that he'd take the reins. But I wrote to someone else who's done a lot of research on this topic, and she said she'd be happy to join the symposium. Now we just need a discussant - someone to summarize, contextualize, and problematize our presentations. I'm hoping that one of them can come up with a good person to ask, since they're both more connected than I am.
And I need to write a symposium overview, which means that I need to figure out what a symposium overview is supposed to say.
And I need to write my own abstract for my part of the presentation. For which I first need to analyze my data. All by Thursday at midnight.
No worries, right?
Incidentally, if anyone's curious, SBM put my slides for the presentation I gave in Montreal up on the web for all to see. (With my permission, of course.) It's here, but be warned that it's a PDF of a Powerpoint presentation. In case you're allergic to that sort of thing.
A symposium is an extended session, 90 minutes for just three presenters and a discussant. (Compare to paper sessions like the one I was in last year, in which each person gets just 15 minutes to present.) The presentations are supposed to relate to each other, providing multiple perspectives on an issue. It's a format with a lot of possibilities, and of course I was flattered that he suggested it.
Well, the SBM submission deadline is fast approaching, so I got a steely grip on my usual diffidence and wrote to him to ask if he was still interested. And he is. And he thinks that I should be the one to chair the symposium. Yikes! I've never done this before, and I was kind of hoping that he'd take the reins. But I wrote to someone else who's done a lot of research on this topic, and she said she'd be happy to join the symposium. Now we just need a discussant - someone to summarize, contextualize, and problematize our presentations. I'm hoping that one of them can come up with a good person to ask, since they're both more connected than I am.
And I need to write a symposium overview, which means that I need to figure out what a symposium overview is supposed to say.
And I need to write my own abstract for my part of the presentation. For which I first need to analyze my data. All by Thursday at midnight.
No worries, right?
Incidentally, if anyone's curious, SBM put my slides for the presentation I gave in Montreal up on the web for all to see. (With my permission, of course.) It's here, but be warned that it's a PDF of a Powerpoint presentation. In case you're allergic to that sort of thing.
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Date: 2009-09-15 03:24 am (UTC)Tomorrow G has surgery, and so we'll be at the hospital until likely midday to early afternoon Wednesday, but rumor has it I'll be able to snag some wireless. If all else fails, I can read email from my phone.