[accessibleimage] International Council on English Braille Call for Papers

Forwarding

International Council on English Braille
General Assembly : Circular 1
September 2007
 
The International Council on English Braille (ICEB) announces that it
will hold its Fourth General Assembly from Sunday 6 April 2008 to
Thursday 10 April 2008 in Melbourne, Australia.
 
Call for Papers
 
1.   A series of papers agreed by ICEB will be presented at the 2008
General Assembly and these will all be published in the Conference
proceedings.  
 
2.  The major topic of the papers should be related to Unified English
Braille (UEB) or braille in general. Some suggestions are:

 UEB research and results of UEB implementation
 research, education and teaching braille and technical codes to
children
 technological developments in braille production
 tactile graphics
   
3.   All papers intended for presentation at the 2008 Conference must be
in the hands of Eileen Curran by 15 November 2007.  
 
Forward to:
Eileen Curran
National Braille Press
88 St. Stephen Street
Boston, MA
USA
Telephone: Bus: 617-266-6160 x17
Fax: 617-437-0456
E-mail: ecurran@xxxxxxx
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4.  Contact details including name, address, telephone and e-mail
address are to be included with each paper submitted.

5.   All conference papers received by the above date will be reviewed
by members of the Conference Papers Subcommittee to establish their
suitability for the conference
and to see whether any alterations need to be made, having regard to
what other papers are being submitted, and to other considerations.  All
reports from reviewers must be in the hands of the Chair of the
Conference Papers Subcommittee by 15 December 2007.  
 
6.   All papers accepted for presentation at the General Assembly and
therefore for inclusion in the conference proceedings will be sent to
members of the Executive Committee by 1 February 2008 to circulate to
all delegates in their respective countries. This deadline is intended
to give sufficient time for members of national delegations to discuss
the papers with other relevant people in their countries and to take up
positions which have the support of their respective national
organisations.
 
7.   Papers intended for the 2008 conference are to be submitted as
electronic files either as Word or as .BRF files.  
 
8.   Papers intended for the conference should not exceed 6,000 words,
exclusive of footnotes and appendices.  The paper must be accompanied by
an abstract not exceeding 250 words (which of course does not count
towards the total number of words in the paper).
 
9.   A single conference paper may be written by two or more co-authors,
or by an individual.  Authors or co-authors need not be delegates to the
conference, but should submit
 
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their papers for review in the same way as that described above.
 
10.   Presenters:  At the conference itself papers will not be read out
in full, as it will be assumed that all delegates will have had an
opportunity to digest their contents.  Instead, the author or co-authors
shall present a summary of their paper, highlighting any points which he
or she considers of
special importance, and this summary shall not exceed 15 minutes in
length. The presenter will be responsible for making the summary at the
time of Conference, and will not be required to submit a written version
of it beforehand.  The presenter need not be an approved delegate to the
Conference or a representative of an organisation approved by ICEB, but
he or she need not be the author or co-author of the paper either.  The
person submitting the paper in writing to the Chair of the Conference
Papers Subcommittee must at the same time indicate who is going to be
its presenter.
 
11.   In addition to the fifteen minutes allocated for the presentation
of each paper, provision will be made for individual papers or groups of
papers to be followed by about thirty minutes of discussion time.  More
precise details about this will be available when the conference agenda
and timetable have been drawn up.
 
12.  Reviewers:  Each paper intended for conference will be sent in the
first instance to two reviewers, as already indicated, who must report
back promptly to the Chair of the Conference Papers Subcommittee.  The
two reviewers may agree either to accept or reject a paper, in which
case their decision will be final.  If the reviewers are divided on the
question of whether a paper should be accepted, the Chair of the
Conference Papers subcommittee may either act as the third reviewer to
break the tie or may delegate the task
 
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to one or more other reviewers. Alternatively, the original reviewers
may take the view that a paper should be accepted provided that
alterations are made to it.  In such cases reviewers should be as clear
and specific as possible with regard to the alterations they want made,
and should give reasons for their decision.  Because of the tightness of
the timetable, it will normally be possible for only quite minor editing
to be done, if the paper is to be sent out in its
final form to delegates before the conference.  However, the
Chair of the Conference Papers Subcommittee may in exceptional
circumstances rule that changes should be made which can only appear in
the published conference proceedings and that delegates will have to be
supplied with an unamended version of the paper.  All authors of papers
will be urged to complete any alterations requested as quickly as
possible, and it must be stressed that members of ICEB and other
personnel associated with the planning and running of the conference
cannot accept responsibility for the editing to incorporate alterations.
 
13.  It will not be possible to provide an opportunity for "reacting
papers" for inclusion in the conference proceedings.  However, delegates
or other readers of papers prior to the conference may take upon
themselves the responsibility of circulating reactions to or comments on
one or more of the conference papers which they have read, in the belief
that this will help conference delegates to be clear in their minds
about the issues involved, or  to reach decisions.  Such reactions or
comments will not form part of the conference proceedings, and those
involved in the planning or running of the conference cannot undertake
to assist in their circulation.

14.  Having regard to the expense that will be incurred in producing the
conference proceedings, and also to the desirability of conference
papers being read by as wide an

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audience as possible, authors of conference papers are urged:
 
          - to be clear, concise and orderly in their presentation of
material;
          - to give adequate references to research work and other
literature which they cite;
          - to be as objective as possible even where they have a
specific and controversial viewpoint to present;
          - to define and employ with precision any technical terms they
may use;
          - to divide their papers into numbered sections and/or
paragraphs for ease of reference;
          - to avoid diffuseness and digressiveness;
          - and to refrain from personal attacks.

Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx

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