Submit Your Proposals

Honoring the Multivocality of the Field

We are excited to partner with Oxford Abstracts, a streamlined platform to submit your conference proposals. In order to submit your work, you will need to make an account in Oxford Abstracts and we encourage you to use our suggested templates to prepare your submissions. Please review the below resources; if you require further clarification please email the National Office at nwsa@nwsa.org. 

How to Submit Tutorial

The Process

Our submission platform offers two options for submitting your work; we have one portal to submit your individual paper(s) and poster(s). This method is specific to folks submitting solo-authored work or co-authored work that one person will be presenting. Our Proposal Review Committee will review individual paper(s) and poster(s) submissions and will group accepted proposals into curated panels.

Individual Paper(s) & Poster(s) Submissions

We also invite sessions that are collaborative and engage multiple presenters. Our submission portal uses the term "Panel Submission" for the following sessions:

  • Authors Meets Critics Session
  • Constituency Group Sponsored Session
  • General Conference Session
  • Pre-Conference: Program & Administration Development
  • Pre-Conference: Women's Centers
  • Roundtable Session
  • Workshop Session

Panel Submissions

Resources

We know that navigating a new platform can be confusing and daunting. In an effort to provide as much support as we are able, the National Office worked to curate resources in navigating the process. 

For example, we encourage you to begin mapping out your submission content by utilizing the templates below. Please note these templates are not submission forms but are here to assist you in organizing your content before submitting. 

We also found this Oxford Abstracts Submission Support Article and Video Tutorial helpful in moving through the submission process:

Nominate or Apply for our 2024 Awards

Each year, NWSA in coordination with different NWSA caucuses and publications, offers multiple awards for people who are current members of NWSA. Awardees are announced in the Annual Conference program and are invited to participate in our award recognition event(s) hosted on-site during the conference. 

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Convening at the Huntington Place Convention Center

The 2024 Annual Conference will convene at the Huntington Place Convention Center in Detroit, Michigan USA; all sessions and conference events will be hosted on-site at Huntington Place (there will be no conference events on-site at the Detroit Marriott, which is 0.6 miles away and is accessible by connected monorail). We’re excited to share more details as we confirm conference programming!

Huntington Place

Have You Explored the 2024 Strategic Plan?

“Reconnect, Repair, Restore: A More Thoughtful, Transparent, and Trustworthy NWSA” is a two-year strategic plan developed by President Heidi R. Lewis in consultation with the Governing Council and the Interim Executive Director.

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