Call for Student Lightning Round Submissions 

CBAA National Conference, June 5-7, 2025

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Madison, Wisconsin

Embracing the Tangible: Fostering Interdisciplinary Connections in Book Art

In a digital age where screens dominate our interactions, the material book stands as a testament to the enduring power of the tangible. This conference theme invites participants to explore the palpable allure of book art and its capacity to bridge diverse disciplines. We invite proposals for papers, pre-formed panels, round table discussions, and demonstrations that examine book art through an interdisciplinary lens highlighting connections and collaborations between book art and disciplines ranging from literature, music, and visual arts to science and technology and beyond. In addition, the conference will include a juried CBAA members exhibition, members showcase, and a vendor fair.

Student Lightning Round: This category of presentation is only open to CBAA student members. Participants will each give a 5- minute slide presentation about their book art-related. Participants in the student lightning round must be enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate student at the time of the conference. Submissions MUST include a 250 word abstract and a 10-slide powerpoint presentation. Slides will run automatically while the presentation is being given. The Submission deadline for the Student Lightning Round is April 1st to give students additional time to create their slide presentations. Please see the submission application for more information. 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Please note that you must be a CBAA member in order to make a submission through the Submittable platform. and that the only way to submit proposals is through this online submission manager. All categories are open to all CBAA members except for the student lightning round which is only open to undergraduate and graduate students.

SUBMISSION NOTES:
  1. Only CBAA members (individual, student, and institutional members) are eligible to make submissions. To become a new member, or to renew your membership, please visit https://www.collegebookart.org/page-363225
  2. In an effort to promote original scholarship in the field of academic book art, abstracts submitted to CBAA should not be concurrently submitted for consideration to another conference.
  3. Please limit abstracts to no more than 250 words; longer abstracts will not be considered.
  4. Bios, synopses and abstracts must be submitted as Word docs.
  5. This is a blind jurying process; please do not include your name or the names of any other potential participants on any of the uploaded files. Instead, use the title of your talk as your file name. You should enter a short bio in the biography section of the submission form.

6. A CBAA member may make more than one submission but only one submission will be accepted per member.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: You will be asked to submit the following information when prompted by the online submission manager for each entry separately:

  Member’s address
  Member’s phone number
  Job title, institution, city and state of institution
  50-word bio (this can include the member’s name and will be included in the printed program if accepted)
  Title of proposal
  50-word synopsis (to be printed in the conference program if accepted)
  250-word abstract (no names)

   10-slide presentation (no names) in Powerpoint

SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
Abstracts MUST be received no later than December 1st, 2024. Submissions received after this date will not be considered for acceptance.

December 1st, 2024: Deadline for submission of proposals

January 15, 2025: Notification of acceptance

CONTACT:

For questions about the submission process in any category please email:

Julie Chen

CBAA Vice President for Programming

programmingvp@collegebookart.org