Invited Session Proposals

Session organizers! Thank you for proposing Invited Paper Sessions. Please submit your session proposals using the Invited Session Proposal Submission Form.

Invited sessions last 90 minutes. Most of them will likely have three presentations, 30 minutes each, including questions. You can plan for 25-minute talks + 5 minutes for questions and answers. However, you can be creative within the 90-minute frame and plan for 4 speakers, 22.5 minutes each, including questions (say, 18 min for the talk + 4.5 min for Q&A), or three speakers and a discussant, or a panel discussion, etc.
 
The Invited Session Proposal Submission Form will ask you for your contact information, the session title, speakers’ names and affiliations, and the titles and abstracts of their talks. These may be tentative titles and tentative abstracts, assuming that the speakers stay within the chosen topic. Do not worry if you don’t have abstracts at this time. Your speakers will upload their final titles and abstracts at the time of their registration. The form also asks about your session chair. You can choose to chair your session or ask someone else to chair. If you do not have a chair at this time, the form allows you to postpone your choice.
Invited Session Proposal Form
 
Any questions? Innovative ideas? Unusual requests or setups? Please feel free to share with the IWSM-2026 Organizing Committee:

•  Michael Baron
  American University 
• Yaakov Malinovsky 
  University of Maryland, Baltimore County