The German Studies Association (GSA) will hold its Fortieth Annual Conference in San Diego, California, September 29-October 2, 2016.

The Program Committee cordially invites proposals on any aspect of German, Austrian, or Swiss studies, including (but not limited to) history, Germanistik, film, art history, political science, anthropology, musicology, religious studies, sociology, and cultural studies. Proposals for entire sessions and for interdisciplinary presentations are strongly encouraged. Individual paper proposals and offers to serve as session moderators or commentators are also welcome. The Call for Seminar Proposals is being distributed separately. Please check your e-mail and the GSA website (http://www.thegsa.org) for details; that deadline is November 23. Applications for participation in seminars will be opened on January 5.

Please see the GSA website for information about the submission process for ‘traditional’ papers, sessions, and roundtables, which opens on January 5, 2016. ALL proposals must be submitted online; paper forms are not used. The deadline for proposals is February 15, 2016.

Please note that presenters must be members of the German Studies Association. Information on membership is available on the GSA website (http://www.thegsa.org).

In order to avoid complications later, the Program Committee would like to reiterate two extremely important guidelines here (the full list of guidelines is available on the GSA website):

No individual at the GSA Conference may give more than one paper or participate in more than two separate capacities.

All rooms will be equipped with projectors. It is the responsibility of the submitter of proposed panels to ensure payment of the AV fee for use of this equipment. If the paper proposal requires high quality sound equipment, that justification must be made in detail at the time of submission.

For more information, visit the GSA website, where previous conference programs and a detailed list of submission guidelines may be found (http://www.thegsa.org), or contact members of the 2015 Program Committee:

Program Director:
Todd Heidt, theidt@knox.edu
German, Knox College

Pre-1800 (all fields):
Sara Poor, Princeton University, spoor@princeton.edu
Medieval Literature, German, Princeton University

19thc (all fields):
Catriona MacLeod, cmacleod@sas.upenn.edu
German, University of Pennsylvania

20th/21st C history:
Beth Griech-Polelle, griechba@plu.edu
History, Pacific Lutheran University

Annette Timm, atimm@ucalgary.ca
History, University of Calgary

20th/21st c Germanistik:
Christine Rinne Eaton, crinne@southalabama.edu
German, University of South Alabama

Valerie Weinstein, valerie.weinstein@uc.edu
German, University of Cincinnati

Contemporary Politics, Economics, and Society:
Jeffrey Anderson, jja5@georgetown.edu
Political Science, Georgetown University

Robert Mark Spaulding, spauldingr@uncw.edu
History, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Interdisiplinary/Diachronic:
Joanne Cho, choj@wpunj.edu
History, William Paterson University

April Eisman, eismana@iastate.edu
Art and Visual Culture, Iowa State University

Seminars:

Heikki Lempa, Chair, hlempa@moravian.edu
History, Moravian College

Darcy Buerkle, dbuerkle@smith.edu
History, Smith College

Carrie Smith-Prei, carrie.smith-prei@ualberta.ca
German, University of Alberta