PAMLA’s Board wishes to emphasize our commitment to academic freedom, civil discourse, and free speech in our association and at our annual PAMLA conference. Please see our PAMLA Code of Conduct and PAMLA Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity for more information. Questions concerning PAMLA policies may be directed to Craig Svonkin, PAMLA Executive Director (director@pamla.org).
As you prepare for the PAMLA 2025 conference in San Francisco, please keep the following guidelines in mind:
- Presiding Officers or Chairs may not propose papers to or invite themselves to their own sessions.
- We do not accept scheduling requests, except for religious reasons (please send religious scheduling requests to PAMLA Executive Director Craig Svonkin by August 10 at the latest). This means that panels might be scheduled for any time on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or on Sunday until approximately 3 pm.
- PAMLA 2025 will be held entirely in-person. Chairs, Presiding Officers, and panelists must physically attend the conference. Zoom, remote, or papers read in absentia are not allowed. Should you not be able to attend, please let your presiding officer/chair and Executive Director Craig Svonkin know right away.
- Conference participants may typically present twice, at most, at the conference. They may present once in a traditional panel and once in a roundtable or creative format session.
- Participants may not present the same paper, or a largely similar paper, at two different panel sessions. This policy applies as well for participants presenting at one panel and on one roundtable.
- Participants should not give a paper already presented at another conference or a previous PAMLA conference.
- One may only chair two sessions total, or present one traditional paper and chair one session. Presiding Officers with more than one session who are also presenting will work with Craig Svonkin to find chairs for their additional sessions.
- PAMLA does not publish conference proceedings. We do, however, encourage conference presenters to revise their presentations so as to submit them for consideration by PAMLA’s scholarly, peer-reviewed journal, Pacific Coast Philology.
- While PAMLA does provide some limited scholarships that graduate students, international scholars, and scholars of German literature may apply for, it is important to note that PAMLA, given its lack of any institutional support, lacks the funds necessary to support academic hotel and travel expenses.
- You may not present generative AI output or work by another author (human or otherwise) as your own scholarly work. Nor may you use AI output for the abstracts or descriptions of your work, or as your own work at the conference.
- PAMLA’s Board wishes to restate and re-emphasize our commitment to academic freedom, civil discourse, and free speech in our association and at our annual PAMLA conference. Please see our PAMLA Code of Conduct and PAMLA Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity for more information.
Payment Deadlines
- PAMLA Membership Payment Deadline for Conference Participants: June 25 (presiding officers must pay earlier)
- Regular Conference Registration: May 29 – July 20
- Conference Registration with Minor Late Fee Added: July 21 – September 15
Please Note: Conference participants who have not paid membership fees by July 25 and conference fees by September 15 at the latest may be removed from the conference program.
Thank you for helping us make PAMLA 2025 a respectful, dynamic, and well-organized conference experience for all participants. We look forward to seeing you all in San Francisco for an event that celebrates a collaborative space for original scholarship, polite dialogue and free discourse. For more questions, head on over to our FAQ page, or reach out to director@pamla.org.