2017 International Meeting Berlin, Germany Meeting Begins: 8/7/2017 Meeting Ends: 8/11/2017 Call for Papers Opens: 11/9/2016 Call for Papers Closes: 2/21/2017

Participation Details

Participation Limits

• A person is normally limited to participate in no more than two regular program sessions as a presenter, panelist, or respondent.
• SBL committee and business sessions do not count toward this total.

Proposals

• Proposals require presentation title and an abstract of approximately 300 words—longer abstracts will be shortened.
• Papers are most often allotted 20-25 minutes in a session, with 5-10 minutes for discussion.
• If you have a question about a particular program unit, email the chair listed in the Call for Papers for that unit.
• Proposals must be submitted through the online system.
• All presentations must be new presentations of the scholar's own original work. In absentia presentations are not typically accepted.
• Papers cannot be repeated in other sessions or at other SBL meetings.

Registration and Membership Requirements

Program Participation

• Membership is required in either SBL or EABS from the time of proposal through the meeting.
• Membership status will be checked by May 1 and non-current members will be removed from the program at that time.

Registration for Meeting

• All participants and attendees are required to register through SBL.
• Registration rates are the same for members of EABS and SBL.
• All meeting participants must be registered by May 1. Registration will be checked and those not registered will be removed from the program.

Waivers of Registration and/or Membership Requirements

• The consideration for waiver is not simply whether one is or is not a "biblical scholar," but whether one works regularly with the literatures, histories, and cultures (material and social) that interface "Bible," broadly construed.
• Membership in other related organizations (e.g., AAR, ASOR) does not qualify one for a waiver.
• Waivers are granted on a one-time basis only. If a waiver recipient wishes to participate on the program a second time in subsequent years, he or she must join the SBL.
• Waivers will not be granted to expired SBL members.
• A waiver for the International Meeting includes:
  • Waiver of membership requirement;
  • Complimentary meeting registration;
• The waivers program is administered by the Congresses staff in consultation with the Executive Director and the International Meeting Program Committee.
• Waivers register using a waiver registration form, which is usually sent to all waiver recipients by May 15.