Call for Session and Paper Proposals: LERA 74th Annual Meeting
Posted: June 1, 2021
LERA Call for Session and Paper Proposals
LERA 74th Annual Meeting, June 2 – 5, 2022 — Virtual (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday) Committee Meetings will take place on Wednesday, June 1, 2022.
Elevating Voice and New Voices in the Workplace and Beyond
LERA 74th Annual Meeting Call for Proposals Flyer Download | Deadline for session proposals is Nov. 15, 2021. Paul F. Clark, LERA President Elect and Program Chair*** BREAKING NEWS: Because of COVID-19 and the Delta variant, the LERA Executive Board has made the difficult decision to conduct our 2022 meeting virtually. Uncertainties about the spread of the variant even among the vaccinated, challenges surrounding social distancing, and risks of discretionary air travel make continuing with a place-based meeting impossible. *** One of the universal workplace challenges, from the beginning of employment relationships to now, is the desire of employees to have some voice in their work. Over the centuries, workers have slowly gained greater voice, but the progress made has been insufficient and has differed greatly for different groups of workers. The theme of the LERA 74th Annual Meeting both recognizes the primary importance of employee voice in the workplace and the need to extend that same voice to all those workers who have not had equal opportunities to be heard in the past. Only when voice is elevated and extended to all, can our workplaces, institutions, and society fully flourish.
The Co-chairs and Program Committee welcome session proposals from the best and brightest. At least one participant in a session must be a LERA member, and one author on each paper must be a LERA member.
The LERA Program Committee welcomes proposals for sessions and individual papers addressing the annual meeting’s theme. We seek contributions from a broad range of perspectives (incl. domestic and global, academic and practitioner -- worker, union, management and neutral) and disciplines (incl. but not limited to history, political science, labor and employment law, economics, sociology, industrial relations, human resource studies). We encourage proposals incorporating research, practice and policy; we also encourage a balance of gender, racial, and generational diversity among the proposed participants. LERA’s mission and the wide range of expertise of LERA’s community make it an ideal forum for exploring and debating competing and compelling ideas about a way forward. At this critical moment, dynamism and innovation in thought and action are badly needed. Additionally, we encourage submissions from different disciplines, including, but not limited to:
Presentations may take a variety of forms: Symposia, panels, workshops, posters, skill-building, debates, roundtable discussions, etc. The number of tracks and lengths of sessions depends on the quantity and quality of proposals. To encourage thought diversity, participants may only present on the program once per role. Deadline: November 15, 2021.
Other paper competitions
Organizers are required to provide a session abstract and description, identify participants (confirmed or invited) and brief contact information at the time of submission for all session participants. If you have questions about this Call for Proposals, contact: [email protected].
LERA's Annual Meeting program branched into new formats over the past several years. The long-appreciated format of research papers and discussants lay the foundation to new ways of organizing sessions. New formats include:
The over-arching goal for the annual meeting program: Bring the labor and employment relations experts from all industries and perspectives and discuss how research-based practices improve work environments for everyone.
Diversity and Inclusion
LERA seeks to provide a professional environment that is diverse and inclusive of all perspectives in the workplace. To that end, we are asking that you include race and gender for your session participants, and comment more broadly on if/how your session will increase diversity on the program. While we have no rules regarding the gender and ethnicity makeup of a single session, LERA will use this information to gauge our progress from year to year in creating a more inclusive overall program. And to offset your workload, we have removed department and all address fields for every session participant except for you, the organizer. We hope this makes the form easier to complete! Are you looking to diversify the participants you have listed in your session proposal? LERA is gathering perspective, areas of expertise, race and gender information from our members and meeting participants to try to put this at your fingertips in our member directory. While that information is building, you may wish to refer to these resources below in the meantime, which might be of assistance.
We also have some limited funding to support meeting registration fees for under-represented minorities who are speaking on the program and could not otherwise afford to participate at the LERA Annual Meeting, so please do let us know if you feel someone on your session proposals qualifies for and needs assistance. Expectations
Before submitting your proposal, consider these points:
* More complete details for individual paper competitions such as LERA Competitive Papers, AILR/LERA Best Papers can be found at the LERA Deadlines page here: http://lera.memberclicks.net/deadlines. |
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