Please call the AAR at 1-404-727-3049.

You can confirm the AAR's hours of operation under "Office Hours" on the Contact Us page.

Because Annual Meeting registration is handled by a third party (Experient), the registration list must be compared with the records in our database.

If your registration status is not properly displayed, the explanation may be as simple as us not having received an update since your registration was submitted. The data are usually downloaded weekly (typically on Monday), but staff illness or urgent issue may throw off this schedule.

Another explanation may arise in the correlation of the Experient data with the AAR membership records. To correlate the records, we compare in the following ways:

1. Looking for a match of last name, first name, and e-mail address.
2. Looking for a match by member ID.

If you are in this situation, then there is probably no cause for concern (assuming you have your registration confirmation, of course). But if you wish to confirm your registration, you can always contact Experient at aarreg@experient-inc.com or 1-866-229-2386.

If it is important to you that this information appear accurately on the AAR website, you can change the first name in your registration record through Experient or you can update your name with the AAR so that it matches the Experient records.

Annual Meeting registration is handled through Experient (formerly Conferon), so it is to them that you must go for a receipt. Experient can be reached by phone at 1-866-229-2386 (U.S. and Canada) or +1-301-694-5124 (elsewhere), or by e-mail at aarreg@experient-inc.com.

The AAR Annual Meeting program sessions begin on Saturday at 9:00 AM (9.00h) and end on Monday at 6:30 PM (18.30h). Pre-conference meetings hosted by the AAR and other organizations may begin as early as Thursday. Please check the Program Book for more information.

A list of all Annual Meeting program units, along with contact information for their chairs, can be found via the Program Unit Types page.

For in an overview of Program Unit Chair responsibilities, please read the Program Unit Chair Handbook, which can be reached via the Program Unit Chair Resources Menu.

For program unit chairs without institution support, the Executive Office is able to reimburse each program unit chair up to $200 with receipts for postage, copying, and/or phone calls to steering committee members or presenters. The Executive Director is also happy to write letters of commendation, tenure review letters, and letters of appreciation on behalf of our program unit chairs. The form can be found on the Request Appreciation Letter page.

Co-chairs simply share the work-load of the program unit. The Program Committee views co-chairs of any program unit as equals. Together, they are responsible for the work and success of the program unit.

Sections and groups are reviewed every five years. Seminars have a five year tenure, non-renewable, and consultations have a three year tenure, renewable upon request by the consultation and approval by the Program Committee. Review procedures are available in the Program Unit Chair Handbook, which can be reached via the Program Unit Chair Resources Menu.

This varies for the sections (5) and groups (1-3). Seminars may have one session, consultations may also have one session. Sections, groups, and consultations may each receive one additional session if they co-sponsor a session with another unit. Seminars are exempt from this bonus session.

Currently, members may participate twice on the program in regardless of the capacity, i.e. one may present two papers; present one paper and preside; present one paper and be on one panel; present one paper and be a respondent; be a presider and be a panelist; be a presider and be a respondent. One may not, however appear twice in a single session. One should maintain only one role per session.

Please see the descriptions of each on the Program Unit Types page and also in the PUC Handbook, which can be reached via the Program Unit Chair Resources Menu.

Please see the Program Committee page for more information about the Program Committee.

AAR's tight schedule allows for ideas that percolate to the surface at the Annual Meeting to get onto the program at next year's Annual meeting. To make this possible and still get next years Program Book into member's hands by the following September, we must follow a very tight schedule.

In our process, the Program Committee meets in mid-December to review the next year's Calls for Papers and to approve new and renewed program units for the following year.

The deadline for submitting proposals from the Call for Papers is set at March 1 of the meeting year because of the other deadlines which must be maintained to ensure that members receive the Program Planner in time to make decisions and plans for attending.

Any member may submit a proposal for a new program unit to the Program Committee at their December meeting. For more information, please see the page on Proposing a New Program Unit.

Sessions get on the program in four basic ways:

• They are wild card sessions, or sessions on a subject outside the program unit structure;
• They are mounted by one of the program units;
• They are organized by an AAR Committee; or
• They are special plenary sessions arranged by the president.

Meetings can also be scheduled to run concurrently with the Annual Meeting, though they aren't considered part of the "official" Annual Meeting. Please see Additional Meetings for more information.

Plenary speakers at the Annual Meeting are selected by the AAR president.

There are only ten session slots into which sessions can be scheduled during the Annual Meeting (3 sessions on Saturday, 4 on Sunday, and 3 on Monday).

We strive to minimize overlap between sessions with similar themes – but with over 100 program units, some with up to 7 sessions, scheduling conflicts are sometimes unavoidable.

The meeting planners assign rooms based on a variety of considerations – notably anticipated attendance and AV requests. Because of these concerns, they are not always able to schedule a program unit's sessions for adjacent time slots in the same meeting room.

Yes, depending on what country you're coming from, you may need to allow several months to get a visa for travel to the USA. Visit UnitedStatesVisas.gov for the latest information on visas and whether or not you're required to have one. Also http://www.state.gov/ is the general website for the US State Department.

More information is available on the Travel Information page.