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Pre-Arranged Session Example – Panel
A “panel” is a session with one announced theme and a list of participants who address that theme but do not present separate formal papers. Panel proposals are generally submitted as pre-arranged session proposals.
Roman Catholic Studies Group
Rodger Payne, Louisiana State University, Presiding
Theme: Catholicism and civil Rights in the Twentieth-Century South
Panelists:
Gregory Nelson Hite, University of Virginia
Charles R. Gallagher, Milwaukee, MI
Andrew S. Moore, Middle Tennessee State University
Justin Poche, University of Notre Dame
Responding:
Peter A. Huff, Centenary College of Lousiana