The International Association of Squirrel Research invites submissions to the 2005 Annual Convention. The convention will open with a keynote address entitled

Squirrel Communication vs. Squirrel Studies: Reconciling the paradigms

The following panels have been scheduled for the convention:

o Achieving the impossible: Emic studies in squirrel communication
o I Am More Than a Rat with a Tail: Feminist approaches to squirrel research
o Squirrel Communication Research: A discipline or a field? (roundtable discussion)
o E. T. Hall revisited: Private and public space for adolescent squirrels
o Chasing your own tail: (Re)claiming the meaning of a cultural practice
o Towards a reliable measurement of squirrel communication competence
o Working in the health field: An ethnography of squirrels of Goddard Center area
o Breaking the lines: A postcolonial analysis of cable nibbling (Top Paper)
o Where’s the acorn? Mnemonic strategies of buried food retrieval
o Leave My Tail Alone: Cross-gender conflict and quasi-courtship behavior in adult squirrels
o Tail wagging as a symbolic act: A semiotic investigation
o They Are So Cute: The influence of cultural beauty stereotypes on self-perceptions of young squirrels
o The relationship between acorn eating speed and perceived self-efficacy: A meta analysis
o Nuts and bolts: Looting pecans from the storage closet in mechanical engineering department
o Fighting the rodent stigma: Portrayal of squirrels in contemporary media
o The dark side of squirrel haptics: Biting as a response to nonverbal expectancy violations
o Cars Are Faster Than You Are: Educating young squirrels about safe road crossing practices
o Save our squirrels: The high cost of squirrel counterpublics exercising revolutionary road protests (submitted by LF)

Submit at your own risk
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