Student Lightning Round

This category of presentation is only open to CBAA student members. Participants will each give a 6-minute slide presentation about their book art-related work. Participants in the student lightning round must be enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate student at the time of the conference. Submissions MUST include a 250-word abstract, a 50-word synopsis. A 50-word bio and a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation. Slides will run automatically while the presentation is being given. The Submission deadline for the Student Lightning Round is Tuesday, April 1, 11:00 p.m. CST. Please see the submission application for more information.

Submission Guidelines:

Please note that you must be a CBAA student member to make a submission through the Submittable platform and that the only way to submit proposals is through this online submission manager.

Submittable Link HERE.

Submission Notes:

Only CBAA student members are eligible to make submissions to the student lightning round. To become a new member or to renew your membership, please visit https://www.collegebookart.org/page-363225
In an effort to promote original scholarship in the field of academic book art, abstracts submitted to CBAA should not be concurrently submitted for consideration to another conference.
Please limit abstracts to no more than 250 words; longer abstracts will not be considered.
Bios, synopses and abstracts must be submitted as Word docs.
This is a blind jurying process; please do not include your name or the names of any other potential participants on any of the uploaded files. Instead, use the title of your talk as your file name. You should enter a short bio in the biography section of the submission form.

Submission Requirements:

You will be asked to submit the following information when prompted by the online submission manager for each entry separately:

Member’s address
Member’s phone number
Institution, city and state of institution
50-word bio (this can include the member’s name and will be included in the printed program if accepted)
Title of proposal
50-word synopsis (to be printed in the conference program if accepted)
250-word abstract (no names)
10-slide presentation (no names) in PowerPoint

Submission Deadlines

Submissions MUST be received no later than Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at 11:00 p.m. CST.
Submissions received after this date will not be considered for acceptance.
April 15, 2025: Notification of acceptance

Contact:

For questions about the submission process in any category please email:
Julie Chen
CBAA Vice President for Programming
programmingvp@collegebookart.org