AIS
Conference 2007
Hosted by Arizona State
University
e-mail: AIS2007@asu.edu
Report to the AIS Board
website: http://uc.asu.edu/ais2007
March
1, 2007
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Dates: Thursday,
September 27 – Sunday, September 30, 2007
Theme:
“Interdisciplinarity
at the Border: Creating, Thinking and Living New Knowledge”
Location: Embassy
Suites Hotel, Tempe, Arizona
http://www.embassysuitestempe.com
Room
Rate: $119 plus tax, single or double; includes breakfast
Speakers: Odds
Bodkin, Story Teller
Friday Evening Performance
Dr.
Sarah Amira de la Garza
Acting Director, North American Center for Transborder
Studies
Arizona State University
Plenary Session: Saturday afternoon
Workshop: Heard Museum
Thursday, September 27, 9:00 – 12:30
Cost: $20 per person (lunch/drinks/snacks at café
not included)
Limit: 28 people
Outings: Taliesin
West
Guided two-hour tour: Thursday evening, September
27
$40 (no meal included)
Limit: 25 people
http://www.franklloydwright.org/
Desert Botanical Garden
Saturday
Evening (9/29): Guided Tour, Cooking Demo & Dinner
Cost:
$60
Performance of “Jersey Boys”
Saturday
Evening (9/29): Tony Award winning musical performed in a theatre designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright on the ASU campus
Cost: TBD (dinner on your own at a nearby
restaurant)
TIME LINE
March
19: Proposal
Submission Deadline
April
27: Program
Committee meets with conference liaison Roz Schindler
May
1: Online
Registration available
May
15: Presenters
Notified
Sept.
1: Early
registration deadline
Sept.
1: Hotel
registration deadline (for guaranteed group rate)
Sept.
26: AIS
Board Meeting
Sept.
27: Conference
begins
AIS BOARD MEETING
Boardroom
Reserved: Wednesday, September 26: 12:00 – 9:00 PM
Dinner
plans and transportation will be arranged.
Boardroom
Reserved: Thursday, September 27: 8:00 – 1:00 PM
Lunch
is available at Garcia’s, the hotel’s restaurant.
Please let me know if
you have special requests for sessions during the conference (breakfast
circles, SAGE sessions etc.).
Tentative Schedule
Thursday,
September 27
8:00
– 1:00 AIS
Board Meeting
9:00
– 12:30 Workshop
and lunch at Heard Museum
1:30
– 5:00 Concurrent
Sessions (with break midway)
5:30 Reception
6:30 Dinner
Circles (at local restaurants)
Optional
Tour of Taliesin West
Friday,
September 28
7:00
– 9:00 Breakfast
9:00
– 11:45 Concurrent
Sessions (with break midway)
12:00
– 1:30 Lunch
1:45
– 5:00 Concurrent
Sessions (with break midway)
5:30 Reception
6:00 Banquet
(at hotel)
7:30 Performance:
Odds Bodkin
Saturday,
September 29
7:00
– 9:00 Breakfast
9:00
– 10:30 Concurrent
Sessions
11:00
– 12:00 Keynote
Speaker: Dr.
Sarah Amira de la Garza
12:00
– 1:30 Lunch
1:45
– 5:00 Concurrent
Sessions (with break midway)
5:30 Reception
6:30 Saturday
evening options:
Tour
and dinner at Desert Botanical Garden
Dinner
and Performing Arts (Jersey Boys at ASU)
Sunday,
September 30
7:00
– 9:00 Breakfast
9:00
– 10:15 Concurrent
sessions
10:15
– 10:30 Break
10:30
– 11:45 Wrap-up
session
AIS CONFERENCE …
September 27 – 30, 2007 … DRAFT BUDGET
|
Expenses |
|
Estimated Cost |
|
Food |
|
|
|
Breaks |
$41.63/pp |
$6452 |
|
Lunches |
$57.52/pp |
$8943 |
|
Friday Banquet |
$39.64/pp |
$5985 |
|
Receptions |
|
$3000 |
|
FOOD TOTAL |
|
$24,380 |
|
|
|
|
|
Online Registration
Fees |
$8/pp + 3.5% on cc |
$3,450 |
|
|
|
|
|
Speakers (2) |
$1,250 honoraria/fees; $500, travel; $70 meals |
$1,820 |
|
|
|
|
|
Musicians |
|
$500 |
|
|
|
|
|
Printing |
|
|
|
Program |
|
$3,000 |
|
Other |
|
$250 |
|
|
|
|
|
Student Scholarships |
20 @ 100 |
$2,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
Registration Items (bag, name tag etc.) |
|
$1,750 |
|
|
|
|
|
AIS Liaison Visit |
|
$750 |
|
|
|
|
|
A/V Equipment |
|
$500 |
|
|
|
|
|
Miscellaneous |
|
$1,500 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
SUBTOTAL |
$39,900 |
|
Subvention |
- $5000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$34,900 |
Tentative
Registration Fees
EARLY
(Before or on 9/1): AIS
Member $250 Non
Member $300
REGULAR
(After 9/1): AIS
Member $275 Non
Member $325
Registration
Income
150 attendees paying by early registration deadline = $37,500