Fellow MAC Division Members, This is just a final reminder about our AEJMC Midwinter Conference, which will take place at The University of Oklahoma March -2-3, 2012. The deadline for 600 to 800-word abstracts to be submitted is THIS Friday, December 2, 2011 by noon. Please consider sharing some of your research-in-progress and encourage graduate students who are doing seminar papers that relate to diversity to submit an abstract of their work. We are also looking for panels that might examine research, teaching or PF&R (Professional Freedom and Responsibility) issues related to the scope of our division. Remember the University of Oklahoma is also home to the Native American Journalists Association and one of our former MAC Division Heads Dr. Meta Carstarphen, who serves as director of graduate studies. The Uniform Call for Papers is attached. Besides the information in the Uniform Call for Papers, we usually remind prospective authors that for the Minorities and Communication, “Minorities” traditionally has been defined to include Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Research on how these groups present images, news and information about themselves as well as research examining how issues related to race and diversity are featured in the media fall in this division’s area of interest. Also since the Gay Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Interest Group is not participating in this conference, we will also consider abstracts that would normally be submitted to that unit at the August conference. All MAC abstracts should be e-mailed to [log in to unmask] I will send each submitting author an acknowledgement e-mail upon receiving an abstract. Thank you for helping to spread the word about this important activity for our MAC Division. -- George L. Daniels, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Journalism The University of Alabama Box 870172 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0172 -- Petra Guerra, PhD Head, Minorities and Communication-AEJMC Associate Director, Chican@ Latin@ Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison 313 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Dr. Madison WI 53704 608-263-8395 [log in to unmask] www.chicla.wisc.edu(http://www.chicla.wisc.edu)