Poster Presentations

The 2009 STLHE Conference warmly invites proposals for innovative and exciting poster presentations. Remember, the Poster Fair and Reception, planned for Friday, June 19, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., will give everyone attending the conference the opportunity to meet you and see your poster. Presentations by students are particularly encouraged. Here's the basic information you need to plan your submission.

  • Display tables will be round and 6 feet in diameter.  If different arrangements are required, we will do our best to accommodate.  Please advise us as soon as possible.
  • Tables will generally be shared by two presenters, back to back.
  • We will provide 36" x 48" presentation boards, which fold into 3 equal panel sections these can be seen here. 
  • For guidance in preparing your poster, visit Creating Effective Poster Presentations
  • Be innovative.  Look for a different approaches to the poster presentation while staying within the spirit of the form.  Use text sparingly and consider more graphic and visual forms of communication.  If you wish to provide a more detailed text, consider a handout, electronic mailing list, or other forms of extension.
  • Be interactive.  Explore ways beyond the traditional ‘conversation at the table’ to involve participants in active learning and promote interaction with your poster.  Identify learning outcomes and plan interactions that will foster the achievement of those outcomes.  Some possibilities from recent conferences include interactive “draw-on” posters, encouraging additions by sticky-note, including puzzles or participant challenges to your poster.
  • For those of you coming from outside of North America, remember that we operate on a 60 cycle, 110 volt electrical system. Please ensure that any electrical equipment you bring can operate on that standard, or bring adaptors.  Also, we use the NTSC television standard, so ensure that any video/DVD materials you bring can function on that standard.  We strongly suggest you send video and DVD materials to our Poster Session Chair, Steve Turner, at least three weeks in advance of the conference so that we can check playback.  Any materials you send will be treated respectfully and confidentially.  Please note that unless confirmed in advance we cannot guarantee electrical access at the display site, and that any technology you wish to use is your responsibility.  We ask you to respect the rights of other presenters and consider volume and other issues that might make the environment less conductive to presentation, interaction, and learning.

All posters presented at the conference will be considered for the STLHE Poster Competition and will be eligible to receive the Pat Rogers Trophy or other awards.  A special award will be presented to the best student poster presentation. Good luck to all of you!

Steve Turner, Chair of the Poster Session Committee, will be happy to assist you with any questions or concerns you may have.  His contact information follows:

Steve Turner
Department of History
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, N.B.  E3B 5A3 CANADA
506-458-7433 (office) / 506-453-5068 (fax)
turner@unb.ca