Call for Sessions and Papers for the 2018 AEA Meeting. The deadline for submissions to be considered for the January 2018 AEA Meeting program in Philadelphia is April 1, 2017 for individual papers and April 15, 2017 for complete sessions. The submission portal will open on March 1, 2017 at https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/submissions.

Enhanced Poster Presentations at the 2018 Philadelphia meetings. The AEA is planning an enhanced poster session in which accepted posters will remain up during the entire conference. Poster sessions will be selected from individual papers submitted through the portal that have agreed to be considered for a poster session. Posters should be self-explanatory so they can be read without the author present. The AEA anticipates being able to offer some help in arranging the printing of posters.

Econ-Harmony helps prospective individual paper submitters for the AEA Annual Meetings find others with similar interests who might join them to form a complete session submission, and provides an opportunity to volunteer as a session chair. Twenty-eight percent of submitted complete sessions and 16% of submitted individual papers appeared on the 2017 AEA Annual Meeting Program. Econ-Harmony is now availables at https://www.aeaweb.org/econ-harmony/.

Over 13,000 people registered for the annual ASSA meeting this year in Chicago. Get an inside look at some of the 2017 sessions, attendees, content and lively discussions on the AEA website:

Webcasts of selected ASSA 2017 sessions including

• AEA Presidential Address – "Narrative Economics" (Robert J. Shiller)
• AEA Awards Ceremony (Alvin E. Roth)
• Richard T. Ely Lecture "The Economist as Plumber: Large Scale Experiments to Inform the Details of Policy Making" (Esther Duflo)
• Nobel Laureate Luncheon Honoring Angus Deaton from Princeton University (Alvin E. Roth, James Heckman, David Laibson and Christina Paxson)
• AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon – "Will the Market Fix the Market?"  (Eric Budish)
• Brexit: Six Months Later (Panel Discussion) – (Olivier Blanchard presiding)
• Nobels on Where is the World Economy Headed? – (Dominick Salvatore presiding)
• Economists as Engineers (Panel Discussion) – (Alvin E. Roth presiding)
• Economic Issues Facing the New President (Panel Discussion) (Greg Mankiw presiding)
• Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Curse of the Top Five (Panel Discussion) (James J. Heckman presiding)
• Gender Agenda (Muriel Niederle presiding)

Go to https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/webcasts/2017. Webcasts from 2009 through 2017 are available to the public compliments of the AEA. Webcasts for the Continuing Education Programs, including 2017, are also available at https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/cont-ed.

New! AEA Poster Videos feature AEA interviews with select 2017 poster presenters who discuss their research and the broader implications of their work. Over 20 video highlights are available in the 2017 series at https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/videos.

Go to the ASSA Photo Gallery at https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2017-photos for some interesting views of the meeting and the 2017 Program at https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2017/ includes session summaries and downloads.

Nominations for American Economics Journal Best Article Prizes. Suggestions for nominations for "Best Article" prizes for each of the American Economic Journals are solicited. Awards will be announced in April 2017, selected from articles published in the 2014-2016 volumes of each AEJ. Suggest papers at https://www.aeaweb.org/aej/bestpapernominations.php by March 6, 2017.

Committee on Economic Statistics (AEAStat) will sponsor three sessions on economic measurement at the January 2018 ASSA Meetings in Chicago. The Committee solicits both individual papers and proposals for sessions of three or four papers, with preference given to session proposals. The Committee is interested in receiving submissions in any area of economic data and statistics. One of the three sessions organized by the Committee will be published in the AEA Papers and Proceedings. For more information or a list of papers selected for past AEAStat sponsored sessions go to https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/economic-statistics/annual-meeting. Abstracts are due by April 1, 2017 to John Haltiwanger, Chair, Committee on Economic Statistics, aea_stat@aeaweb.org. Submissions should be PDF files and include name, institutional affiliation, and email address of all participants.

The AEA Committee on Economic Education will sponsor a poster session at the 2018 ASSA Meetings in Philadelphia devoted to active learning strategies across the economics curriculum. Instead of papers, session presenters will prepare large visual poster summaries of their work, which will be mounted in an exhibition room to allow presenters to talk directly with session participants. Although we encourage presenters to include evidence that their strategy enhances learning, we do not require quantifiable evidence. Presenters should emphasize the originality of their strategy and provide sufficient information so that session participants may apply the technique in their own classrooms.  Proposals should describe the teaching strategy and explain how it will be displayed on the poster.  Posters marketing textbooks, commercial software, or similar materials will not be considered for the session.  Proposals are limited to two pages and are due by April 3, 2017.  Proposals should include full contact information for all authors.  Please send proposals to Steven Cobb, University of North Texas, scobb@unt.edu. 

The National Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE) will be held May 31 - June 2, 2017 at the Westin Denver Downtown. The conference is hosted by the AEA Committee on Economic Education in cooperation with the Journal of Economic Education and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City – Denver Branch. Registration opened February 15, 2017. For more information go to https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/economic-education.

The Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) is charged with promoting the careers and monitoring the progress of professional women economists. Visit CSWEP.org for calls and announcements and to access the CSWEP News archives, chock full of feature articles on professional development. Calls with fast approaching deadlines include a Call for Abstracts for CSWEP Paper Sessions at the 2018 AEA/ASSA Meetings. To become a CSWEP subscriber, contact cswep@econ.ucsb.edu.

Call for Artists. The program cover for the ASSA annual meeting often features artwork by economists or their spouses. Please contact us if you would like to see your artwork on a cover or have suggestions for future covers. Artwork can be provided in any medium that can be photographed. If selected, a color transparency, slide, or photograph (color or black and white) will be required. There is no remuneration, just the honor of having your work recognized. Send suggestions by August 15, 2017 to: gwyn.p.loftis@vanderbilt.edu or ASSA Cover, American Economic Association, 2014 Broadway, Suite 305, Nashville, TN 37203.

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