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Summary Submission

SPARK Symposium

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Instructions

The SPARK Summary Submission Form will be available in February, 2025

We are excited to have you present at the Belmont SPARK Symposium. Please follow the link below to submit a summary for SPARK. Your summary will be published to the SPARK Repository, which is a searchable archive of research, scholarship, and artistic works. You have the option of submitting either a written or video summary; however, your submission must be approved by your faculty mentor prior to submission. Your summary will also be sent to your faculty mentor for one final review. While your submitted summary should be the finalized version, any changes your faculty mentor would like you to make must be done within 2 days of receiving feedback. While you will be submitting a summary now, you can add on full-length manuscripts, videos, or images following SPARK to better represent the entirety of your work.

A submission video tutorial and written instructions for submitting the Belmont Digital Repository can be found here.

You will be notified if there is a problem with your submission.

Submit Your Abstract

  1. Read and accept the Submission Agreement below
  2. Provide information about yourself and any co-authors
  3. Upload your electronic file, if any, and associated files
  4. Download, print, sign, scan and upload the Copyright Distribution Agreement
  5. Submission is sent to Faculty Mentor for final review
  6. Changes requested by Faculty Mentor must be submitted within 2 days of rec

Please be sure you have the following items:
  • The submission’s title
  • The abstract
  • A list of keywords (10 maximum)
  • (Optional) An electronic format of additional full-length documents such as manuscripts, videos, or images
  • Copyright Distribution Agreement signed and ready to upload

  • You may change the order of authors by changing the number next to the author's name. The first author of a submitted summary is assumed to be the BURS presenter. Please email if that is not true or if there are multiple presenters.
  • The summary submitter may choose to not have your submitted summary published to the internet by selecting “Metadata Only” under Presentation Type.
  • If you are only submitting a summary with no other documents needed, you can skip the option to upload a document.
  • Either the student presenter or faculty mentor may submit the symposium summary; however, we encourage students and their faculty advisor to consider the opportunity a student submission will provide.
  • Oral presentations have a hard 15-minute cap. Planning for a 10-minute talk and 5 minutes for questions is ideal!

(Please note that artwork may depict imagery of prohibited physical objects.)

  • Fire
  • Fireworks, explosives, or any similar device
  • Knives, guns, or any other weapons
  • Alcohol and illegal drugs
  • Unsafe chemicals, hazardous materials, blood, urine, fecal matter, or other elements of concern

(Please note that artwork may NOT depict nor involve the occurrence of prohibited imagery.)

  • Sexually explicit imagery
  • Vulgar language
  • Cruelty– animal, human, or otherwise

†The Watkins College of Art supports the D.O.J.’s Citizen’s Guide to U.S. Federal Law on Obscenity, and the Supreme Court’s current definition of constitutionally unprotected obscenity (Miller v. California).

Questions?

Contact: beth.bowman@belmont.edu

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