IAFA/SCIAFA Mentoring Program

History

At the Association’s June 2001 Board Meeting, IAFA and the IAFA Student Caucus (SCIAFA) passed a resolution to sponsor a Mentoring Program aimed at helping student scholars to find their way around ICFA, discover the natural friendliness of the conference as quickly as possible, use ICFA as an entrance into existing scholarly communities concerned with the fantastic, and leave with both fond memories of the supporting organization and plans to return.

Current Status

The Mentoring Program since 2002 have been great successes, so we would like it to continue. The success of this program depends upon its volunteer participants, and this is your chance to sign up as either a mentor or mentee. IAFA and SCIAFA will be co-sponsoring a room where mentors and mentees can meet before the opening Conference Reception on Wednesday evening, 14 March 2007. Attendance at this meeting is the primary task to be undertaken by both mentor and mentee. If you would like to take part in the program in either role but are unable to attend the opening reception, we encourage you to sign up anyway and arrange a more convenient meeting time with your partner. The mentor-mentee pairs will be matched up by Brecken Hancock, the current SCIAFA representative. (You can also read more about the mentoring program in SCIAFA's bylaws.)

The previous success of the program makes us very excited to be able to offer it again. If you are interested in joining or continuing with this program, please fill out the form below and submit it to the SCIAFA representative. Please fill out this information in order to sign up for either position. Please take a moment now to decide whether you would like to be a part of the program and, if so, submit the information below by e-mail to brecken AT neo-comintern.com. Thank you in advance.

• Name
• E-mail address
• Institutional affiliation
• Main interests in the field of the fantastic
• Arriving at the conference
• Departing from the conference
• Are you currently planning to attend the
  conference reception on Wednesday evening?
• Are you signing up for mentor or mentee?