The 2025 Evolution meeting (https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/), the joint
meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), the American
Society of Naturalists, and the Society of Systematic Biologists, will be
held in two parts: a virtual portion on May 29-30, and an in-person portion
on June 20-24 in Athens, GA, USA.

SSE Council invites proposals for two sponsored symposia at the in-person
meeting, and one at the virtual meeting. Symposia should highlight new
topics, provide new perspectives, and/or generate new syntheses. Each
in-person symposium will consist of two 75-minute sessions separated by a
coffee break; the virtual symposium schedule will likely be the same or
very similar. Applicants have the option to indicate whether they are
willing to host their symposium in-person only, virtual only, or either.

SSE Council seriously considers the diversity of participants as a
criterion for symposium funding. Symposium organizers are expected to take
into account gender, seniority, nationality, and other axes of diversity
traditionally underrepresented in Society symposia, and to describe their
efforts to do so in the proposal.

The Society provides travel support for organizers and participants in
sponsored in-person symposia, up to $7000 USD per symposium. SSE will
accept requests for additional funds for dependent care costs if this would
allow a speaker to accept an invitation to speak in a sponsored symposium.
For the virtual symposium, costs of speaker and organizer virtual-only
registration will be covered, if necessary (those attending the in-person
meeting get virtual registration included so do not need an extra
virtual-only registration).

DEADLINE: January 6, 2025

Applicants will be notified by the end of January.

Learn more about how to submit a proposal here:
https://www.evolutionsociety.org/society-awards-and-prizes/sponsored-symposia.html

*Kati Moore*she/her
*Communications Manager*
*Society for the Study of Evolution*
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