International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA) 2024 hosted by Korean Association of Anatomists (KAA) will be held from September 5 to 8, 2024 in Gwangju, Korea. The KAA invites you to submit proposals for symposia for the IFAA 2024. We are looking to select high-quality symposia from all over the world. If you would like to organize a symposium, please complete the Symposium Proposal Form and submit it by email at paper@ifaa2024.org by December 31, 2023. The scientific program committee will review the symposium proposals after the submission deadline. Acceptance will be notified via email within January 2024.

For further inquiries, please contact paper@ifaa2024.org.

Please read carefully and follow the guidelines below:

Criteria for Proposals

Topics should be relevant to the broad IFAA membership, and fall into one of these categories:
Gross Anatomy, Neuroanatomy/Neuroscience, Development/Cell biology/Tissue Engineering, Biological Anthropology, Anatomical Education, Ethics in Anatomy, Anatomical Terminology, and Inno-Anatomy.

The theme for IFAA 2024 is Innovative Anatomy; we are accepting session proposals on all topics, including but not limited to symposium topics below.
Proposals do not need to be limited to these topics or they can combine topics in thoughtful and creative ways.

Highest priority will be given to the symposium proposals that include a diverse group of participants (e.g., gender, race, and country of origin).
Also, the scientific program committee will give priority to the proposals of broader and outstanding interest to IFAA members.

If you have an idea for other session types (e.g. pre-congress workshop, in-congress workshop, panel, etc.), please contact paper@ifaa2024.org.

Symposium Organization

• Symposia should have one or two chair(s) to moderate the session and lead discussion and ideally include speakers from more than one country.
• Each symposium will be 80 minutes in length, with 2~4 speakers presenting and discussing a coherent topic.
• The session organizer should be 1st session chair, and you can suggest one additional chair (2nd session chair).
• Individual presentation and discussion periods can be at the discretion of the chair.
• Speakers and the chair should be included only upon their consent.
• All speakers must be present offline at the venue and no online participation will be allowed.
• English should be used as the official language.
• It is the responsibility of the symposium organizer to make sure each speaker submits an abstract for his/her talks. It is important to make sure all of your speakers are aware of the abstract submission deadline early on. The abstract submission guidelines will be announced later. The online abstract submission for symposium will start within April 2024.

Financial Support

Up to 4 (e.g. 1 symposium organizer (symposium chair), 1 additional symposium chair and 2 speakers) in each symposium with have their registration fees & Networking Dinner tickets on Sept. 7 waived.

Additional expenses (e.g., travel, accommodation, and other expenses) should be covered by the symposium participants and organizers themselves.

Submission Instructions

The submission form will require you to enter all the requested information into the appropriate fields. You can re-submit your proposals at any time before the December 31 deadline, if there is any changes. Incomplete proposals will not be considered or programmed.

Symposium Topic: Try to be informative, broad, and catchy.

Chair(s): Name and contact information of chair(s). Chairs must be informed about the speakers and their talks to provide appropriate introductions and moderate the Q&A.

Symposium Information: Should contain the paragraph description (~200 words) about relevance of the topic and bulleted list of topics (at least 3 and no more than 6).

Speaker(s) with their Talk Title: For each speaker, include: Speaker name, affiliation, position, country, and contact E-mail and a talk title

Please download the proposal form above and submit it to the secretariat by email at paper@ifaa2024.org by December 31, 2023.