The Crossings and Connections Exchange:
Promoting your business, organization, or scholarly work at the CC2025 conference
If you are interested in promoting your work at the CC2025 conference this summer, you have plenty of options! For the widest visibility, we hope you will consider becoming a conference sponsor. You can read lots more about this option on our sponsorship page.
On Friday, June 20 from 11.30–1.30 we will host the Crossings and Connections Exchange—a spot to exchange ideas, services, and goods. During this time there are only a small handful of other activities taking place to ensure that conference attendees have ample time to visit all the authors, vendors, and sponsors. This is the only opportunity to sell and promote any products or services during the conference. Sponsors will be contacted directly about their participation in the Exchange.
Sell your merchandise
Option 1: Booksellers and Publishers.
Are you a bookseller or publisher that has 5 or more books focused on Norwegian-American history, regional history, or migration? We’d love to have you host a 6 foot table at the Exchange with a selection of your conference-related goods. The cost for this option is an in-kind donation of $100 worth of conference-related books for our raffle. You will be provided a 6-foot table and 2 chairs. With a limited number of booths available, booksellers and publishers are the only non-conference attendees allowed to host a table. Vendors must have their own wireless commerce system including your own wifi hotspot. (You are not allowed to use the St. Olaf guest wifi for this because it is not encrypted.)
If you are a conference attendee interested in selling your own publication, you have two options:
Option 2: Reserve a spot to sell your publications directly to conference attendees.
If you would like a spot in the area designated for individuals selling their own works, you will be provided a 2-foot section of a table (⅓ of a 6 foot table) and one chair. With this option, you will be in charge of setting up, selling, and cleaning up from your designated spot and conducting all sales. For this option, you must have your own wireless system to sell your books including your own encrypted wifi hotspot. (You are not allowed to use the St. Olaf guest wifi for this because it is not encrypted.) The cost for this option is an in-kind donation of one (or more!) of your books related to the conference theme for the raffle.
For Option 1 and 2, please note that only American bank customers have access to Venmo and Norwegian bank customers have access to Vipps, so these are not good options for payment.
Option 3: Sell your publication through the conference booth.
There will be a large booth at the Exchange where we sell NAHA publications, Crossings and Connections swag, and some of the publications of conference attendees. With this option, attendees can provide books to be sold, but are not in charge of the set up, clean up, or selling. Instead, you would either ship or drop off books for arrival at NAHA prior to June 15, or drop them off during registration on Wednesday, June 18. Any unsold copies must be picked up at the end of the Exchange or will be added to the raffle. NAHA will issue payment for books sold minus a 30% fee within a week of the event via paypal.
Promote your work, but not sell.
Three additional options are available for conference attendees who would like to promote their work rather than sell it on site.
Option 1: In-Kind Donations.
In addition to conference sponsorships, we are actively seeking in-kind donations to the conference raffle. Donations should be connected thematically to the conference (such as books to learn more!) or should be connected by place (showcasing Minnesota or Norway). Sponsors with in-kind donations can also have their products featured on the raffle table. There are two levels of in-kind donations, donations of products of $50 and higher and $100 and higher. Placement will reflect the levels.
Option 2: Book signing.
There will be a book signing table during the Exchange where authors can sign up to answer questions from attendees and sign copies of their books. Authors can sign up for a portion of the exchange to do this.
Option 3: Brochure table.
There will be a table available for conference attendees who would like to promote an event, an organization, or a publication. If you are interested in including your information, your brochure must be pre-approved and delivered either by mail to NAHA no later than June 15 or dropped off at registration on Wednesday, June 18. We will also have some room to accommodate posters (limited wall availability, but with stands). Leftover copies must be picked up at the end of the Exchange, by 2pm on Friday or will be recycled.