High registration fees at conferences and workshops ignore the growing group of people who have a PhD but are not securely employed and have no institutional support. Often, there are only reduced rates for students. High conference fees creates a barrier of entry for adjuncts, lecturers and other non-tenure track faculty members to participate. We can make this situation a bit less unjust by pledging to create a reduced or waived fee category for contingent faculty in any conference we organize, lobby with academic organizations we are members of to create this category of fees, or – for more privileged members of the profession – forego honoraria or payment of travel expenses to make lower registration fees possible. Sign this petition to pledge on one or more of the actions we can take http://www.thepetitionsite.com/108/832/205/inclusive-fees-campaign/
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‘Bout time. A few years ago, at the Deleuze Studies conference in New Orleans, I managed to swallow, bitterly, the egregious $125 (discounted!) graduate student registration fee. In addition, having filled their ears (and CVs) with paper presentations, many of which were written in the spirit of Deleuze and Guattari’s own admiration of Marx, scholars were then invited to spend $50 a plate, wining and dining on a steamboat Natchez cruise. While perhaps lost on the privileged tenured who could afford such extravagances, the irony was not lost on those of us financially unable to participate. I, like many others who could barely shell out the registration, ate fast food all weekend. But hey, at least the registration fee came with a year’s subscription to the Deleuze Studies journal (to which my institution already has a subscription), and a bunch of (inedible) conference swag!
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