[csaa-forum] Who won't be in Istanbul

[Tony Mitchell]

Just received this email from a colleague who has been working in 
Istanbul. Looks like international cultural studies are pricing the 
locals out of the market.  It certainly makes me have second thoughts 
about going ...   Tony Mitchell

I'm planning to spend my research leave July-December next year in 
Istanbul,
continuing my field work on Turkish hip-hop. Since I'm going to be 
there anyway,
I was definitely planning to participate in the conference. I was going 
to be in
an organized panel on gender and popular music in Turkey (was going to 
present
new work on a female Turkish rapper whose video clip challenging 
Turkish cutural
patriarchy was banned from Turkish television). But at the last minute 
my two
Turkish colleagues who were going to be on the panel with me decided to 
pull out
and not participate in the conference in protest at the high conference 
fee of
250 Euros, which they (probably rightly) feel effectively locks out 
most local
people (especially Turkish grad students, but also faculty) from 
participating
in the conference, since there is little or no institutional support for
conference participation in most Turkish universities, and people can't 
pay for
it out of their own pockets. (It's nearly half a month's salary for an
entry-level academic in a typical Turkish liberal arts or social 
sciences
department.)


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