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

[Melissa Gregg]

Tony and all,

Just a note that the student rate for Crossroads is less than half the price
quoted in your colleague's email, at 110 euros. At the most recent AGM the
board debated how best to assist as many people as possible to attend the
conference in the most viable way, and given the difficulties of taking into
account every local and national permutation of salary and rank, at the
moment funding assistance has been made available generally (as outlined on
the homepage for the conference).
I would welcome any suggestions people may have that I can put to the board
to pursue.

I'm not sure why this person assumes that Crossroads would be any different
to other academic conferences. Is our own CSAA conference any less
prohibitive for junior staff? It is certainly near impossible for those
without institutional affiliation of any kind.

Melissa (Australia/New Zealand Rep & Organisational Secretary, ACS) 

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[mailto:csaa-forum-bounces at lists.cdu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Tony Mitchell
Sent: Monday, 14 November 2005 10:32 AM
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Subject: [csaa-forum] Who won't be in Istanbul

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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