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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black">Dear Tony,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black">I find your clarifications helpful only in the sense that they reflect an irritating state of affairs I reject.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black">1) Any comparison with other conferences is irrelevant. If others do wrong, they can’t stand as a reference for good.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black">2) Someone earning less than $15,000 a year should not be paying at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black">3) As I explained, I’m a tenured (whatever that means in our precarious academic system) Senior Lecturer at UOW and I’m not able to pay hundreds of dollars to take part in an event
that is supposed to be an integral part of my job duties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black">4) I applaud the pre-conference event for postgraduate and early careers; though, why not to extend this generosity to the conference itself?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black">5) Again, if the alternatives are between paying exorbitant fees to bring international colleagues or not having them (or just fewer of them), so, it is clear to me what the right
choice is. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black">6) People don’t need the coffee, the cakes, and the food (which anyway at conferences are mostly distasteful). We can manage and find where to have coffee or a sandwich. We just
need the space – to socialise and interchange thoughts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black">7) Hence, as I see it, a Conference Steering Committee can do good by negotiating with the University management for not to pay for the venues. It is an act of violence that Universities
charge academics to use academic spaces. Not, I’m not naïve. I just do not take things for granted and reject to accept them as they are.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-----------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Marcelo Svirsky<br>
Politics & International Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Humanities & Social Enquiry, LHA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> csaa-forum-bounces@lists.cdu.edu.au
[mailto:csaa-forum-bounces@lists.cdu.edu.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tony Bennett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 18 June 2016 4:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [csaa-forum] Cultural Crossraods registration fees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dear Marcelo and </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Alana</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU">Regarding your criticism of the fees, Crossroads is in fact a moderately priced event. It compares well with other professional association conferences. CSAA is not running this year, so the most similar domestic association
conference is ANZCA. Our early bird full fee at $119 per day for an association member is less than the $133 per day charged for ANZCA 2016. Our rate for mid income registrants/students is $81 per day while ANZCA is $96 per day. In addition we have a category
below this for anyone earning under AUD15,000 per year that works out at $63 per day. The three fee tiers are mandated by the ACS.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU">This comparison is not of course a criticism of ANZCA in any sense - the costs and organizing challenges of association conferences differ and are not always apparent to conference goers. However, the comparison does
illustrate that Crossroads is not overpriced. That this is so reflects the generous support – cash and in-kind – of the two host universities as well as that of other sponsors, including UTS and CSAA itself.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU"> We believe that you might not have considered the fees and what is included closely. Crossroads is a conference of considerable complexity that is being organized by volunteers to avoid the additional costs of professional
conference organizers. As you yourself noted part of each fee contributes towards costs of a bursary scheme for disadvantaged registrants, and the scale of the conference requires hire of venues outside the University of Sydney. We are also running, for the
first time in Crossroads history, a free preconference event specifically for postgraduate and early career researchers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU">There will be no grandiose receptions at Crossroads. One will be mainly covered by a publisher. The other two will be modestly catered spaces for conference goers to meet and socialize. An accessible social program
is requirement at the heart of hosting Crossroads, which fosters international engagement and community through cultural studies. Clearly one of the other costs of such internationalism is that of bringing numerous invited speakers to Sydney from around the
world. Only a few of these speakers are in a position to contribute towards their own costs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU">We hope you and other members of CSAA will find these clarifications helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU">With best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU">Tony Bennett<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU">On behalf of the Steering Committee <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Tony Bennett FAHA AcSS, Research Professor of Social and Cultural Theory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Institute for Culture and Society.Building EM,Parramatta Campus,Western Sydney University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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