Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 37.
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[1] From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> (19)
Subject: Re: 14.0033 down with conferences
[2] From: "Norman D. Hinton" <hinton@springnet1.com> (5)
Subject: Re: 14.0033 down with conferences
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 09:05:17 +0100
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
Subject: Re: 14.0033 down with conferences
This is oddly out of context; as I said in my original post, I was not
speaking about conditions abroad. Too often I've been asked to speak at
conferences in the US (or be a panelist, etc.) - and have then been asked
to pay conference fees, travel, and accommodation. I am unaffiliated, and
simply do not have this kind of money - a position a great many people I
know are in. The result is that conferences become a kind of elitist
filtering; we have no departments behind us, etc.
I should say I am furious about this; it is not enough that we have to
think our way - but that we should also pay for the presentation of our
thinking.
I realize that some conferences are strapped, particularly academic ones,
but I strongly believe that FROM THE BEGINNING accommodation has to be
made for the poor and/or unaffiliated. Without that, intellectual life in
America will continue on its foreclosed managerial and self-congratula-
tory path.
Alan Sondheim
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 09:05:51 +0100
From: "Norman D. Hinton" <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 14.0033 down with conferences
Do people actually think that it doesn't cost anything to put on a
conference, or that the host University will pay all the costs ? Both
notions are wrong. If you don't want to pay the fees, don't go. It's
pretty simple.
I gather some people feel forced to attend conferences -- I have never
been in a school that insists on attendance..
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