{"id":1395,"date":"2010-05-07T15:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2010-05-07T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:34:32","slug":"the-expensiveness-of-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/2010\/05\/07\/the-expensiveness-of-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"The expensiveness of conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just finding out how much it would cost to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easaonline.org\/conferences\/easa2010\/\">European Association of Social Anthropologists conference<\/a> this summer, and the costs and fees run something like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"datatable\">\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>Accommodation<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac105 (\u20ac35\/night * 3)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Student conf. registration<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Obligatory EASA membership<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Roundtrip airfare to Dublin<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Very cheap meals from restaurants<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac45 (\u20ac15\/day * 3)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Total<\/th>\n<th>\u20ac440<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>By contrast, you could rent a room in Paris for an entire <em>month<\/em> (my rent is \u20ac400) for less than the sum cost of these <em>three days<\/em>. Yes, a month&#8217;s rent: which, from a student perspective, is a rather amazing sum of money. It\u2019s enough to make one think that major academic conferences like this are structured around a sort of tacit class exclusion. They do, of course, have some participant funding available, but it apparently comes to \u20ac20,000 for a conference that\u2019s supposed to attract more than a thousand people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just finding out how much it would cost to attend the European Association of Social Anthropologists conference this summer, and the costs and fees run something like this: Accommodation \u20ac105 (\u20ac35\/night * 3) Student conf. registration \u20ac90 Obligatory EASA membership \u20ac50 Roundtrip airfare to Dublin \u20ac150 Very cheap meals from restaurants \u20ac45 (\u20ac15\/day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[502,487],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}