[Linganth] AAA conference registration refund?

[P. Kerim Friedman]

On the AAA UNITE list someone suggested that if you registered by
paying with your credit card you might consider disputing the charges.
The credit card company will intervene on your behalf if you do so. But
before doing that I would first approach the AAA and ask politely for a
refund. They just might give you one! It seems that they do have some
policy of giving refunds for people whose panels were rejected. I'm
sorry I don't know the details.

kerim

On Oct 28, 2004, at 9:48 PM, Jennifer Dickinson wrote:

> Thanks for the information, although it seems to me that if you have
> no control
> over the cancellation of the panel in which you planned to
> participate, or the
> movement of the conference to a completely different time period, that
> you are
> not actually "cancelling your participation." Rather the conference
> organizers
> have failed to fulfill the agreement under which you registered for the
> conference in the first place.
>
> Quoting Kathe Managan <jkm5967 at nyu.edu>:
>
>> I'm not sure if this will answer Jennifer's question, but here is
>> what I found on the AAA website about refunds (http://
>> www.aaanet.org/mtgs/2004/participants.htm):
>>
>> "Program Participants
>> You registered for the meeting when you submitted a session
>> or  paper proposal, so you do not have to register again. If
>> you withdraw  from the program, whether you are reading a
>> paper, chairing a  session or acting as discussant, please
>> communicate with the AAA  Meetings office, 2200 Wilson Blvd.
>> Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22201-3357; please fax your
>> withdrawal to 703-528-3546. Presenters who cancel
>> their participation on the program receive no refunds."
>>
>> Best,
>> Kathe
>>
>> Kathe Managan, Ph.D.
>> Rockefeller Humanities Fellow
>> Tulane University
>> jkm5967 at nyu.edu
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Jennifer Dickinson <Jennifer.Dickinson at uvm.edu>
>> Date: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:09 pm
>> Subject: [Linganth] AAA conference registration refund?
>>
>>> Does anyone have information about getting a refund on
>> registration
>>> fees for the
>>> conference?  It looks like the roundtable I was scheduled to
>>> participate in
>>> will be postponed until next year...in principle if you send in
>> a
>>> paper and it
>>> is rejected, you can get your registration back, but I haven't
>> seen
>>> anyinformation at all about this.
>>> J. Dickinson
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jennifer Dickinson
>>> University of Vermont
>>> email:  jennifer.dickinson at uvm.edu
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Jennifer Dickinson
> University of Vermont
> email:  jennifer.dickinson at uvm.edu
>