[Ura-list] CIFU 14 – 3rd Circular

[Egor Kashkin]

Dear colleagues,

I'm sorry if my letter hurts anyone's feelings, but I don't think this
is the case when one should keep quiet. I think that the only way for
anyone with common sense is to boycott a congress with such a pricing
policy, at least if online participation was planned. What we have
read in the 3rd Circular is by no means the way to contribute to
academic cooperation in Uralic studies (which is I think should be the
basic goal of the CIFU). As for me, my abstract was accepted, but I
refuse to give a talk under these conditions.

I admit that 250-300 euros for on-site participation might be a
reasonable fee, as it includes several activities beyond the main
programme. But this is absurd for online participation. What should we
pay 250 euros for? For pressing a few buttons in a conference room and
for drinking tea at home? Just for comparison, I attended the ALT
conference online in December. This is the world's leading typological
conference, and it was held in Singapore, one of the richest countries
in the world. But the registration fee I had to pay was about 3 times
less.

Or, given the economic differences between the EU and Russia, is this
just a hidden way of cancelling participants from Russia, for whom
such a fee is really expensive? OK, the University of Tartu has its
right to cancel Russia in the studies of the Uralic languages, most of
which are however spoken in Russia. But wouldn't then it be honest to
state this explicitly?

Egor Kashkin

пт, 28 февр. 2025 г. в 18:52, Gerson Stefan Klumpp <gerson.klumpp at ut.ee>:
>
> Dear Uralists,
>
> the 3rd Circular, which includes information on registration and payment options for CIFU 14 in Tartu in August 2025, is online now: https://cifu14.ut.ee/3rd-circular/. Apologies for cross-postings.
>
> Regards from Tartu,
> Gerson Klumpp
>
>
>
> Gerson Klumpp
>
> Soome-ugri keelte professor/Professor of Finno-Ugric Studies
>
> Eesti ja üldkeeleteaduse instituut/Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics
>
> Tartu Ülikool/University of Tartu
>
> Jakobi 2-415
>
> EE-51005 Tartu

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