DELEGATE INFORMATION
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
Conference registration will open in January 2009. The estimated cost for BFE members/ early registrations will be £100 (£120 for non-BFE members/ late registrations), with a rate of £80 for students.
An electronic registration form will be uploaded here shortly, including online payment.
BFE MEMBERSHIP
Following new BFE policy, all participants whose proposals have been accepted for the conference must be BFE members at the time of registration for the conference.
Advantages of BFE membership include:
* members of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology enjoy preferential rates at BFE conferences;
* members receive free copies of the journal Ethnomusicology Forum in addition to the BFE Newsletter;
* members have the right to vote and to participate in the activities of the organisation, as well as to submit papers for inclusion in BFE annual conferences;
* members have access to the online members' area services, and receive discounts on publications and merchandise.
Membership is open to all interested parties anywhere in the world, and is available for £25 (student/unwaged £18).
Membership is administered by Routledge, the publisher of BFE's journal Ethnomusicology Forum. Please follow this link to the Routledge website to become a BFE member.
In case of difficulties concerning membership please contact:
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STUDENT BURSARIES
We are pleased to announce that a small number of bursaries will be available to assist with the cost of attending the conference for students whose papers have been accepted. Successful students will be announced prior to the conference, upon which students can pick up their bursary from the local organising committee. Conditions for a student bursary application include the following:
* your abstract has been shortlisted;
* you have registered for the conference;
* you are a member of (or are in the process of joining) the British Forum for Ethnomusicology.
The application round for student bursaries will open on 15 January 2009 and close on 31 March 2009. Received applications will be considered on the basis of the following criteria:
* you are unable to gain support from other sources, such as your own institution;
* the quality of the abstract/proposal;
* the likely costs for travel and accommodation.
An electronic bursary application form will be made available here shortly.
BFE STUDENT PRIZE
In 2009, the British Forum for Ethnomusicology will award the prestigious BFE Student Prize for the best student paper delivered at the 2009 Annual Conference.
Students wishing to enter the competition for the BFE 2009 Student Prize should (during the conference) submit a hard copy of their paper to the chair of the session in which they present. The papers will then be evaluated by a panel of judges and the result announced later in the year.
The prize for best student paper presented at the 2008 conference at Cardiff has been awarded to IOANNIS TSIOULAKIS, PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology at Queen's University Belfast, for his paper 'Working and Playing: Conceptions of Labour and Creativity among Jazz Musicians in Athens'. The judges commended the paper for its carefully constructed argument, sound methodology, clear and engaging presentation of thought-provoking material, and effective balance between sensitive ethnography, engagement with theoretical frameworks and original insights.