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Conference Fees

Our Conference Fees Structure seeks to balance the need to make the conference affordable, particularly for low income students, activist, and researchers from around the world, and partially recover some of the costs such as facilities and infrastructure hiring. Given the nature of this event, please note that the majority of participants are from low income backgrounds, such as researchers, activists and students from all around the world. Those who can afford to contribute can help us sustain the costs and make this conference possible. There will also be the option to give more, so you can help subsiding costs for lower income participants. 

We have 3 tiers of pricing:

  1. Full fee: For participants with institutional support or stable, higher incomes. This includes full-time academics, professionals, or anyone whose registration is covered by an employer, university, or grant.
  2. Reduced fee: For participants with limited access to funding or unstable income. This includes precariously employed academics, independent researchers, NGO workers, activists, and community organisers who have some income but no institutional support.
  3. Student/ unwaged: For participants with limited financial means. This includes students, unwaged or underemployed participants, and participants for whom cost would otherwise be a barrier to participation.
Please choose the tier that best reflects your current circumstances. 

Note that EARLY BIRD registration fees are discounted. Also, check out fees for online vs in person participants, and check what applies to you.

EARLY BIRD - In person participants (Register by May 1, 2026)
Tier
Base fee
Lunches (x3)
Dinner (1)
TOTAL (base + all meals)
Full fee
$150
$60
$45
$260
Reduced fee
$90
$60
$45
$195
Student/ unwaged
$45
$60
$45
$150
Five Colleges Presenter
$0
$60
$45
$105
REGULAR RATES - In person participants (Registration after May 1, 2026l)
Tier
Base fee
Lunches (x3)
Dinner (1)
TOTAL (base + all meals)
Full fee
$200
$60
$45
$310
Reduced fee
$130
$60
$45
$235
Student/ unwaged
$75
$60
$45
$180
Five Colleges Presenter
$30
$60
$45
$135

Five College Presenters Special Offer

Students from the Five Colleges (Umass Amherst, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College and Smith College) can attend for FREE if they have a paper accepted and register by 15 April 2025 (Early Bird). If they register after this date, they have a discounted rate of $30 only. 

Note that meals are not included. 

Meals

The table above shows the pricing for the meals organised for conference attendees, such as lunches and the dinner evening. However, participants may choose not to add meals to their registration, and pay only the base fee. 

For the lunches, you will receive a meals card and you will be able to eat at the dining halls on campus, where you have access to a wide variety of cuisines, and fresh food that you can customise.

We recommend participants to attend the dinner, as an occasion to connect and network, which is one of the aims of this event. You can find out more here.

Accomodation: On-Campus Residence Halls

Accomodation is NOT included in the fees. 

We have reserved some residence hall rooms for our guests on campus, for $180* per person, per room for 3 nights. Single nights are not available. Please find out information and book here. 

Note that although the booking system is different, you need to let us know in the conference registration form whether you plan to use this option, so that we can confirm with Umass that you are a registered participant. 

Otherwise, you can arrange your own accomodation. Check out below a range of options at Amherst. 

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Special needs

Please let us knowif you have any further special needs, whether related to access, mobility, dietary, or other. If you let us know in advance we can get organised to assist you as best as we can.

Childcare

It is important to us that parents and carers are able to attend the conference. Please let us know in the register form whether you have any needs such as carer facilities, childcare, or other. Please register by May 1st if you need childcare arrangements, so we can arrange them for you.

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For more information about the campus, parking, attractions in the area and more, please check out this page.

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Thanks for considering a submission to the 'Intergalactic' Conference on Resistance Studies! Before we get started, we just want to make sure that everything is ready.

The Call for Papers for the Conference is open to both academics and other people who implement resistance through activism, art, community, everyday efforts, and much more. All submissions, not matter your background, should:

  • Have a clear focus on 'resistance' and how resistance influences power relations
  • Contribute to our theoretical understanding of resistance; if you are not from an academic background, we still expect you to articulate coherently how your presentation or proposal contributes to our understanding and practice of resistance, for example, how you sharing your knowledge could help or enrich other activists or researchers

We are open to a wide diversity of worldviews and creative ways of presenting and engaging with resistance, whether drawing from literature, personal experience, cultural understandings or more.

For academic submission, it would be helpful for you to check out our policy statement.

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