inclusive fees campaign

Usually conferences have a regular and a student registration category, the latter being lower compared to the former. A few conferences include unemployed people within the student category, and so people without a job can get a reduced registration fee. But most conferences do not have this option. The lack of a third option reflects a more general neglect of a big part of academia: adjuncts, lecturers, postdocs without financial support from their institutions, and in general scholars who already graduated but do not have a tenure or tenure-track position.
The oftentimes high registration fees prevents many of these scholars from participating in the research community, reinforcing the stereotype that part-time faculty and adjuncts and not skilled enough to do research, or simply not interested; and also minimizing the chances that these scholars will one day step out of the invisible niche between PhD and tenure that they inhabit.