Bye Bye Australia

so due to funding, or lack there of, we will not be going to Australia to present at the 2010 International Conference on the Arts in Society.  Last November I, along with 3 fellow graduate students and 2 professors, submitted a proposal to the International Journal of Arts and Society to present at their annual conference on the arts and society.  Our proposal was accepted and we began the task of searching for financial support for travel to the conference, which will be held in Sydney, Australia this year.  Unfortunately all of our work had led to somewhat of a dead end.  The University does not have the funds to pay for our trip there, nor have we had much luck with outside sources either.  As a majority of us are graduate students, we are unable to afford the trip ourselves.  So the opportunity to present live at an international conference is pretty much over.  We do have the option of submitting our paper as well as creating a Youtube video of our presentation which can be submitted to the conference, but will not be viewed in Sydney.  This will more than likely be the road we choose to take, as having a paper published by an international journal would be an amazing accomplishment in and of itself.  I only wish that we would be able to be at the conference, to experience that environment and be able to sit in on the other presentations that will be going on over the 3 day period.  Plus who wouldn’t want to go to Australia