The International Conference on the Arts in Society

I’ve been sent a Call for Papers for The International Conference on the Arts in Society. My initial feeling is to ask where else the Arts would be. I mention it as Theme 5 Audiences includes: Virutal audiences, blogs, cyber-art and performance. I was about to suggest that a panel of bloggers might be interesting. Then I saw the registration fees. Student registration is $377. I have no idea what the aim of the conference is, but a charge of $226 for “virtual registration” (i.e. you don’t actually go) would suggest that participating with society isn’t one of them.