Hi folks - TPRC is well known to many on this list as a great place for exploring the intersections of academic research and policy practice, mainly but not exclusively focused on the US. It is dominated by the law and economics crowd, but it has always been friendly to graduate students and open to diverse disciplines and methodologies (I did my first conference talk ever there as a graduate student in history). See http://tprcweb.com/node/41 for this year's program, which includes panels on Zittrain's new book, Communication Policy in the next US administration, and so on. I have registered at the earlybird academic non-presenting rate of $345 (plus $100 for the meals). It now turns out that I cannot attend, and the conference organizers refuse to do refunds. They did, however, say that I could transfer my registration to someone else, which is why I am sending this note to the list.... I fear that if you are going to go, you have either registered or are eligible for the "late registration" author/co-author rate. But if you have not yet registered, or you are interested in making an offer for my registration (I am willing to negotiate ;-) please drop me an email. I am very sorry to miss it, but taking a $445 hit would really be adding insult to injury.... Thanks, and for those of you attending, I am sure you'll enjoy what is always an excellent event. Cheers, Andy ----------------------------------------------------------- Andrew L. Russell, Ph.D Assistant Professor, Program in History College of Arts & Letters Morton Building, Room 328 Stevens Institute of Technology Castle Point on Hudson Hoboken, NJ 07030 Phone: 201-216-5400 Fax: 201-216-8245 arussell@stevens.edu http://www.arussell.org