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Venue Information

The conference will meet this year on the campus of Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colorado. Metropolitan State University shares its downtown campus with Community College of Denver and University of Colorado Denver.

Conference sessions will be held in the Auraria Campus Plaza Building in the afternoon on Friday, April 26th, and all day on Saturday, April 27th. (Here it is on Google Maps.) A PDF map of the campus is also available.

All plenary events will be held in Plaza Room 242. Parallel session will be held in rooms 250 and 260. Gender inclusive restrooms can be found in Room 100E of the Plaza building.

The conference venue is adjacent to downtown Denver, with all of it's entertainment, sightseeing, food, and drink options.

Getting Around Denver

Denver's public transit system is RTD.

The area near the conference is served by bus and rail stations. The adjacent downtown is amply served by public transit as well. There is regular service to downtown from the airport by both bus and rail for just $10. You can buy tickets for public transit at the airport and also via their mobile app.

Taxis and rideshares are also available from the airport and throughout the city.

Accommodations

There is no conference hotel or room block, but downtown Denver has a large variety of options, many of them under one mile by foot to the venue and easily accessible via transit.

Some nearby options are listed here, and there are a number of pleasant and affordable options further away as well.

• SpringHill Suites — closest option
• Hotel Teatro
• Renaissance Denver Downtown
• Hyatt Regency Denver
• The Maven Hotel
• Kasa Union Station
• The Slate
• Le Méridien
• Thompson Denver
• Hotel Indigo

Registration

There is a registration fee for the conference. Charging this fee will help us to, in the future, provide honoraria for, e.g., the keynote speaker, and awards and travel grants for some graduate student and limited term appointment presenters.

Registration can be paid onsite via card/contactless, cash/check, and apps like Venmo/PayPal/Zelle/Cash app. (Those latter are preferred.) The organization will issue receipts. The fee amount varies by professional position. Please see the fee schedule below.

Fee Schedule:

• Anyone without Institutional Travel Support: $0
• Graduate Students, Unaffiliated Scholars, and folks with Limited Term Appointments: $20
• Non-Tenure Track and Untenured Tenure-Track Professors: $50
• Associate Professors (and equivalent): $75
• Full Professors (and equivalent): $100

Nearby Attractions

All the attractions listed here are walkable from or very nearby to downtown.

• Denver Art Museum
• Meow Wolf Convergence Station, art installation/experience
• Museum of Contemporary Art
• Clyfford Still Museum
• Colorado State Capital
• Molly Brown House
• Union Station
• Coors Field
• Denver Performing Arts Complex
• Larimer Square
• Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
• Denver Botanic Gardens, a bit far to walk, but gorgeous! (Consider taking transit.)