I think Freya may be referring to the case of Bill Caplin. He was actually receiving an honorarium from Durham University--in other words, a token fee. I gather Bill is now determined to pursue the matter further, stirred on by the recent "cello crime."
The published guidelines from UK Border Agency (downloadable from their web site) say that academics must not receiving funding for their work, but “payments of expenses, including travel or honoraria to cover their needs whilst in the UK may be disregarded.”
As I announced to the delegates at our "sabotaged" conference, the chief attributes of these Border Guards are surprise, xenophobia, and a fanatical devotion to misreading their own rules.
Best,
Derek
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I heard a similar story recently where a keynote was sent back to his Canadian origins having made the rookie error of confessing he'd be being paid for the gig. The unpaid-ness of the cellist makes this tale all the more worrying, I think, but either way it is a real concern.
What can we do? I mean it as a serious question and will happily be involved in whatever we can come up with as a defence against such a deleterious position on the part of the UKBA.
Freya
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> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:16:14 +0000
> From: Derek B Scott <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: UK music conferences threatened by UK Border Agency
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> Dear All,
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> I write this with genuine concern. We have an international conference at
> the University of Leeds this week, but immigration officials at Heathrow
> Terminal 3 have sent one of our American delegates back to Chicago. Why? For
> trying to get into the UK with the intention of playing a cello at the
> conference. She was not being paid a penny for this, but these zealous
> officers decided that playing a cello is work and, paid or unpaid, she could
> not be allowed in. We now await with trepidation the fate of other Americans
> attending the conference. Our Keynote speaker, for example, is American.
> Since he is a professor, no doubt his speaking at a conference counts as
> working.
>
> When I spoke to immigration at Terminal 3, they appeared to have no idea
> what a lecture recital was, what musicology was, or what musical
> illustrations to a paper were. How on earth have we reached the point where
> academics from the UK and USA are prevented from coming together to
> disseminate knowledge of their subject at conferences? The potential damage
> to British musical academic life is enormous.
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>
> Best wishes,
> Derek
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