Registration Opens
Registration is now open.
Registration is now open.
An early registration discounted fee will be offered and will be available until Monday 12 May 2025.
All prices are quoted in Australian Dollars (AUD$) and include GST, unless otherwise stated.
If you would like to book accommodation directly, you can do so via the booking.com link below.
You will be sent a confirmation email with a PDF Tax Invoice when you complete a booking. Please check your email is entered correctly on the booking form and check your junk mail folder.
Terms and conditions apply to all registrations. View the terms and conditions below.
| AUD$ | |
| Full – Early | $490 |
| Full – Standard | $550 |
| Full – Student | $295 |
*Student registration rates have been heavily subsidised, ensuring that all students receive significant support to attend the conference
Includes
| AUD$ | |
| Day | $270 |
| Day – Student | $140 |
*Student registration rates have been heavily subsidised, ensuring that all students receive significant support to attend the conference
Includes
The Welcome Reception is not included in the day registration fee, but you are able to purchase tickets.
The 2025 OCIS Organising Committee invite you to contribute to support the attendance of PhD students, Early Career Assistants and non-waged scholars to attend this years conference. Your support will be greatly appreciated by the Committee and those it assists in attending.
OCIS was founded in 2004 by a volunteer community of Australian International Relations Scholars seeking to to nurture a vibrant and inclusive community of International Relations and International Studies scholars across Oceania and provide a high-quality, affordable conference opportunity for Australian and regional PhD students.
As a volunteer-led, self-organising community of scholars that is not formally incorporated, the biennial OCIS conference is funded wholly by conference registration fees and donations and sponsorships from host Universities, all proactively sought by the volunteer organisers.
As OCIS is not a formal Professional Association, we do not charge membership fees in addition to conference registration fees, which ensures that our registration rates are between 30-40 per cent cheaper than comparator conferences for all participants. Our conferences do not turn a profit; all conference income goes directly to ensuring that registration rates for all attendees are as low as possible in order to break even.
Our PhD registration rates are extremely low in comparative terms and directly subsidised by every full-fee paying registrant. Since 2023, OCIS has also proudly extended bursaries to Pasifika scholars from across the region to ensure representation and build vital connections and collaborations. Volunteers from the OCIS community of scholars also run a range of professional development activities for PhD scholars, ECAs, and people of colour throughout the program, including IR theory workshops, how to publish workshops, and workshops on grantspersonship.
In 2025, at the time of registration, every full fee-paying registrant has the opportunity to donate towards bursaries to support non-waged conference participants. Eligible registered participants will be notified by the committee if any support becomes available.
The organising committee welcomes suggestions for how to make OCIS even more affordable and inclusive going forward and thank all OCIS participants for their ongoing support of the OCIS community.
These terms and conditions apply to all participants (you, your organisation, your group) of this event (the event) being organised by Conference Design Pty Ltd on behalf of the Event Host (us, our, Conference Design, the Host). By participating in the event, you are deemed to have agreed to these terms and conditions. If you submit a booking on behalf of another individual, it is your responsibility to ensure the participant is aware of these terms. An in-person event is held onsite at a venue, an online event is hosted online via the internet, and a hybid even includes options for onsite and online participation.
Full payment of any fees applicable is due within 7-days of submitting your booking. If you register within 90-days of the event, you need to pay at the time of registering using a credit card.
All information for participants will be sent electronically to the email address that is provided at the time of registration.
Please include the reference shown on your Tax Invoice when submitting an EFT payment and email us the details including the date, amount and your bank’s reference.
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Bank: ANZ Bank, 61 Liverpool Street, Hobart 7000
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Each registration category specifies what is included for the category. All other costs associated with your participation shall be borne solely by you.
When participating in the event online, you agree not to sell, trade, transfer, or share your access details, unless agreed to by us. If we determine you have violated this policy, we may cancel your access at any point and retain any payments made by you.
The registration fees do not include personal insurance of any kind. You are advised to take out appropriate insurance for your participation. We are not liable for any expenses incurred due to, but not limited to, individual cancellations, variations in the event, postponement or cancellation of the event, or for theft of or damage to belongings.
Registrations cancelled up to 90-days prior to the event will be eligible for a full refund where the payment was made online by credit card. In all other cases, a $150 administration fee will be charged. Cancellations notified within 90-days prior to the event will not be eligible for any refund, however, another person may participate in the event. All cancellations must be advised via email to Conference Design.
If we believe, at our sole discretion, a hybrid or in-person event needs to be held entirely online, all participants will be transferred to the equivalent online registration. Registration fees will be revised to reflect an online format and participants will be refunded any difference between the onsite and online fees. Full refunds for onsite registrations will not be issued due to an event moving online.
We do not accept any liability for losses incurred, such as but not limited to travel, hotels, or any other expenses, if the onsite event is cancelled or postponed due to an occurrence that renders performance of the event inadvisable, illegal, impracticable or impossible. Such an occurrence shall include but shall not be limited to: an Act of God; infectious disease outbreak, industrial disruptions, service provider failures, governmental restrictions and/or regulations; war or apparent act of war; terrorism or apparent act of terrorism; disaster; civil disorder, disturbance, and/or riots; curtailment, suspension, and/or restriction on transportation; or any other emergency.
Where online participation is available, you can change from an onsite to online participation and vice-versa subject to the following:
All requests must be advised via email to Conference Design.
We reserve the right to change presentation times, days and formats due to technical disruptions, such as audio-visual equipment failures, technician errors, software failures, internet outages, power outages, and the like. Where a technical disruption causes a temporary, partial, or complete failure to deliver and broadcast presentations, we will notify you as soon as possible and advise alternative arrangements for you to view the affected presentations. This may include changing the times, days and format, such as a pre-recorded versus a live presentation. If a technical disruption occurs, you will not be eligible for a refund if we change the times, days and format of any or all presentations.
To avoid any inconvenience to you due to strict visa requirements, we will not confirm your participation or presentations until you have obtained a visa if you are coming from: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cóte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Cameroon, Kenya, Somalia, Iran, Pakistan, Algeria, Libya, Egypt.
We reserve the right to change any and all aspects of the event, including but not limited to, the name, themes, content, program, speakers, format, performers, hosts, moderators, venues, and times.
By participating in the event, you agree to abide by the Code of Conduct which is available on this website. We reserve the right to exclude any person or organisation from participating in the event. In addition, we may remove any person or organisation from the event, onsite and/or online, if we believe, in our sole discretion, that your participation negatively impacts the event or other participants.
All intellectual property rights to the event content and materials distributed at or in connection with the event are owned by us or the , the sponsors, &/or speakers presenting at the event.
All materials, including but not limited to presentations, slides, posters, abstracts, papers, and any other written or visual content presented at the event, are the intellectual property of us or the respective authors and presenters. The authors or presenters retain the ownership rights to their materials.
Participants may not reproduce the event content and materials distributed at or in connection with the event for any reason without the prior written permission from us.
No part of the even may be recorded, reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically or mechanically, including but not limited to video or audio recording, photographing, photocopying or any other information storage or retrieval system known now or in the future, without the explicit written permission of us.
By registering for this event, you consent to having your photo and/or video taken and used for promotional purposes, which may include social media, websites, and email marketing. If you do not wish to have your photo taken, please advise the conference staff.
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