Presenter Registration FAQ

Welcome to the Registation Portal for NCPH 2022! Registration is now open for all. An FAQ can also be found at https://ncph.org/conference/2022-annual-meeting/registration-information/.

Questions? Meghan Hillman | meghillm@iupui.edu 
 

Q1: When do I need to register?

A1: The registration deadline is May 1, 2022. 

Q2: How do I know which registration rate is the right one?

A2: Think about your employment situation. 

• If you’re a student, select the virtual student rate.

• If you’re in between public history employment; if you work for a very small, critically under-funded, or grassroots organization; if you’ve been furloughed or had your hours reduced due to COVID-19 and its spiraling effects on our field; or if you are a community participant outside the public history field, you are welcome to make use of the Underfunded/Community Participant rate. We won’t be checking, so if you need this lower rate to attend the conference, please use it.  

• If none of the above apply, you’ll want the general registration rate. If you’re an NCPH member, a lower registration rate will automatically apply; if you’re not a member, the non-member rate will automatically apply. We’re deeply grateful to those who pay this regular rate, because it helps us to set lower rates for the people who need it most, opening up professional development and networking opportunities to more of our public history community.  
   

Q3: What does my registration fee cover? 

A3: You’ll get access to all concurrent and breakout sessions at the virtual conference; access to all virtual common areas, like the exhibit hall, the poster showcase, and networking spaces; and post-conference recording access. This covers the majority of conference content! 

What it excludes: a select few ticketed events must be added on to your registration separately. They are free, but we need to get an accurate head-count for facilitators and to ensure a good experience for attendees. 

Q4:  What if I want to pay for the registrations of several attendees? Or, what if multiple attendees are from the same institution and our employer wants to pay for all of us in one payment? 

A4: This is what we call a group registration, and we can arrange it! Instead of registering via the online portal, please email Program Manager Meghan Hillman at meghillm@iupui.edu. You’ll be directed to a separate form where you can provide your registration information without immediate payment, and give us instructions for who to invoice for the group and how they’d like to pay. Please email us ASAP in order to submit your forms by April 15, 2022. 

Q5: How can I add an event to my registration later?

A5:  Adding an event is as simple as logging into your account via http://bit.ly/ncphlogin, clicking “My Events” on the left-hand sidebar, selecting NCPH 2022, and clicking “Add sessions.” You can also contact NCPH at ncph@iupui.edu and we can add events to your registration and invoice you. 

(Note: our registration portal uses the term “sessions” to refer to extra events, which for NCPH includes any attendance-restricted event we need a separate head-count for. This is confusing because at most conferences, including ours, we use “sessions” to refer to the concurrent sessions. Unfortunately, we can’t change it in our system! Just know that access to concurrent sessions comes with your base registration purchase.)

Q6. I know I have an account in the NCPH database. Why can’t I log in?

A6. If you’re an NCPH member, you’ve ever been an NCPH member, or you’ve ever attended an NCPH conference or other event in the past, you almost certainly already have an account in our database! If you’re having trouble logging in and the database won’t let you reset your password, please email us at ncph@iupui.edu so we can reset your password for you. (Our database recently established stricter rules for password security, which is causing some issues with the password reset system.)

Q7. I got all the way through the registration process, and then I got an error message. Do I have to register again?

A7. Likely no! Last year, a few people saw this error message, but their registrations still went through. You should get a confirmation email within half an hour of registering; if you don’t see a confirmation email, email us at ncph@iupui.edu so we can check on your registration to make sure it processed successfully.

Q8. I want to join NCPH and register for the conference at the same time (or renew my membership). Can I?

A8. Yes! All you need to do is complete your conference registration and add it to your cart. Then, before you check out, go back to the Shopping page via the left-hand sidebar and add the membership to your cart. Once you proceed to the payment page, you will see that you’ve received the member rate for your registration, and you can purchase both together. 

You can also donate to NCPH’s Annual Fund in the same purchase as your registration, via the same process. Donations to our Annual Fund help support our day-to-day operations and enable, among many other things, our ability to be more flexible with registration rates to make the conference more accessible to students, underemployed public historians, and community participants.