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Professional norms are shifting when it comes to conference papers, Guest Editor Nelson Dometrius observes in the April symposium, The Evolving Norms of Conference Papers. Until a decade ago part of academic socialization included learning to present original, or substantially revised, papers at every conference. Now more graduate students and new professors are presenting the same paper multiple times. Yet their CVs do not always accurately represent this practice. Even though the symposium contributors disagree on whether multiple presentations are detrimental or beneficial to the discipline, they all concede that this lack of transparency is inappropriate. They aim to open this topic up for a wider discussion on what standards to instill in the newest generation of scholars. As Dometrius explains, “there may yet be insufficient consensus to establish a revised norm, but a broader discussion will both help move us closer to that point while also informing our current members-in-training that conference paper duplication ad infinitum is not automatically acceptable.”
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