ok
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Post by ok on Jan 10, 2012 14:44:27 GMT -5
If you are going to do this, at least make the effort to do a new presentation and/or new framing. If you have one of those massive papers and will present two different parts at the conferences, then I personally see that as fine.
However, if you are one of those people who presents the exact same talk at two different, but similar places, you might get noticed -- in the bad way. I have seen a couple of these and definitely noticed, and probably talked some smack about these people later. Although if it's a big name like Fligstein or DiMaggio or Sassen, you'll probably get a pass.
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Post by who cares on Jan 10, 2012 20:06:28 GMT -5
You make a big deal out of ASA presentations, but they are really nothing special. Plenty of people make the same presentation at two different conferences, because the feedback at a larger conference like ASA can be more useful than feedback at smaller conferences. Also, stop thinking that ASA is a place to develop research -- conferences are a place to shine and be noticed, as well as a place to network. It is foolish to go before potential future employers and present something that is thrown together or not quite figured out yet in hopes that someone in the audience will give you the missing piece of your puzzle; that just looks half-baked. Put your best foot forward, because you never know who is watching and how this might influence your future, and if that means that you present research that you have already put before others at some small conference somewhere, then do that. There is nothing sacred about presenting at ASA.
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Post by yp on Jan 11, 2012 15:09:16 GMT -5
There is nothing sacred about presenting at ASA. Tell them that.
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Post by give and take on Jan 11, 2012 22:20:29 GMT -5
There is nothing sacred about presenting at ASA. Tell them that. I think that going to ASA is meaningful because it is the major conference for American sociologists, not necessarily because presenting there carries any more prestige than presenting elsewhere. The audience is certainly larger and more diverse at ASA than at, say, NCSA or ESS, but there is no greater quality of presentation overall than anywhere else, and I have certainly taken in my share of underwhelming ones. It seems that, more than anything, being a regular at ASA says that you are "in the club", and candidates who go avoid being entirely anonymous when they hit the market. Certainly, I want my students to go, and I also will have any grad students with whom I co-author taking the lead on presentations at least some of the time so they can get exposure. I concur that there is nothing special about presenting at ASA, but I DO think that there is something meaningful about just being AT ASA.
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