What is the rule about presenting the same or similar paper at different conferences? Especially when the conferences are at similar dates/locations? Is this permissible?
Multiple presentations of same topic?
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Of course you can do this. Have you ever read the acknowledgements section of published articles? Big papers get presented at lots AND lots of different places/conferences/seminars.
That's partially a measure of how important the person is (i.e. I get invited to present so often), and therefore the bigness of the paper. But it's also how those big papers get so good, they've be presented so widely they get all kinds of feedback.
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^ Yeah, except in this particular instance, the conferences are literally days apart.
Assuming the audiences are different, there is no problem with this. Anyone who thinks this is problematic is an idiot. You'll either get fresh feedback from the second audience that you didn't get from the first, or you'll hear a lot of things repeated, affirming that you really need to listen to those items. It's sample size.
I think it gets to be a problem if you have a project hanging around for years that you keep milking for travel funding, or presenting in the same venues without any progress.
People publish virtually identical papers in different journals, so I wouldn't sweat redundant presentations. You're still on the light side.
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Oh, but don't say to the second audience how you just presented this yesterday. Nobody likes to feel like they're getting sloppy seconds. They don't need to know that in the same way they don't need to know whether it's your first time presenting new results (unless the freshness is germane to your presentation).
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I agree that it's fine with different audiences, but it annoys me when I see the same paper twice because they're presented at conferences with clearly the same audience (for example, a strat-oriented session at PAA and a demography-oriented session at rc-28). That does leave me either sitting bored through something I've seen before, or skipping one of the sessions I'd otherwise attend, and it's annoying.