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[alpha_bet]

Just wondering if anyone else in humanities has come across this:
Organizers of an upcoming conference want papers of 7000-8000 words sent in for a volume "because of publishing deadlines" a month before the conference itself. No news of what kind of publishers they're looking at.
My "paper" for the conference is a book chapter in progress - perfect size for a 20-minute paper (for me) at 4000 words, and ready to go.
Now I feel like I have to produce a whole second article for - I'm not even sure what. Will they publish it? Where will they publish it? Do I even want them to?
All I really wanted was a forum for comments on the short chapter I've already go together!
Should I rework the paper now to fit the longer word-count?
Anyone else ever come across this?


 

[hegemony]

What?  Is this a legitimate conference?  And they're publishing proceedings, they think?  Are they an annual conference that always publishes its proceedings?  If not, this strikes me as very peculiar.

I'd just send them a polite note saying that an article based on your paper is already directed elsewhere, so you'll just be presenting, not publishing, thanks.

Conference proceedings don't have enormous weight on CVs, and it's such a labor to get anything written that it's preferable to send it someplace where it will do you maximum good.

I think the procedures of this conference are wonky.  But maybe it's field-specific; others may know.

[lizzy]

Yes--I would contact the organizers for some clarification. It seems odd that the conference seems to require presenters to publish in its proceedings. If you have something that could be published, a conference prodeeding would be about the last place you'd want to place it.