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Hi ! Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! I'll look into it, then. Cheers for now

Dear Grad café members, I just discovered this forum and I'm thrilled!! I am a PhD candidate in English Reformation and Counter Reformation Studies in France and I'm interested in participating in US conferences and/ colloquia. I'm actually wondering what the 'politics' (policy?) are in the US as far as PhD candidates are concerned. Here, we're very much encouraged to publish as much as we can and sign up for conferences while we're enrolled as students. We're done with the program in 4 to 5 years usually (except for sciences, they finish in three years) and in order to get the national accreditation to become 'an associate professor', we need to have a full résumé. I'm wondering if it's frowned upon to sign up for conferences -as a contributor- while you're still a student. Is it worth sending my abstract to a given conference or will it end up in the bin? If anyone had ideas, suggestions...I'd truly appreciate!! Thanks a bunch SomethingNice