There Are Conferences and There Are Conferences
CFP just ended in Seattle. That's a real conference, and I wish I could have been there.
There are other, more mysterious conferences out there. Every once in a while, I get messages about conferences in exotic places with weirdly long acronymic titles. I'm told that all I have to do is submit something (anything!) for the crowd to read, and we'll all have plenty of free time together in the exotic place. The people involved have unrecognizable affiliations and sometimes give only a country of origin.
Not too long ago, a group of MIT graduate students decided to fight back and submit a randomly generated paper to one of these conferences. It was accepted. Later, the students' glee at the idiocy of the situation prompted the organizer of the conference to rescind his invitation.
I'm sure this would be an impossible prank to pull on a law school symposium.
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