This past weekend was the regional conference where I gave a dry-run of my Coptic paper (which went pretty well). Other students from my program had kind of mentioned before that the papers presented there tended to be of a very low quality and couldn't hack it at the national conference, but I thought that was just them trying to put others down so they could feel better about themselves...
Until I saw a presentation where the speaker seems to have just worked off of the English translation and not the original Greek, and not looked at textual variants that her argument should have taken account of.
A colleague of mine asked a nice but pointed question about the textual variant thing and felt like a dick, but this young prof who had graduated from our program said later over beer that questions like that are fair-game for conferences and a service to the field, since scholars should be thinking about these points, even if their training didn't force them to.
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