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ICASAH Auckland listing carries no venue, no host and boilerplate copied from an unrelated conference

MICE editorial — 31 August 2026 Auckland Tier C

The 1 October 2026 ICASAH entry exists only on conference-listing aggregators, names no venue or New Zealand host, and its description is template text about an entirely different conference.

The trail for this listing ends at conference-alert aggregators. All Conference Alert carries it for 1 October 2026 in Auckland with the organiser given as "Global Science Society" and a registration link to globalsciencesociety.com; no venue is named, the only location data is a Google Maps embed pointing at Auckland city, and no New Zealand address, host institution or local contact appears anywhere in the chain.

The listing's descriptive text is not about Asian studies: it reproduces boilerplate describing an "International Conference on Sustainable Cities And Communities 2026 ICSCC" said to be organised by "World Science Leagues", the same paragraph used verbatim on three sibling Auckland listings. A separate ICASAH page on conferenceresearchnetwork.com advertises the identical conference title for Ulsan, South Korea on 9 February 2026 and states objectives concerning radiation effects in electronic devices, again unrelated to the title.

We could not confirm any organiser, programme or subject-matter committee. For context, the New Zealand Asian Studies Society held its 26th biennial conference at the University of Auckland on 1-3 December 2025 and meets every two years, so no comparable New Zealand meeting is due in Auckland in October 2026.

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