Past Events
Tue 18 April 2023 at 9.00 am
OICP at the London Book Fair
18 to 20 April 2023
Taking Place: Olympia, London
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing has a stand at the London Book Fair. Do come and visit us to hear more about our degree programmes, research, staff publications, training, and consultancy work.
OICP is one of the leading centres for media education in the world, with a reputation for innovation and excellence in teaching and research. The Centre offers postgraduate and undergraduate awards in publishing and journalism, carries out academic research, and provides training and consultancy services. Our graduates can be found in all parts of the industry. We offer both campus programmes and study by distance learning.
Our stand number is 7C38
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Fri 31 March 2023 at 6.00 pm
Literary Cats - event at Oxford Literary Festival
Taking Place: Weston Lecture Theatre, Bodleian Library
Judith Robinson and Scott Pack uncover the indelible imprint that cats have left on the literary world over the centuries.
This event at the Oxford Literary Festival features such famous literary cats as as Puss in Boots, Tom Kitten, Pangur Bán, the Cheshire Cat, Macavity, Pluto, Bob the street cat, as well as lesser known felines such as Homer, the cat with no eyes. They explore the role of cats in different literary genres and look at some real-life cats owned by the likes of Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Patricia Highsmith and Muriel Spark. There are also narrator cats and cat companions from Japan, Eastern Europe, France, Greece, Germany and Finland.
Judith Robinson is a senior lecturer at Bath Spa University’s Business School. Scott Pack is editor-at-large at Eye and Lightning Books. He was formerly head buyer at Waterstones and a senior editor at Harper Collins. He is also an Associate Lecturer in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University. The event is chaired by Professor Angus Phillips, Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing at Oxford Brookes University.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Thu 30 March 2023 at 6.00 pm
Oxford Literary Festival - Rebecca F. Kuang
Taking Place: Weston Lecture Theatre, Bodleian Library
Join us for this exciting event at the Oxford Literary Festival. OICP Director Angus Phillips interviews Rebecca F. Kuang - the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy and Babel: An Arcane History, as well as the forthcoming Yellowface. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Wed 8 March 2023 at 10.00 am
Bologna Children’s Book Fair
6 to 9 March 2023
Taking Place: Bologna, Italy
Publishers, illustrators, graphic designers, literary agents, authors, translators, mobile developers, licensors and licensees, packagers, printers, distributors, audiobook professionals, booksellers, brands, librarians and teachers all flock to the event each spring to experience the world of books and multimedia products in thousands of booths across six huge halls. Students from OICP are going and as well as attending seminars and other events, they will have meetings with industry professionals from a variety of children's publishers. The companies they will meet include Oxford University Press, Usborne, Nosy Crow, HarperCollins, Hachette, Giunti, and Abrams.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Tue 28 February 2023 at 1.00 pm
Working in Media, Journalism and Publishing Day 2023
Preparations are in full swing for our annual Working in Media, Journalism and Publishing event. Organised for final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students on all our programmes, this event is one of the highlights of the academic year, offering an unmissable afternoon of advice and networking with professionals from across the creative industries, including alumni from our extensive network.
This year we have over 50 representatives from across a range of sectors attending - they will participate in online sessions throughout the afternoon, giving students the opportunity to ask questions and gain valuable insights to kickstart their careers.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Mon 2 May 2022 to Mon 1 August 2022
Data-driven Marketing & Publishing
Taking Place: Online (via distance learning)
Oxford International Centre for Publishing is delighted to invite industry professionals to join this master's level module over the summer semester. In this 12-week course, you will cover the theory and practice of data-driven marketing and business intelligence in a publishing context. This includes working with consumer data ethically, generating value from data, as well as methods of data evaluation and communication.
Type of Event: Brookes University | Publishing | Oxford Publishing Group Training Courses
Mon 2 May 2022 to Sun 31 July 2022
Management of Journals
Taking Place: Online (via distance learning)
This course is for academics or publishing professionals wanting to learn more about setting up, or working within scholarly journals publishing (across any discipline). In this course you will learn copyflow and editorial practices, investigate leading edge technologies, evaluate business models and the wider context set by the academy, government and the international knowledge economy.
Type of Event: Brookes University | Publishing | Publishing Consultancy and Training
Tue 5 April 2022 at 9.00 am
London Book Fair 2022
Tuesday 5 April to Thursday 7 April 2022
Taking Place: Olympia London
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing has a stand at the London Book Fair. Do come and visit us to hear more about our degree programmes, research, staff publications, training, and consultancy work.
OICP is one of the leading centres for media education in the world, with a reputation for innovation and excellence in teaching and research. The Centre offers postgraduate and undergraduate awards in publishing and journalism, carries out academic research, and provides training and consultancy services. Our graduates can be found in all parts of the industry. We offer both campus programmes and study by distance learning.
Type of Event: Brookes University | Publishing | External Publishing Event
Wed 30 March 2022 at 4.00 pm
Xiaolu Guo at the Oxford Literary Festival
Award-winning Chinese-British novelist, essayist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo talks about her life and work at the Oxford Literary Festival
Taking Place: Weston Lecture Theatre, Bodleian Library
Guo was brought up in Wenling in China. After studying film in Beijing, she moved to London in 2002. She has directed a dozen films, both fiction and non-fiction, and written seven novels. Her films and writing explore themes of migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation, and transnational identities. Her most recent novel is A Lover’s Discourse, shortlisted for the Goldsmith Prize 2020 and longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2021. Her memoir, Once Upon A Time In the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017. Her films include How Is Your Fish Today and UFO In Her Eyes.
Guo is a visiting professor at the City University of New York. Here she talks to Professor Angus Phillips, director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing at Oxford Brookes University.
The event is presented by the Confucius Institute and the Oxford International Centre for Publishing at Oxford Brookes University. A previous Confucius Institute event at the festival was an interview with Man Asian Literary Prize Winner Su Tong (2018).
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event | Publishing Seminars
Tue 1 March 2022 at 1.00 pm
Working in Publishing, Media and Journalism 2022
An annual event for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, Working in Publishing offers an afternoon of advice and networking with media professionals, including alumni from our extensive network throughout the industry. In 2022 the Oxford International Centre for Publishing is expanding the event to include not only over 50 representatives from across a range of publishing sectors, but also professionals from the worlds of media and journalism. They will participate in online sessions throughout the afternoon, giving students the opportunity to ask questions and gain insight to kickstart their careers.
This year's keynote is Jamie Hodder-Williams, former CEO of Hodder & Stoughton.
Type of Event: Brookes University | Publishing
Thu 14 October 2021 at 3.00 pm
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Monographs
Publication of report on publishing trends
Online webinar
Thursday 14 October
4.00 pm to 5.00 pm (UK time)
In association with the International Publishers Association
The webinar reports on research carried out by the Oxford International Centre for Publishing. A survey of English language academic publishers in the UK, Europe and North America was undertaken in 2021. The objective was to gather data on the current landscape of academic monograph publishing in the arts, humanities, and social sciences and to identify trends. Respondents were asked about their monograph publishing activities, sales, distribution, and about the future direction of their programmes. The report offers independent analysis of publisher information that may be helpful in informing the debate among stakeholders as to the future of the publication of long-form research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Sat 29 May 2021 at 8.00 am
Workshop Series on International Chinese Teaching in a New Era
A series of five online workshops throughout May 2021
Organized by the Confucius Institute at Oxford Brookes University
Type of Event: Brookes University | Publishing
Fri 19 March 2021 at 2.00 pm
The Value of Literary Festivals
An online webinar on the value of literary festivals and their future in a post-Covid world
This webinar is free to attend and will be of interest to festival organizers, authors, publishers, literary agents, and students of publishing and creative writing
Speakers include:
- Sally Dunsmore, Oxford Literary Festival
- Michela Zin, Porenoenelegge Festa del Libro
- Julianne Mooney, Dublin Book Festival
- Sarah Franklin, author of How to Belong
- Miriam Johnson, author of the forthcoming Books and Social Media
The full details are given here - the event will take place from 2.00 to 4.30 pm on Friday 19th March 2021 - together with details of how to register
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 2 March 2021 at 1.00 pm
Working in Publishing 2021
An annual event for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, Working in Publishing Day offers an afternoon of advice and networking with industry professionals, including Brookes alumni. This year over fifty companies from all sectors of publishing will participate in the online sessions at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing - the largest number ever for this event!
This year's keynote is Hilary Murray Hill, CEO of Hachette Children's Group. Previous speakers are David Shelley, Joanna Prior, Mark Allin, and Jamie Byng. Companies in attendance include Penguin Random House, Pearson, Faber & Faber, OUP, Elsevier, Felicity Bryan, Thames and Hudson, Usborne and Bloomsbury.
Tuesday 2 March 2021, 1.00 to 5.00 pm
Type of Event: Brookes University | Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Wed 13 May 2020 at 5.00 pm
Breaking news: why journalism needs remaking
Alan Rusbridger (Chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism)
Taking Place: John Henry Brookes Main Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus
In the revolution around the digital transformation of journalism have we lost the connection between news and democracy? Join the former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger for his insights into how journalism is changing and needs to change.
If you like the sound of this event, you might like our new MA Journalism, starting in September 2020.
Type of Event: Brookes University | Publishing
Mon 30 March 2020 at 5.00 pm
Xu Zechen interviewed by Angus Phillips
This event has been cancelled
Running through Beijing
Xu Zechen Interviewed by Angus Phillips
Oxford Literary Festival event
The event is presented by the Confucius Institute and the Oxford International Centre for Publishing at Oxford Brookes University.
Taking Place: St Cross College
Rising star of Chinese literature Xu Zechen talks about his novels that portray the realities of life for many in modern China.
Zechen lives in Beijing and works as editor at China’s most important literary magazine, People’s Literature. His work is not the sort of political literature that many might equate with China. Instead, Zechen’s novels chronicle life in China’s big cities. Running Through Beijing is one of his best-known novels and has been translated into English. It deals with the harsh realities lived by the millions of city-dwellers struggling to get by in the grey economy. The translation by Eric Abrahamsen was shortlisted for a National Translation Award in the USA.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event