Past Events | Publishing Seminars

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

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.

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Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

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

Tue 5 March 2019 at 5.30 pm

Working in Publishing 2019

Tuesday 5 March 2019

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 twenty-five companies from all sectors of publishing will participate in the speed-dating session at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing.

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Tue 13 November 2018 at 12.00 pm

Book Data from Nielsen

Andre Breedt (Nielsen Book Research International)

Taking Place: Clerici Learning Studio

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Tue 6 November 2018 at 12.00 pm

Digital books and comics for kids

This even is CANCELLED and will be rescheduled.

Eric Huang (Development Director, Me Books)

Taking Place: Clerici Learning Studio

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Tue 23 October 2018 at 11.00 am

Travel Publishing overview

Steve Mesquita (Publishing Consultant)

Taking Place: Clerici Learning Studio

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Tue 9 October 2018 at 11.00 am

The First Year of Being a Publisher

Dr Kate Macdonald (Director of the Handheld Press)

Taking Place: Clerici Learning Studio

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Tue 7 November 2017 at 12.05 pm

Doctor Zhivago – The Whole Story

Anna Pasternak (acclaimed author, journalist and columnist)

Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, JHB Chakrabarti Room, 12.05-12.55

On the 60th anniversary of the publication of Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak’s great niece, Anna Pasternak, tells the true story behind the publication of Doctor Zhivago. Pasternak’s iconic love story, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, won him the Nobel Prize for literature, became a weapon the Cold War and was banned in Russia for over thirty years. The true story is as much a thrilling literary espionage, as a chronicle of a publishing sensation.

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Tue 24 October 2017 at 11.05 am

The importance of metadata in the supply chain

Graham Bell (Executive Director, EDItEUR)

Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, JHB Chakrabarti Room, 12.05-12.55

If you love books then you also need to learn to love metadata.  Metadata is more than just definitional data about data. It is imperative information about books that help describe, create, promote and ultimately sell the product. 

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Tue 10 October 2017 at 11.05 am

Phil Cleaver, Typographer

Professor Phil Cleaver (et al Design Consultants)

Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, JHB Chakrabarti Room, 12.05-12.55

Don’t miss this talk by award winning typographer and book designer Phil Cleaver. He lectures worldwide on design, and his early typographical work is archived in St Bride’s Printing Library. His book design is in the permanent collection of the V&A Museum’s National Art Library. He wrote and designed What They Didn’t Teach You In Design School this year, published by Ilex Press, distributed by Thames & Hudson.

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Tue 8 November 2016 at 12.05 pm

Guy Gadney

Founder of To Play For

Taking Place: JHB Charabati Room

Guy will talk today about some of the latest digital developments and how they impact storytelling and the publishing industry.

He is an internationally recognised digital media leader, with a career spanning online games, app development, television and running the digital teams for international media companies.  He has produced BAFTA and EMMY-recognised digital projects including the international success for the BBC drama Sherlock, the online AI thriller The Suspect, and transmedia projects for Home and Away, RTL Media and the BBC.

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Wed 26 October 2016 at 11.05 am

Sally Bayley

Lecturer in English at Balliol College, Oxford and author of the crowd-funded book The Private Life of the Diary, published by Unbound

Taking Place: JHB Charabati Room

Sally will talk about both this new book but also her other writing projects, including her work on Sylvia Plath. She will share her thoughts on how authors operate and in particular, how they interact with their editors.

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Tue 11 October 2016 at 11.05 am

Jonathan Glasspool

Managing Director of Bloomsbury Academic & Professional.

Taking Place: JHB Charabati Room

Today Jonathan will tell you of his past and more recent publishing world experiences in the hope of inspiring you in your publishing career.

This division of Bloomsbury includes the active imprints of Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Professional, Hart, Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare, Fairchild Books, and more. They produce the award-winning digital Berg Fashion Library and Drama Online, Bloomsbury Collections, Bloomsbury Professional Tax and Law Online, and the Churchill Archive.

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Tue 3 November 2015 at 12.00 pm

Judge a book by its cover?

Kat Morrell and Sophie O’Rourke (Creative Services Manager and Business Development Manager of emc design)

Taking Place: Willow Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University

People say not to judge a book by its cover, but if you had the choice between two books with exactly the same story inside, both identically priced, the only difference being that just one has a beautifully designed cover - which would you stretch to pick up off the shelf first?

emc design is one of the UK’s leading design agencies for the publishing industry.   They specialise in beautiful design for ELT, education and trade publishers.  Today they will be telling us the story behind those lovely designs.

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

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