Past Events | Publishing Seminars
Tue 6 October 2015 at 3.30 pm
The last remaining chain of specialist bookshops?
James Daunt (Managing Director of Waterstones)
Taking Place: Willow 10, Oxford Brookes University
Waterstones are the last remaining chain of specialist bookshops on the high street. With more ways to read than ever, as well as competition from things like computer games and the sheer mass of information in the digital space, James will tell us the how Waterstones has risen to the challenges of recent times
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 4 November 2014 at 12.05 pm
Starting (and Growing) your own Publishing Business
Wayne Davies (Co-founder of Quercus Publishing, one of the most successful publishing start-ups of recent times.)
Taking Place: John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, (JHB 108), Oxford Brookes
Quercus and its books won over 100 awards in its ten-year life, including Independent Publisher of the Year in 2008 and Publisher of the Year in 2011, and is best known for Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. Quercus was recently sold to the UK’s second largest publishing group, Hachette.
In his twenty five years in publishing, Wayne has also worked at the Orion Publishing Group, Granada Media, Letts Educational and Elsevier in a variety of management, publishing and digital roles.
Wayne will be sharing his experiences of founding a publishing company including how to get started, finding and working with investors, financial and cash flow issues, handling rapid growth, maintaining an entrepreneurial culture, assessing expansion opportunities, and securing a sale.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 21 October 2014 at 11.05 am
Becoming the New Publisher - how does digital change publishing?
Michael Bhaskar (Digital Publishing Director at Profile Books. Author of The Content Machine)
Taking Place: John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, (JHB 108), Oxford Brookes
Michael will consider what publishers have always done and ask is this the same today, using case studies from the industry. He will examine key trends that we should pay attention to amidst all the noise, in an attempt to predict the future.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 7 October 2014 to Tue 7 October 2014
Susan Wightman and Michael Mitchell
Book Designers of Libanus Press and Authors of Book Typography, A Designer’s Manual
Taking Place: Gibbs 302, Oxford Brookes
Susan and Michael will share some personal experiences about working with clients to design and produce books. They will pass on tips for the best ways to work with designers in briefing, communication, sharing files, meeting deadlines, clarifying procedures to produce a beautiful book on time and to budget.
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Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Fri 4 April 2014 at 1.00 pm
Globalisation in Publishing
Miha Kovač (Professor in Library and Information Science and Book Studies) (University of Ljubljana)
Taking Place: BG10
The last in the series of Publishing Studies and Print Culture Research seminars this semester. The format of the seminars is that each speaker will first give a paper based on their current research (c. 20 minutes). Thereafter, there will be time for discussion of the research topic and findings, and also of the methodologies and theoretical approaches that they have adopted. All welcome.
Note that this session will take place later in the afternoon (c. 3.00pm) in BG10, and will be attended by MA Publishing students.
Type of Event: Publishing Seminars
Fri 7 March 2014 at 12.30 pm
Investigating Reading
Eleanor Bowes (PhD student, OICPS)
Taking Place: Willow 2
The third in a series of Publishing Studies and Print Culture Research seminars this semester (wk 6, 8 and 10). The format of the seminars is that each speaker will first give a paper based on their current research (c. 20 minutes). Thereafter, there will be time for discussion of the research topic and findings, and also of the methodologies and theoretical approaches that they have adopted.
All welcome and feel free to bring your sandwiches with you!
Type of Event: Publishing Seminars
Fri 21 February 2014 at 12.30 pm
Investigating Audiences
Michele Paule (Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Education)
Taking Place: Willow 2
The second in a series of Publishing Studies and Print Culture Research seminars this semester (wk 4, 6, 8 and 10). The format of the seminars is that each speaker will first give a paper based on their current research (c. 20 minutes). Thereafter, there will be time for discussion of the research topic and findings, and also of the methodologies and theoretical approaches that they have adopted. All welcome and feel free to bring your sandwiches with you!
Type of Event: Publishing Seminars
Fri 7 February 2014 at 12.30 pm
Investigating Archives
Alison Kahn (Senior Lecturer, Film Studies)
Taking Place: Willow 2
The first in a series of Publishing Studies and Print Culture Research seminars this semester (wk 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10). The format of the seminars is that each speaker will first give a paper based on their current research (c. 20 minutes). Thereafter, there will be time for discussion of the research topic and findings, and also of the methodologies and theoretical approaches that they have adopted.
All welcome and feel free to bring your sandwiches with you!
Type of Event: Publishing Seminars
Fri 13 December 2013 at 12.30 pm
Book Design and the Role of Paratext
Steve Hare and Sally Hughes (OICPS)
Taking Place: BG01 (Buckley Ground Floor)
Publishing Studies and Print Culture Research Group invites you to the third in a series of Friday lunchtime seminars presenting new research in print culture and publishing studies by staff and PhD students in OICPS. Everyone is welcome to attend. Feel free to bring your lunch!
This week's speakers:
From Type to Image: An Overview of Penguin Books’ Change from Typographic to Illustrated covers
Steve Hare (PhD student)
The Role of Directors' and Sponsors' Forewords in Museum and Art Gallery
Sally Hughes (Principal Lecturer)
Type of Event: Publishing Seminars
Fri 29 November 2013 at 12.30 pm
German and British Popular Fiction of the First World War
Anja Tschortner and Jane Potter (OICPS)
Taking Place: BG01 (Buckley Ground Floor)
Publishing Studies and Print Culture Research Group invites you to the second in a series of Friday lunchtime seminars presenting new research in print culture and publishing studies by staff and PhD students in OICPS. Everyone is welcome to attend. Feel free to bring your lunch!
This week's speakers:
Idyll and Ideology: German Popular Fiction for Girls in the First World War
Anja Tschortner (PhD student)
Reading Popular Fiction in Britain during the First World War
Jane Potter (Senior Lecturer)
Type of Event: Publishing Seminars
Tue 29 October 2013 at 4.30 pm
Introduction to PR for Publishing
Louise Swannell, Publicity Director (HarperCollins)
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Type of Event: Publishing Seminars
Fri 25 October 2013 at 11.30 am
Publishing and Cultural Imperialism
Lucy Warwick and Caroline Davis (OICPS)
Taking Place: Board Room 1 (near reception)
Publishing Studies and Print Culture Research Group invites you to the first in a series of Friday lunchtime seminars presenting new research in print culture and publishing studies by staff and PhD students in OICPS. Everyone is welcome to attend. Feel free to bring your lunch!
This week's speakers:
Consuming Knowledge: Produce from the Empire in the Penny
Lucy Warwick (PhD student)
Erasing the Archive: Longmans in South Africa 1910-1994
Caroline Davis (Senior Lecturer)
Type of Event: Publishing Seminars
Tue 1 October 2013 at 11.25 am
Scott Pack: Choose Your Own Adventure
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Type of Event: Publishing Seminars
Mon 11 March 2013 at 4.30 pm
An evening with John Seaton and Martin Toseland
Taking Place: Willow Building (room 10), Headington Hill Campus, Oxford Brookes University, OX3 0BT
John Seaton is from Canongate. Martin Toseland is a writer, freelance editor and literary agent
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 11 February 2013 at 4.30 pm
The Publishing Process at Wiley
Sarah Hall (Wiley Blackwell)
Taking Place: Willow Building (room 10), Headington Hill Campus, Oxford Brookes University, OX3 0BT
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Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 26 March 2012 at 5.00 pm
Publishing and Marketing in the Digital Age
Please note that there are 2 speakers during this event.
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Willow 10
Max Whitby, CEO of Touch Press talks about enhanced e-books and the work that Touch Press does.
Damian Horner, Marketing Strategist at Child’s Play International talks about Design and Marketing in the Digital Age.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars