Past Events | Publishing Seminars
Mon 29 March 2010 at 4.00 pm
Michael Bhaskar, Nobody Knows Anything - especially publishers
Michael Bhaskar, Digital Publishing Manager, Profile Books
Taking Place: Room BG01, Buckley Building, Gipsy Lane Campus
Michael Bhaskar is the current Digital Publishing Manager at Profile Books, where he is developing their ebook programme. Previously at Pan Macmillan from 2007 to 2010, he developed the digital programme from scratch. He will be talking about the challenges for big and small companies in the digital world, and how, when it comes to ebooks, publishers are misinformed. Michael also writes for BookBrunch.
All are welcome to attend.
Type of Event: Publishing Seminars
Wed 17 March 2010 at 12.05 pm
Emma Barnes, How to get ahead with Digital Publishing
Emma Barnes
Co-founder and Managing Director of Snowbooks, an independent publisher
Director, OnixCentral, a xml-based software supplier to the publishing industry
snowbooks.com
onixcentral.com
Lunchtime Digital Seminar
Room BG11, Buckley Building
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 15 March 2010 at 5.00 pm
Research seminar: Clive Stanhope, Audiobooks
'Audiobooks: A Whole New World of Bibliophilia or Infantilising Literature?'
Taking Place: Fuller Lecture Theatre
Clive Stanhope is Managing Director of the independent UK-based audiobook publisher CSA Word. Having worked for 20 years in the music industry, he moved into the world of audiobooks on the recommendation of his friend, the actor Martin Jarvis, who suggested a collaborative effort on a compilation of short stories. Widely respected, the CSA Word list now includes the books of George Orwell, PG Wodehouse, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh read by such high-profile names as Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emilia Fox, and Richard Dawkins.
Type of Event: Publishing Seminars
Wed 3 March 2010 at 12.05 pm
Simon Juden, The Future of Digital Publishing
Dr Simon Juden
Chief Executive, Publishers Association
Lunchtime Digital Seminar
Room BG11, Buckley Building
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Wed 24 February 2010 at 12.05 pm
Stuart Lee, Crowd-sourcing and Digital Collections
Lunchtime Digital Seminar
Dr Stuart Lee (Director, Computing Systems & Services - Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS))
Taking Place: Room G515, Gibbs Building
Stuart Lee is Reader in E-learning and Digital Libraries and Project Director of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive digitisation project and Great War Archive Initiative
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Wed 17 February 2010 at 12.05 pm
Robin Harvie, How I learned to stop worrying and love the eBook
Robin Harvie, Editorial Director, The Friday Project
HarperCollins
Lunchtime digital seminar
Room BG11, Buckley Building
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Wed 10 February 2010 at 12.05 pm
Liz Marchant, Digital Publishing at Pearson Education
Dr Liz Marchant, Head of Publishing: Science and ICT
Pearson Education
Lunchtime digital seminar
Room BG01, Buckley Building
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 10 November 2009 at 5.00 pm
Eyewitness: The rise and fall of Dorling Kindersley - Publishing research seminar
Christopher Davis
Publishing Research Seminar
Tuesday 10 November, 5.00 pm
Room BG10, Buckley Building, Gipsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University
All are welcome - informal drinks after the seminar
By the close of the last millennium Dorling Kindersley had become one of the most recognisable brands in publishing. Across the range of illustrated household reference titles, from children's books to travel guides, its distinctive look of colourful images cut out against a white background could be seen on bookshelves throughout the country - and indeed the publishing world.
Christopher Davis is uniquely positioned to tell the story of DK's rise and fall. He joined the company at its foundation and in due course became Group Publisher. The narrative he provides is a dual one, encompassing the visionary genius of Peter Kindersley and the publishing revolution he fomented, and charting the remarkable, sometimes precarious, frequently hilarious, roller-coaster ride as the company grew from a handful of people in a studio in South London to a substantial global business.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 13 October 2009 at 4.00 pm
Publishing in Iran
Arash Hejazi (Iranian novelist and publisher)
Taking Place: Buckley BG10/11
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 30 March 2009 at 4.00 pm
How can independent publishers survive the crunch?
Pinching their Pennies: How can independent publishers survive the credit crunch?
Bridget Shine (Independent Publishers Guild) and Giles Lewis (How To Books)
Taking Place: Room BG10 Buckley Building Gipsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University
It goes without saying that there is not an industry that has not been affected by the current economic crisis, and publishing is one such industry that has had to tighten its belt and pull up its socks in response to many high street shops shuttering their windows. But what new opportunities can be found amongst the chaos? What type of landscape will emerge after the dust has settled?
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event | Publishing Seminars
Mon 2 March 2009 at 5.00 pm
The Literature Police
Research seminar:
Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences
Dr Peter McDonald (Fellow of St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford)
Taking Place: Buckley Building
Join Dr Peter McDonald, author of The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences (OUP 2009), as he traces over 80 years of political, cultural and censorship activities of South Africa and the impact this made on the history of publishing in that country.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event | Publishing Seminars
Mon 16 February 2009 at 5.00 pm
Access for All
Research seminar:
How Publishers can make their products accessible for people with sight problems
Richard Orme (Head of Accessibility, Royal National Institute of Blind People)
Taking Place: Buckley Building
All welcome
see the RNIB
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event | Publishing Seminars
Tue 18 November 2008 at 5.00 pm
Antony Harwood: ‘The Business of the Literary Agent’
Publishing Research Seminar Series
Taking Place: Buckley BG01 in Semester 1 2008
Over the past hundred years, literary agents have become key intermediaries in the publishing business. They select authors, negotiate publishing and other rights deals, and manage authors' business affairs. They also frequently perform an editorial function, working closely with authors on their work before it reaches a publisher.
In this talk, Antony Harwood, a leading literary agent, will introduce the business of the literary agent, examining agents' relationships with the rest of the publishing industry, with related media industries, and with authors. He will also discuss some of the current issues in the publishing market affecting the business of the literary agent.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event | Publishing Consultancy and Training | Publishing Seminars
Tue 4 November 2008 at 5.00 pm
Dr Simone Murray: ‘Remix My Lit: Towards an Open Access Literary Culture’
Publishing Research Seminar Series, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies in assocation with the Institute for Historical and Cultural Research
Taking Place: Buckley BG10/11 in Semester 1 2008
The publishing buzzword of 2008 has undoubtedly been ‘open access'. But typically this has referred to scientific journal publishing, only recently expanding to include humanities research. This paper goes further in asking what might an open-access literary culture look like?
Developments around online publishing, electronic-books, print on demand and digital libraries see publishers facing challenges on every side. How might publishers' traditional role as gatekeepers of literary culture be similarly usurped in an environment characterised by networked books, wiki-novels and fictional ‘rip and burn' practices? Outlining three exciting recent experiments in open-access literature, Simone Murray's illustrated talk investigates what the digital future of literature might look like, and what its impact will be on writers, publishers and readers.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Consultancy and Training | Publishing Seminars
Mon 25 February 2008 at 5.00 pm
Harry Bingham: ‘Writers Working for Writers’
Publishing Research Seminar Series
Harry Bingham, Author and Editorial Director of The Writers' Workshop, will be speaking at the Publishing Research Seminar Series at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 20 November 2007 at 5.00 pm
‘Beyond the Book: Researching Reading in an Event-Based Culture’, Danielle Fuller
Publishing Research Seminar Series
Taking Place: Buckley BG10/11 in Semester 1 2007
Drawing upon the approaches and preliminary findings of the interdisciplinary research project, 'Beyond the Book: Mass Reading Events and Contemporary Cultures of Reading in the UK, USA and Canada,' (http://www.beyondthebookproject.org/) Danielle Fuller will consider some of the strategies, challenges and lines of investigation open to us as students of contemporary book culture. This presentation will be of interest to anyone who is a reader-participant in shared reading (through membership in a book club, for instance), to those who are intrigued by the popularity of literary fiction in the early 21st century, and to publishers trying to understand contemporary reading cultures.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars