Past Events | External Publishing Event
Tue 11 March 2025 at 8.59 am
London Book Fair 2025
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing will be at the London Book Fair (11 to 13 March 2025), promoting our degree programmes, and our consultancy and training activity. Do come and visit our stand 7C83.
Our students are volunteering at the Fair to assist with the running of the industry seminars and other events.
Also OICP is involved with three events:
Book Careers - Tuesday 11 March, 2.30 pm - more information here
View on AI in Academic Publishing - Wednesday 12 March, 10.55 am - more information here
Africa’s Independent Book Publishers - Thursday 13 March, 10.30 am - more information here
Taking Place: Olympia London
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event | London Book Fair Seminar
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
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
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
Fri 13 March 2020 at 1.00 pm
Academic Book Week: Angus Phillips & Michael Bhaskar
As part of Academic Book Week, Blackwell's in Broad Street, Oxford is delighted to welcome Angus Phillips and Michael Bhaskar to explore the future of the publishing industry and their book The Oxford Handbook of Publishing. The talk is free to attend and everyone is very welcome: please follow the Eventbrite link to register your place.
The publication of the Handbook marks the coming of age of the scholarship in publishing studies with a comprehensive exploration of current research, featuring contributions from both industry professionals and internationally renowned scholars on subjects such as copyright, corporate social responsibility, globalizing markets, and changing technology.
'The book's contributors include many leading figures in the field, who together provide a strong overview ... there are plenty of striking nuggets of information to be found.' Peter Straus, Times Literary Supplement
Taking Place: Blackwell's Broad Street, Oxford
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Wed 6 November 2019 at 6.30 pm
Eight scenarios for the future of publishing
Galley Club event
Taking Place: The Water Rats, Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross
Come to hear Angus Phillips and Michael Bhaskar, two foremost ‘activists’ in the book publishing world, from the ink-on-paper school through to the on-screen publications which punctuate our book world. Angus and Michael will present some thought experiments around the future of publishing, taken from the conclusion of their new book The Oxford Handbook of Publishing.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Thu 7 February 2019 at 7.00 pm
Audiobooks: The Saviours of publishing or just a good listen?
This is an OPUS Event
Taking Place: Kennedy Room 308, John Henry Brookes Building
According to the Publishers Association, spending on audiobooks has more than doubled in the past five years, agents are reporting greater competition to retain audio rights when negotiating new deals, and some publishers are developing their own dedicated audiobook imprints.
Please note: Free to OpuS members/£10 for non-OpuS members
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Sat 28 April 2018 at 11.00 am
Sarah Franklin at the Chipping Norton Literary Festival
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Sat 28 April 2018 at 8.00 am
Self-Publishing Conference 2018
Saturday 28th April 2018, 9am to 6pm
Stamford Court Conference Centre, University of Leicester
The Self-Publishing Conference is the UK’s only dedicated self-publishing event, offering authors a chance to find out about a wide range of publishing options, to hear from and question those who work within the thriving self-publishing world, and to network with fellow authors, many of whom will already be experienced self-publishers. Previous keynote speakers have included Alysoun Owen (Editor, Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook), Bridget Shine (Chief Executive, The Independent Publisher’s Guild), Mick Rooney (The Independent Publishing Magazine), and Angus Phillips (Oxford International Centre for Publishing).
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Tue 10 April 2018 at 8.00 am
London Book Fair - April 2018
Olympia 10 to 12 April 2018
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies will be present at the London Book Fair at Olympia. Each year 60 students participate in the Fair as part of their publishing education, and we are the only publishing programme from which students visit all the major book fairs: London, Frankfurt and Bologna.
Do come and visit us at stand 7B35.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Wed 28 March 2018 at 8.00 am
Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2018
26 to 29 March 2018
Publishers, illustrators, graphic designers, literary agents, authors, translators, mobile developers, licensors and licensees, packagers, printers, distributors, audiobook professionals, booksellers, brands, librarians and teachers flock to the event each spring to experience the business world of books and multimedia products in hundreds of booths across six huge halls. This year’s guest of honour country is China, bringing new exhibitions and events to the busy programme of BCBF2018.
Each year students from the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies visit the Fair, meeting professionals from a variety of publishing houses.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
