Past Events

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.

Data Driven

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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.

Manage Journals

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event

Tue 24 March 2020 at 2.00 pm

Working in Publishing 2020

This event has been cancelled

Networking with the publishing industry

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.

Headline speakers have included Richard Charkin, David Shelley, Joanna Prior, Mark Allin, and Jamie Byng. This year we are delighted to welcome Perminder Mann, CEO of Bonnier Books UK, listed in 2017 as one of the UK's 1,000 most powerful people.

Type of Event: Publishing

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