Past Events
Tue 12 April 2011 at 9.00 am
Greening the Book: Digital or Print? London Book Fair Seminar,12th April
Oxford Brookes seminar
Taking Place: London Book Fair
London Book Fair, Earls Court, London
Tuesday 12 April 2011
10:00 Wellington Rooms, Earls Court 1
What is the carbon footprint of a printed book, and how does it compare with the carbon footprint of an e-book or an e-reader? Is digital more environmentally friendly than print? Should publishers stick with print, or lead the rush to digital?
These questions are of serious concern to those in the industry as well as to authors and readers, as e-books and e-readers start making significant inroads into the domain of the printed book; where countervailing claims are easy to make, hard to prove, and even less easy to interpret.
The seminar brings together an expert panel from the publishing industry to look at the current issues thrown up by the digital/print debate, to explore the extent to which the publishing industry has gone to reduce its carbon footprint, and to assess the options for not only reducing it further but for making it really green and sustainable as well.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Mon 11 April 2011 at 8.00 am
Visit the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at the London Book Fair 2011
Taking Place: Earls Court, London
Visit the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at the London Book Fair in April 2011. We're at Stand O580, and would be delighted to meet with you - feel free to drop by, or to make an appointment contact Sarah Gilkes, Business Development intern, at sarah.gilkes@brookes.ac.uk
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Sun 3 April 2011 at 11.00 am
Publishing the future
Oxford Brookes event at the Oxford Literary Festival
Sunday 3 April 2011
12.00 pm
Corpus Christ College, Oxford University
Chair: Angus Phillips, Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University
Panel: Victoria Barnsley, Chief Executive and Publisher of HarperCollins; Cathy Galvin, Deputy Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine; Marcus du Sautoy, Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University and author of The Number Mysteries
With the arrival of electronic reading devices has come new thinking about how books will be published and how they will be read. Will the ebook take the place of the printed book? Will reading on screen become the norm? Will authors want to publish their own work? How is the publishing industry changing and is it reacting fast enough in response to changes in technology and the demands of authors and readers? A publisher, journalist and author debate ebooks and the future of publishing.
Type of Event: Publishing
Mon 28 March 2011 at 3.30 pm
Catching the Wave – Confessions of a Digital Opportunist
David Attwooll (Attwooll Associates)
Taking Place: BG10, Buckley Building Gypsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University
An irreverent romp through 40 years of analogue and (from 1984) digital publishing – which should prompt some career ideas or at least cautionary tales. Based on his current business, David will also suggest how a growing number of 21st-century publishing businesses and careers will look radically different from the current ‘norm’.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Fri 4 March 2011 at 12.30 pm
MA Music Open Day
Taking Place: Willow Building (room 06), Headington Hill Campus, Oxford Brookes University, OX3 0BT
Come to our open day to find out more about our course and about how studying for an MA in Music can enhance your career prospects. It is also an opportunity to talk to teaching staff and former students and to explore our campus and facilities.
The MA in Music at Oxford Brookes offers four distinctive and exciting pathways:
- Music and Popular Culture
- Music on Stage and on Screen
- Contemporary Practice in Composition
- Music in 19th-Century Culture
Mon 28 February 2011 at 5.00 pm
The story behind the spread - Dorling Kindersley
Christine Keilty (Dorling Kindersley)
Taking Place: Headington Hill Hall, Oxford Brookes University
A DK spread is a visual feast of eye catching design and informative text. This talk will be an insight into how a spread is created from concept to printed book; Covering The Art Book, the development of its unique page design, the finer points of reproducing pieces of art, gaining permissions from an Artist estate and the surprise of finding out Van Gogh’s Sunflower’s true colours. Christine Keilty will also discuss digital publishing and how this is changing their approach to photo shoots which can now include video and commissioning illustration even in a 3D environment.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Wed 23 February 2011 at 11.00 am
The challenges of magazine publishing for the iPad
Neil Ayres (Digital Producer for Centaur Media)
Taking Place: Brookes Willow 10
Neil Ayres. is Digital Producer for Centaur Media's creative community titles, incorporating Creative Review and Design Week magazines, as well as several spin-off products.
The new Creative Review app will be one of the world's first magazine products to be truly iPad native. Oxford Brookes students have the opportunity of seeing the app in action before it's launch in March.
Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars | Publishing Seminars
Thu 17 February 2011 at 5.30 pm
OPUS International Evening - Central and Eastern Europe
The Oxford Publishing Society heat up grey February, making Central and Eastern Europe their theme for the annual OPuS International Evening.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Wed 16 February 2011 at 11.00 am
Going Digital Gracefully
Alison Jones (Director of Digital Development Palgrave Macmillan)
Taking Place: Brookes, Tonge 620
What has to change for traditional publishers as they migrate to digital publishing? What stays the same? And can they make the transition without losing themselves in the process?
Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars | Publishing Seminars
Mon 14 February 2011 at 4.30 pm
Richard Hart – Hart Publishing
Taking Place: BG10, Buckley Building Gypsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University
Hart Publishing is an independent academic publisher based in Oxford specializing in legal books and journals. In his talk, Richard Hart will depict the role of independent academic publishers within the publishing industry and speak about how smaller academic publishers can indeed compete with large corporations and sometimes even do a better job than big businesses.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 14 February 2011 to Mon 14 February 2011
ARP presents Brian Woolland & Bryan Robinson
Writer and Director Brian Woolland and Musician Bryan Robinson explore the process of writing, rehearsing and presenting the play Stand and Fall with a cast of inmates from Winchester Prison and Students from Winchester University.
Taking Place: Richard Hamilton Building RHB115
Type of Event: Brookes University
Wed 9 February 2011 at 11.00 am
The ActiveTeach Product: - from strategy to creation
Marc Bloch (Head of Digital Publishing for Secondary Education, Pearson)
Taking Place: Brookes Tonge: Room T315
ActiveTeach was a landmark product for Pearson. The launch of ActiveTeach changed the entire market dynamic, making an equivalent digital component essential for any new course.
This product will be demonstrated during the talk, which will cover the development of the idea and the execution of the product creation.
Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars | Publishing Seminars
Wed 24 November 2010 at 12.30 am
Publishing seminar - Toby Mundy
Independent trade publishing in the UK
Taking Place: Buckley Building, Gypsy Lane, Oxford Brookes University
Toby Mundy is a leading figure in the publishing industry. After training as a graduate recruit at HarperCollins, where he was editorial assistant to Stuart Proffitt, and later took on responsibility for Fontana Press, he joined Weidenfeld & Nicolson as editorial director in 1998. In 2000 he became managing director and publisher of newly formed Atlantic Books, whose bestsellers include the Booker winning The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, and recent titles such as The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas.
Atlantic Books is the British subsidiary of the American independent publishing house Grove/Atlantic. It was founded in February 2000 and published its first book in May 2001. It has since developed a list that has a world-wide reputation for quality, originality and breadth, and includes fiction, history, politics, memoir and current affairs.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Wed 10 November 2010 at 12.30 am
Publishing seminar - John Thompson
John Thompson talking about his new book on trade publishing, Merchants of Culture
Taking Place: Headington Hill Hall, Oxford Brookes University
John Thompson is Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. Recent publications include Books in the Digital Age (2005) and Merchants of Culture (2010). He was awarded the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and the Social Sciences in 2001 for his work on political scandal.
In his book Merchants of Culture he provides a fascinating account of the high-risk culture in consumer publishing on both sides of the Atlantic. Revealed is the world of agents and scouts, of auctions and deals, often with large sums of money paid out to authors, as publishers gamble in the hope of signing the next Harry Potter or Dan Brown.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Fri 22 October 2010 at 1.00 am
Author Events at Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford
Autumn Events at Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford
Tickets are available from Blackwell Customer Service Department. Please telephone 01865 333623.
Type of Event: External Publishing Event
Tue 19 October 2010 at 11.30 pm
Publishing seminar - Barbara Trapido
Oxford based novelist Barbara Trapido talks about her experiences as an author
Taking Place: Buckley Building, Gipsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University
Barbara Trapido is an internationally successful author, renowned for her dark satirical comedies. She has written a number of novels, including Brother of the More Famous Jack (1982), which won the Whitbread Special Prize for Fiction, Temples of Delight (1990), shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award, Juggling (1994), and Frankie & Stankie (2003). In its mix of people from different spheres, Sex and Stravinsky, published by Bloomsbury in May 2010, throws up the complexity, cruelty and richness of the global world while, as a sequence of personal stories, it comes together like a dance; a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.
Born in South Africa and now Oxford based, she has a loyal and ever growing following of fans and is a popular and regular speaker at book events and festivals.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars