Past Events
Tue 1 April 2008 at 4.00 pm
Criminal Anthropology and Psychiatry in Modern Romania, 1860-1945
(Chair Dr Marius Turda)
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Buckley Building, room BG10
This event, organised by the International Working Group on the History of Racial Sciences and Biomedicine in Central and Southeast Europe (19th-20th Centuries), is sponsored by the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, and the Institute for Historical and Cultural Research at Oxford Brookes University.
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Mon 31 March 2008 at 4.00 pm
Peter Buckman: ‘Everything You Wanted to Know about Agenting but Never Dared Ask’
Publishing Research Seminar Series
Taking Place: BG10/11 in Semester 2 2008
Have you ever considered a career in literary agenting?
Type of Event: Publishing
Mon 10 March 2008 at 5.00 pm
Ophelia Field: ‘Writers’ Freedoms and the Silencing of Dissent’
Publishing Research Seminar Series
Taking Place: BG05/10 in Semester 2 2008
The English Writers in Prison Committee has worked since 1960 on behalf of persecuted and silenced writers to bring their cases to light throughout the world.
Ophelia Field runs the English PEN Writers in Prison programme and is also an author and freelance writer. She has worked for over a decade as an advocate for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers and has been an expert consultant to various organisations, including the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, Human Rights Watch and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Type of Event: Publishing
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
Sat 2 February 2008 to Sun 10 February 2008
India Trade Mission (Chennai and Delhi)
Oxford Brookes University & UK Trade and Investment
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Brookes (OICPS) and UK Trade and Investment are combining their considerable experience and expertise to organize a Trade Mission to India in February 2008. All publishers are welcome, but the Mission is specifically intended to help small and medium sized publishers create relevant contacts and do business in India.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Consultancy and Training
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
Tue 13 November 2007 at 12.33 pm
Simon Kovesi on BBC Radio 4
The English department's Simon Kovesi will be discussing the Romantic-period poets John Clare, Robert Bloomfield and - friend to them both - the poet and watchmaker Thomas Inskip, on BBC Radio 4's 'Making History', next Tuesday 13th November, at 3pm.
Simon Kovesi (Department of English, Oxford Brookes)
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Tue 30 October 2007 at 5.00 pm
‘Small Cog to Girl Friday’: Clare Christian, Managing and Publishing Director, The Friday Project
Publishing Research Seminar Series
Taking Place: Buckley BG10/11 in Semester 1 2007
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 2 October 2007 at 4.00 pm
‘Publishing: Art or Money?’, Andrew Franklin, Publisher and Managing Director, Profile Books
Publishing Research Seminar Series
Taking Place: Buckley BG10/11 in Semester 1 2007
Is publishing about culture or commerce? Should publishers prioritise the dissemination of art, information, and education, or the making of money? Who, ultimately, should publishers be responsible to - the general public, shareholders or the aesthetic good?
In this seminar, Andrew Franklin will discuss these issues, drawing on his own experience working for a small independent and a large corporate publisher.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Thu 27 September 2007 at 5.30 pm
Ghostwriting
OPUS event Thursday 27 September
Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane Campus
Step into the shadowy world of the ghostwriter, and look at the processes behind the creation of ghostwritten book projects. Is ghostwriting, as the Observer recently claimed, the ‘future of the book trade'? How prevalent is the practice of ghostwriting? What skills make a good ghostwriter, and how do publishers and agents manage those skills? To what extent is ghostwriting part of an editorial continuum, in which all editors routinely take part?
Type of Event: Publishing
Mon 17 September 2007 to Thu 20 September 2007
STM Master Class 2007
Developing strategic business skills
Taking Place: Oxford Spires Four Pillars Hotel, Oxford in Summer 2007
An intensive residential course for the future senior manager in STM publishing
The STM Master Class has established itself as a benchmark of exciting and innovative teaching and learning in strategic business skills. Now in its seventh year, it attracts senior and influential speakers from the STM industry (and outside it), whose ideas challenge the delegates to tackle today’s key publishing issues – achieving innovation, managing change, evaluating risk, licensing and acquiring intellectual property, and enhancing brand values.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event | Publishing Consultancy and Training
Wed 20 June 2007 at 5.45 pm
OPUS event Joanna Trollope
Joanna Trollope and Linda Evans
How authors and editors work together
OPUS AT 10
Ten years of the Oxford Publishing Society
The evening will be chaired by Simon Littlewood, International Director of Random House. Wednesday 20 June 2007
Natural History Museum
Oxford 6.45 p.m. for 7.15 p.m.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Sat 16 June 2007 at 9.00 am
University Open Day
Taking Place: All Campuses in Summer 2007
Every Department at Oxford Brookes is involved in this day. It will be of particular interest to students who want to find out about combining subjects that are not all included in the Open Days held by the Schools of Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences and Law.
Thu 24 May 2007 at 4.00 pm
John Wesley Lecture
'Charles Wesley: 'The Man Made for Friendship'
Gary Best (Headmaster, Kingswood School, author of 'Charles Wesley, a biography')
Taking Place: Lincoln College, Oxford in Semester 2 2007
The John Wesley Lecture is jointly hosted by the Wesley Centre (Oxford Brookes University) Lincoln College, and Wesley Memorial Methodist Church. Everyone is welcome. A reception follows the lecture.
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Tue 22 May 2007 at 5.30 pm
OPUS Digital Learning
Digital Learning - The BBC and the Private Sector, 22nd May
The event will start at 6.30 pm in the Lloyd common room at Oxford Brookes University (Gipsy Lane campus) with drinks and nibbles. The talks will begin at 7.30 pm in the Lloyd Lecture Theatre.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Wed 2 May 2007 at 5.30 pm
from Prince Charles to Da Vinci
OPUS event
Taking Place: Lloyd Lecture Theatre, Gipsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University, 2 May 2007 6.30 pm drinks, 7.30 pm talks start in Semester 2 2007
Trends and controversies in publishing law
from Prince Charles to Da Vinci, from Human Rights to Google Rights
Richard Balkwill of Copytrain and Joss Saunders of Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons will spend the evening arguing with each other and covering recent developments that we all need to know. Come along and have your say, bring your own controversy and pitch into this highly interactive session on 2 May.
Type of Event: Publishing