Past Events
Wed 18 April 2007 at 10.30 am
Publishing Skills for 21st-Century Europe: LBF seminar
Seminar at the London Book Fair
Taking Place: Wednesday 18 April, 11.30 am, Thames Room, Earls Court, London Book Fair in Semester 2 2007
Publishing skills for 21st-century Europe: training and education needs across borders
Type of Event: Publishing
Mon 26 March 2007 at 4.00 pm
‘Green Futures Magazine’: Hannah Bullock
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
Publishing Research Seminar
Taking Place: Buckley BG10 in Semester 2 2007
Publishing with an editorial agenda?
Green Futures aims to lead the debate on how to achieve a sustainable future. It raises questions such as ‘How green is my gap year?', interviews leading figures about environmental concerns, and explores issues including paper and ink use in the printing industries and sustainable travel and tourism.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 5 March 2007 at 5.00 pm
‘The Bookseller and the Book Trade’: Joel Rickett
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
Publishing Research Seminar
Taking Place: Buckley BG10 in Semester 2 2007
What is the relationship between the book industry and its weekly trade journal, The Bookseller? In this seminar, Joel Rickett will discuss this question, by looking at The Bookseller's role in book marketing and promotion, and how it works alongside publishers and retailers to sell books. The Bookseller also provides industry analysis and commentary, and a forum for debate and opposing opinions about publishing developments and controversies.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 12 February 2007 at 5.00 pm
‘John Calder: A Life in Publishing’: Professor Alistair McCleery
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
Publishing Research Seminar
Taking Place: Buckley BG10 in Semester 2 2007
The publisher and bookseller John Calder cut his teeth in the 1950s and 60s, publishing avant-garde, experimental and controversial work from some of the twentieth century's leading writers, including Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Eugene Ionesco, Henry Miller and Williams Burroughs. Always valuing the intellect above the wallet, never afraid to shock, and still publishing and bookselling today, John Calder has led a fascinating life in publishing. Calder presents a very different mode of publishing to that of the multimedia conglomerates we have grown used to in recent years.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 21 November 2006 at 5.00 pm
‘Touching Paper: the Post-Internet Bookshop’: John Mitchinson
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
Publishing Research Seminar
Taking Place: Buckley BG11 in Semester 1 2006
As the tail of the online inventory of books grows ever longer, what is the point of bricks-and-mortar bookshops? If we can choose our own favourites online, and often pay less for them, do we really need vast book emporia on our high streets carrying only a fraction of what's available? At QI we think it's time for a new model bookshop. Books are important. Every human activity finds its correlative in a book. Books change lives. They are tactile, moveable portals to an infinity of new worlds. Instead of dull warehouses, bookshops should become high street academies, enriching people with knowledge and leading the campaign to make the world more interesting. The adventure starts here...
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 7 November 2006 at 10.00 am
Maximising the Potential of Your Books Programme
A review of online marketing techniques and e-book solutions
ALPSP (The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers)
Taking Place: British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole Street, London W1G 8YS
Designed to provide practical solutions and ideas based on actual experience, this seminar for publishers of academic monographs considers the best ways of extending marketing techniques and how best to use online techniques. It covers both traditional, tried and tested marketing methods as well as looking at ways of making online book content reach beyond conventional markets.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Tue 31 October 2006 at 5.00 pm
‘The Elephant and the Rat: Innovation in Publishing’: Richard Charkin
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
Publishing Research Seminar
Taking Place: Buckley BG11 in Semester 1 2006
Global publishing is dominated by a handful of very large conglomerate companies: the ‘elephants'. How do such big beasts respond to changing consumer behaviour and technologies? How do big organisations remain innovative in the face of competition? And how can they continue to create and sustain successful new business models? Drawing on examples including the controversial Macmillan New Writing, Richard Charkin will address these challenges, asking how the elephant can make itself as fleet-footed and successful as the rat.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 30 October 2006 at 11.30 am
India Trade Mission Meeting
Taking Place: Room BG01, Buckley Building, Headington Campus- Gipsy Lane (for directions, please visit www.brookes.ac.uk/findus) in --
Oxford Brookes University and UK Trade and Investment are planning to take a group of local publishers on a trade mission to India and are organising a meeting on Monday 30 October for anyone interested in taking part in the mission.
From 11.30 until 1 pm (a working lunch will be served)
Type of Event: Publishing
Wed 25 October 2006 at 10.00 am
Arts Open Day
Open Day for Arts Department
11.00 – 3.00pm
Taking Place: Richard Hamilton Building in Semester 1 2006
subjects included:
- Foundation Art and Design,
- Fine Art,
- Arts Management,
- Film Studies,
- Music
Sat 14 October 2006 at 11.30 am
Humanities and Social Sciences Open Day
The School of Arts and Humanities together with the School of Social Sciences and Law
12.30 – 4.00pm
Taking Place: At the Headington Campus in Semester 1 2006
Subjects included:
- Anthropology,
- English,
- Film Studies,
- French Studies,
- Geography,
- History,
- History of Art,
- International Relations,
- Japanese Studies,
- Law,
- Physical Geography,
- Politics,
- Psychology,
- Publishing,
- Sociology
Tue 10 October 2006 at 4.00 pm
‘Editorial Reflections: Cultural Expression and Children’s Publishing’: Laura Atkins
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
Publishing Research Seminar
Taking Place: Buckley BG11 in Semester 1 2006
With immigration and multiculturalism dominating national debate, it is important to consider the implications of cultural diversity for the children's publishing industry. By 2010, one in five school children in the UK will be from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) backgrounds, a reality not reflected in the books currently produced. Publishing is a notoriously white, middle class profession, which inevitably affects the acquisition and editorial process for stories written by authors from outside of the dominant culture. In this talk, Laura Atkins will reflect on her experiences editing multicultural picture books, and discuss her research on how the publication process has affected children's books written by non-white authors in the UK.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 18 September 2006 to Thu 21 September 2006
STM Master Class 2006
Developing strategic business skills
Taking Place: Pembroke College, Oxford in Summer 2006
International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers in collaboration with the
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
Oxford Brookes University
An intensive residential course for the future senior manager in STM publishing
Type of Event: Publishing
Mon 26 June 2006 at 3.30 pm
Publishing Industry Advisory Board Meeting
The Industry Advisory Board for the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
Taking Place: Headington Hill Hall in Summer 2006
The Publishing Industry Advisory Board, which provides professional support and consultancy to the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Oxford Brookes University.
Type of Event: Publishing
Mon 19 June 2006 at 1.00 pm
Careers in Publishing
An opportunity to find out more about the Postgraduate Courses in Publishing at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University.
Taking Place: The Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford Brookes University in Summer 2006
You will meet a lecturer from the course and discuss how a Postgraduate Course in Publishing can open doors to a publishing career.
Contact Glenn Archibald via email (glenn.archibald@brookes.ac.uk) or phone (01865 484992)
Type of Event: Publishing
Wed 10 May 2006 at 1.15 pm
The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD): Lecture Series
'Oedipus and Vienna: Theory and Theatricality in Early Psychoanalysis'
Richard Armstrong (Professor of Classics, University of Houston, Texas)
Taking Place: Lecture Theatre, Classics Centre, George Street, Oxford in Semester 2 2006
All are welcome. The lecture will be followed by refreshments.
For further information please contact Chris Weaver at APGRD: apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk, telephone 01865 288378
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Wed 22 March 2006 at 4.00 pm
Professional Practitioners and the Arts Industry
Westminster Institute of Education Research and Knowledge Transfer Seminars: Creativity and Learning
Janine Charles and Tara Stewart (Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University)
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Harcourt Hill Campus (Rm AG/13) in Semester 2 2006
Convenor: Sarah Maidlow
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