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Reading Africa Conference attracts participants from throughout Africa and the UK
Over 50 writers, translators, publishers and librarians from twelve countries in Africa and from throughout the UK met at Headington Hill Hall on Saturday 30th October. With sessions focusing on different aspects of the development of readership for African literature, the meeting was organised by SABDET (Southern African Book Development Education Trust) and OICPS (Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies) as part of the Reading Africa programme.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01 Nov 2004 around 7am
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Publishing Training in Russia
Adrian Bullock has just returned from 11 days in Russia working for the British Council's Tempus-Tacis Project: Building Training Infrastructures for the Russian Book Industry. Adrian's brief was to design and facilitate a series of workshops in Samara, Yekaterinburg, and St Petersburg, whose purpose was to introduce participants to a teaching methodology suitable for adults undergoing professional training.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 28 Oct 2004 around 8am
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Oxford Centre for Publishing Consultancy and Research
Launched in October 2004, this new Centre provides a focus for the consultancy, research and training activities carried out by the Publishing department at Oxford Brookes University. The Oxford Centre for Publishing Consultancy and Research provides a wide range of services to the publishing industry and other organizations throughout the world.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 21 Oct 2004 around 6pm
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Brookes contribution to Oxford-Princeton partnership
Professor Valerie Worth (Modern Languages) is giving a paper on "Marie de Gournay the Female Translator" in the session on "Women Writers and the Public" (Merton College, Oxford University, 2.15-4.15 Saturday 30 October 2004) in the conference "Women and the Book" organised by the Universities of Oxford and Princeton. She contributed to the recent critical edition of the works of this famous Renaissance woman writer, published by Honoré Champion (2002). In this paper she will be exploring Marie de Gournay's unusually assertive relationship with her (male) Parisian publishers.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 21 Oct 2004 around 5am
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European MA in Publishing
On 8th October at the Frankfurt Book Fair, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and Angus Phillips met with partners to put in motion the development of a new European MA in Publishing with partners in France, Germany and Slovenia . Under the project name of ECMAP (European Curriculum for Masters in Publishing) this joint programme has been granted €165,756 over the next three years by Socrates Erasmus from the curriculum development fund. The four partners with Oxford Brookes University are the University of Ljubljana, l'Université Paris X-Nanterre - I.U.P Métiers des Arts et de la Culture, and HTWK Leipzig. The full joint masters degree is expected to recruit students from 2006. There is a lot of work to do and the next planning meeting will take place at Oxford Brookes in late November.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 18 Oct 2004 around 11am
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Raphael Exhibition Opens!
On Tuesday 19 October the Arts ministers of Italy and the United Kingdom will open the exhibition of Raphael: from Urbino to Rome at the National Gallery, London (until 16 January). This exhibition has been curated by Tom Henry (History of Art), and was previewed in recent days in the Times (‘Raphael Rocks’), Telegraph (‘There’s never been a Raphael show like it’), Evening Standard, Channel 4 News and BBC News at Ten. On Friday 16 October it was the subject of a Newsnight Late Review Special (‘Is this the greatest exhibition we’ll ever see?’), and a Channel 5 review follows on 3 November. Tom is also interviewed in a BBC1 docudrama (Raphael – A Mortal God) which will be screened on 31 October at 17:45. Enjoy!Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 18 Oct 2004 around 6am
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Creative Writing Winner
Winning creative writing from the first-year Publishing module Creative Writing for Publishing has been published online at Pirandello. In the module, students produce an opening chapter of a children's book, write a covering letter, a synopsis and a market analysis of their book. The overall winner was Alexis Goodyear's /My Brother is an Alien/. Alexis says that 'the inspiration ... speaks for itself really! Not that my brother really is an alien, but sure enough, there were times during his adolescence that he had a question mark above his head! ... Teenage boys, bad habits and funny smells, really sums up my story- I hope you enjoy reading it!'Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 13 Oct 2004 around 10am
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MA in Publishing student launches book on Brahms
The Variations of Johannes Brahms by Julian Littlewood (384pp) went on 1st Oct 2004 (£40/£20). Published by Plumbago Books and Arts as the first in a new series 'Poetics of Music', the book is being distributed by Boydell and Brewer Ltd (Univ. of Rochester Press in the USA) and will go in their Spring 2005 catalogue. The official launch is in London on Wednesday 6 Oct.; further details are available from Plumbago books. Julian has typeset books for several other publishers, e.g. Brill, and currently has two further projects for Plumbago in progress.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 05 Oct 2004 around 9am
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AfricaPublishing.com launched by Publishing MA Graduate
David Ng'ang'a, who graduated with an MA in Publishing 2003, has founded AfricaPublishing.com. This service aims to increase awareness of African publishing and develop dialogue between all those interested in African publishing.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 05 Oct 2004 around 9am
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Guardian mention for Publishing Lecturer
Dr Jane Potter, Lecturer in the Publishing Department and a Research Editor for the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, is mentioned in a Guardian article on Barbara Cartland's appearance in the new DNB. Her kindly but probing editorial skills are spoken of with great appreciation by the article's author, John Ezard... Full Guardian article herePosted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 23 Sep 2004 around 8am
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