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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.

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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!

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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!'

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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.

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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.

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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 here

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Publishing staff visit China

Sue, Adrian and Angus visited Beijing in September. They attended two different publishing conferences and then spent time at the 5th Beijing International Book Fair. They were able to meet with a wide range of people: publishers, alumni and future students. One of the purposes of the trip was to launch the new Postgraduate Certificate in Publishing which is being delivered as a summer school for Chinese students. An extremely well attended seminar was held at the fair to launch this programme. Further web site info More photos here

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International Summer School in Publishing - 2005

A new section of the web site has been added to the Publishing department; The International Summer School in Publishing will be running for Chinese students in 2005. See further details of the Summer School here.

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British Book Design and Production Awards Shortlist

The judging for the British Book Design and Production Awards 04 has now been completed and the following entrants have been shortlisted. The standard was extremely high and the judges had to make some difficult choices. The list of finalists can be found here. The winners of each category will be announced at the Awards Dinner at The Brewery on 9 November and to ensure your place at the dinner please download the ticket application form from [url=http://www.britishprint.com]http://www.britishprint.com[/url] or contact Sheila Branch at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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Electronic Publishing Prizes

Harcourt Education, a publishing company with local offices in Oxford, have been involved with the MA electronic publishing module for the third year running. Small teams of students have developed new electronic prototype products based on Harcourt’s Heinemann secondary school books. At the end of the module the prototype websites were presented and in addition to each one being graded as normal, representatives from Harcourt were in attendance to choose first and second prize winners.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 28 Jun 2004 around 7am

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