Event Highlights
Methods and Modes
Friday 8th February 2013
Forget the Book
Wednesday 9th October 2013
Feminist Writing Conference – Feminist Publishing in association with CREATE
6th June 2014
The question of what to write, how to write, and where to write have always been central to feminism. Writing matters not only in the dissemination of knowledge but to the creation of feminist publics. The history of feminism includes a history of materials that have been passed around. In this workshop we hope both to return to some of these histories of feminist writing.
This strand on writing, publishing and the politics of communication operates within the remit of the CREATe project Whose Book Is It Anyway? to open out debates on copyright, open access, and emergent business models in order to address the wider ethics and politics of communication inside and outside the academy. This politics is orientated not just towards a contest over, say, the future of the book as an analogue/digital object, but also towards questions of publishing ethics, care, relations, and process.
New Economic Models for Publishing – Value and Ethics
A CREATe round table event, hosted by NESTA September 19th 2014
Our second round table event was another candid conversation between industry professionals from both trade and academic publishing, novelists, poets, digital producers and economists operating in the creative sector.
Find out more about our speakers here:
Hasan Bakhshi – NESTA
Hasan leads NESTA’s creative and digital economy policy and research. His recent work includes co-authoring the Next Gen skills review of the video games and visual effects industries, and the Manifesto for the Creative Economy, which sets out ten recommendations by which governments can help creative economy grow.
http://www.nesta.org.uk/users/hasan-bakhshi
Nick Barreto – Digital Producer
Nicholas has, until recently, been at Quercus Books where he was instrumental in their various digital successes. He is an expert in digital production, metadata and innovative business models for publishing.
http://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/mountainhigh/
Sophie Rochester – The Literary Platform
Sophie founded the literary platform in 2009, initially as a free on-line resource dedicated to exploring the interface between literature and technology showcasing ground-breaking projects, and then as a specialist consultancy.
Evie Wyld – Writer and Bookseller
Evie’s second novel All The Birds, Singing won the Miles Franklin Award, the Encore Award, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize; was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the Sky Arts Times Breakthrough Award, and longlisted for the Stella Prize and the Bailey’s Prize. She also runs Review, an independent bookshop in Peckham.
http://www.eviewyld.com/
Helge Peters – Leuphana
Helge is a research assistant and member of Hybrid Publishing Lab and Leuphana University. His research interest lie at the intersection of media/cultural studies and science studies. Currently he is investigating the performativity of business modes in Open Access publishing.
http://www.leuphana.de/en/partners/innovation-incubator-lueneburg/digital-media.html
Eva Weinmayr – AND Publishing
Eva is one of the founders and directors of AND Publishing, a platform exploring print on demand technologies to publish conceptually driven artists’ books.
http://www.andpublishing.org/
Jamie Coleman – Literary Agent at Green and Heaton
Jamie joined Green and Heaton in June 2013 after six years working at Toby Eady Assosicates, as an agent and director.
Dan Trinder – Taylor and Francis
Dan is Associate Editorial Director at Taylor and Francis. He works on journals in the subject areas of business, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
http://taylorandfrancisgroup.com/journals/
Ros Pyne – Palgrave Pivot
Ros is Research and Development Manager in the Open Research team at Palgrave MacMillan.
http://www.palgrave.com/page/about-us-palgrave-pivot/
Geraldine Billingham – Bloomsbury
Geraldine is Editorial Director of Academic Journals and Major Reference Works at Bloomsbury publishing.
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic/for-authors/
Justine Solomons – Byte the Book/Autharium
Justine is Chief Commercial Officer at Autharium, Founder of Byte the Book, and Publisher in Residence at Kingston University
http://www.autharium.com
Professor Sarah Kember – Goldsmiths, University of London
Sarah is Professor of New Technologies of Communications and Goldsmiths. Her research focuses on digital media, questions of mediation and feminist science and technology studies.
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/kember/
Professor Janis Jefferies – Goldsmiths, University of London
Professor of Visual Arts, Janis is a, artist, writer, and curator. She is also Senior Research Fellow at Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles, Director of Goldsmiths Digital Studios, and Associate Pro Warden, Creative and Culture Industries.
http://www.gold.ac.uk/computing/staff/j-jefferies/
Friction and Fiction: IP, Copyright and Digital Futures
Conference 26th September 2015