Cultural Policy and Independent Publishing: forthcoming

May 30, 2011 | Comments Off on Cultural Policy and Independent Publishing: forthcoming

A seminar on Cultural Policy will be held on 22-23 August 2011. Further details will be posted here shortly. Please contact us at publishing@stir.ac.uk if you would like more details of this event.

Schedule for Globalisation and Independent Publishing

May 30, 2011 | Comments Off on Schedule for Globalisation and Independent Publishing

The schedule for the Globalisation and the Independent Publishing conference can be found here.

Keynote speaker: Simon Gikandi

May 30, 2011 | Comments Off on Keynote speaker: Simon Gikandi

We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. He will be speaking on: The Scene of Reading and the Literary Market Place: Some Postcolonial Reflections This lecture will reflect on the intimate and intricate relationship between texts and their readers in the […]

Schedule for Digital Technologies and Independent Publishing

May 30, 2011 | Comments Off on Schedule for Digital Technologies and Independent Publishing

The full schedule for the Digital Technologies and Independent Publishing conference can be found here.

Keynote speaker: Chris Meade

May 26, 2011 | Comments Off on Keynote speaker: Chris Meade

We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Chris Meade, the Director of if:book, the think and do tank exploring the future of the book in the digital age. A digital writer and blogger at www.bookfutures.com, he was previously CEO of Booktrust and the Poetry Society, with a track record of running […]

Keynote speaker: André Schiffrin

May 19, 2011 | Comments Off on Keynote speaker: André Schiffrin

André Schiffrin, publisher and author of The Business of Books and Words and Money will present the keynote lecture for the Cultural Policy seminar,  in association with Publishing Scotland. This talk looks at the wider crisis of the media that Schiffrin says is contributing to the demise of serious journalism in newspapers. He compares the […]