Cultural Policy & Independent Publishing: Schedule

August 19, 2011 | Comments Off on Cultural Policy & Independent Publishing: Schedule

Schedule for 23rd August 2011 9.30-10am Arrivals and Coffee 10-10.15am Welcome and Introduction 10.15-11.15am The Publishing Ecosystem – André Schiffrin (The New Press) Chair: Claire Squires (University of Stirling) Discussion 11.15-11.30 Coffee/Tea 11.30-12.45pm Session 1: Coalitions of Value Chair: Femi Folorunso (Creative Scotland) Hugh Andrew (Birlinn) Jeremy Poynting (Peepal Tree Press) Nii Parkes (Flipped Eye) […]

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.

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 […]

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