Wanting Better: The Practice of Publishing for Practice Research 15/5/24

 

Wednesday 15 May, 2–4pm, ONLINE (register below for link) 

Overview

This online seminar will explore the fast-changing landscape of academic publishing from the point of view of practice-based arts research.

Format

The session will be a supportive environment for demystifying practical aspects of academic publishing and approaching bigger-picture issues about the changing mediascape for scholarly communication.

It will be framed by two short presentations that map some of key critical, political and practical realities facing researchers who want to contribute to publishing cultures that support (rather than restrict) the complexities and modalities of their research.

 

Presenters

The presentations will be given by two guest-speakers:

Dr Janneke Adema is a cultural and media theorist working in the fields of (book) publishing and digital culture. She is an Associate Professor in Digital Media at The Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University. Her research explores the future of scholarly communications and experimental forms of knowledge production. In addition to her various publications, she also supports a variety of scholar-led, not-for-profit publishing projects, including the Radical Open Access Collective, Open Humanities Press, ScholarLed, and Post Office Press (POP), the Copim community, and the Open Book Futures project. You can follow her research on openreflections.wordpress.com.

Dr William Urricchio is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Media Studies at MIT and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University. Until 2023, he led the MIT Open Documentary Lab and was Principal Investigator of the Co-Creation Studio. His research considers the interplay of media technologies and cultural practices in relation to representation, knowledge, and publics. He is interested in the narrative possibilities of ‘unstable’ media and their implications as cultural operating systems for the representation of reality and social cohesion.

 

You can find Open Access editions of their most recent books via the following links, courtesy of MIT Press:

Janneke Adema’s Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities

William Urrichio’s co-authored book, Collective Wisdom: Creating Media for Equity and Justice

 

Who’s it for?

The discussion is intended to support those who want to begin or grow their publication plans for arts-practice research, from PGR to ECR level, but all career-stages and points of view are welcome.

It will also be of relevance to scholars with a non-arts research practice who want to make a creative shift into collaborative, experimental, or non-proprietary modes of publishing.

 

Send your questions

To help orient the seminar and get the advice you really want, please submit any questions or topics you’d like us to directly address with your registration form, or by emailing Nick Thurston: n.thurston@leeds.ac.uk by Thursday 9 May.

 

Register

Postgraduate students and staff from across the University of Leeds are welcome.

Registering is quick and easy with your @leeds.ac.uk email, via this link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=qO3qvR3IzkWGPlIypTW3y3u7sZyeAzpMtAUhmyLVCmJUQlhQWk00WTVDV0NHMkgxUU1UQjI2VkIxUS4u