Summer School Conference

By the Book

THE BOOK AND THE STUDY OF ITS DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Publishing Studies Conference

Organization

Benoît Berthou (Sorbonne Paris Cité University, LABSIC-Research Center for Information and Communications Sciences,France)

Miha Kovač (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Angus Phillips (Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, United Kingdom)

Associate partners

Association for Publishing Education

Brill

Federation of European Publishers

PROGRAM

Friday 23 May

09:00 am OPENING – Benoît Berthou, Miha Kovač, Angus Phillips

09:20 - 11:00 am  SESSION 1 - Understanding innovation

Gavin Stewart (University of Bedfordshire, UK), "Foucault's Ghost?: The phenomenology of privacy and breach within the e-reading experience"

 Alexis Weedon (University of Bedfordshire, UK), "A leap in innovation? The digital book as disruptive technology"

 Claudio Pires Franco (University of Bedfordshire, UK), "The digital book (r)evolution: Barriers to innovation"

 Rose Leighton (Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherland), "A publishing studies museum"

PAUSE

11:20 am - 01:00 pm SESSION 2 - Readership evolution?

Nick Canty (University College London, UK), "Books, bricks and literary boosters"

 Iain Stevenson (University College London, UK), "The gift is mine, the choice is thine: Book Tokens and the expansion of reading"

 Laura Dietz (Anglia Ruskin University, UK), "Life as a novel after death as a book? Reputation and legitimacy of post-print fiction"

 Louis Wiart (Sorbonne Paris Cité University, France), "The economics and business models of book social networks in France"

LUNCH

2.00 - 3.20 pm SESSION 3 -  Book sectors 1: Academic publishing

Lara Speicher (University College London, UK), "Open access publishing of scholarly monographs in universities"

 Mary Ann Kernan (City University London, UK), "The impact of globalization on academic publishing: A Routledge case study, 1960 to 2013"

 Nicolas Malais (Paris West University), "Book digitalization and the future of research libraries"

PAUSE

3.40 - 5.20 pm SESSION 4 - Book globalization and national identities

Frania Hall (London College of Communication, UK), "Digital convergence and collaboration culture - Publishing in the context of the wider creative industries"

 Melanie Ramdarshan-Bold (Loughborough University, UK), "National and regional identity in a global context: Cultural constructions in the globalized publishing field"

 Elena Macevičiute and Tom Wilson (University of Borås, Sweden), "The ebook phenomenon in Sweden"

 Daniel Boswell (Anglia Ruskin University, UK), "Catalan publishing in the twentieth century"

Saturday 24 May

09:00 - 10:20 am SESSION 5 - Book sectors 2: Non-fiction and heritage

Heiko Hartmann (HTWK, Leipzig, Germany), "How digital publishing creates new kinds of printed books. The evolution of non-fiction (travel guides, atlases, cookbooks) in print"

 Rachel Noorda (University of Stirling, Scotland), "Books as souvenirs: The tourism and heritage book market"

PAUSE

10:40 am - 12:00 pm SESSION 6 – Toward new teaching models?

Judith Watts (Kingston University, London, UK), "Catching up with the past: the use of historical case studies in a contemporary curriculum"

 Anke Vogel and Corinna Norrick-Ruhl (Mainz Institute for Book Studies, Germany), "Teaching sustainability: Bringing "green publishing" to the book studies classroom"

 Liam Borgstrom (University of Pretoria, South Africa), "Teaching publishing architecture"

12:00 - 13:00 pm SESSION 7 - Teaching publishing in the digital age

Elizabeth le Roux (University of Pretoria, South Africa), "How should we teach book publishing in this time of digital transformation? A view from the South"

 Anna Faherty (Kingston University, UK), "Pedagogy for digital publishing"

LUNCH

02:00 - 3:20 pm SESSION 8 – Studying publishing 1 – national approaches

Sophie Noël (Sorbonne Paris Cité University, France), "Is there a specific approach to publishing studies in France? Provisional assessment and methodological proposals"

 Nives Tomašvićand Ivana Ljevak (University of Zadar, Croatia), "The current state of publishing studies in Croatia"

 Aušra Navickiene (Vilnius University), "The system of publishing studies in Lithuania: Experiences and prospects"

PAUSE

03:40 - 05:00 pm SESSION 9 – Studying publishing 2 – methodological approaches

Steve Marsden (University of Stirling, Scotland), "By the book: the book and the study of its digital transformation"

 Zoran Velagićand Franjo Pehar (University of Zadar, Croatia), "Methodological approaches to modern publishing: Current constrains and future prospects"

 Bertrand Legendre (Sorbonne Paris Cité University, France), "Publishing researches: the Socio-economical approach"

05:00 pm CONCLUSIONS – Benoît Berthou, Miha Kovač, Angus Phillips

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