Welcome to the our Post-Publishing Autumn Newsletter! Please find underneath a selection of recent updates from Post-Publishing researchers. You can sign up to receive our newsletter here.
Rebekka Kiesewetter has guest-edited a special issue of Culture Machine, a peer reviewed open-access journal of culture and theory, titled ‘Publishing after Progress’, which was published in September 2024. The issue addresses the tensions between contemporary institutional expectations of publishing and how individuals and communities actually want to engage – or are already are engaging – with publishing, based on their own values and expertise, and an understanding of their publishing needs in light of persistent inequalities in academia and scholarly publishing, as well as planetary crises and emergencies. Rebekka also wrote an introduction to this Culture Machine special issue, ‘Guest-Editorial Notes (after Progress?)’, which she understood as an attempt to move away from systemic and institutional pressures on academic (publishing) work and their effects. Additionally, she contributed an article, ‘Experiments towards Editing Otherwise’, in which she reflects on her editorial work in the context of this issue, which she understands as an attempt to move away from systemic and institutional pressures on academic (publishing) work and their effects. Rebekka also published the article ‘Reframing the “International” in UK International Scholarship: Perspectives on Diversity and Equity beyond English as Lingua Franca and Multilingualism’ in the special issue on Multilingual Publishing & Scholarship of theJournal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) co-edited by Janneke Adema, Alyssa Arbuckle, and Élika Ortega.
Clare Harvey gave a paper at the ‘Artists as Adaptors‘ symposium at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama on 19 September. Her paper, ‘Co-authoring with Forgotten Voices’, explored the legal, ethical and creative challenges associated with using remix to adapt memoir into fiction.
The fourth print issue of the other side of hope will be published on 15 October. This literary magazine, featuring work of migrant writers and poets, has been founded and co-edited by Alexandros Plasatis and is supported by Arts Council England. The magazine contains short stories, poems, non-fiction pieces, prose, and artworks from the Debordering futures: racial capitalism, coloniality and migrant justice conference held at the University of Cambridge in May 2024. On 6 November, Alexandros, together with other contributors to the other side of hope, will talk about their work at the National Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre in London.
Judith Fathallah participated in the panel ‘Open Access and Precarity in the Academic Landscape: Learning from the Experiences of Authors and Scholar-led Publishers’, at the OASPA conference 2024 in Portugal, together with Joe Deville (Lancaster University). The panel also featured Nonhlanhla (Noni) Dube of Lancaster University/SWAN and the Southern Women Academics Network. Judith further co-coordinated and chaired the final decision making panel for the Open Book Collective (OBC)’s Collective Development Fund (CDF) 2024 round Judith wrote a blog post explaining the lessons learned from this process and will give a presentation on the CDF and the OBC more generally at an OASPA webinar aimed at publishers from East Africa on 24 October. Judith will also be presenting on her experiences as an author at the Open Education Conference in October and she has been invited to chair a keynote panel at Fan Studies Network North America, on 20 October, host a discussion on true crime and fan studies, featuring Dr. Bethan Jones, Dr. Megan Hoffman, and Naomie Barnes.
Over the summer, Simon Bowie started a newsletter discussing his work with open source development and helping people to adopt open source in their own digital lives. You can read previous posts and subscribe at https://opensauce.simonxix.com/. Simon was invited to discuss his work on the Open Book Futures project with Open Research Scotland at their meeting on 10 October at Queen Margaret University (QMU), Edinburgh. Open Research Scotland provides ‘a voice for open research in Scotland, allow the sharing of best practice, facilitate opportunities for networking between stakeholders, and lobby on behalf of Scottish organisations’.
Eva Weinmayr published a new article together with Femke Snelting, titled ‘Committing to decolonial feminist practices of reuse’, in Culture Machine journal Vol. 23 ‘Publishing after Progress’ edited by Rebekka Kiesewetter. On 22 October, Eva will give a lecture titled ‘Critical Diversity Literacy in processes of editing and publishing’ at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany. She also will hold the artist talk ‘Publication as social, pedagogical, and political process’ in the PhD in Practice Research at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, on 13 November. Together with Lucie Kolb, Eva will talk about Teaching the Radical Catalog – A Syllabus at the International Closing Conference Cultural Heritage Data & Power. Exploring Digital Collections and Situated Knowledges in Film History and Beyond of the research project Aesthetics of Access happening from 14 to 16 November at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.
As Co-editor of the Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) Janneke Adema, together with Alyssa Arbuckle and Élika Ortega, published a special issue on Multilingual Publishing & Scholarship. This special issue collects and curates a set of reflections that illuminate the current state of multilingual publishing and demonstrate the actionable advances in multilingual projects, alongside a reflection on the editorial praxis of JEP. Janneke also published a new article, ‘Experimental Publishing as Collective Struggle. Providing Imaginaries for Posthumanist Knowledge Production’ in the journal Culture Machine, in its special issue Publishing after Progress (Volume 23, 2024), which was edited by Rebekka Kiesewetter.