The Public Humanities Hub is sponsoring or co-sponsoring 4 linked events for UBC Humanities scholars writing monographs:
December 8, 2022 | Publishing Your First Book: The Presses’ Perspectives
Bring your questions to a Webinar featuring experienced editors from three Canadian university presses. Our panelists include James MacNevin (Senior Editor, UBC Press), Mark Thompson (Acquisitions Editor, University of Toronto Press), and Jonathan Crago (Editor in Chief, McGill-Queen’s University Press). Moderated by Mary Chapman (UBC Department of English)
January 19, 2023 | Publishing Your First Book: A Seminar for Pre-Tenure Faculty: The Authors’ Perspectives
This informal session is designed for pre-tenure faculty members who are preparing to publish their first peer-reviewed research monograph. Bring your questions about writing and revising, pitches and proposals, editors and presses, peer review and production—anything!
Our panelists include experienced faculty authors Chris Lee (ENGL and Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies UBC), Chris Rea (UBC Asian Studies), and Heidi Tworek (UBC Department of History and UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs). On Zoom OR In-person with lunch at Buchanan Tower room 225. Co-sponsored with UBC Faculty of Arts.
February 9, 2023 | Publishing in the Public Humanities
How do you publish on a co-creative community collaboration, a scholarly podcast, or a multimedia project that respects Indigenous protocols? How do you co-publish with a non-university community partner? What does peer review look like for publicly engaged scholarship?
For this panel and mini workshop event, we’ve invited three editors representing different university presses in Canada and the U.S. to present on publication opportunities for publicly engaged work.
February 21, 2023 | A Workshop on Book Proposals led virtually by Courtney Berger, Executive Editor, Duke University Press
10 UBC Humanities Scholars who are completing monograph manuscripts and will have a book proposal ready to exchange by early February will be selected to participate in a 2-hour workshop, followed by virtual half-hour one-on-ones with Courtney later in the week. This workshop is free but by application only. Although the workshop will be geared toward faculty members who are writing their first monograph, it will be open to all faculty members doing Humanities research in the UBC Faculty of Arts, UBC Faculty of Education, and Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC-Vancouver. Deadline for application is January 16, 2023.