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| Fighting with words against inequality, poverty and war
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies (OICPS) at Oxford Brookes University -- the unit that worked with the branch on our initiative on Quality in Academic and Educational Publishing -- is holding a conference for people who write and publish for a fairer, more inclusive, peaceful and sustainable world.
Topics include:
- Finding funding and making a living in the cause of social change
- Mainstream media: how do we compete? (or work with them?)
- Digital media and the internet: techniques, opportunities, costs and case-studies.
- Can commercial publishers make a difference? (Who are today's Victor Gollanczes?)
- What role can fiction play? (Who are today's Victor Hugos?)
Firoze Manji from the Oxford-based pan-African human-rights information network Fahamu, and Chris Brazier from the Oxford-based New Internationalist magazine will be among the speakers, alongside Sarah Sexton and Larry Lohman of the Corner House, the research group that recently brought the Government and BAe Systems Ltd to court over alleged irregularities in arms sales, Rahila Gupta of the Southall Black Sisters, and others.
Registration is £25.00 (£10.00 conc). For further information, contact Bob Hughes at
bhughes@brookes.ac.uk, phone: (01865) 726804 and 07968 292499
AW 2009-03-05
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