Registration is open for the 12th GW Ethics in Publishing Conference. You can find the conference schedule below.
The 12th GW Ethics in Publishing Conference, with the theme of Ethics in Action, will be held Friday, October 14th, 2022, 9:00 am to 5:15 pm EST, in a hybrid format, with in-person and online presenters and attendees.
Registration is free of charge, both in-person and virtual.
We are fortunate to have a wonderful lineup of speakers and topics on the theme of Ethics in Action, on topics such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, gatekeeping in publishing, representation, open access, mentorship, and more. Our plenary will feature Kimberly Ayers Shariff, Executive Vice President, Director of Strategy for Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Penguin Random House, in conversation with Tina Donnelly, recent graduate of the MPS in Publishing program. Members of the Association of University Presses, Society of Scholarly Publishing, Library Publishing Coalition, and Association of American Publishers, as well as students and alumni of both the MPS in Publishing at GW and the MA in Book Publishing at Portland State University are among our presenters. We hope to see you there.
Please RSVP for the in-person event only if you plan to attend in-person in Washington, DC.; seating is limited and we will form a waiting list after 80 RSVPs.
In-person conference location:
National Churchill Leadership Center
Gelman Library, George Washington University
Free of charge
Schedule subject to change; all times listed EST
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022 | 9:00 am – 5:15 pm
9:15 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks
Puja Telikicherla, Licensing and Subsidiary Rights Manager, American Psychiatric Association
John W. Warren, Director and Associate Professor, Publishing, George Washington University
9:15 am – Plenary
Equity in Action: From Corporate Initiatives to Team Practices
Kimberly Ayers Shariff, Executive Vice President, Strategy for Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Penguin Random House
Moderator: Tina Donnelly, MPS, Managing Editorial Assistant, Penguin Random House
10:15 am – Representation and Editorial Boards
Building an Open Editorial Board
Anand Balasubramani, Journal Development Editor, American Society for Microbiology
Adrianna Borgia, Managing Editor, American Society for Microbiology
Not Checking a Box: Establishing DEI as a Foundation of the American Urological Association’s Flagship Journal
Jennifer Regala, Director of Publications/Executive Editor, American Urological Association
11:00 am – Access and Open Monographs
A “Third Way” to Sustainable Open Access Publishing
John Sherer, Director, University of North Carolina Press
Sharla Lair, Senior Strategist, Open Access and Scholarly Communication Initiatives, LYRASIS
Rebecce Seger, Vice President, Institutional Participation and Strategic Partnerships, ITHAKA
Lisa Croucher, Executive Director of the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN)
11:50 am-12:50 pm – Lunch Break
12:50 pm – Afternoon Welcome/Remarks
Liesl Riddle, PhD, Dean, College of Professional Studies, George Washington University
1:00 pm – Action in Accessibility
An Intersectional look at Disability in the U.S. Publishing Industry Workplace
Rachel Done Cubillas, MA (expected June 2023) Book Publishing, Portland State University
Publishing Accessibility Support Systems
Isabella Greene, MPS (expected June 2023), Project Manager, Pubvendo
Accessibility and the Idea of Belonging
John G. Samuel, Co-Founder and CEO, Ablr
2:15 pm – Gatekeeping and DEIA
Ethical Mentorship: Bringing Early-Career to the Table (Paths in Publishing)
Rachael Levay, Editor-in-Chief, University Press of Colorado
Allegra Martschenko, Acquisitions Editor, University Press of Colorado
Brian Halley, Executive Editor, University of Massachusetts Press
Taking Action to Interrupt Racism in the Scholarly Publishing Industry (C4DISC)
Alejandra Mejía, Assistant Acquisitions Editor, Duke University Press
Martha A. Anderson, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Head of Digital Services, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Libraries
3:15 pm – Peer Review and Preservation
Reducing Bias in Peer Review Through Automated Authorship Checks
Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Director, Scholars & Scholarship, Association of Research Libraries; Co-Founder, Ripeta
Journal Preservation: What Should be Included?
Johanna Meetz, Publishing and Repository Services Librarian, Ohio State University
4:15 pm – Gatekeeping and Trade Publishing
Gatekeeping in Publishing
Tina Donnelly, MPS, Managing Editorial Assistant, Penguin Random House
Systemic Barriers That Exclude BIPOC Authors From Literary Awards and the Proposed Solutions to Evoke Change
Devyn Yan Radke, MA, Communications Manager, WildBlue Press
5:00 pm – Closing Remarks
HOSTED BY:
Master of Professional Studies in Publishing program at the George Washington University
SPONSORED BY:
- The Association of University Presses (AUPresses)
- The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)
- Association of American Publishers (AAP)
CONFERENCE CO-ORGANIZERS:
- Puja Telikicherla, American Psychiatric Association Publishing and George Washington University
- John W. Warren, George Washington University
See also the Call for Papers for the GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing.
