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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

RSVP In-Person Event

RSVP Virtual Conference

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.