Resources: Elements & Best Practices continued
Day 1 Monday July 18, 2022
Platform Matters III: WordPress — The Author’s Perspective
Rebecca Schneider, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University and author of Standing Still Moving: Arts of Gesture in Lateral Time (in progress)
Break
WordPress Training Session
Jake Camara, Founder and President, Jake and Company
Break
WordPress Training Session (Cont’d)
Day 1 wrap-up
Day 2 Tuesday July 19, 2022
Design Matters: Considerations and Strategies
Crystal Brusch, Digital Publications Designer, Brown University
Willow Rambert, Digital Design Director, Studio Rainwater
Break
Integrating Narrative and Design
Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, Brown University and author of A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures (MIT Press, 2022)
Victoria Hindley, Acquisitions Editor, Visual Culture and Design, MIT Press
Day 2 wrap-up
Day 3 Wednesday July 20, 2022
Preservation
Andrew Majcher, Head, Digital Services and Records Management, Brown University
Jasmine Mulliken, Production and Preservation Manager for Digital Projects, Stanford University Press
Break
Copyright and Fair Use Policies
Patricia Fidler, Publisher for Art and Architecture, Yale University Press
Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Day 3 wrap-up
Day 4 Thursday July 21, 2022
Funding Opportunities
Renée Ater, Provost Visiting Professor in Africana Studies, Brown University and author of Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past (in progress)
Elaine Sullivan, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz and author of Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara (Stanford University Press, 2020)
Break
Pitches and Proposals
Walter Biggins, Editor in Chief, University of Pennsylvania Press
Hannah Brooks-Motl, Assistant Acquisitions Editor, Amherst College Press & Lever Press
Sara Jo Cohen, Senior Acquiring Editor, University of Michigan Press
Dawn Durante, Editor in Chief, University of Texas Press
Friederike Sundaram, Senior Editor for Digital Projects, Stanford University Press
Caitlin Tyler-Richards, Acquisitions Editor, Michigan State University Press
Day 4 wrap-up