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Privilege & Property promoted in copyright blog
Posted: 25/06/2010
Our new publication, Privilege and Property. Essays on the History of Copyright has received a glowing endorsement by a copyright blog. The blogger is also supportive of our publishing model. Click here to read the full post.
Access the blog here for further discussion on all things copyright.
Coleridge's Laws - Publication of the Week
Posted: 30/04/2010
Buckingham University has awarded Barry Hough's and Howard Davis's Coleridge's Laws. A Study of Coleridge in Malta their 'publication of the week'.
The book's contribution to studies of Coleridge, Malta and British history is recognised by this recent accolade.
William St Clair to give seminar: Viewing the Acropolis through the ages.
Posted: 09/04/2010
Open Book Publishers is pleased to announce details of a forthcoming seminar by William St Clair, author of That Greece Might Still Be Free. Please see below for further details, and we hope to see you there.
'Venerable monitors.' Viewing the Acropolis of Athens through the ages.
William St Clair. Tuesday 18 May 2010; 6.30 pm.
Room G22/26 Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet St., London. WC1E 7HU.
Joint seminar by the Institute of English Studies and Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
In this illustrated talk, William St Clair will discuss the viewing conventions of three main constituencies, the people of Athens, visitors from abroad, and those who saw Athens only in their imaginations. Starting with the Enlightenment, when modern genres of viewing were formalised, and going back through chronological layers, he suggests how his approach can help reconstruct how the Acropolis was viewed in antiquity.
His starting point is that it was the viewers who made the meanings.
The talk will include images never previously shown.
All welcome free of charge. Please contact events officer Jon Millington (Jon.Millington@sas.ac.uk) if you would like to attend or would like further information; you may also contact marketing manager and research assistant Georgina Hill (georgina@openbookpublishers.com) or William St Clair (ws214@cam.ac.uk).
Partnership with World Oral Literature Project at Cambridge University
Posted: 10/11/2009
The Oral Literature Series will work to preserve and promote the oral literatures of indigenous people by publishing materials on endangered traditions in innovative ways. Lying at the intersection of anthropology and linguistics, the study of oral genres is an exciting and developing field, but one with few publishing outlets. While linguists may relegate their textual corpus to an appendix, anthropologists similarly harvest elements of oral literature to make comparative or theoretical points. The richness and contextual meaning of oral narratives is thus often lost in the process. Combining print-on-demand technology with online delivery of multi-media content, the innovative publishing practices adopted by Open Book Publishers make the dissemination of such unique literary traditions possible for the first time. The World Oral Literature Project is committed to supporting the publication and dissemination of transcribed narrative works which have been collected, analysed and glossed by ethnographers, field linguists or local researchers, Open Book Publishers is proud to be working with them to achieve this.
Partnership with Re:Enlightenment Project at NYU and NYPL
Posted: 07/10/2009
The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines, imminently due for publication, will be the first title to emerge from this partnership.