From text generation in academic settings to the ethical challenges of using artificial intelligence in the publishing industry: Professor Christoph Bläsi takes a comprehensive look at AI in book studies – and far beyond. Since 2019, he has been one of three spokespersons for the KI@JGU network at #MainzUniversity 👉 https://www.magazine.uni-mainz.de/even-with-ai-high-quality-editing-remains-a-painful-process-for-those-involved-in-the-writing-process/
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CFP: Bookselling as Resistance September 10-12, 2025 Conference in Münster, Germany, combined with the annual meeting of the Bookselling Research Network (BRN) supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) Book historical work has been increasingly highlighting books - their publication, distribution and reception - in intersectional activist contexts, shining light on interconnections between community-building, politics and the book. In our conference, scheduled for September 2025 in...
With Margot Mellet (@mmellet) we have launched a call for propositions for the next issue of Studies in Book Culture (https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/memoires/):
Publishing Collectives: Creations, practices, engagements
Short abstract:
How do the publishing practices of these collectives evolve, change, or stabilize as they come into contact with digital culture? How do collectives steer publishing in navigating between the determination of practices through digital tools and the free appropriation of those tools? Amidst the various reconfigurations of the ways of doing publishing that collectives put forward, can we identify the moment at which a specific chain of production becomes established as the new paradigm?
Additional information:
https://www.usherbrooke.ca/gnec/pj/call_for_papers_mdl_no_34_ev.pdf
Deadline for the proposal in English or in French (short format, 300-word): September 1st, 2025.
Deadline for the completed papers (between 25,000 and 60,000 characters in length), if proposal accepted: March 1st, 2026.
If you have any questions, please write to me or react to this pouet!
Avec Margot Mellet (@mmellet) nous avons lancé un appel à contributions pour le prochain numéro de la revue Mémoires du livre (https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/memoires/) :
Créations, pratiques et engagements des collectifs éditoriaux
Résumé court :
Comment est-ce que les pratiques éditoriales de collectifs, au contact de la culture numérique, évoluent, changent ou se stabilisent ? Comment les collectifs permettent de faire naviguer l’édition entre déterminations des pratiques par les outils numériques et appropriation libre de ces outils ? Dans les reconfigurations des façons de faire de l’édition qu’ils proposent, à quel moment la chaîne de production se fige-t-elle et s’institue comme un nouvel ordre ?
Informations complètes :
https://www.usherbrooke.ca/grelq/actualites/nouvelles-du-grelq/details/55693 (et sur le site de Fabula : https://www.fabula.org/actualites/127840/appel-de-textes-pour-memoires-du-livres-studies-in-book-culture.html).
Date limite des propositions en français ou en anglais (format court de 300 mots) : 1er septembre 2025.
Dépôt des articles (format intégral entre 25 000 et 60 000 signes), si proposition acceptée : 1er mars 2026.
Si vous avez des questions vous pouvez m'écrire ou réagir à ce pouet !