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"Beyond Crisis: Restoring the Creative Partnership between Authors and Publishers" - Lecture by Mark Simpson-Vos

Apr 17, 2025

03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

111 Church Street, Obermann Center Library

111 Church Street, Iowa City, IA 52245

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Mark Simpson-Vos

At this public lecture, Mark Simpson-Vos — Senior Executive Editor at University of North Carolina Press — will discuss the way commentators have since the 1970s routinely trotted out the idea that scholarly publishing is in crisis, and how the stance of publishers in particular has been to shrug off such ideas. In this moment, however, it is impossible to ignore the deep strains within the scholarly publishing ecosystem, amidst increasingly turbulent times for American higher education. Lament over these circumstances is easy to find, and necessary. But for those of us committed to the life of the mind and the power of the word, we need to focus on the art of the possible and get serious about doing what we can to ease the strains. Simpson-Vos will offer ideas for what can be done, centered on the time-tested values of peer reviewed scholarly content, the public goods ideals of the university, and a sense of common cause between authors and publishers, writers and editors. 

Free and open to all, but RSVP by April 9 is required.

This event is part of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies's new Editor-in-Residence program, which connects University of Iowa faculty and graduate student researchers with university press editors. The program is funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research's Writing for the Public Good P3 initiative.

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