Academic Publishing in the Humanities

Before booking a workshop, please make sure that you can attend for the entire duration.

Participation

For doctoral researchers in the humanities/social sciences.

Objectives

 The aims of the workshop are:

•     Understand authorship and publishing
•     Develop a critical position towards legacy practices
•     Find your own publishing strategies vis-à-vis open science/humanities
•     Become resilient to publish or perish stress

Content

Authorship as the basic for academic careers and knowledge production (?)

•     Publish or perish: the publishing zeitgeist and its limits
•     Publishing brands, publishers and publishing genres
•     Publishing metrics (impact factor, h-index, altmetrics, and a million more)
•     New developments: preprints, open access, open science/humanities, open X
•     Science communication
•     Publishing strategies: writing against uncertain futures

Further Information

If there are free spots, we also allow postdocs to participate.