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A one-day Conference organised by the Institute of Historical Research, University of London in association with Reviews in History to be held on Wednesday 15 December 1999 in the Beveridge Hall, Senate House Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
It is widely believed that scholarly publishing is in crisis and that even the most reputable and famous university presses are no longer as committed to the publication of academic monographs as they once were. Yet at the same time, the Research Assessment Exercise puts young historians, in their first university teaching jobs, under unprecedented pressure to get their doctoral dissertations into print. This uncertain and contradictory state of affairs is rendered even more problematic by the implications of electronic publishing, which may subvert the whole idea of scholarly monographs traditionally produced between hard covers.
The purpose of this conference is to draw together publishers, editors and young scholars to exchange views on these matters and to provide more reliable information on this important but vexed subject than has hitherto been available. Given the undoubted importance of this subject, we hope to attract a large and engaged audience.
Conference Programme
10.00 Coffee and Registration
10.30 Introduction and Welcome
Professor David Cannadine (Institute of Historical Research),
10.35 Research Funding and the Future of the Monograph
Professor Paul Langford (Arts and Humanities Research Board),
Chr: Professor David Cannadine
11.15 Publishers' Session
Chair: Mr Andrew McLennan (Longmans, OUP)
Dr Robert Baldock (Yale University Press)
Mr Richard Fisher (Cambridge University Press)
Ms Ruth Parr (Oxford University Press)
Mr Martin Sheppard (Hambledon)
Dr John Smedley (Ashgate Publishing)
12.30 Lunch
1.50 Electronic Publishing
Professor John Corrigan (Arizona State University),
Chair: Dr Steven Smith (Institute of Historical Research)
2.30 Editors' Session
Chair: Professor Andrew Pettegree (St Andrews)
Professor Martin Daunton (Churchill College, Cambridge)
Professor Rosamond McKitterick (Newnham College, Cambridge)
Professor Colin Matthew (St Hugh's College, Oxford, new Dictionary of National Biography)
Professor John Morrill (Selwyn College, Cambridge)
3.45 Tea
4.15 Authors' Session
Chair: Dr Philip de Souza (St Mary's, Strawberry Hill)
Dr Nergis Canefe (Institute of Historical Research) Dr Maria Dowling (St Mary's, Strawberry Hill)
Dr Jonathan Morris (UCL)
Professor Patrick O'Brien (Institute of Historical Research)
5.30 The Monograph and the Research Assessment Exercise
Professor Michael Prestwich (Durham),
Chair: Professor David Cannadine
6.15 Reception in the Crush Hall
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