Author Posts

The End of the World: ten years later

Maria Manuel Lisboa reflects on her book, 'The End of the World: Apocalypse and its Aftermath in Western Culture' ten years after its publication, and considers what it has to tell us today.

Author Posts

Open books from OBP: A showcase

A showcase of freely accessible academic books - from anthologies to philosophical tracts to books on film and quotation - all introduced by their authors.

Author Posts

Coronavirus, inequality and the ‘tipping point’

Mark O'Brien draws on the lessons from his book, 'Just Managing? What it Means for the Families of Austerity Britain' to discuss the very different experiences of the coronovirus emergency at either end of the UK’s social spectrum.

Online conferences

Successful econferences: examples and case studies

This post presents some examples and in-depth case studies of successful online conferences.

Online conferences

Time management and Continuous Partial Attention

The simultaneous focus on multiple technologies and social contexts in conferences settings creates opportunities as well as problems for researchers.

Online conferences

Are virtual conferences good enough?

Socially constructed obstacles to virtual conference adoption are large, but fragile. Change will be driven by improvements in technology, increased networked literacy and pressure to restrain costs – both financial and ecological.

Online conferences

What do conferences do—and can econferences replace them?

Why do we have academic conferences at all, and what are the affordances and constraints of online conferences in meeting these needs?

Online conferences

Econferences: why and how? A blog series

We are all having to learn how to do more remotely, now and for the foreseeable future. This series of blog posts, drawn from 'Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene', deals with the why, the what and the how of online conferences.

Linguistics

'The Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew'

The term ‘Biblical Hebrew’ is generally used to refer to the form of the language that appears in the printed editions of the Hebrew Bible and it is this form that it is

Author Posts

The Shifting Politics of Representations of the Himalaya: From Colonial Authority to Open Access

On an uncharacteristically sunny afternoon in late September, 50 students, staff and faculty gathered at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies [https://pwias.ubc.ca/event/book-launch-the-politics-language-contact-in-the-himalaya] in Vancouver to celebrate the

Popular science has a formula

A Society of Meta-Organizations

On Colonial Knowledge, Africa, and Imperial Russia

Choose Your Own Adventure

The End of the World: ten years later

Open books from OBP: A showcase

Coronavirus, inequality and the ‘tipping point’

Successful econferences: examples and case studies

Time management and Continuous Partial Attention

Are virtual conferences good enough?

What do conferences do—and can econferences replace them?

Econferences: why and how? A blog series

'The Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew'

The Shifting Politics of Representations of the Himalaya: From Colonial Authority to Open Access