Anniversary Celebration: Middle East Studies, Digital Culture and Infrastructure

META is celebrating its five-year anniversary this year. With the forthcoming issue #10 on Infrastructure META marks the occassion by a get-together with associates, members, sponsors, colleagues, readers and friends. From the start META was committed to providing open access to knowledge, to facilitate exchange within the international academic community and to actively contribute to the interregional transfer of knowledge. In consideration of our past achievements and future challenges we would be delighted to welcome you at the CNMS in Marburg this summer!

It is our great pleasure to host Prof. Michael Allan (Comparative Literature, University of Oregon) for the Anniversary Lecture on "Reading Infrastructure: Format, Media, Text".

When: June 29, 2018, 6h15 pm

Where: CNMS, Deutschhausstraße 12, Hörsaal 00A26, 35037 Marburg

The academic event will be followed by a small reception at the event venue. We kindly ask you to register by responding to mail@meta-journal.net by June 15, 2018.

With kindest regards also on behalf of Stefan Weninger (dir. CNMS) as well as the entire CNMS team,

META editorial board

 

Program

18h15
Middle East Studies, Digital Culture and Infrastructure
Ines Braune (META Editorial Team)

18h30
Welcoming Speeches
Andrea Wolff-Wölk (Director of the University Library)
Stefan Weninger (Executive Director of the CNMS)

18h50
Academics Publish for Academics? Reflecting on Five Years of Publishing
META & #10 editors Amina Nolte (Sociology, JLU Gießen) and Ezgican Özdemir (Anthropology, CEU Budapest)

19h00
Anniversary Lecture on "Reading Infrastructure: Format, Media, Text" by Michael Allan (Comparative Literature, University of Oregon)

19h30
Roundtable Discussion: Open Access: The Future of Academic Publishing?
With Anika Oettler (Sociology, Marburg University), Michael Allan, Maike Neufend & Dimitris Soudias (META Editorial Team)

20h00
Reception