Publish or perish. Designing research for publication in the Humanities and the Social Sciences
Datum: 30.04.2019, Uni Bern, Uni Mittelstrasse, Mittelstrasse 43, Raum 216
Datum: 07.05.2019, Uni Bern, 117, Hauptgebäude, Hochschulstrasse 4, Raum 117
Zeit: jeweils 09:30 – 17:30 Uhr
Content
How do you bring your scholarly research to the published conclusion it deserves? How does the acceptance process function in publishing?
That is what we will discuss in these two workshops which look at the why’s and how’s of writing and publishing research. We will examine and discuss the writing process, from abstract to finished article or thesis, paying particular attention to the writing and presenting of participants’ own research as well as critically reviewing that of others. We will also explore the various possibilities for publishing your research in the form of a PhD thesis, individual articles targeted at specific journals, or an academic book, identifying crucial elements such as choosing a research design, writing your PhD thesis or articles or your book proposals and the various steps to publication as well as the refereeing process.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the course, participants will know:
- How to move quickly to publication
- How to master the basics of research and publication
- How to develop problem-solving strategies for writing
- How to improve the communication of their research for publication
Please note: This is not a language course / Participants need to bring their own laptop / Prior to the workshop participants are asked to send an abstract of a current paper or project to the instructor, cljung@es.uzh.ch.
Christina Ljungberg
Prof. Dr. Christina Ljungberg is a literary scholar with several years of media experience in Swedish and Canadian film and television. She has been teaching English and American literature and culture at the University of Zurich since 1995 and courses in writing and publishing at the University Zurich Graduate Campus since its start in 2010. Her many books and articles, most recently Creative Dynamics (John Benjamins, 2012) and Thinking with Diagrams (with Sybille Krämer, De Gruyter, 2016), focus mainly on ways of mapping knowledge and the intermedial function of maps and photographs in literature and art. She is the coordinator of the Iconicity Research Project, www.iconicity.ch (together with Prof. Dr. Olga Fischer, University of Amsterdam), and General Editor of the series “Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL)” (John Benjamins). Her new project, "Imaginary Wanderings - Making the invisible visible", concerns the development of a new type of interactive cultural communication, http://imaginary-wanderings.com. She is also currently preparing a collection of essays on the interrelations between verbal and visual media.
