Artists’ Books as Material Objects of Resistance in The Digital Age (Keynote at by Dr. Paul Uhlmann, 07.30 BST, 21 April 2020 @ELPUB_conf)

Dr. Paul Uhlmann PhD (RMIT); MA (ANU); BA (ANU) Edith Cowan University, Australia Paul Uhlmann is a Fremantle based artist whose work strives to question and translate philosophies of impermanence. He works experimentally across the mediums of painting, printmaking, drawing and artists’ books – at times employing the mechanics of simple cameras obscura. He isContinue reading “Artists’ Books as Material Objects of Resistance in The Digital Age (Keynote at by Dr. Paul Uhlmann, 07.30 BST, 21 April 2020 @ELPUB_conf)”

Open Science and its infrastructure has never been more important (Keynote by Vanessa Proudman at 10.00 BST, 21 April 2020)

Vanessa Proudman (SPARC Europe, The Netherlands) Open Science and its infrastructure has never been more important Vanessa Proudman Director, SPARC Europe, The Netherlands Vanessa has over 20 years’ international experience working with many leading university libraries worldwide. She also headed information and IT at a UN-affiliated international research institution in Vienna for 10 years. She has also beenContinue reading “Open Science and its infrastructure has never been more important (Keynote by Vanessa Proudman at 10.00 BST, 21 April 2020)”

Reconstructing “Lost” Early Islamic Texts: the Earliest Versions of Ibn Isḥāq’s Sīrah (Keynote by Prof. Kevin Jaques at 20.50 BST, 21 April 2020)

Prof. Kevin Jaques Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington Kevin Jaques has been an associate professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University since 2001. He has written two books, Authority, Conflict, and the Transmission of Diversity in Medieval Islamic Law (Brill, 2006) and Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (773-852/1372-1449) (Oxford,Continue reading “Reconstructing “Lost” Early Islamic Texts: the Earliest Versions of Ibn Isḥāq’s Sīrah (Keynote by Prof. Kevin Jaques at 20.50 BST, 21 April 2020)”

OA in an oasis (revisited): The Growth of Open Access in the Arab World (Keynote by Dr. Alwaleed Alkhaja at 18.00 BST, 21 April 2020)

Dr. Alwaleed Alkhaja Senior Intellectual Property Librarian Qatar National Library With experience in scholarly publishing and a background in scientific research, he is an open access advocate and avid supporter of accessible and equitable knowledge. He has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the International Max Planck Research School of Molecular Biology in Goettingen, Germany,Continue reading “OA in an oasis (revisited): The Growth of Open Access in the Arab World (Keynote by Dr. Alwaleed Alkhaja at 18.00 BST, 21 April 2020)”