The Academia Europaea & The Wenner-Gren Foundations International Symposium:
Publishing in Academia: Digital Challenges#
May 10-12, 2023 at the Wenner-Gren Centre, Stockholm, Sweden#
Organizing Committee: Lars Engwall MAE (Chair), Kirsten Drotner MAE, Theo d’Haen MAE and Marcel Swart MAE
Draft Program#
Wednesday May 10#
1230-1300: Registration
1300-1315: Welcome and Introduction
1315-1400: Key-note: State of the Art
Johan Rooryck, MAE, Open Access Champion
1400-1415: Break
1415-1615 Session 1: Publishing industry
Chris Graf, Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE and Springer Nature)
Dominic Mitchell, Operations Manager, Directory of Open Access Journals
Masja Horn, Brill Publishing
1615-1645: Coffee Break
1645-1815: Session 2: The Role of Libraries
Lars Burman, Chief Librarian of Uppsala University
Alexandra Vraneŝ, Library Studies, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
1830 Welcome Reception and Buffet Dinner
Thursday May 11#
0900-1030 Session 3: Repercussions for early career researchers
Marina Rantanen Modeer, Board Member, Marie Curie Alumni Association
Representative of the European Organization of Doctoral Students (Name later)
Representative of the Young Academy of Europe (Name later)
1030-1100: Coffee
1100-1230 Session 4: The inclusiveness target countries
George Sharvashidze MAE, Rector of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Georgia, Former Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia
Liviu Papadina, Dean of Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest
1230-1330: Lunch
1330-1500 Session 5: Beyond Europe (TdH)
Abel Parker, SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library On Line), a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publisher for open access journals for Latin America and Caribbean
Chengzhou He, Dean of Arts, Nanjing University
1500-1515: Coffee Break
1515-1715: Session 6: Quality assessment of OA publishing
Sven Stafström, Director General, the Swedish Research Council
Sierd Cloetingh MAE, Past President Academia Europaea, Vice President ERC
Charlotte Wien, Director of Research, University Library of Southern Denmark
1800 Dinner Boat Trip
Friday May 12#
0900-1030 Session 7: Repercussions for senior researchers
Stefan Helgesson, Professor of English, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (TD: Confirmed 2022)
Christine Musselin MAE, Professor of Sociology, SciencePo, Paris, France (LE: Confirmed 2022)
1030-1100: Coffee
1100-1230 Session 8: Financial consequences for universities
Astrid Söderbergh-Widding MAE, Rector of Stockholm University, Sweden
Luc Sels MAE, KU Leuven, Belgium (TBC)
1230-1300: Concluding Remarks
1300-1400: Lunch
Download the preliminary programme
