Utopia on the Tabletop

Utopia on the Tabletop is a forthcoming collection of scintillating interventions and essays about tabletop roleplaying games and their relation to utopian theory and practice. It is being edited by Jo Lindsay Walton and supported by the Sussex Humanities Lab’s Open Practice group. Contributors include:

• Emma French
• Francis Gene-Rowe
• Grant Brewer
• Kelsey Paige Mason
• Lesley Guy
• Vivek Santayana
• Felix Rose Kawitzky
• Nicholas Stefanski
• Maurits W. Ertsen
• Rafael Carneiro Vasques, Vitor Celli Caria, and Matheus Capovilla Romanetto
• Benjamin Platt
• Grace A.T. Worm
• Allan Hughes and Mark Jackson
• Jess Wind
• Nicholas J. Mizer
• Jo Lindsay Walton
• Rok Kranjc
• Kellyn Wee

More to be confirmed!

The collection will launch in early 2023 [UPDATE: OK, late 2023]. It will be a collaboration with MAH’s new imprints Ping Press and Both Are Worse. In the meanwhile, you can keep an eye on Vector, where you’ll be able to get a sneak peek at some of the chapters and interviews. See also the related Applied Hope Games Jam.

Open Academic Publishing

Open Academic Publishing: what it is, what it could become and why that matters.

We will be exploring open publishing in this online research seminar, covering both the fundamentals and the innovation. Free and open to all: please register here.

Lucy Barnes from Open Book Publishers will discuss how, as publishers, they have approached open access publication and also, her work with COPIM, the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs project.

Dr Arianna Ciula from King’s Digital Laboratory will share her experience of integrating digital publishing with the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) process.

Dr Tanya Kant, University of Sussex, will share her experiences of supporting researchers with open publication through REFRAME, an open access academic digital platform for online practice, publication and curation.