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Conference program
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Conference program
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Wednesday 12 October 2005
Pre-conference program
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Session title
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3:00-5:30 pm
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Field trip to Lonely Planet (depart Eden on the Park 3:00 pm)
Field trip to BPA Print Group (depart Eden on the Park 3:00 pm)
BELS exam (Parkside Room 3, registration 2:00-3:00 pm, exam 3:00-6:00 pm)
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Thursday 13 October 2005
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Session title
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8:30-10:00 am
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Registration
Coffee available from 8:30 am, breakfast from 9:15 am
Trade fair open throughout the conference
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10:00-10:50 am
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Welcome (Room 4 & 5)
Welcome to country Caroline Briggs, Boonerwrung Elders Land Council
Katya Johanson and Robin Bennett, Council of Australian Societies of Editors (CASE)
Liz Steele, President, Society of Editors (Victoria) Inc.
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10:50-11:20 am
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Opening address (Room 4 & 5)
Peter Donoughue, Managing Director, John Wiley & Sons Australia
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Theme: Transition
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11:20 am-12:00 pm
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Keynote address (Room 4 & 5)
Editors in transition
Michael Webster, Subject Coordinator, Grad Dip Editing and Publishing, RMIT, and Principal, Nielsen BookScan Australia
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12:00-1:00 pm
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Lunch
Health and wellbeing workshop (Nellie Melba Room)
Yoga with Frank Jesse, Clifton Hill Yoga Studio
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1:00-1:50 pm
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Presentation (Room 4)
'W(h)ither our English?' - language and change
Kate Burridge
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Presentation (Room 3)
'What's the Big Deal? It's Only a Kid's Book!'
Maryann Ballantyne, Marjory Gardner, Denise Ryan and Carole Wilkinson
Chair: Lisa Berryman
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Panel (Room 2)
Dancing on the head of a pin: book editors in Australia
Diane Brown and Lee White
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1:50-2:40 pm
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Presentation (Room 4)
Content management versus content quality: raising the profile of editors in the online world
Maree Kimberley
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Presentation (Room 3)
Holding on and letting go
Kathie Stove
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Panel (Room 2)
Some of the finest: honorary life members - Sheila Allison, Pamela Ball, Loma Snooks, Lee White
Chair: Renée Otmar
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2:40-3:10 pm
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Afternoon tea
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3:10-4:30 pm
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Workshop (Room 4)
Is an ezine easy?
Pamela Hewitt and Shelley Kenigsberg
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Workshop (Room 3)
Freelance editing: starting out
Renée Otmar and Sally Woollett
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Presentation (Room 2)
(3:10-4:00 pm)
The print-on-demand process
Peter Patterson, Mercury Print
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4:30-5:10 pm
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Presentation (Room 4 & 5)
Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP) (UK) Accreditation in Proofreading
Valerie Rice
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5:30-6:30 pm
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Book launch (Room 4 & 5)
At the Typeface: Selections from the Newsletter of the Victorian Society of Editors
Launched by Bob Sessions
Sponsored by The Sun Bookshop, Yarraville, hosted by Society of Editors (Victoria)
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Friday 14 October 2005
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Time
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Session title
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8:00-8:30 am
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Registration
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Theme: Consolidation
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8:30-9:10 am
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Keynote address (Room 4 & 5)
Consolidating CASE: How does it work and why is it obsolete?
Janet Mackenzie, freelance editor and author of The Editor's Companion
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9:10-10:10 am
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Plenary (Room 4 & 5)
CASE business
Chair: Elizabeth Murphy
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10:10-11:00 am
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Workshop (Room 4 & 5)
Accreditation
Karen Disney (SA), Louise Forster (ACT), Ed Highley (IPEd), Shelly Kenigsberg (NSW), Helen Bethune Moore (Vic.) and Alison Savage (Tas.)
Chair: Robin Bennett (Qld)
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11:00-11:30 am
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Morning tea
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11:30-12:20 pm
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Presentation (Room 4)
The training dilemma
Kate Indigo, Katya Johanson and Rosemary Noble
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Workshop (Room 3)
Setting up a freelance office: or Zen and the art of technology setup and maintenance
Lan Wang
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Presentation (Room 2)
Does science editing improve accuracy and clarity?
Philippa Middleton and Janet Salisbury
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12:20-1:10 pm
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Panel (Room 4)
The student perspective
Jaclyn Crupi, Michael Curry, Carlie Jennings, Deb Kuyper and Kate Smith
Chair: Bryony Cosgrove
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Panel (Room 3)
Does copyediting really matter?
Kerryn Burgess, Nick Hudson, Michael Lewis and Valerie Rice
Chair: Robert Moore
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Workshop (Room 2)
Science 101 for editors
David Meagher
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1:10-2:10 pm
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Lunch
Health and wellbeing workshop (Nellie Melba Room)
Neck and back pain - overcoming dysfunction
Tony Flanagan, Fairfield Physiotherapy and Sports Injuries Centre
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Theme: Collaboration
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2:10-2:50 pm
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Keynote address (Room 4 & 5)
So, why are you an editor? Editing as a vocation, profession, career - then and now
Jackie Yowell, consultant publisher, Allen & Unwin
Sponsored by Allen & Unwin
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2:50-3:40 pm
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Panel (Room 4)
Freelance and in-house teamwork: successful project management
Cinzia Cavallaro, Brigid James, Colin McNeil and Jo Waite
Chair: L. Elaine Miller
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Presentation (Room 3)
Mentoring: the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) model
Max McMaster
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Panel (Room 2)
Authors and manuscripts: What publishing professionals look for
Kirsten Abbott, Debbie Golvan, Jennifer Henry and Nick Walker
Chair: Sara Hearn
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3:40-4:10 pm
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Afternoon tea
Launch of John Curtain Educational Editorial Fellowship (Room 4)
Australian Publishers Association and the Graduate Program in Publishing Studies at RMIT University
Launched by Eleanor Curtain
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4:10-5:00 pm
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Presentation (Room 4)
Blurring the edges: technology and the editorial role
Robert Moore
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Presentation (Room 3)
Effecting organisational change
Cathy Nicoll and Helen Topor
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Presentation (Room 2)
MEAA: what the union can offer editors
Jennifer Forward and Louise Connor
Chair: L. Elaine Miller
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7:00 pm
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Conference dinner (Melbourne Aquarium)
Dinner and introduction to the Institute of Professional Editors, Melbourne Aquarium
Guest speaker: Jane Clifton
MC: Trischa Baker
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Saturday 15 October 2005
Sunday 16 October 2005
Style Council Conference
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Saturday 15 October
5.30pm
Sunday 16 October
9.15am
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Opening event (cocktails at Eden on the Park) will be the launch by Thomas Keneally of the fourth edition of the Macquarie Dictionary, followed by the conference dinner at a downtown restaurant.
The conference theme 'Style in context' will be launched with a plenary by Professor Kate Burridge (Monash), then taken up by other distinguished speakers - publishers, editors, trainers, writers, publicists - during the day.
For registration and further details, go to http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/centres/sc/ or contact Adam Smith (Conference Administrator) at
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