Events

WTF Is Word Doing?! - Frustrated person yelling at their computer

WTF Is Word Doing?!

May 20, 2026

Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

Writing and Publishing an Interdisciplinary Book - Books arranged in a circle pattern

Writing and Publishing an Interdisciplinary Book

May 27, 2026

Wichita State University

New and Favorite Editing/Indexing Resources - Dictionary icon on orange background

New and Favorite Editing/Indexing Resources

June 9, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Sources That Save the Day - Stack of dictionaries

Sources That Save the Day

June 10, 2026

Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

When to Query vs. When to Fix - Question mark on green background

When to Query vs. When to Fix

July 7, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Time Tracking, Estimating, and Scoping Projects - Blue torn paper with the word "estimate"

Time Tracking, Estimating, and Scoping Projects

August 12, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Managing Figures in Scholarly Work - 4 artworks on a wall under a lamp

Managing Figures in Scholarly Work

September 8, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Collaborating Across the Editorial–Indexing Handoff - Relay runners hand off the baton

Collaborating Across the Editorial–Indexing Handoff

October 6, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

New and Favorite Editing/Indexing Tools - Tools on a work bench

New and Favorite Editing/Indexing Tools

November 10, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

New and Favorite Editing/Indexing Tools - Tools on a work bench

Editorial Goal Setting for 2027

December 8, 2026

Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Past events (abbreviated)

2026 events

Working Productively with an Editorial Team

Making Friends with Your P&L

Crafting a Successful First Book Proposal

  • January 30, 2026
  • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
  • Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Macro-Level Cohesion for Edited Collections

Developmental Editing for Anthropologists

  • February 5, 2026
  • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
  • Community of Writing Fellows, Society for the Anthropology of Work and the Anthropology of Work Review

Navigating Peer Review on Your First Book

Building Digital Safety Nets for Your Editorial Business

Editorial Business System Backups and Redundancies

Publishing in a Series for Your First Book

WTF Is Word Doing?!

    Writing Contracts without Breaking into a Cold Sweat

    Ink Under Siege: How Scholars and Editors Are Keeping Critical Work in Print

    • April 11, 2026
    • Speakers: M. Gabriela Torres (Feminist Anthropology), Alyssa Napier (Columbia University Press), Naja Pulliam Collins (University of California Press), Suzanna Walters (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society), and Cathy Hannabach
    • SPARK's Future World Changers in the Academy conference

    Marketing Your First Book

    Getting Paid through US University Vendor Systems

    Crafting Coherence in Multi-Author Books

    Editing and Indexing for Multilingual Authors

     

    2025 events

    Editorial Project Management Tools

    Recent Trends in Scholarly Publishing

    AI and Academic Editing

    Supporting Authors with Underdeveloped Manuscripts

      Working with Underdeveloped Manuscripts

      Professional Growth for Mid-Career and Senior Editors and Indexers

      Creating Style Sheets That Work

      Finding the Right Publisher for Your First Book

      Ensuring Legibility in Interdisciplinary Texts

      Editorial Business Planning Workshop

      Crafting a Winning First Book Proposal

      Academic Editing and Indexing Tools

      Editorial Goal Setting for 2026

       

      2024 events

      Editing and Indexing Cross-Training

      Crafting a Successful Academic Book Proposal

      • February 14, 2024
      • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
      • Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania

      Exploring Indexing Workflows

      Editing Crossover and Trade Books by Scholarly Authors

      Writing Dissertation-to-Book Manuscript Reviews

      Academic Editing and Indexing Tools

      Working with (Not Against) an Author’s Voice

        Editing Interdisciplinary Scholarly Book Proposals

        What’s New in CMOS 18

        Writing Retreat for Arts Research with Communities of Color Fellows

        • October 15–18, 2024
        • Designed by Cathy Hannabach
        • New Orleans, LA
        • Hosted by the Social Science Research Council

        Editorial Goal Setting for 2025

        Optimizing Index Cross References and Double Postings

         

        2023 events

        Writing Editorial Reports and Manuscript Reviews

        Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation for Editors and Indexers

        Planning a Successful Non-Academic Job Search

        • March 25, 2023
        • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
        • University of Colorado, Boulder

        Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation for Editors and Indexers

        • April 28, 2023
        • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
        • Editors Canada/Editorial Freelancers Association Academic Editing chapter

        Planning a Successful Non-Academic Job Search

        Onboarding and Offboarding Client Projects

        Navigating US University Vendor Systems

          Are Editorial Agencies Right for You?

          • August 17, 2023
          • Presented by Cynthia Williams and Cathy Hannabach
          • Editorial Freelancers Association conference, Alexandria, VA

          Editing as Worldmaking: Critical Generosity in Editorial Practice

            Feminist Futures of Peer Review

            Fall Refresh: Copyediting Scholarly Manuscripts

            Developmentally Editing Interdisciplinary Academic Book Proposals

            Editorial Self-Assessment: Reflecting at Year's End

            Editorial Goal Setting

             

            2022 events

            Reference Editing Tricks

              Publishing Your Book During a Global Pandemic

              • March 25, 2022
              • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
              • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

                Juggling Multiple Editorial Projects and Schedules

                Getting the Most Out of Editorial Project Management Tools

                Copyediting AAA Journals

                Introduction to Interdisciplinary Indexing

                  Writing a Successful First Book Proposal

                  • December 8, 2022
                  • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                  • Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania

                   

                  2021 events

                  Podcasting for Academia

                  • March 10–April 28, 2021
                  • Podcast instruction and assessment by Cathy Hannabach
                  • CEU GmbH–CEU Central European University

                  Editing Scholarship for Your Colleagues and Yourself

                     

                    2020 events

                    Taking Your Scholarship Public

                    • September 29, 2020
                    • Plenary by Cathy Hannabach
                    • Publication Development Forum

                     

                    2019 events

                    A Farewell to Ibid.: Editing Footnotes

                    • March 28, 2019
                    • Presented by Sarah Grey and Cathy Hannabach
                    • ACES Society for Editing conference, Providence, RI

                                     

                                    2018 events

                                        Publishing Your First Book

                                        Writing for Research

                                        Breaking into Academic Editing

                                        • April 26, 2018
                                        • Presented by Sarah Grey and Cathy Hannabach
                                        • ACES Society for Editing conference, Chicago, IL

                                        Planning Your Interdisciplinary Job Search

                                            Your Interdisciplinary Writing Superpower

                                            • May 12, 2018
                                            • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                            • Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan

                                            Cultural Studies Careers Workshop: Academic Editing

                                            • May 31, 2018
                                            • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                            • Cultural Studies Association conference, Pittsburgh, PA

                                                           

                                                          2017 events

                                                              Mapping Your Spring Semester

                                                              • January 11, 2017
                                                              • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                              • Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series

                                                                  Writing a Successful Academic Book Proposal

                                                                  • February 27, 2017
                                                                  • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                                  • Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series

                                                                    Working Well with Dissertation Committees and Advisors

                                                                    • March 21, 2017
                                                                    • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                                    • Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series

                                                                    How to Organize Your Dissertation Chapters

                                                                    • April 5, 2017
                                                                    • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                                    • Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series

                                                                    Crafting Your Postac/Altac Career while in Grad School

                                                                    • April 25, 2017
                                                                    • Presented by Alexandra Sastre, Jenn Polk, and Cathy Hannabach
                                                                    • Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series

                                                                      Podcasting and Public Intellectualism

                                                                      • May 25, 2017
                                                                      • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                                      • Cultural Studies Association conference, Washington, DC

                                                                      Cultural Studies Careers Workshop: Academic Editing

                                                                      • May 27, 2017
                                                                      • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                                      • Cultural Studies Association conference, Washington, DC

                                                                      Staying Motivated over the Summer

                                                                      • May 31, 2017
                                                                      • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                                      • Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series

                                                                          Writing Syllabi That Work

                                                                          • July 5, 2017
                                                                          • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                                          • Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series

                                                                          Rock Your First Semester of Grad School

                                                                          • September 6, 2017
                                                                          • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                                          • Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series

                                                                          Working Productively with an Editor

                                                                          • September 22, 2017
                                                                          • Presented by Sarah Grey and Cathy Hannabach
                                                                          • Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series

                                                                          Using Your Dissertation to Build a Non-Academic Career

                                                                          • September 26, 2017
                                                                          • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                                          • Beyond the Professoriate

                                                                          Podcasting as Public Intellectualism

                                                                          • October 11, 2017
                                                                          • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                                          • Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series

                                                                          Building Your Professional Community

                                                                          • October 24, 2017
                                                                          • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                                          • Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series

                                                                            Turning Your Dissertation into a Book

                                                                            • November 14, 2017
                                                                            • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                                            • Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series

                                                                                 

                                                                                2016 events

                                                                                    Rock Your Semester: Writing and Publishing

                                                                                    Freelancing and Editorial Entrepreneurship

                                                                                    • May 7, 2016
                                                                                    • Presented by Cathy Hannabach (panelist)
                                                                                    • Beyond the Professoriate

                                                                                    Make It Work: Doing Cultural Studies Beyond the Academy

                                                                                    • June 2, 2016
                                                                                    • Speakers: Sarah Rebolloso McCullough, Terry K. Park, and Cathy Hannabach
                                                                                    • Cultural Studies Association conference, Philadelphia, PA

                                                                                       

                                                                                      2015 events

                                                                                          Thrive Like Cult Studs: Cultural Studies Beyond the Academy

                                                                                          Road Maps and Writing Routines

                                                                                          • October 6, 2015
                                                                                          • Presented by Cathy Hannabach
                                                                                          • University of California, Berkeley