Events

Working Productively with an Editorial Team

• January 20, 2026
• Speakers: Miranda Baur and Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series
• Watch the video

Making Friends with Your P&L

• January 21, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

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

• January 27, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

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

• February 10, 2026
• Speakers: Elizabeth Ault, Shaun Vigil, and Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series
• Watch the video

Building Digital Safety Nets for Your Editorial Business

• February 18, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

Editorial Business System Backups and Redundancies

• February 25, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Publishing in a Series for Your First Book

• March 2, 2026
• Speakers: Jennifer C. Nash, Adrienne Shaw, Chris Barcelos, and Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series
• Watch the video

WTF Is Word Doing?!

• March 17, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Writing Contracts without Breaking into a Cold Sweat

• March 18, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

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

• April 13, 2026
• Speakers: Allison Means, Cameron Ludwick, and Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series
• Watch the video

Getting Paid through US University Vendor Systems

• April 21, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Crafting Coherence in Multi-Author Books

• April 22, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

Editing and Indexing for Multilingual Authors

• May 13, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

WTF Is Word Doing?!

• May 20, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

Writing and Publishing an Interdisciplinary Book

• May 27, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Wichita State University

New and Favorite Editing/Indexing Resources

• June 9, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Sources That Save the Day

• June 10, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

When to Query vs. When to Fix

• July 7, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Time Tracking, Estimating, and Scoping Projects

• August 26, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Managing Figures in Scholarly Work

• September 8, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

The Editorial Freelancer’s Exit Strategy: Mid-Career Actions to Set You Up for a Great Retirement

• September 17, 2026
• Speakers: Rachel Fudge and Cathy Hannabach
• ACES Society for Editing conference

Leading an Interdisciplinary Journal

• September 22, 2026
• Speakers: Amber Jamilla Musser, M. Gabriela Torres, and Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series

Collaborating Across the Editorial–Indexing Handoff

• October 6, 2026
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

 

Editorial Project Management Tools

• January 14, 2025
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Recent Trends in Scholarly Publishing

• February 4, 2025
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

AI and Academic Editing

• March 18, 2025
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Supporting Authors with Underdeveloped Manuscripts

• April 8, 2025
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Working with Underdeveloped Manuscripts

• May 6, 2025
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

Professional Growth for Mid-Career and Senior Editors and Indexers

• July 8, 2025
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Creating Style Sheets That Work

• August 12, 2025
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Finding the Right Publisher for Your First Book

• October 8, 2025
• Speakers: Dawn Durante, Dominique Moore, Mike Baccam, and Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series
• Watch the video

Ensuring Legibility in Interdisciplinary Texts

• October 14, 2025
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Editorial Business Planning Workshop

• October 15, 2025
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

Crafting a Winning First Book Proposal

• November 10, 2025
• Speakers: Sara Cohen, Alyssa Napier, Noah Springer, and Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series
• Watch the video

Academic Editing and Indexing Tools

• November 12, 2025
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Editorial Goal Setting for 2026

• December 2, 2025
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

 

Editing and Indexing Cross-Training

• January 23, 2024
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

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

• February 27, 2024
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Editing Crossover and Trade Books by Scholarly Authors

• March 26, 2024
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Writing Dissertation-to-Book Manuscript Reviews

• May 21, 2024
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Academic Editing and Indexing Tools

• July 23, 2024
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Working with (Not Against) an Author’s Voice

• August 21, 2024
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Editing Interdisciplinary Scholarly Book Proposals

• September 17, 2024
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

What’s New in CMOS 18

• October 8, 2024
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

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

• December 3, 2024
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Optimizing Index Cross References and Double Postings

• December 11, 2024
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

 

Writing Editorial Reports and Manuscript Reviews

• February 7, 2023
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation for Editors and Indexers

• March 9, 2023
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

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

• May 10, 2023
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Palah Lab, The New School

Onboarding and Offboarding Client Projects

• June 21, 2023
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Navigating US University Vendor Systems

• July 5, 2023
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

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

• August 18, 2023
• Keynote address by Ideas on Fire CEO Cathy Hannabach
• Editorial Freelancers Association conference, Alexandria, VA
• Read the speech

Feminist Futures of Peer Review

• September 25, 2023
• Speakers: Josen Masangkay Diaz, April D.J. Petillo, Dolores Ines Castillo, and Cathy Hannabach
• Watch the video

Fall Refresh: Copyediting Scholarly Manuscripts

• October 25, 2023
• Presented by Rachel Fudge and Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Developmentally Editing Interdisciplinary Academic Book Proposals

• November 6, 2023
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Editorial Self-Assessment: Reflecting at Year's End

• December 4, 2023
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Editorial Goal Setting

• December 5, 2023
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program

 

Reference Editing Tricks

• January 24, 2022
• Presented by Rachel Fudge and Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

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

• July 25, 2022
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Getting the Most Out of Editorial Project Management Tools

• August 17, 2022
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Copyediting AAA Journals

• September 6, 2022
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Introduction to Interdisciplinary Indexing

• October 3, 2022
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series

Writing a Successful First Book Proposal

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

 

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

• April 16, 2021
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Stanford University

 

Taking Your Scholarship Public

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

 

A Farewell to Ibid.: Editing Footnotes

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

 

Publishing Your First Book

• April 13, 2018
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• University of Michigan

Writing for Research

• April 14, 2018
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• University of Michigan

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

• May 3, 2018
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• Yale University

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

 

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

 

Rock Your Semester: Writing and Publishing

• April 1, 2016
• Presented by Cathy Hannabach
• University of Pittsburgh

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

 

Thrive Like Cult Studs: Cultural Studies Beyond the Academy

• June 2, 2015
• Panelist and organizer: Cathy Hannabach

Road Maps and Writing Routines

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