GW Ethics in Publishing Conference 2025
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2025 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE • ABBREVIATED
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Thursday, October 9, 2025
9:00 am to 5:00 pm EST
Hybrid Format—In-Person and Online Presenters and Attendees
GW Arlington Education Center
950 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22203
Friday, October 10, 2025
11:00 am to 4:00 pm EST
Virtual: Online Presenters and Attendees
Hosted by the Graduate Program in Publishing at the George Washington University
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2025 | 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
GW Arlington Education Center
950 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22203
9:00 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks
Puja Telikicherla, Licensing and Subsidiary Rights Manager, American Psychiatric Association
John W. Warren, Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Publishing, George Washington University
9:15 am – Equity and Inclusion in Publishing
Moderated by Yael Fitzpatrick, Gazelle Consultancy
Equity at the Editorial Table: Rethinking Board Policies for Inclusive, Ethical Publishing
Daniella Thoren and Jennifer Regala, Wolters Kluwer
The Rhetoric of Hybrid Publishing: Negotiating Legitimacy and Stigma in the Modern Publishing Landscape
Brittany Griffiths, DePaul University
The Primary Beneficiary: Equity in Publishing Internships
Jolie Hale and Dianne Wade, University of South Carolina Press
10:45 am – Ethics and Peer Review
Moderated by Tina Donnelly, Penguin Random House
Ethics Over Optics: Reimagining Peer Review Reform for Lasting Change
Maryam Sayab, Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE)
Beyond Compliance: Rooting Ethics in Peer Review for a Transformative Publishing Landscape
Ana Lewis, Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) and Julia Mullen, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
The Challenges of Peer Review: An Ethical Approach
Richard Easby and Eleanor Smith, Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies (ACSESS)
12:00 pm – LUNCH
1:15 pm – Afternoon Welcome and Introduction
M. Luisa B. Simpson, Executive Vice President, Global Policy, Association of American Publishers
1:30 pm – Keynote: Five Elements of Ethical Publishing
Christie Henry, Director, Princeton University Press
2:15 pm – Accessible and Inclusive Publishing
Moderated by Anand Balasubramani, American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
A Case Study in Accessible Publishing: How One Library Publishing Program is Working to Embed Accessibility in their Workflows
Angel Peterson, Penn State University Libraries
Accessibility in Publishing: Stakeholders and Impact
Simon Holt, Elsevier, Sean Concannon, Atypon, and Jennifer Kemp, Strategies for Open Science (Stratos)
Inclusive Publishing Strategies for Journal Staff and Prospective Authors
Rachel Schrauben Yeates, Kennesaw State University
3:45 pm – Publishing for Diverse Audiences
Moderated by Anna Jester, Wiley
The AI Medium is The Message
Christopher Kenneally
Book Indexing and Artificial Intelligence
Elizabeth Bartmess
Ethical Collaboration: Strategies for Supporting Neurodivergent Authors
Angela Lauria Kingdon, University of Kent, Autistic Culture Press
Revenue, Region, and Racial Demographics: A Case Study of College Publishing Programs and Presses
Mikayla Lee, MPS in Publishing, GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing
5:00 pm – Closing Remarks – Day 1
5:15 pm - In-person Social Hour to follow conference; location TBA
FRIDAY, October 10, 2025 (online only) | 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
11:00 am – Opening Remarks
11:10 am – Trust and Research Integrity
Moderated by Jennifer Regala, Wolters Kluwer
Advancing Principles of Trust and Research Integrity
Melanie Dolechek, Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), and Caroline Sutton, International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM)
12:00 pm – Transparency and Access
Moderated by Kiriana McAffee, MPS in Publishing, George Washington University
Class Stratification and Contracts
Gianna Mosser, Vanderbilt University Press
Counting the Hands: Understanding Labor, Compensation, and Ethics in Library Publishing
Melissa Chim, Excelsior University, Bailey Lake, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Lauren Collister, Invest in Open Infrastructure, Michelle Brailey, University of Alberta, Miranda Phair, Towson University
From Principles to Practice: The Implementation of the Revised Antiracism Toolkit for Allies in Scholarly Publishing
Faye DeBroux, Duke University Press, Nataliia Kaliuzhna, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Damita Snow, American Society of Civil Engineers, and Randy Townsend, George Washington University
1:10 pm – break
1:30 pm – Reading and Censorship
Moderated by Gwendolyn Harrison, MPS in Publishing, George Washington University
The Fight Against Book Bans: An Analysis of Issues and Solutions Surrounding Readership, Authorship, and the Publishing Business
Ashley Elizalde, MPS in Publishing, George Washington University
A Clue in the Blue-Bound Books: An Exploration into the Censorship and Gatekeeping of Historic Children’s Literature
Kyra Droog, Master of Publishing, Simon Fraser University
Choosing Not to Choose: The Ethics of Soft Censorship in U.S. School Library Collections
Myranda Lockwood, MPS in Publishing, George Washington University
2:30 pm – Infrastructure and Workflows
Moderated by Hind Berji, MPS in Publishing, George Washington University
Tracking and tracing the scholarly record through metadata
Danielle Padula, Scholastica; Alice Meadows, MoreBrains Cooperative
The Pros and Cons of the Peer Review Process in the Field of Academic Publishing
Philip J. Boutin, Jr., MPS in Publishing, George Washington University
Publishing Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Integra
3:30 pm – Publishing for Diverse Audiences pt 2
Moderated by Cecilia Gray, MPS in Publishing, George Washington University
More than Fiction in English: Translating and Editing Different Languages
Keila Gallardo Cubas
Considering Accessible Text Formatting and Layout Design in Print Format Children’s Publishing
Aurora Miner, Master in Book Publishing, Portland State University
4:00 pm – Closing Remarks
HOSTED BY:
The Graduate Program in Publishing, College of Professional Studies, George Washington University
Conference co-organizers:
Puja Telikicherla, Licensing and Subsidiary Rights Manager, American Psychiatric Association
John W. Warren, Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Publishing, George Washington University
Jessica Wilcox, MPS in Publishing student, George Washington University
SPONSORED BY:
- Association of American Publishers (AAP)
- Association of University Presses (AUPresses)
- Book Industry Study Group (BISG)
- Council of Science Editors (CSE)
- International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE)
- Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)