[Commlist] Public Knowledge: Online Seminar Series on Expanded Ecologies of Publishing

Public Knowledge: Online Seminar Series on Expanded Ecologies of Publishing
Wednesdays, 10am ET | October 21 – November 25, 2026
Free | Online via Zoom
besidesthescreen.com/publicknowledge 
<http://besidesthescreen.com/publicknowledge>

How do we turn content back into conversations? The fact that it has 
never been so easy to spread information only makes it harder to build 
meaningful discourse and affinities around it. It may be time to 
completely rethink our ecologies of publishing.

With that in mind, Public Knowledge offers a free online seminar series 
aimed at exploring publishing in the arts, academia, and popular 
culture. It asks how a wide range of publication platforms—from books to 
screenings, from exhibitions to gossip—both collaborate and compete to 
materialize knowledge, form communities, and produce (relatively) stable 
frameworks of interpretation.

The program is based on weekly presentations by specialists in the area. 
Guests include Stevphen Shukaitis, editor at Minor Compositions; Ana 
Rodríguez Navas, author of Ideal Talk, Deadly Talk: The Uses of Gossip 
in Caribbean Literature; Janneke Adema, principal investigator of Open 
Book Futures and the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for 
Monographs; Anna Anthropy, game developer and author of The Rise of the 
Videogame Zinesters; Lukas Brasiskis, curator of Film and Video at 
e-flux and editor of e-flux Film Notes; and Divina Prado & Vitor Cesar, 
respectively Editorial and Design coordinators at Tomie Ohtake Institute.

Sessions take place on Zoom every Wednesday, 10am ET, between October 21 
and November 25. Participation is free. Find the full program and 
register for individual sessions at besidesthescreen.com/publicknowledge 
<http://besidesthescreen.com/publicknowledge>

Public Knowledge is hosted by Besides the Screen with the support of the 
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council and Queen’s University 
Department of Film & Media. The program is curated by Gabriel Menotti 
with support from Habibi Wang.
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