Workshop: “Extending knowledge and publishing infrastructures in and from Africa”, Dec 8 & 9, 2025 @ online | Copim Experimental Publishing Group

The Research Data Share (RDS) Collective, Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), and African Minds invite you to join us for a workshop and programme of hybrid sessions, “Extending Knowledge and Publishing Infrastructures in and from Africa” taking place on 8–9 December 2025. The event will include three panels that are open to remote participants.

For more information and to register for online attendance please follow the link here: https://www.eventsforce.net/ekpia

This multidisciplinary event will bring together African publishers, platform providers, STS scholars, and advocates of community-led knowledge infrastructures to critically examine how knowledges are assembled, shared, and made meaningful. Together, we will:

• Explore alternative ways of relating around scholarly books, data, and infrastructures.

• Discuss strategies to resist dominant Global North publishing norms and imagine approaches rooted in local contexts.

• Contribute to the “Database as Book” experimental publishing project.

The workshop will feature sessions facilitated by leading voices in experimental publishing, including members of the Research Data Share Collective (Nairobi, Kenya), Janneke Adema, Rebekka Kiesewetter, and Simon Bowie (Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group), Mike Fortun (UC Irvine / PECE), and François van Schalkwyk (African Minds).

Practical details:

• Dates: 8 December 2025 (Monday) and 9 December 2025 (Tuesday)

• Panel times: 

Day 1 - 8 December

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EAT: Experimental publishing: new ways of relating around books and data

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EAT: Publishing Database Books

Day 2 - 9 December

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM EAT: Design Considerations of Experimental Books & Q&A

• Venue: Remote, a meeting link will be sent nearer to the date of the event.

We look forward to your active participation!