Get ready to mark your calendars, as Authors Alliance has a number of events around North America over the next couple of months. Join us if you can!

April 9 in Berkeley, California: Preserving Our Intellectual Legacies in the Digital Age

Will future generations of scholars appreciate our contributions after our books go out of print? Or when the physical bookshelves on which they are stored must compete with virtual bookshelves, full of new electronic resources that are more easily discovered and accessed online? How can authors avoid the prospect of intellectual oblivion in the digital age? Join Authors Alliance’s board and distinguished historian Thomas Laqueur as we explore the ways in which titles can best continue to make their mark in a shifting intellectual ecosystem.

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged.

May 27 in Toronto, Ontario: How Can Canadian Authors Thrive in a Digital World?

Join Authors Alliance and the University of Toronto Libraries for a lively discussion of the opportunities and challenges the internet presents to both academic and independent authors. Topics will include the role of copyright law and fair dealing, new publishing opportunities (including open access publishing), and how digital dissemination can provide new life for older and out-of-print titles.

Following an introduction by Ariel Katz, University of Ottawa’s Michael Geist will moderate the panel, which features:

• Ren Bucholz, Lawyer, Lenczner Slaght, LLP
• Natalie Zemon Davis, Professor of History, University of Toronto
• Joshua Gans, Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto
• Ryan Merkley, CEO, Creative Commons
• Margaret Jane Radin, Distinguished Research Scholar at the University of Toronto; Professor of Law, University of Michigan; Professor of Law, emerita, Stanford
• Pamela Samuelson, Professor of Law and Information, University of California, Berkeley; Co-founder of Authors Alliance
• Peter Unwin, Fiction Author and Poet

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged.

But wait! There’s more!

Can’t make these events? You can also catch Authors Alliance executive director Michael Wolfe at DPLAfest 2015 on April 17–18 Indianapolis, or meet up with us when we table at this year’s Bay Area Book Festival on June 6–7 in Berkeley. Stay tuned as we prepare to announce more events for the second half of the year.

Think an Authors Alliance event would benefit your community? Get in touch and let us know!