The Association of University Presses (AUPresses) will convene a virtual conference this summer. AUPresses 2025 will take place online from Monday through Thursday, June 9-12.
A preliminary program for this flagship event is available and registration is now open.
The 2025 Annual Meeting program centers intelligent, international, and intentional publishing practice, featuring sessions that confront big-picture challenges as well as those that dive into day-to-day operations. Moderators and speakers hail from around the world, including China, Colombia, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, and Tanzania, and they represent large and small presses, books and journals operations, and other professional publishing partners.
The 2025 Program Committee, co-chaired by Ana Maria Jimenez-Moreno (Ohio State University Press) and David Famiano (University of California), has organized two plenaries and more than 40 concurrent sessions and networking events to inspire and inform participants as well as foster the collaborative spirit for which this community of mission-driven publishers is known.
Investigating a wide range of topics, concurrent sessions will include:
- Advocating for Your Press
- Inventory Management in the Age of Print-to-Order
- Journal Indexing: Connecting Readers, Authors, and Subscribers
- Let’s Talk about Images (ART!) in Publishing
- Marketing Sensitive Topics
- Navigating Editorial Board Relationships
- Unsung Heroes: Mentoring in Publishing
Sessions will also explore collaborations between presses and libraries, library publishers, independent bookstores, historically Black university and colleges, and other groups. In addition, tracks of related sessions will examine overarching themes, such as equity, justice, inclusion, and belonging; accessibility; and open access.
During the conference, the AUPresses community will also celebrate the 2025 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, with a virtual exhibit and the highly anticipated and always well-received conversation session with the judges. This annual juried competition honors the design and production professionals whose work advances a long tradition of excellence in university press publication design.
Providing professional education opportunities to members is an essential part of the Association’s mission. AUPresses works to assist all in taking advantage of the unique professional development and networking opportunity that is the Annual Meeting by offering group deals for member presses as well as discounted nonprofit registration rates for nonmembers.
Since 2021, AUPresses Annual Meetings have alternated yearly between in-person and virtual formats, embracing a full spectrum of collaborative, educational, and networking opportunities for all members and the wider network of community partners. In 2026, the Association will meet in Seattle. Read more about this strategy.
About the Association of University Presses
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses) is an organization of 160 international nonprofit scholarly publishers. Since 1937, the Association has advanced the essential role of a global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. AUPresses holds intellectual freedom, integrity, stewardship, and diversity and inclusion as core values. AUPresses members are active across many scholarly disciplines, including the humanities, arts, and sciences, publish significant regional and literary work, and are innovators in the world of digital publishing.