Mark Kingwell is a professor of philosophy and associate chair at the University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy. His interests lie in social and political theory, philosophy of art, architecture and design, and 20th-century continental philosophy.

Professor Kingwell has authored, co-authored and edited fifteen books and a number of articles. He received the Spitz Prize for political theory (1997), Drummer-General’s award for non-fiction (1998), National Magazine Awards for essay-writing (2002) and columns (2004) and a number of other prestigious awards.

He edited The Varsity through 1983 to 1984 and the University of Toronto Review from 84-85 and has contributed to a number of other journals and magazines as an editor and a columnist. Professor Kingwell will be joining us at the Forum to share his insights on the editorial process.

Richard Carter is a Reference Librarian at Kelly Library. He has journalism and English degrees from Carleton University and library qualification from the University of Toronto.

Richard helps students and faculty with research. In addition to spending regular hours on the reference desk, he chooses titles for Celtic Studies, English, and German, teaches students how to find and make sense of print and web resources, and co-ordinates the St. Mike’s Research and Academic Skills Centre. Richard will be joining us at the Forum to talk about peer-review process.

Graeme is a Copyright Outreach Librarian in the Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office at the University of Toronto Libraries. Graeme works in the provision of copyright and scholarly communications-related project and policy expertise to the University community at large.

University community at large. Other responsibilities include engaging in directed, University-wide research on scholarly communications and copyright issues, working across the library to support open access and other forms of scholarly communication as well as working on licensing and permissions issues. He holds a MSI from the University of Michigan, a Post-Graduate Certificate in Publishing from Ryerson University and an Honours B.A. in English Literature from Concordia University.

Graeme will be joining us at the Forum to talk about copyright and open access in journal publishing.

Mariya Maistrovskaya is an Institutional Repositories Librarian at the Information Technology Services of the University of Toronto Libraries. She joined the ITS team in 2015 to manage a suite of institutional repositories, including Journal Production Services, TSpace, and MyMedia. Prior to starting with the UTL, Mariya worked at the Canadian Agriculture Library and the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa.

Mariya will be joining us at the Forum to demonstrate online publishing with Open Journals System. 

The University of Toronto Medical Journal (UTMJ) is Canada's oldest student run medical journal, established in 1923. It publishes articles from universities, institutes, organizations, and medical professionals from around the world.

UTMJ team will be joining us at the Forum to share best practices for successful and sustainable journals.

Caméra Stylo is the University of Toronto's Undergraduate Cinema Studies Journal. Its purpose is to promote cinema studies at the undergraduate level and to provide the opportunity for undergraduate students to publish their work related to film. This project aims to contribute to an atmosphere of critical discussion and debate about cinema at the University of Toronto.

Now in its 15th year, Caméra Stylo publishes exceptional undergraduate essays about film on a yearly basis.

Caméra Stylo team will be joining us at the Forum to share their experience with journal production and design.