2025 GW Ethics in Publishing Conference

15th GW Ethics in Publishing Conference, 2025

Join us on:

Thursday, October 9, 2025 (In-person or virtual) • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET

Friday October 10, 2025 (Virtual only) • 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET)

Hybrid Event:

GW Arlington Education Center, Arlington, VA, and virtual.

The will be held on Thursday, October 9, 2025, with in-person and virtual presentations and attendees at the George Washington University’s Arlington Education Center, and virtually-only on Friday, October 10.

Please indicate on the registration form whether you plan to attend in-person or virtually.

Registration for the conference is free. Please note: The In-Person ticket includes virtual attendance on Friday. The Virtual ticket is for virtual attendance on both dates.

Once again, we have received a record number of presentation proposals. The full schedule will be announced soon on the conference website. Students and professionals in trade, academic, and scholarly publishing, library and information sciences, and scholarly communications will present on topics such as artificial intelligence (AI), multilingual publishing; workplace equity; open access (OA); DEI initiatives; accessibility; peer review; publishing strategies and more.

The GW Ethics in Publishing conference is organized by the Graduate Program in Publishing, in collaboration with the GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing, and supported by the College of Professional Studies at the George Washington University.

We appreciate our sponsors: The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), the Association of American Publishers (AAP); the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE), and the Book Industry Study Group (BISG).

Full schedule and speaker line-up to come!

Attendance (in person and virtual) to the conference is be free-of-charge.

Lunch will be provided to in-person attendees, and a social hour will follow the conference.

We look forward to seeing you, in-person or virtually!

Host or Publisher GW Publishing Program