Global Publishing in Times of Political Uncertainty, Distraction and AI (Brigitta von Rheinberg)

Name: Global Publishing in Times of Political Uncertainty, Distraction and AI (Brigitta von Rheinberg)
Start: 2026-06-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien, Austria

Schedule

Thu, 18 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien, Austria | Wien, WI

The Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna invites to its regular Transformative Salon on June 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM, this time with Brigitta van Rheinberg (Princeton University Press), commented on by Claudia Romeder (Residenz Verlag). The Salon will be moderated by Philipp Ther (RECET).
Venue: Café Merkur, Florianigasse 18, 1080 Vienna.
How to bring the best ideas to the world and enrich the global conversation in an age of political uncertainty, distraction and AI? From the perspective of somebody who has worked in scholarly publishing all her life, Brigitta van Rheinberg, Associate Director of Princeton University Press, will try to give some answers to this question. Taking the example of Princeton University Press (PUP), she will give an overview of the academic publishing landscape today and how it has changed from a decade ago. She will talk about how the political climate in the U.S. is affecting the Higher Education System and the Press, and she will then discuss some of the strategies PUP has employed in response to the many changes and transformations underway, including a changing media landscape, political disruptions that affect both the higher education sector as well as academic publishers. She will describe the Press’s strategy of how to reach a global audience and talk specifically about her experience of leading the Beijing Office, which the Press established in 2017. In the age of fake news, public distrust, and Artificial Intelligence, she strongly believes that publishing peer reviewed scholarly books that enrich the global conversation is now more important than ever.
The Salon will be commented on in German by Claudia Romeder, Director of Residenz Verlag. / Claudia Romeder, Leiterin des Residenz Verlages wird den Salon auf Deutsch kommentieren.
Brigitta van Rheinberg is the Associate Director of Princeton University Press and the Director of Global Development. She has been at the Press for over 30 years in various roles, including sales, special sales, international rights, and editorial. She was the Press’s History Publisher for over 25 years publishing some of the Press’s major books in American, European, and World History, and from 2006-2016 she led the Press’s Editorial Program as Editor-in-Chief. As Director of Global Development, she led the Press’s China initiative for many years and established Princeton’s Global Lecture series. Recently, she has turned her focus to important parts of Princeton’s backlist, reviving the Bollingen series (ca 275 books) and spearheading a new translation and Critical Edition of C.G. Jung in 26 volumes. Brigitta holds a PhD in History from Tübingen University in Germany and lives in Princeton. For more information, here is a recent post about her 37 years at the Press: 37 Years and Nine Lives at PUP.
Claudia Romeder, geboren 1969 in Wien, Studium der Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft und Hispanistik. Sie war u.a. Dramaturgin am Schauspielhaus Graz und am Burgtheater Wien und leitet seit 2010 den Residenz Verlag.
Philipp Ther is Professor of Central European History at the University of Vienna, where he also founded the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET). Five of his monographs have been published in English: Europe since 1989: A history (Princeton UP; the German original was awarded the non-fiction book prize of the Leipzig Bookfare); The Dark Side of Nation States: Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe Berghahn Press), Center Stage: Operatic Culture and Nation Building in 19th Century Central Europe (Purdue UP); The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492 (Princeton UP); How the West Lost the Peace. The Great Transformation since 1989 (Polity Press). His “multigraph” In the Storms of Transformation. Two shipyards between socialism and the EU has been published by Toronto UP in 2025. In 2019 he was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize by the Austrian Research Fund, the highest recognition for scientists in Austria.
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