In-Person Event with The Chicago Manual of Style Principal Reviser

Event Details
This event is presented in partnership with the Professional Editors Network (PEN) , www.pensite.org.
Join MBPR and PEN in welcoming Russell Harper, principal reviser of The Chicago Manual of Style, for a discussion of the 18th edition! Russell will detail decisions behind some of the more significant changes in the new edition. This in-person event will also include a Q&A opportunity.

Russell Harper has served as principal reviser of the last three editions of The Chicago Manual of Style, including the 18th, published in 2024. He is also the editor of The Chicago Manual of Style Online Q&A and the CMOS Shop Talk blog and contributed to the 8th and 9th editions of Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Before working on The Chicago Manual of Style, Russell was a manuscript editor in the Books Division at the University of Chicago Press; before that, he worked in printing and typesetting.

Details

Open Book (Target Performance Hall)
1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis.

Wednesday, November 20; 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Check-in begins at 11:30 a.m. The program starts at noon and will run about an hour.

Food

Lunch will be provided for pre-registered attendees.

Tickets

Fees are $20 for members of MBPR and PEN and $25 for nonmembers and students (plus a small processing fee, if ordering online). Reservations are required. If space allows walk-ins, those without reservations will be charged $30 at the door. We will have limited space for walk-ins for this event; please contact MBPR if you have questions about walk-in tickets.

Reservations are nonrefundable.

RESERVATIONS ARE RESERVED FOR MBPR AND PEN MEMBERS UNTIL NOVEMBER 12. Beginning November 13, non-member reservations will be accepted as space allows until November 15 at noon, or until sold out. To register and pay online with a credit card, click here. If you prefer to pay at the door by cash or check, please email [email protected] with your reservation request.

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