Conference Committee

We are excited to announce that our 2025 in-person conference will be taking place May 30–June 1, 2025, with pre-conference events on Thursday, May 29.

The conference will take place on the beautiful University of British Columbia (UBC) campus. There will be accommodations on campus for every budget, including suites, studios and pods. From there, it’s a short walk to the Museum of Anthropology, the UBC Botanical Garden, and lovely beaches and hiking trails.

The programming team is pulling together an array of speakers, including a panel of indexers offering their perspectives working on the same text, another on teaching indexing, and a presentation on setting rates. You’ll hear more about our program soon, and some of our speakers are interested in hearing from you! Keep an eye out for future updates.

The conference promises to be an amazing experience in a spectacular setting. Registration begins in February, so mark your calendars now and we’ll see you in May!

Register or log in on the conference website: https://conference.indexers.ca/

Make and renew connections, develop skills, and grow your indexing business from your office at the ISC/SCI Conference 2024 The Art of Connection, starting THIS Thursday, May 31^st, to Saturday June 1, 2024.

See you soon!

#IndexCanCon2024

Make and renew connections, develop skills, and grow your indexing business from your office at the ISC/SCI Conference 2024 The Art of Connection on May 31 to June 1, 2024.

But don’t wait too long! Register now on the Conference page!

#IndexCanCon2024

This year’s conference theme is “See also Newfoundland.”

Special sessions include the following:

• a representative from Palgrave Macmillan on their in-house production process for indexes
• an optometrist on good eye care

Sessions on indexing practices include improving your efficiency (Pierke Bosschieter) and project management (Sergey Lobachev). Information sessions include talks on Mondeca (Glenda Browne), music texts (Paula Clarke Baine), and medieval names and glosses (Jolanta Komornicka). You will also hear highlights from an illustrious indexing career (Mary Newberry), an epic tale of an epic index (Ronnie Seagren), and all about writing a book on indexing (Stephen Ullstrom).

To welcome you to Newfoundland we’ve also organized a special get-together on Thursday afternoon: a boat tour of the harbour that can include sightings of icebergs, whales, and puffins. There is a separate charge for this sought-after event.

The conference will be followed on Sunday afternoon by an optional half-day live-indexing workshop by Stephen Ullstrom to demonstrate his work methods (separate charge).

Conference packages are available for Friday only, Saturday only, or for both days. The Murray Premises Hotel is giving attendees discounted rates for accommodations; these discounts are available for five days before and five days after the conference.

Visit the conference page for more details and registration.

Come to Conference 2023 in St. John’s, Newfoundland! #IndexCanCon2023