The Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d’indexation invites you to join us at our annual conference May 30-31, 2025, at the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver, British Columbia.
This year’s theme is “Location! Location! Location!”
The keynote address will be delivered by Rhonda Kronyk, Project Coordinator for the Indigenous Editors Association, editor, and public speaker. Her presentation will focus on the 2nd edition of Gregory Younging’s Elements of Indigenous Style
Conference sessions on indexing include “X-Men United, Indexers Divided?”, a roundtable of star-studded indexers describing their differing approaches to indexing the same piece of text, “Indexing Conundrums” with Max McMaster, “AI…where you can use it and where you shouldn’t! (Elizabeth Bartmess), “A Flow Chart for Passing Mentions” (Emma Warnken Johnson), and “Hansard Indexing: A roadmap to parliamentary debate” (Kim Christie).
Sessions on managing your business include “‘X’ Marks the Spot: Uncovering the right rate for your indexing services” (Michelle Guiliano) and “Large, Larger, Largest: How to handle large and complicated indexing assignments” (Caroline Depieveen).
We are delighted to include a session with Natalie Grant, Assistant Professor of Teaching in UBC Faculty of Medicine, Physical Therapy. Natalie will lead us through exercises we can do to keep our muscles and tendons fit and free.
As part of our conference welcome, we are planning a Thursday evening get-together. On Thursday afternoon, you can join us in a craft session–more about that soon.
New and aspiring indexers can register for the Thursday afternoon Fireside Chat session. You don’t have to be an indexer to attend.
On Sunday afternoon, we are hosting a Live Indexing workshop with Stephen Ullstrom. Enrolment will be limited.
We hope you will book your accommodations on campus, so that you can be just steps away from the conference venue and all the activities. We’ve been given very competitive rates for a variety of types of rooms. The descriptions and pricing is on the conference home page.
To learn more and to register for the conference, visit the conference page.