Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 22nd Biennial Conference.

28–31 August 2014, Stellenbosch,
South Africa

  

Call for Papers

The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Keynote Address: Professor Henry Woudhuysen (Lincoln College, University of Oxford)

Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2014

The Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines relating to Medieval and Renaissance Studies. We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of Medieval and Renaissance Studies addressing the conference theme. 

Abstracts should be no more than 250 words long.

For information about previous conferences, and the conference venue, please consult the society website.

 

Please send abstracts and enquiries by email to: Professor David Scott-Macnab, Department of English, University of Johannesburg.

Petrus Plaoul. Editio Critica Electronica Commentarii in libros Sententiarum.

Todo aquel que haya entrado alguna vez en este blog sabe que siempre me limito a recopilar eventos que pueden resultar de interés para todo aquel enrolado en el maravilloso mundo del trabajo directo con fuentes manuscritas medievales, sin comentarios personales. Sin embargo, en esta ocasión haré una excepción para llamar la atención sobre el proyecto en curso "Petrus Plaoul. Editio Critica Electronica Commentarii in libros Sententiarum". 

Como edición crítica electrónica de la obra "Commentarius in Libros Sententiarum" del filósofo y teólogo Peter Plaoul (1392/1393), permite consultar online no solo los cuatro manuscritos digitalizados que transmiten la misma sino también acceder a su correspondiente transcripción y edición crítica, así como, en un futuro, a la traducción a inglés del texto.

Su autor, J. C. Witt (Loyola University Maryland) tuvo la amabilidad de hacerme llegar noticia de esta iniciativa anoche, a través de la gran herramienta que resulta Twitter para el contacto profesional y, desde entonces, no he podido dejar de visitar una y otra vez la página del proyecto intentando entender cómo, a pesar de lo compleja que resulta, presenta un trabajo excelente de una forma tan pulida y sencilla. (Para qué engañarnos... también intentando dilucidar cómo poder hacer algo similar con "mis" fuentes...)

El desarrollo de ediciones electrónicas está a la orden del día y, sin duda, el ejemplo que supone la presentada en este proyecto sirve de inspiración para todos. Por favor, no dejéis de visitarla.

The Thirteenth York Manuscripts Conference: Cathedral Libraries and Archives of Britain and Ireland.

Hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York. 

Organised by Brian Cummings, Linne Mooney, Bill Sherman and Hanna Vorholt.

3 - 5 July 2014, 

York, UK, The King's Manor

* Call for Papers *

The York Manuscripts Conference has been held biennially or triennially since 1986 and, with about 50 papers, is amongst the largest conferences in Europe dedicated to manuscript studies. The Thirteenth York Manuscripts Conference, to be held from 3-5 July 2014 will have as its topic the Cathedral Libraries and Archives of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. 

The Cathedral Libraries and Archives of Britain and Ireland comprise some of the most remarkable and least explored collections of medieval and early modern manuscripts. While predictably focused on theological, liturgical, and devotional books, they also contain many medical, scientific, and literary sources, as well as legal and administrative documents. In addition to the many collections that are still in situ, others are now being looked after elsewhere, or have been dispersed. The conference will include papers on medieval and early modern manuscripts which are or were once held by the cathedrals of Britian and Ireland, considering their varied contents, illumination, use, and provenance; paper topics might also explore the formation, development, and dissolution of the libraries themselves; connections between different collections; their location and cataloguing within the cathedrals; or the distinction between cathedral libraries and cathedral archives in a historical perspective. Papers which shed light on lesser known treasures and collections will be especially welcome. We invite papers from researchers in the fields of religion, history, art history, musicology, history of science, literature, codicology, conservation, and other cognate disciplines. Papers delivered at the conference may be considered for inclusion in a volume of selected essays.

The conference is organised in association with the Cathedrals Libraries and Archives Network (CLAN), which seeks to engender, co-ordinate, facilitate and promote research on the Cathedral collections, and to act as an interface between academic communities, church bodies, and the wider public. 

Plenary lectures will be given by Nigel Morgan (Cambridge), Christopher Norton (York), Rodney Thomson (Tasmania), and Magnus Williamson (Newcastle). 

Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words. Deadline for submission of proposals is 1 July 2013.

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Medieval Symposium 2013: Surprises from the Past? The impact of modern discoveries of ancient and medieval texts.

Centre for Medieval Literature (CML)

The University of Southern Denmark (Odense) 

11-12 November 2013

Call for papers

In the field of ancient and medieval text-based scholarship, the unexpected surfacing of unknown texts in the middle of established scholarly fields provides an interesting test case for the issue of the resistance of disciplinary canons to the challenges posed by new discoveries. The interaction between a sudden new voice from the distant past and a field of study can be observed here in a pristine state as the recent find had played no role in defining the canon or canonical questions in the field. 

We will primarily focus on single new texts or new parts or versions of texts rather than finds of whole libraries which created entirely new scholarly fields.

Proposals are welcome for papers on any subject associated with the theme of the conference. Contributions which focus on marginalized or practically forgotten texts
will also be welcome. 

Among the questions that could be addressed are the following:

• Can we assess the role of chance vs more meaningful historical processes in the forgetting and reappearing of this text?
• Did the find lead to any disciplinary soul-searching about the representativity of the old set of canonized texts / sources?
• Are there examples of canonical texts that only just survived and which could prompt useful counterfactual reflections? What would the field have looked like without them?
• Does it make sense to talk of textual 'resilience' in a given case? No matter what we want the text to say, does it stay strange, uncooperative or contradictory?
• Why does it always seem to make a big difference if a discovered text is anonymous or written by a known author? 

Confirmed speakers include:

Imre Galambos, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge: The discovery of the Buddhist cave library of Dunhuang

Beatrice del Bo, Bocconi University, Milan: The Datini archive

György Geréby, Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest: The Summulae logicales: Petrus Hispanus or Michael Psellus?

Lorenzo Perrone, Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale, Università di Bologna: The newly discovered homilies of Origen

Elizabeth Tyler, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York: The recently discovered alternative text of Encomium Emmae (11th century) at the Royal Library of Copenhagen

Lyndsay Coo, Cambridge University, Papyrus Fragments of Sophocles

To submit a proposal, please send an abstract of your paper and a brief curriculum vitae (one page max. each) by e-mail, before 15 May 2013.

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XI Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas.

Universidad de Alicante

17 y 18 de junio de 2013

El tema de estas jornadas sobre el que versarán las ponencias y comunicaciones es "Lugares de escritura: el Monasterio".

Bajo el título de «Lugares de escritura: el Monasterio” la Sociedad Española de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas organiza en este año 2013 sus XI Jornadas, continuando el ciclo que se inició en junio de 2012 con la reunión celebrada en Valladolid, que tuvo como objeto de estudio la Catedral como lugar de escritura. En estas jornadas las ponencias y comunicaciones se centrarán en la creación y conservación de los objetos escritos en un amplio espectro cronológico, que va desde la Alta Edad Media hasta la Edad Moderna y que estudiará tanto los cenobios masculinos como los femeninos, contemplando los variados usos de la escritura en el ámbito monástico y conventual y considerando también la repercusión que tiene en este campo la introducción del monacato benedictino en el ámbito peninsular.

Como en ediciones anteriores, se abren las Jornadas a la participación de comunicantes (hasta 1 de Junio) que expongan trabajos relacionados con este tema y a la presentación de proyectos financiados de investigación en marcha, cuyos contenidos se relacionen con cualquiera de las ramas de las Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas.

Programa

Lunes, 17 de junio de 2013

• 09:00. Recepción de los participantes y entrega del material.
• 09:45. Inauguración de las XI Jornadas.
• 10:00. José Antonio Fernández Flórez (U. de Burgos), "Escribir en los monasterios altomedievales del Occidente Peninsular (ss. VIII-XII)".
• 11:00. Ana Suárez González (U. de Santiago de Compostela), "Silencio, como en el claustro. Entre libros cistercienses de los siglos XII y XIII".
• 12:00. Pausa.
• 12:30. Comunicaciones y debate.
• 17:00. Mª Luisa García Valverde (U. de Granada), "A son de campana tañida, conviene a saber...": Escritura, claustro y mujer en el Antiguo Régimen.
• 18:00. Comunicaciones y debate.
• 19:45. Visita al Castillo de Santa Bárbara.

Martes, 18 de junio

• 09:30. Mª Encarnación Martín López (U. de León), “La escritura publicitaria en el monacato hispano. Contexto, mensaje e intencionalidad”.
• 10:30. Luis Miguel de la Cruz Herranz (A.H.N), “El archivo monástico. Entre la gestión de su administración y la gestión de su memoria histórica”.
• 11:30. Pausa.
• 12:00. Comunicaciones y debate.
• 13:45. Clausura de las XI Jornadas.
• 17:00. Asamblea Ordinaria de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas.

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Indigenous Ideas and Foreign Influences: Interactions among Oral and Literary, Latin and Vernacular Cultures in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe.

The Medieval and Early Modern periods in Northern Europe (ca 600–1600), defined broadly to include both Scandinavia, the Baltic, the British Isles and the Hanseatic areas of the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, were characterized by the simultaneous existence of oral and literary as well as Latin and vernacular cultures. 

Worldviews, ideas, beliefs, customs and norms were neither purely Christian nor purely pagan. Instead, the surviving sources show traces of various cultural layers as a result of cultural blending; sometimes the different elements are easily discernible, but sometimes they are so intermingled that they cannot be distinguished. The syncretism applies to both religious and secular texts; the coexistence of Latin and vernacular sometimes appears literally in manuscripts that combined both Latin and vernacular content or used different vernacular languages in parallel. Moreover, some texts (defined in the broad sense of the word) were never written but remained oral, manifesting themselves in later folklore.

The workshop Indigenous Ideas and Foreign Influences will offer an arena for discussion of the interaction between oral and literary and the Latin and vernacular cultures in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe. The seminar will take place on Thursday 26 September and Friday 27 September 2013, in Helsinki, Finland, at the House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo), Kirkkokatu 6. 

The programme for the event will consist of workshops and keynote lectures. Suggested preliminary themes for the workshops included, but are not limited to: 

• Latin and Christian influences in vernacular sources 
• The relationship between Latin and vernacular: multilingualism in sources 
• Practical skills of vernacular culture vs. Latin artes
• Indigenous elements and foreign influences in beliefs, conceptions and practices (e.g. in beliefs regarding the supernatural, conceptions of the sacred, magical practices) in vernacular sources 
• Interaction between oral and literary cultures 
• The physical context of oral performance of the Latin or vernacular texts
• The role of language in the modes of textual transmission (prose, poetry, official documents, letters, songs, charms, incantations, runic inscriptions etc.) and performance (e.g. singing, reading silently or aloud, ritualistic performances)

The invited guest-lecturers are: Marco Mostert (Utrecht University), Mara Grudule (University of Latvia), Terry Gunnell (University of Iceland), Tuomas Heikkilä (University of Helsinki, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae).

Those who wish to participate in the seminar and propose a paper for the workshop are kindly requested to send an abstract (max 300 words) in .rtf, .doc or .docx form by May 3rd to the organisers at @. 

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Conference Manuscripts and Epigraphy.

Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg.

14 - 16 November 2013.

In order to establish manuscriptology as a discipline of manuscript studies it is necessary to clarify the concept of manuscript. The Conference in particular aims to focus on this clarification and will therefore discuss the relationship between manuscripts and epigraphy, which is particularly insightful for this purpose. Manuscripts, including the texts, illustrations, notes, or other signs contained in them, are to be distinguished from other means of recording and transmitting information, particularly from other media of literacy. Regarding manuscripts and epigraphy, it will not be possible to begin with clear-cut definitions; rather, blurred boundaries and overlaps have to be expected, not least because the concept of epigraphy is neither homogenous nor uncontroversial.

When examining the types and amounts of text found in epigraphy and manuscripts, one will immediately discover great differences between these two writing supports. Therefore, detailed comparative analyses of the conventions are desirable, which stipulate particular types, sizes and arrangements of signs for different types of inscriptions and texts contained in manuscripts, and which are reflected in an intentionally planned layout. Additionally, a more or less spontaneous use of letters and signs has to be taken into account, as, for instance, is the case with annotations or graffiti. Furthermore, it is to be examined how reliable a distinction according to the producers of these types of writings is, as suggested at times, who sometimes are considered to belong to an artisanal circle or, at other times, to a scriptorium or chancellery.

Thus the basic material conditions of epigraphy and manuscript are addressed as well. Whether or not the distinction between ‘soft’ materials for manuscripts and ‘hard’ materials for epigraphy, as has been suggested, is feasible should be examined in the light of clay and bamboo manuscripts or epigraphic evidence found on textile or leather. Furthermore, it is to be asked whether the category of durability derived from the attribution to a certain material may be exclusively ascribed to inscriptions. Also, the differentiation between stationary and transportable use, which can be deduced from the difference between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ materials, does not seem to apply without limitation.

Finally, the transfer from inscription to manuscript (and vice versa?) will be addressed which can be found, for example, when specific epigraphic conventions are being included in manuscripts, for instance text pages appearing in epigraphic mode. Illustrations and image sequences can also be accompanied, supplemented, or explained by inscriptions and, last but not least, the visual representation of real inscriptions should be mentioned in this context.

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Computerised Management of Ancient Scripts: State of the Question and Perspectives.

21st and 22nd May 2013,

Tours (France).

Despite twenty years of constant developments in the digital humanities field and, in particular, the decisive progress made by the MUFI, the encoding of ancient scripts is still extremely problematic. With a view to gaining a comprehensive view of the current situation and future perspectives, the CESR (Centre for Advanced Renaissance Studies, Tours) and the IRAMAT (Institute for Research on Archaeomaterials, Orleans) jointly propose to bring together diverse specialists (researchers in literature, the humanities, social science; professionals working in libraries and museums, as well as in the graphic arts and computing) for a two day study session programmed to take place at Tours (France), on the 21st and 22nd May 2013.

The program is available here.

Free registration to attend the conference.

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Coloquio: Los modelos anglo-normandos en la cultura letrada en Castilla (siglos XII-XIV).

25 abril - 26 abril 2013,

Casa de Velázquez, Madrid.

El presente coloquio se propone explorar diversas facetas de la cultura escrita y de las prácticas cortesanas letradas en la Castilla de los siglos XII al XIV, con el objetivo de discutir la influencia en estas últimas de posibles modelos anglo-normandos. Se tratará pues de analizar la emergencia de la cultura política y literaria de las élites hispánicas en este periodo, a la luz de la transmisión de ideas, motivos y técnicas textuales surgidas del entorno Plantagenet. Teniendo en cuenta que el espacio Plantagenet abarca, durante buena parte del siglo XII, un amplio espacio que va desde el norte de Inglaterra hasta los Pirineos, y que da origen a prácticas artísticas que tuvieron una amplia recepción y continuidad, se analizará la circulación de individuos, manuscritos y textos, y la permeabilidad de las formas literarias castellanas a modelos culturales exógenos, forjados en torno a la corona anglo-normanda. Con este coloquio, que tiene una perspectiva naturalmente comparatista, se establecerá una primera síntesis sobre los modelos anglo-normandos en la cultura castellana de los siglos XII-XIV, colmando así una laguna en nuestro conocimiento de la Edad Media occidental.

Para acceder a los resúmenes de los participantes, hagan click aquí.   

Programa

JUEVES 25 DE ABRIL

9h30-14h
Apertura: Jean-Pierre ÉTIENVRE (Director de la Casa de Velázquez)
Presentación del coloquio: Amaia ARIZALETA (Université de Toulouse II), Francisco BAUTISTA (Universidad de Salamanca)

Conferencia plenaria: Martin AURELL (Université de Poitiers) - La influencia anglo-normanda en Occidente

HISTORIA, IDENTIDAD Y LENGUA

José Manuel CERDA (Universidad Gabriela Mistral - Santiago, Chile) - Alienor Regina Castelle, Filia Henrici Regis Anglie: Leonor Plantagenet y la impronta anglonormanda en la Castilla de Alfonso VIII
Fernando ARIAS GUILLÉN (University of Saint Andrews) - Representaciones del poder regio en Castilla e Inglaterra (c. 1250-1350): contactos e ¿influencias?
Javier RODRÍGUEZ MOLINA (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) - Sobre algunos préstamos del francés antiguo: los adverbios de manera toste, ensemble, gent y volunter

17h-20h

ESCRITURA Y TIPOLOGÍAS MANUSCRITAS

Valeria BERTOLUCCI PIZZORUSSO (Università di Pisa) - Gaufridus Anglicus en la corte de Alfonso X
Elena LLAMAS POMBO (Universidad de Salamanca) - Administración y cultura escrita: manuscritos anglonormandos y manuscritos castellanos (siglos XII-XIV)
Rosa RODRÍGUEZ PORTO (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) - Tramas manuscritas: difusión y fortuna de los modelos anglo-normandos en la iluminación del libro castellano (1170-1369)

VIERNES 26 DE ABRIL

9h30-14h

LA INVENCIÓN DE LA LITERATURA

Vicenç BELTRAN (Università degli Studi di Roma «La Sapienza») - La reina Plantagenêt: los trovadores en España
Pedro CÁTREDRA (Universidad de Salamanca) - Modelo anglo-normando y romanceamiento bíblico
Estrella PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ (Universidad de Valladolid) - La influencia anglo-normanda en la literatura latina castellana de los siglos XIII y XIV
Elena GONZÁLEZ BLANCO (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid) - La presencia de la cuaderna vía en la literatura anglonormanda. ¿Un modelo o una herencia común?
Francisco BAUTISTA (Universidad de Salamanca) - El Gracial de Adgar y la literatura mariana en Castilla

16h30-20h

TEXTOS ANGLO-NORMANDOS EN LA CORTE DE ALFONSO X

Fernando GÓMEZ REDONDO (Universidad de Alcalá) - La Historia regum Britanniae y la General estoria
Irina NANU (Universitat de València) - La recepción de la obra política de Juan de Salisbury en el siglo XIII castellano: el Policraticus y la Segunda Partida

Mesa redonda y conclusiones generales

Amaia ARIZALETA (Université deToulouse II) - Modelos Plantagenêt en la producción textual de la corte de Alfonso VIII de Castilla: los principios y los fines
Ana ECHEVARRÍA (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid) - Hacia los Trastámara

Asistencia libre y gratuita


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2014 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America.

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California Los Angeles is pleased to host the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. The conference will meet on the campus of UCLA April 10-12, 2014. 

The program will include three plenary speakers and at least one plenary session. 

Proposals

deadline 15 June 2013

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, excepting those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2012 and 2013; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Special consideration can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.

Theme 

“Empires and Encounters” will be the theme of the meeting. The Medieval Academy welcomes innovative sessions that explore sites of encounter — both as places where new cultural forms emerge and where conflict and difference are manifest — or that examine the fallout from the formation and dissolution of empires. The broadest possible range of proposals on topics and for time periods, within and across all the disciplines, is sought for both commissioned and open sessions.

The year 2014 highlights the 1200th anniversary of the death of Charlemagne, whose empire claimed to have revived the fallen Roman Empire and set the stage for later imperial concepts in medieval Europe. It seems fitting, therefore, to choose “Empires and Encounters” — in all of their various manifestations — as the theme of the 2014 Annual Meeting.

Empires, of course, never exist in isolation; by nature they create along their boundaries zones of contact between ethnic, religious, political and cultural groups that in turn challenge the concepts of center and periphery through various forms of non-conflictual encounter. In drawing under the same rubrics peoples of varied traditions, histories, languages and customs, empires and encounters also challenge and change the nature and definition of such categories.

* The Program Committee welcomes submissions on other topics and will organize additional sessions to accommodate the best submissions.

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Workshop: Easy Tools for Difficult Texts.

The Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and the COST Action IS1005 “Medieval Europe” are organizing a two-day workshop gathering a number of experts in methodologies and tool creation around the complex issue of transferring medieval manuscripts to a digital medium.

“Easy Tools for Difficult Texts?”

Medieval manuscripts and codices are notoriously difficult to convince to become well behaved inhabitants of the digital scholarly ecosystem. Meanwhile over the last decades many digital local computerized services, web based tools, and stand alone applications have been developed to create, publish, and analyze digital representations of manuscript and printed text. Although such tools have been trying to accommodate for medieval manuscripts –and sometimes were even solely developed for that purpose– a true convenient and intuitive means of re-representing medieval text in the digital medium seems elusive. The nature of medieval texts –ambiguous, uncertain, instable, often of unknown origin and descent, of puzzling function and context, damaged, fragmented, still unconventional in their multiplicity of form, format, language, orthography, typography, and script– poses an ultimate challenge to creators and users of digital tools wishing to produce useful and reliable digital counterparts to these medieval sources of knowledge and testimonies of intellectual creativity.

The workshop Easy Tools for Difficult Texts: Manuscripts & Textual Tradition to be held at the Huygens Institute in The Hague on 18 and 19 April 2013, will create an overview of the state of the art of tool development, and of the difficulties and extreme requirements medieval manuscript poses to digital methods and techniques.

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Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing.

University of Saskatchewan

July 11, 2013 – July 13, 2013

Call for Proposals (April 5, 2013 - April 26, 2013)

 

The 'Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing' conference comes at a critical inflection point in the transformation of scholarly editing caused by the two massive shifts of the digital revolution. These shifts are, firstly, the movement of all data into digital form and, secondly, the creation of new modes of collaboration. For the first: in the last decades, the creation of massive amounts of data in digital form has already transformed the basic materials of scholarly editing, while digital tools offer new methods for exploration and publication. For the second: where scholarly editing in the past has been typically the work of a single dedicated scholar, the development of collaborative platforms including social media opens up the possibilities of co-operative work across whole communities.

These changes, so sudden and so far-reaching, in a field which changed little in centuries, affect every aspect of scholarly editing. This conference will explore the theoretical, practical, and social implications of these changes. In terms of theory: how is our sense of what a scholarly edition can and should be affected by these movements? Traditionally, a scholarly edition was created by a single scholar or a tightly-defined group of scholars, and fixed in print. Now it may be the work of many people, who may have no contact at all apart from their shared contribution to the edition, and it may change second by second. Are 'scholarly editions' as we have known them possible, or even desirable? Is the concept of a 'scholarly editor' obsolete, to be replaced by -- what? What might we lose? What might we gain? In terms of practice: we face formidable problems. Copyright and intellectual property law lag decades behind what we can now do. The quantity and diversity of data which a scholarly edition in digital form might include (maps, sound, moving images, and more) mandate the development of new interfaces, even as the transience of the digital threatens to make unusable tomorrow what we make today. How do we make editions which others can change, use and reuse, decompose and recombine with other data, as they need? In terms of social implications: who is to do this work? How are they to be chosen, trained, supported? If anyone and everyone can contribute -- how do we assure the quality of the work done? Traditionally, a few editors perched in the academy have produced texts read by many outside the academy. This model might now be dissolved, as scholars within the academy can work alongside readers everywhere to create fluid and dynamic editions distributed everywhere. Or is it scholarly editing itself which might be dissolved -- leaving us, with what?

The conference program will be built around three groups of presenters: senior textual scholars, senior digital humanists, including the heads of seven major international digital humanities centers and key representatives of six others; and international leaders in the development and use of online community knowledge tools, ranging from biodiversity data to manuscript transcription. The program will offer a mix of formal academic addresses, panels focussing on contentious issues, demonstrations of leading-edge solutions, informal poster and hands-on sessions. A one-day workshop offering practical experience in on-line collaborative editing systems will precede the conference. The conference timing, immediately before the major annual Digital Humanities conference in Lincoln, Nebraska on July 16-19 2013, is designed to enable participants to attend both conferences. Confirmed participants are Barbara Bordalejo, Susan Brown,Ben Brumfield, Gabriel Egan, Paul Eggert, Paul Flemons, Alex Gil, James Ginther, Tuomas Heikkilä, Fotis Jannidis, Laura Mandell, Murray McGillivray, Brent Nelson, Catherine Nygren,Dan O'Donnell, Roger Osbourne, Wendy Phillips-Rodriguez, Elena Pierazzo, Ken Price, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Peter Shillingsburg, Ray Siemens, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Joshua Sosin, Melissa Terras, Edward Vanhoutte, and Joris van Zundert (to be confirmed: Hans Gabler and Jerome McGann).

In addition to the invited presenters, we invite proposals for papers from anyone interested in the conference themes.  We particularly welcome papers from people involved in the GO::DH community. There is funding set aside for students enrolled in graduate or doctoral programs who wish to attend, and funding may also be available on application (as bursaries, or support up to the full cost of travel and conference attendance) for other proposers: see the Call for Proposals Page. We will give preference in allocating funding to proposers from circumstances where support is rarely or never available.

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