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\u201cTextual Embodiments\u201d\nThe Society of Textual Scholarship\u2019s International Interdisciplinary Conference
\nUniversity of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
\nMay 31 - June 2, 2017<\/p>\n
\u201cTextual Embodiments\u201d
\nThe Society of Textual Scholarship\u2019s International Interdisciplinary Conference
\nUniversity of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
\nMay 31 - June 2, 2017<\/p>\n
Keynote speakers:\u00a0Marisa Parham\u00a0(Amherst College), Susan Brown (University of Guelph)<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities\u00a0(MITH) and the Andrew W. Mellon-funded\u00a0African American Digital Humanities Initiative\u00a0(AADHum)\u00a0invite your participation in \u201cTextual Embodiments,\u201d the Society for Textual Scholarship\u2019s International Interdisciplinary Conference for 2017.<\/p>\n
The conference theme is \"Textual Embodiments,\" broadly construed. With this theme the organizers hope to engage a range of issues involving the materiality of texts, including their physical, virtual, or performative manifestations as objects that can decay or break down and can potentially be repaired and sustained over time. It also concerns the processes of inclusion and exclusion through which bodies of texts take shape in the form of editions, archives, collections, and exhibition building, as well as the ethical responsibilities faced by textual scholars, archivists, conservationists, media archeologists, digital resource creators, and cultural heritage professionals engaging in these processes.<\/p>\n
As always, the conference is open to submissions involving interdisciplinary discussion of current research into particular aspects of textual work: the discovery, enumeration, description, bibliographical analysis, editing, annotation, mark-up, and sustainability of texts in disciplines such as cultural studies, literature, history, musicology, classical and biblical studies, philosophy, art history, legal history, history of science and technology, computer science, library and information science, archives, lexicography, epigraphy, paleography, codicology, cinema studies, new media studies, game studies, theater, linguistics, and textual and literary theory. Considerations of the role of computational methodologies, tools, and technologies in textual theory and practice are of course welcome, as are papers addressing aspects of archival theory and practice as they pertain to textual criticism and scholarly editing.<\/p>\n
Especially welcome are interdisciplinary papers addressing the theme of Textual Embodiment in the fields of\u00a0Black Diaspora Studies, Indigenous Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Latinx Studies, Disability Studies, Women\u2019s Studies, and Critical Theory.<\/p>\n
Submissions may take the following traditional forms:<\/p>\n
Proposals for all formats should include a title; abstract (250 words max.) of the proposed paper, panel, seminar, or workshop; and name, email address, and institutional affiliation for all participants. Format should be clearly indicated. Seminar, fishbowl, and workshop proposals in particular should take care to articulate the imagined audience and any expectations of prior knowledge or preparation.<\/p>\n