Tentative Schedule

Beyond Accessibility:
Textual Studies in the 21st Century
University of Victoria
June 8 - 10, 2012

With support from:
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,
the University of Victoria,
INKE, and
the Digital Humanities Summer Institute.

 

Plenary Speakers

Dr. Adriaan van der Weel

Dr. Sydney Shep

 


1:15 Friday Afternoon Plenary
Dr. Adriaan van der Weel

 


Saturday, June 9
Morning

Slot A: 8:30 - 10:00

MacLaurin D101
Digital Editions 1 - Prototypes and Current Projects

Chair: Richard Cunningham

MEAGAN TIMNEY
Marker Seven Inc.
Turning the Page: Rethinking Design for Digital Editionsadd

MELISSA DALGLEISH
EMiC Graduate Fellow, York University
Modular Thinking: A Model for Small-Scale Social-Text Digital Editionsadd

MICHELLE LEVY
Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University
Evaluating Digital Remediations of Women’s Manuscriptsadd

 

MacLaurin D103
The Legacy of Print

Chair: Brent Nelson

LUIS MENESES
Richard Furuta Center for the Study of Digital Libraries
Texas A&M University
P.R.I.M.E.: Developing Concepts Inherited From Printed Materialsadd

ROBERT IMES
Department of English
University of Saskatchewan
Shared Features in the Production, Use, and Criticism of Print and Digital Editionsadd

 


Slot B: 10:15 - 11:15

MacLaurin D101
Reading Environments 1 - Past, Present, Future

Chair: Robert Imes

BRENT NELSON
Department of English
University of Saskatchewan
The Textual Habitat: Environmentalism for a Better Textual Worldadd

HÉLÈNE CAZES
A Big Catch in our Net: Vesalius’ Fabrica (1543, 1555),
a case study for editorial mediationsadd

 

MacLaurin D103
Searchable Texts

Chair: Laura Estill

ROB KOEHLER
Illinois State University
Noah Webster, Authorship, and the Vagaries of Nationalismadd

SANDRA M. LEONARD
Literature and Criticism Program, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
University of Delaware
Montgomery County Community College
A Wilde Goose Chase: Google-ing the Greats and Investigating Literary Plagiarismadd

 


 

Lunch - provided
11:15 - 12:30

 


Slot C: 12:30 - 2:00

MacLaurin D101
Translation 1 - The Challenge of Converting to Digital

Chair: Gord Barentson

EUGENIE DUTHOIT
University of Montpellier
From a print to a digital edition: the case of a Latin handbookadd

JON deTOMBE
Department of English, University of Saskatchewan
Ark-iving and Enciphering Markup in the Early Modern Collectionadd

DEAN IRVINE
Department of English
Dalhousie University
PI, Editing Modernism in Canada
ModLabs add

 

MacLaurin D103
Digital Editions 2 : Theories and Challenges

Chair: Paul Hjartarson

DANIEL SONDHEIM, GEOFFREY ROCKWELL, MIHAELA ILOVAN, LUCIANO FRIZZERA, JENNIFER WINDSOR, STAN RUECKER, University of Alberta
From Print to the Web and Back: The Current State of Scholarly Editionsadd

CHRISTOPHER DOODY, Carleton University
ZAILIG POLLOCK, Director
English MA Program (Public Texts)
Trent University
"I Have Changed": Textual Transformations in P.K. Page's Brazilian Journaladd

HANNAH MCGREGOR
(Re)Writing the “Foreign”: P.K. Page’s Brazilian Journal and the Digital Turnadd

 


Slot D: 2:15 - 3:45

MacLaurin D101
Digital Editions 3 - Prototypes and Current Projects

Chair: Scott Schofield

KRISTA STINNE GREVE RASMUSSEN
PhD Fellow and sub-editor of The History of Danish Editions
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The State of the Scholarly Edition in the Nordic Countries and the Concept of the Textadd

JOHN D. BAIRD
Professor Emeritus
Department of English
University of Toronto
Scholarly Edition or Readerly Edition: Towards a Digital Dunciadadd

JAN GIELKENS and PETER KEGEL
The Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Complete works and beyond: The heritage of Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans in the 21st Centuryadd

 

MacLaurin D103
Translation 2 - A Period of Transition

Chair: Jon Saklofske

CHRISTOPH BLÄSI
Institute for Book Studies
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Will our children have the chance to do research on today´s digital books?add

SERINA PATTERSON
University of British Columbia
Beyond Reading: The ‘Gamification’ of Booksadd

 


Slot E: 4:00 - 5:00

Plenaryadd
Dr. Sydney Shep

 

 


 

Light Reception to follow Dr. Shep's talk

 

 


 

Sunday, June 10
Morning

Slot F: 9:00 - 10:30

MacLaurin D101
The Case for Space: Mapping the Digital Text

Chair: Alan Galey

JANELLE JENSTAD
Dept. of English
University of Victoria
Re-Placing the Book: Preparing a Geo-text of the Mayoral Showsadd

JENNIFER W. W. LO
King’s College London
Dimensionality in Print and Digital Scholarly Editions of Henslowe’s Diaryadd

 

MacLaurin D103
Tools

Chair: Paul Werstine

DANA WHEELES
NINES - Nineteenth-century Scholarship Online
Juxta on the Webadd

HARVEY QUAMEN, University of Alberta
MATT BOUCHARD, University of Toronto
PAUL HJARTARSON, University of Alberta & EMiC U of A
A Public Interface for the Archive: Scholarship and Smartphonesadd

VANESSA LENT
Department of English
Dalhousie University
and EMiC UA
Paris and Wilfred Watson’s Cockcrow and the Gullsadd

 


Slot G: 10:45 - 12:45

MacLaurin D101
Reading Environments 2: Past, Present, Future

Chair: Richard Cunningham

CONSTANCE CROMPTON, RAYMOND SIEMENS, AND THE DEVONSHIRE MANUSCRIPT EDITORIAL GROUP1
Electronic Textual Culture Laboratory
University Of Victoria
Many Hands, Many Editors: The Scholarly Edition And Social Mediaadd

JAMES SMITH
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
Shared Canvas: Towards an Electronic Scholarly Edition Standard Document Formatadd

YIN LIU
University of Saskatchewan
Appeal to the Public: Lessons from the Early History of the Oxford English Dictionaryadd

 

MacLaurin D103
Digital Editions 4
Prototypes and Current Projects

Chair: Brent Nelson

ELIZABETH POPHAM
Trent University
Rethinking The Hypertext Complete letters of E.J. Pratt: Exploring the Digital Thresholdadd

KRISTIN CORNELIUS
California State University, Northridge
Interface Ideals: Analyzing Text Analysis Interface Design from a Humanities Perspectiveadd

JON SAKLOFSKE and the MODELING AND PROTOTYPING TEAM, INKE
Department of English and Theatre
Acadia University
Changing the Climate: Alternative Approaches to the Scholarly Edition in Digital Environmentsadd

 

Closing Remarks


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