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Annual Symposium on Textual Studies
May 25-26 Fri-Sat Centre for Textual Scholarship
De Montfort University, Leicester
Conference fees: free
Conference dinner on Friday evening: £ 18. Cash or cheques accepted on arrival.
See schedule, registration, map, and accommodation details at:
http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/activities/text.php
Registration (Please register by 20 May)
Schedule
Friday, May 25, 2007
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:30
Marta Werner, D'Youville College, NY
'Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan: Writing Otherwise'
Sean Ryder, National University of Ireland, Galway
'Text as Performance: Editing Thomas Moore'
10:30-10-45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:45
Oliver Harris, Keele University
'Cutting Up the Archive: William Burroughs and the Composite Text'
Barbara Bordalejo, Birmingham University
'Encoding Authorial and Non-authorial Variation:
Point of View and Interpretation'
12:00-1:00 Key Lecture
John Jowett, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
'Editing Shakespeare: What Does It Matter?'
1.00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-4:00 Symposium led by Dr Jowett
4:00-4:30 Tea
4:30-5:00 Electronic show and tell
5:00 Reception
7:30 Dinner at Halli An Indian Vegetarian Restaurant (153 Granby Street, Leicester, TEL: 0116-255-4667), for those who signed up and paid £ 18-)
Saturday, May 26, 2007
9:30-10:30
Takako Kato, De Montfort University
'A Textual Study of Malory's "Roman War Episode"'
Orietta Da Rold, University of Leicester
'Material Culture and Medieval Literary Texts'
10:30-10-45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:45
Linda Bree, Cambridge University Press
'Editing Jane Austen's manuscripts'
Mark Bland, De Montfort University
'Editing Jonson'
12:00-1:00 Key Lecture:
Mary Jane Edwards, Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts, Carleton University
'Why bother?: 'Traditional' Scholarly Editing in the Age of Computers'
1.00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-4:00 "Historicizing the Text: Explanatory Notes and All That."
Symposium led by Professor Edwards
4:00-4:30 Tea
Directions and map, campus maps (we are building 6), and guide to accommodation in Leicester
Inquiries: email [log in to unmask]
Sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities & the Centre for Textual Scholarship
© 2007 CTS
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