Saturday, April 29, 2006

CFP: The Society for Textual Scholarship - Fourteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference

CFP: The Society for Textual Scholarship - Fourteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference

March 14-17, 2007, New York University
Deadline for Proposals: October 31, 2006

URL: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/research/projects/sts/html/callforpapers.php

The Program Chairs invite the submission of full panels or individual papers devoted to interdisciplinary discussion of current research into particular aspects of contemporary textual work: the discovery, enumeration, description, bibliographical analysis, editing, annotation, and mark-up of texts in disciplines such as literature, history, musicology, classical and biblical studies, philosophy, art history, legal history, history of science and technology, computer science, library science, lexicography, epigraphy, paleography, codicology, cinema studies, media studies, theater, linguistics, and textual and literary theory. The Program Chairs are particularly interested in papers and panels, as well as workshops and roundtables, on the following topics, aimed at a broad, interdisciplinary audience:

--Textual environments
--Textual cultures
--Textual ruins
--Textual arts, including the book arts
--Digital texts and editing projects

Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length. Panels should consist of three papers or presentations. Individual proposals should include a brief abstract (one or two pages) of the proposed paper as well as the name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation of the participant. Panel proposals, including proposals for roundtables and workshops, should include a session title, the name of a designated contact person for the session, the names, e-mail addresses, and institutional addresses and affiliations of each person involved in the session, and a one- or two-page abstract of each paper to be presented during the session. Abstracts should indicate what (if any) technological support will be requested.

Inquiries and proposals should be submitted electronically to:

Nicholas Frankel (nrfranke@vcu.edu) or Marta Werner (wernerm@dyc.edu)