Symposium: A Celebration of Textual Scholarship

To mark the launch of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, University of Birmingham

Thursday 28 September

Ancient texts
Holger Strutwolf (University of Münster): TBA
Wendy Phillips (University of Cambridge): "Textual Eugenics: in Search for the Perfect Mahabharata"
Third speaker: TBA

Medieval texts
Joao Dionisio (University of Lisbon): "The Example of the Bees"
Eric Stanley (University of Oxford): " Editing Old and Middle English Texts for a Purpose"
Hikmat Kachouh (University of Birmingham): "Arabic Manuscripts of the Gospels"

5.00 pm: Formal launch of ITSEE at the Barber Institute

Presentation by the ITSEE directors (David Parker, Peter Robinson, Barbara Bordalejo)
Lecture by Gert Leernout (University of Antwerp): "The Spirit and the Letter"
Followed by a reception.

Friday 29 September

Modern texts
Dirk van Hulle (University of Antwerp): "Editing Hesitancy: Draft Stages, Layers, Phases, Versions"
Marta Werner (D'Youville College): ''A Woe of Ecstasy': On the Electronic Editing of Emily Dickinson's Limit Texts"
Jim Mays (University College Dublin): "The Shadow of the Page"

Panel and Discussion: The theory and practice of editing
Keith Elliot (University of Leeds): "The Need for a Comprehensive Apparatus"
Peter Shillingsburg (De Montfort University): "What We Want Now: The Convenient Edition"