The European Society for Textual Scholarship provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the theory and practice of textual scholarship in Europe. It has been established in close collaboration with the Society for Textual Scholarship (North America).
The bylaws were approved by the membership on December 2005. A new board has been elected and had its first meeting in 2006.
The president of the society is Dr. Peter Robinson, University of Birmingham, the secretary is Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp and the membership secretary is Herman Brinkman, Huygens Instituut.
Membership for the society is open. Membership for individuals is €50 or £34 UK. There is also a list of members on this site.
The Society's postal address is:
ESTS is sponsored by the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, School of Historical Studies, University of Birmingham.
For membership enquiries contact Herman Brinkman by e-mail, phone (31-70 3315812) or post:
The Society holds a conference each year. The first of these was held in Alicante, Spain, on the theme 'Editing Texts in Multiple Versions' on 25-27 November 2004, and was preceded by three colloquia. The second, on the theme 'Histories of Editions,' was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on 16th and 17th December 2005. Our third conference, on the theme 'Textual Scholarship and the Material Book,' was held in London, in November 2006. The fourth ESTS conference will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, between the 22nd and 24th of November, 2007. The subject of the conference is Textual Scholarship and the Canon.
The first ESTS colloquium was held in Leicester on November 22-23, 2001. The second colloquium was held in Antwerp in December 6-7, 2002. The third colloquium was held in Copenhagen on November 21-23, 2003.
The Society publishes a refereed journal, Variants, of articles and reviews with a focus on European textual scholarship. The first number was published in 2002. The second volume is a double number (2/3), for the years 2003/4, and was published in 2004. Variants 4 was published in 2005. The Variants 5 will be published in the first trimester of 2007
With STS, we maintain a discussion group about textual scholarship. The list is open to anyone --you do not have to be a member of either society to join-- and we welcome anyone who is interested in textual criticism or scholarly editing. Join Textual Scholarship.
Ithe German Arbeitsgemeinschaft für germanistische Edition has refurbished its website. See details of their conference on Materiality (Materialität): 12th International Conference of the Association of German Scholarly Editing, 13-16 February 2008, Berlin, hosted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften).
If you would like more information about the 2007 ESTS conference, to be held in Lithuania, contact Michael Stolz.
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