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26 February 2010
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Here is an interesting combination of Humanities research, Creative Commons, and the possibilites of the Internet. This year's open Appositions project uses global connections to explore Digital Archives & the Field of Production.
The following text is available from the Appositions blog under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence.
Welcome to the e-conference . . . ! This is a free, open-access event organized and hosted by APPOSITIONS.
APPOSITIONS hosts an annual e-conference and publishes a related, yet independent peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed, electronic journal, Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture, ISSN: 1946-1992.
E-conference participants are invited to revise their papers for submission as article manuscripts, but e-conference participation does not guarantee publication in the journal.
The conference theme for 2010 is Digital Archives & the Field of Production.
How and why does electronic access to archival materials reconfigure the teaching and study of literary texts, related cultural documents, and methodologies for disciplinary or interdisciplinary research and interpretation? What are the benefits and/or limitations of such new media? What are the politics of the digital archive, or of electronic special collections? What is the significance of the original work—or of authorship, or scholarship—in the electronic age? How and why does the digitization of archival documents either celebrate or challenge the status of manuscripts, pamphlets, printed books, and the literary canon?
Seven papers are available for reading and commentary:
Dr. Bill Acres
Huron University College
The University of Western Ontario
Officers and Stations: access and accessibility to sources in manuscript, calendar and digital form
James P. Ascher
University of Colorado at Boulder
The Words Must be Cousin to the Deed, or Must be a Trick of the Document: the Duty of the Diplomatic Transcription in the Ecosystem of Digital Reproduction
Dr. Sarah Barber
Senior Lecturer
Department of History
Lancaster University
Disputation: rewriting the history of the British Caribbean in the 17th century
Sheila Cavanagh
English Department
Emory University
How Does Your Archive Grow?: Academic Politics and Economics in the Digital Age
Jeffery Moser
Department of English
University of Denver
Hypertext Tudor Poems: Wyatt Wrote What?! New Issues of Renaissance Authorship with the Internet
Dr. Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Lecturer in Renaissance Literature, Oxford Brookes University;
Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University
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Dr. Ben Burton
St Edmund Hall, Oxford University
Encoding form: A proposed database of poetic form
Whitney Anne Trettien
Duke University
Hidden in Gilt: Fore-edge Paintings, Restoration-era Reading and Digital Elisions
Those conference papers will be available through March, 2010. At the beginning of April, all conference papers will be removed from the site, but a conference program will remain along with any posted comments. We hope you’ll visit the papers and offer your questions and comments via the “post a comment” link at the bottom of each document page. All postings will be lightly moderated prior to their appearance.
Image: Hartmann Schoppers, "Panopleia" (1568). Wikipedia.
