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September 25, 1997
Conference: Voice, Text and Hypertext at the Millennium: 1997 Inaugural
Conference in Textual Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
(for further information contact uwch@u.washington.edu)
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From: Frank Conlon <conlon@u.washington.edu>
VOICE, TEXT AND HYPERTEXT AT THE MILLENNIUM
1997 INAUGURAL CONFERENCE IN TEXTUAL STUDIES
October 29 to November 1
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
The conference will consider the state of textual studies at the
millennium, offering international and interdisciplinary perspectives
on texts in various modes, genres and periods. Topics will include
writing systems and other means of inscription and coding; the
composition, transmission, and reception of texts in various media;
the history of book culture; and the several theories of textuality--
historical, cultural, postmodernist--that underwrite these critical
operations.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29
Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall
8:00pm
Opening Remarks: Raimonda Modiano
Greetings: President Richard McCormick
Leroy Searle, Director, Center for the Humanities
8:30-9:30pm
INAUGURAL ADDRESS: David Greetham (CUNY Graduate Center), "The Function of
[Textual] Criticism at the Present Time"
Reception
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
HUB Auditorium
Coffee 8:00-8:30am
8:30-10:30am
WORK-ING IT OUT: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN TEXT CONSTRUCTION
Chair: W. Speed Hill (CUNY Graduate Center)
Paul Eggert (Australian Scholarly Editions Centre), "Reconfiguring the Work"
Donald Reiman (Shelley and His Circle and University of Delaware),
"Theoryism: Editorial Principles in an Age of Generalization"
Jerome McGann (University of Virginia), "Editing as a Theoretical Pursuit"
Peter Shillingsburg (Mississippi State University), "Hagiolotry, Cultural
Engineering, Monument Building, and Other Functions of Scholarly
Editing"
Respondent: T.H. Howard-Hill (University of South Carolina)
11:00am-12:30pm
THE MATERIAL TEXT
Chair: Phil Cohen (University of Texas, Arlington)
George Bornstein (University of Michigan), "Making the Book with Pound and
Yeats: Literary Influence and the Material Texts"
Marta Werner (Georgia State University), "Faraway, Up Close: Dickinson's
Fragments"
Randall McLeod (University of Toronto), "The Shape of Sonnets"
Lunch 12:45-2:00pm
Faculty Club
2:00-4:15pm
HISTORY OF BOOK CULTURE
SESSION ONE
Chair: Sarah Sloane (University of Puget Sound)
Roger Chartier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), "The Text
Between the Voice and the Book in 16th- and 17th-Century Europe"
Elizabeth Eisenstein (University of Michigan), "Early Encounters with the
Printed Text"
SESSION TWO
Chair: Fritz Levy (University of Washington)
Jonathan Rose (Drew University), "Down and Out in Bloomsbury: Bohemia and
the British Working Class"
David Holdeman (University of North Texas), "Gender, Class, Nationalism, and
Yeats's Modernist Idea of the Book"
4:30-6:00pm
TEXTUAL STUDIES AROUND THE WORLD: SESSION I
Chair: Jack Haney (University of Washington)
Martin Machovec (Jazykova Agentura, Czech Republic), "On the History and
Specific Values of Czech Underground Literature"
Jan Sulc (The Czech Republic), "The Problem of Editing Ivan Blatny's
Multilingual Poems Written in his English Exile"
Conor Fahy (England), "Pen, Inkballs and CD-ROM: Old and New in Italian
Textual Criticism"
8:00-9:30pm
EVENING CONCERT AND TALK
Walker-Ames Room
George Bozarth (University of Washington), "Editorial Problems in the Music
of Johannes Brahms"
Carole Terry (University of Washington), Recital: Organ Music by
Johannes Brahms
Reception 9:30-10:45pm
FRIDAY, 31 OCTOBER
HUB Auditorium
Coffee 8:00-8:30am
8:30-10:15am
ORALITY AND TEXTUALITY
Chair: Thomas Lockwood (University of Washington)
John Foley (University of Missouri), "Text as Mediator of Language in
Ancient and Living Oral Traditions"
Martin Jaffee (University of Washington), "Spoken, Written, and Incarnate:
Ontologies of Textuality in Classical Rabbinic Judaism"
Respondent: Thomas DuBois (University of Washington)
10:30-11:45am
SACRED TEXTS: THE OLD TESTAMENT
Chair: Michael Williams (University of Washington)
Zipora Talshir (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), "The Death of
Philology? The Text of the Old Testament in Post-Modern Times"
Scott Noegel (University of Washington), "Text, Script, and Media:
New Observations on Scribal Activity in the Ancient Near East"
12:00-1:00pm
HYPERTEXT AND DIGITAL CULTURE: SESSION I
Chair: Paul Remley (University of Washington)
Peter Robinson (Oxford University), "How to Read 88 Texts of
The Canterbury Tales on the Internet"
Lunch 1:00-2:00pm
2:00-4:00pm
TEXTUAL STUDIES AROUND THE WORLD: SESSION II
Chair: Michael Shapiro (University of Washington)
Ludo Rocher (University of Pennsylvania), "Manipulating Texts: When Revealed
Sanskrit Texts Become Modern Law Books"
Patrick Olivelle (University of Texas, Austin), "Philology and the Critical
Edition of Texts: Help or Hindrance?"
Winand Callewaert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), "Bhakti
Literature: Scholarly Commentaries on Uncritical Texts?"
David Pingree (Brown University), "The American Committee for South Asian
Manuscripts"
4:30-5:30pm
RENAISSANCE TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP
Chair: Sara van den Berg (University of Washington)
Michael J.B. Allen (University of California, Los Angeles), "Ammon Forbade:
Some Neoplatonic Myths of the Text in the Renaissance"
Janel Mueller (University of Chicago), "Speaking for the Record: Aspects of
Orality, Memory and Revision in Elizabeth I's Parliamentary
Speeches on the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots"
5:30-6:30pm
EDITING THE ROMANTICS
Chair: Tilar Mazzeo (University of Washington)
Heather Jackson (University of Toronto), "Editing and Auditing Marginalia"
Nicholas Roe (University of St. Andrews), "Macpherson, Originality and
Romantic Editing"
7:00-9:00pm
Conference Banquet at the Faculty Club ($30 per person--see
registration form for information)
EVENING TALK following dinner--Faculty Club
Richard Salomon and Collett Cox, "Recovering a Lost Canon: Editing and
Interpreting the Newly Discovered Gandharan Buddhist Manuscripts of
the First Century"
SATURDAY, 1 NOVEMBER
Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall
Coffee 8:00-8:30am
8:30-10:30am
TEXTS BETWEEN LANGUAGES: MEDICAL WRITINGS IN LEARNED AND VERNACULAR
TRANSLATIONS
Chair: Keith Benson (University of Washington)
Michael McVaugh (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Galen's
Methodus Medendi I-VI: Reconstructing and Unsuspected Greek-to-
Latin Translation"
Faye Getz (University of Wisconsin), "Problems in Editing the Medieval
Vernacular Translation: The Case of the Middle English Gilbertus
Anglicus"
Helen Valls (University of Cambridge), "The Nature of Medical Discourse in
Latin and Vernacular Surgical Texts"
Respondent: Nancy Siraisi (Hunter College)
11:00am-12:00pm
TEXTUAL STUDIES AROUND THE WORLD: SESSION III
Chair: Daniel Waugh (University of Washington)
Alexander G. Bobrov (Institute of Russian Literature, St. Petersburg),
"Textual Studies of Medieval Russian Chronicles"
Dmitrij M. Bulanin (Institute of Russian Literature, St. Petersburg),
"Toward Establishing the Text of the Earliest Slavic Translations
on the Basis of Russian Manuscripts of the 14th to 17th Centuries"
12:30-2:20pm
Trip to downtown Seattle and the Seattle Art Museum to see the exhibit:
"Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo da Vinci's Legacy of Art
and Science"
2:30-4:15pm (Seattle Art Museum)
HYPERTEXT AND DIGITAL CULTURE: SESSION II
Chair: Richard Finneran (University of Tennessee)
Susan Hockey (University of Alberta), "Computers and Textual Studies:
Defining the Tools"
George Landow (Brown University), "Reading and Writing the New Digital Text"
Charles Faulhaber (Bancroft Library), "MLA Guidelines for Scholarly
Electronic Editions"
Mary Keeler (University of Washington), "A New Paradigm for Textual Studies:
The Peirce On-line Resource Testbed"
4:45-6:30pm (Seattle University)
CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL TEXTS
Chair: Miceal Vaughan (University of Washington)
Phyllis Culham (U.S. Naval Academy), "Magical Texts and Popular Literacy"
Edith Sylla (North Carolina State University), "Medieval Aristotelian
Commentaries as Texts"
Linda E. Voigts (University of Missouri, Kansas City), "Sorting out a Middle
English Textual Tradition: The Declarationes of Richard of
Wallingford"
Anthony S.G. Edwards (University of Victoria), "Editing and Ideology:
Stephen Batman and the Book of Privy Counseling"
8:30pm Conference Party
Henri Art Gallery
For registration information contact
Leroy Searle, Director
Center for the Humanities
Box 353910
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
uwch@u.washington.edu
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