6th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Thinking Outside the Codex
November 21-23, 2013
Program
Opening Reception and Keynote Address
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Peter Stallybrass
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities,
Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory,
and Director of the History of the Material Text Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania
When Is a Book Not a Book?
To be held at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 (map).
Reception begins at 5:00 pm; lecture begins at 6:00 pm.
A special exhibition of manuscripts from the Free Library's collections will be on view during the reception.
Symposium
Friday, November 22, 2013
To be held in the newly renovated Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscriptsof the University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th floor
3420 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 (map).
8:30 - 9:00 am Registration and Coffee
9:00 - 9:15 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
William Noel, Director, Kislak Center, & Director, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
9:15 -10:30 am
Elaine Treharne, Stanford University
Invisible Things
Benjamin Fleming, University of Pennsylvania
Material Forms of Asian Manuscripts: Examples from Penn's Indic Collection and the Ramamala Library
10:15 - 10:30 pm Coffee
10:30 pm - 12:00 pm Workshop I
The Handwritten and the Printed: The limits of format and medium in Japanese premodern books
Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania, and Julie Davis, University of Pennsylvania
12:00 - 1:30pm Lunch break
1:30 pm -2:45 pm
Kathryn Rudy, University of St. Andrews
Dirty Books: Quantifying user's responses to medieval manuscripts with analogue and digital methods
Tim Stinson, North Carolina State UniversityGamelyn’s Heirs: (In)completeness and Middle English Literature
2:45 - 3:00 pm Coffee
3:00 pm -4:30 pm Workshop II
Demo Workshop for T-Pen: Transcription for paleographical and editorial notation
Jim Ginther, St. Louis University & T-Pen
Saturday, November 23, 2013
9:00 - 9:30 am Registration and Coffee9:30 -11:15 am
Marie Turner, University of Pennsylvania
Forms of History: The case of Penn's Genealogy of the Kings of England to Edward IV (UPenn MS Roll 1066)
David McKnight, University of Pennsylvania
Traces on a Silicon Chip: The future of online scholarship - Lessons from the digital past
Evyn Kropf, University of MichiganWill that surrogate do? Reflections on digitally mediated collaborative description for Islamic manuscripts at the University of Michigan
11:15 - 11:30 pm Coffee
11:30 pm - 12:30 pm Workshop III
Christopher Blackwell, Furman University & The Homer Multitext
12:30 - 2:00pm Lunch break
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Benjamin Albritton, Stanford University, and Rob Sanderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
SharedCanvas: Dealing with distributed resources and collaboration in digital facsimiles
Martin Foys, King's College London and Drew University
Small Data and Multiple Hosts: Bespoke targets and annotations in the Virtual Mappa Project
3:15 - 3:30 pm Coffee
3:30 pm -5:00 pm Workshop IV
Of Apples and Apple Pie: Exploring the relationship between raw data and digital scholarship
Doug Emery, University of Pennsylvania, and Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania
5:00 - 6:00 pm Closing Reception and Special Exhibition of Manuscripts from the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
