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Textual Remediations: The Society for Textual Scholarship 2025 Conference
This conference aims to bring new voices into dialogue and present innovative approaches for expressing cultural heritage, communal knowledge, and historical memory.
Hosted by: Kislak Center
It has been a quarter of a century since Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin released Remediation: Understanding New Media. In it, they introduced the term “remediation” as a way of naming the friction generated by material forms as they shape content. Although remediation was originally conceived as “a defining characteristic of new digital media,” the term’s influence has been felt not only in digital studies but across a network of related fields, from book history and textual scholarship to media history and digital humanities.
Within textual scholarship, widening our definition of what a text is has encouraged us to explore the deeper implications of a term like remediation. Pushing beyond traditional written and printed materials has opened the door to modes of expression that, in the past, textual scholars have neglected or devalued. Working in an expanded field of inquiry, remediation has become a means not only for translating, sharing, and comparatively analyzing diverse cultures but also for recognizing and healing communities traditionally deprived of the means to make their claims heard and read. By engaging with diverse formats, media technologies, languages, and meanings, this conference aims to bring new voices into dialogue and present innovative approaches for expressing cultural heritage, communal knowledge, and historical memory.
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