Editing and Translating Early-Modern texts: New Directions in the Digital Age
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2012-2013 programme
5 November 2012: ‘The scholarly edition in the digital age’, Linda Bree (Editorial Director, Arts and Literature at Cambridge University Press).
17 December 2012, Editing old resources in the digital age
- « Pour David contre Goliath—présentation de deux projets : corpus ancien sur etudes-episteme.org et TTT (Theoretical Texts on Translation) », Prof. Line Cottegnies (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3). Read the text here.
- « L’édition numérique scientifique en lettres et sciences humaines : les solutions libres et leurs enjeux », Prof. Tony Gheeraert (Université de Rouen). Read the text here.
4 March 2013, Translating travel narratives
- « Traduire et éditer les textes du passé », Prof. Charles Zaremba (Aix-Marseille Université), Executive Director of Presses Universitaires de Provence.
- « Parcours d’une traduction : le voyage de Mary Wollstonecraft en Scandinavie », Dr Nathalie Bernard (Aix-Marseille Université) and Dr Stéphanie Gourdon (Université Lyon 2). Read the text here.
13 May 2013, Editing Religion I: early-modern manuscripts
- « ‘The end of the fifth paper, and the next is as followeth’: order and integrity in manuscript editing », Dr Nicky Hallett (School of History, Sheffield University), cancelled.
- « The role of texts in a large-scale database: multiple approaches to understanding the question ‘Who were the Nuns’? », Dr Caroline Bowden (History Department, Queen Mary University, London). Read the text here.
2013-2014 programme
21 October 2013: « Funding Research Projects in History », Prof. John Morrill (Professor of British and Irish History, Cambridge University, Fellow of Selwyn College). Video here.
21 October 2013: « Oliver revealed: a new edition of his words and the emergence of a new man », Prof. John Morrill (Professor of British and Irish History, Cambridge University, Fellow of Selwyn College).
2 December 2013, Editing and translating Defoe
- « Editing Defoe: Some Reflections on Theory and Practice », Prof. W. R. Owens (University of Bedfordshire). Read the text here.
- « Translating Defoe’s Verse: Reflections on the translation of Caledonia », Dr Emmanuelle Peraldo (Université Jean Moulin, Lyon 3). Read the text here.
3 February 2014, Editing women
- « Vivre de sa plume au XVIIIe siècle : Mary Wollstonecraft, traductrice et écrivain », Prof. Françoise Barret-Ducrocq (Université Paris Diderot), cancelled.
- « L’édition des autrices anglaises du XVIIe siècle : état des lieux, enjeux et prospective », Dr Armel Dubois-Nayt (IUT de Vélizy, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin). Read the text here.
- « Les enjeux et logiques des éditions contemporaines de femmes auteurs du XVIIIe siècle », Dr Hélène Palma (Aix-Marseille Université). Read the text here.
31 March 2014, Editing religion II: The Dissenters
- « A New History of the Dissenting Academy », Dr David Wykes (Director of Dr Williams’s Library, London, and co-Director of the Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies).
- « Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson », Dr James Vigus (Lecturer in English, Queen Mary, University of London, and co-Director of the Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies). Read the text here.
