Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting Washington, D.C. 22-25 June 2023
Modalities of Text and Editing Preliminary Program Note: times for some events may shift slightly
Thursday, June 22, Katzen Arts Center, American University Main Campus
8:00-12:00 Council Meeting (Duber Hall) 12:30-1:30 Business Meeting 2:00-2:45 Poster/Digital Poster Session (with coffee sponsored by University of Tennessee Press) 3:00-3:45 Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize Winner Session Chair: Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, Brown University,
- Riley Sutherland, Pinckney Papers Project “In Her Possession and Keeping: Revolutionary War Widows and the Politics of Family Archives, 1820–1850”
4:00-5:30 Session: New Technologies and Modalities of Editing Chair: Mary-Jo, Kline, co-author of The Guide to Documentary Editing (UVA Press, 2008)
- Stephen Husarik, University of Arkansas – Fort Smith “Digitally Unpacking Musical Treasures from Archduke Rudolph’s Musikalien Register “
- Peter Melville Logan, Temple University, and Carolyn Dever, Dartmouth College “Crowdsourcing Diary Transcription for a Fin-de-siecle LGBTQ Poet”
- Christina Carrick, Assistant Editor, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson “Speech to Text: Thomas Jefferson’s Second Inaugural Address and an Editor’s Challenge”
- Ellie Hancock, Historian for the Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation “The Wilford Woodruff Papers Project: Using Technology to Illuminate the Past”
6:00-7:30 Opening Reception (sponsored by AU Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, Center for Digital Editing/University of Virginia Digital Publishing Cooperative, and Primary Source Cooperative at the Massachusetts Historical Society) Dinner on Own
Friday, June 23, Warren Building, American University Washington College of Law
8:30-9:45 Session: The Multimodal Joseph Smith Papers Chair: Brent M. Rogers, Joseph Smith Papers
- Mark Ashurst-McGee, Joseph Smith Papers “Modes of Producing Routine Annotation”
- Sharon E. Nielsen, Joseph Smith Papers “Print and Digital: Challenges and Opportunities for Documentary Editions”
- R. Eric Smith, Joseph Smith Papers “Suit the Modality to the Text: Insights as We Have Ventured into Other Projects beyond the Joseph Smith Papers”
- Commenter: Jennifer E. Stertzer, Director, Center for Digital Editing, Director, Washington Papers, University of Virginia
9:45-10:00 Coffee Break (sponsored by the Organization of American Historians and Southern Historical Association) 10:00-11:15 Roundtable Session: Still Important Today: Recognizing Historical Patterns in the Present
- Michael David Cohen, Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore
- Candace Falk, Emma Goldman Papers
- Rachel Monroy, Mary Baker Eddy Papers Project
- Victoria Sciancalepore, Jane Addams Papers Project
Lunch on own 12:30–1:45 Plenary Session: A Keynote Discussion on Public Humanities and Indigenous Voices Introduced by Robert Riter and facilitated by Christopher Brick
- Shelly Lowe, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Linh Anh Moreau, Coordinator of International Programs on the Memory of the World at UNESCO
1:45-2:15 Light Reception (sponsored by National Coalition for History, National Humanities Alliance, and University of Virginia Press) 3:30-5:00 Tour, Archives of the National Gallery of Art 3:30-5:00 Tour, Behind the Scenes at the Preservation Directorate/Conservation Division of the Library of Congress Dinner on Own
Saturday, June 24: Warren Building, American University Washington College of Law
8:45-10:00 Roundtable Session: Multimodality in Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the ADE
- Kathryn Tomasek, Professor of History, Wheaton College, Massachusetts, and co-Editor in Chief of Scholarly Editing
- Raquel Baker, Assistant Professor, California State University Channel Islands, Essays Editor of Scholarly Editing
- Shelby Brewster, Michigan State University, Reviews Editor of Scholarly Editing
- Jenifer Ishee, Connecticut College, Association Managing Editor of Scholarly Editing
- Raff Viglianti, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland, Technical Editor and Micro-Editions Editor of Scholarly Editing
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break (sponsored by Society for History in the Federal Government) 10:15-11:30 Roundtable Session: Internships and Emerging Professionals in Documentary Editing
- Zoie Horecny, PhD Candidate at the University of South Carolina, M.A. in Public History at the University of South Carolina
- Katie Hatton, North Carolina Colonial Records Project
- Gwen Fries, The Adams Papers
- Chad Allen, M.A. Public History Student at UNC Charlotte
- Trey Capps, Editorial Assistant with The Pinckney Papers
- Riley Sutherland, Pinckney Papers Project
Lunch on own 12:45-2:15 The First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE) Session: The Documentary Legacy of First Ladies: Location and Access Chair: Nancy Kegan Smith, FLARE
- Nancy Kegan Smith, FLARE “Unfiltered History: The Records of First Ladies”
- Miriam Liebman, Massachusetts Historical Society “Letter Writing and Politicking: Abigail and Louisa Catherine’s Writings in Early America”
- Claudia Wilson Anderson “Lady Bird Johnson’s Digitized Diary and Historical Materials: A Window into her White House Years”
- Dr. Katherine Sibley, Saint Joseph’s University “First Ladies in the age of FOIA’s: The Waiting is the Hardest Part”
2:15-2:30 Coffee Break (sponsored by First Ladies Association for Research and Education [Flare]) 2:30-4:00 Session: Authorial Intent and Digital Workflows: Examining Editions of the American Revolution and the Early Republic for New Perspectives and Practices Chair: Katie Blizzard, Center for Digital Editing, University of Virginia
- Robb K. Haberman, Fordham University “The Revolutionary War Memorialist as Editor: The Memoir of James Selkirk”
- Kathryn Gehred, former Research Editor with the Center for Digital Editing at UVA, “A Correct History of the Country”
- Christopher F. Minty, Center for Digital Editing, University of Virginia “Reimagining Naval Documents of the American Revolution”
- Neal Millikan, Massachusetts Historical Society, “John Quincy Adams in the Early Republic”
4:15-5:30 Roundtable Session: Uncovering an Intersectional Women’s History through Digital Editions Chair: Deborah Gussman, Catherine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters Project, Stockton University
- Cathy Moran Hajo, Jane Addams Papers Project, Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Executive Editor and Co-director, US Latino Digital Humanities Center, University of Houston
- Carolina Villarroel, Brown Foundation Director of Research, Co-director, US Latino Digital Humanities Center, University of Houston
- Lindsay R. Peterson, Senior Associate Editor, Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project, University of Southern Mississippi
7:00-10:00 Banquet (Embassy Suites)
Sunday, June 25: Embassy Suites
7:30-8:15 Council Meeting 8:30-10:00 Breakfast with Mia Owens, Program Associate, 1882 Foundation, Curatorial Assistant, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, “History of Slavery and its Legacies in Washington, DC” 10:15-11:45 Roundtable Session: “Doing Archival Work Together: Collaborating, Editing and Mentoring Digital Documentary Editions”
- Patricia Larson Kalayjian, Catherine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters Project, California State University, Dominguez Hills
- Deborah Gussman, Catherine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters Project, Stockton University
- David Ramsey, Roger Brooke Taney Papers, University of West Florida
- Neal Millikan, John Quincy Adams Digital Diary, Massachusetts Historical Society
Lunch on own 12:45-2:30 Eleanor Roosevelt-Themed Walking Tour 1:15/2:45 Reserved Admission, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
