Category: Conferences
ADE Annual Meeting to be Rescheduled
Erica Cavanaugh
As the impact of COVID–19 appears to expand every day, the ADE Council has determined that hosting the association’s annual conference this June could pose too great a risk to attendees. By initiating the change at this time, before a contract has been signed for the conference venue, we will also avoid […]
Call For Papers, Modern Language Association Meeting 2021
Katy Gehred
Marginalia and footnotes are their own genres, but most editors concentrate on the main body of a text. Yet material outside that text body, whether as marginalia or footnotes, can have great bearing on the meaning of the main document. Marginalia and footnotes raise a number of questions: What is […]
ADE session at MLA – January 11th
Jennifer Stertzer
ADE has organized a session, “Editing the I /First-Person Narrative,” for the international Modern Language Association convention in Seattle this week. See below for extended abstracts and presenters’ bios for session 588 at 3:30 p.m. Saturday [January 11th] in the Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA. If you’re in town, […]
CFP: ADE Annual Meeting (deadline for proposals: 2/29/20)
Erica Cavanaugh
The Association for Documentary Editing invites proposals for sessions at the organization’s annual meeting in Dickinson N.D., June 25-27, 2020 At this year’s ADE meeting, we are eager to discover and discuss the ways in which documentary editors perform at the intersections between editorial work and archival, pedagogical, traditional academic, […]
CFP: The Age of Revolutions in the Digital Age
Erica Cavanaugh
Information landscapes are changing profoundly. In order to absorb, circulate, and share knowledge, we all must balance “old” and “new” media. This is as true for academics as it is for anyone else, and how scholars negotiate these paradigms shapes our research, our teaching, and our attempts to reach broader […]
The John Jay Papers Project Seeks Conference Paper Proposals
Katy Gehred
The John Jay Papers Project seeks paper proposals for a conference entitled “In Service to the New Nation: The Life and Legacy of John Jay,” to be held on September 24-25, 2020, at Columbia University. Dr. Joanne Freeman, Professor of American History at Yale University, will serve as the event’s […]
Registration Is Now Open for the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing
James P. McClure
Registration for the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing, to be held in Princeton, New Jersey, June 20-22, is now open. The conference hotel is the Hyatt Regency Princeton. Program sessions on Friday, June 21, will take place on the campus of Princeton University. Click here for […]
CFP for “Editing the ‘I’” session at MLA 2020
Jennifer Stertzer
Jerome McGann famously said, “When you edit, you change.” The Association for Documentary Editing invites proposals for a guaranteed session on editing first-person nonfiction narratives for MLA 2020 in Seattle. How might McGann’s statement pertain to preparing first-person documents (other than correspondence) for public consumption in print or other media? […]
Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents Welcomes Applications for 2019
nwasmoen
The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications to the 48th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (IEHD) to be held on the campus of Princeton University, June 16–20, 2019. Click here to apply by the February 1, 2019 deadline, or […]
Call for Papers – ADE 2019: Evidence! and the Editing of Historical Documents
Erica Cavanaugh
The Association for Documentary Editing invites proposals for sessions at the organization’s annual meeting in Princeton, N.J., June 20–22, 2019. At this year’s meeting, we are eager to discover and discuss the ways in which documentary editors interact with evidence—unearthing it, stumbling over it, negotiating how best to represent it, […]