Category: Call for Papers
The John Jay Papers Project Seeks Conference Paper Proposals
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 […]
CFP for “Editing the ‘I’” session at MLA 2020
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Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents Welcomes Applications for 2019
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Editing (ADE) is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications to the 48th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (IEHD) to be held on the campus of Princeton University, June 16–20, 2019.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 and the Editing of Historical Documents

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, […]
Call for Papers: Editing for Non-Editors for MLA 2019
The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) invites abstracts for its sponsored session at the 2019 meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in Chicago the first weekend of January. This meeting is concurrent with that of the American Historical Association. Our panel will address the question, “Why should non-editors understand […]
Call for Papers – ADE 2018: The Craft of Documentary Editing
Call for Papers – The Association for Documentary Editing THE CRAFT OF DOCUMENTARY EDITING Olympia, Washington, 21-23 June 2018 2018 Program Committee: Jeff Looney, Chair; Sherry Darling, Patrick Lewis, Lynn Price The Association for Documentary Editing invites proposals for sessions at the organization’s annual meeting to be held at the […]
Call for Proposals: NHPRC-Mellon Planning Grants for Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives
NHPRC-Mellon Planning Grants Call for Proposals DIGITAL EDITION PUBLISHING COOPERATIVES The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invite proposals for Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives. Working together, the Cooperatives will develop technical and human infrastructures to support the digital publication of documentary and scholarly editions and […]
CFP: ADE Session at MLA
CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 20 MARCH Association for Documentary Editing Session Modern Language Association Convention 4-7 January 2018, New York City He Said WHAAT??!! Editing Oral Texts for Print Publication The Association for Documentary Editing invites proposals for a session about editing oral texts for print. We encounter oral texts […]
Women’s History in the Digital World – Call for Papers
Call for Papers: Women’s History in the Digital World 2017 Maynooth University, Ireland, July 6-7-2017 The Women’s History in the Digital World conference brings together historians, archivists, curators, digital humanists and more to present on their work, network and collaborate on current and future projects at the intersection of women’s […]
SOCIETY FOR TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP’S 2017 CFP
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the Andrew W. Mellon-funded African American Digital Humanities Initiative (AADHum) invite your participation in “Textual Embodiments,” the Society for Textual Scholarship’s International Interdisciplinary Conference for 2017. Date: Wednesday, May 31 – Friday, June 2, 2017 Location: University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland USA Program Chairs: Neil Fraistat, […]