Category: News
New Mount Vernon and Omohundro Institute Fellowship for Digital Collections in the American Founding Era
Katy Gehred
Mount Vernon has teamed up with the Omohundro Institute to support a new digital collections fellowship centered on the Founding era. The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon seek proposals from scholars […]
Arline Custer Memorial Award
Jennifer Stertzer
Arline Custer Memorial Award DEADLINE: July 31, 2019 The Arline Custer Memorial Award is presented by the MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee. This award honors the memory of Arline Custer (1909-1975), MARAC member and editor of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections. Eligibility The Arline Custer Memorial Award […]
Jefferson Papers Meteorological Records Team Visits the American Philosophical Society
James P. McClure
On July 11, members of the Jefferson Meteorological Records team from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson editorial project at Princeton University had an opportunity to visit the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia to meet with Bayard Miller and Cynthia Heider of the digital scholarship team of the APS library. The […]
Participants Selected for the 48th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents
nwasmoen
The Association for Documentary Editing is pleased to announce the participants selected for the 48th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents to be held 16–20 June, 2019, on the campus of Princeton University: Dreanna Belden, Assistant Dean for External Relations, University of North Texas Libraries Project: The Papers of Littleton Dennis […]
Invitation to Nominate Candidates for the ADE Council
Jennifer Stertzer
Dear colleagues, The ADE Nominating Committee seeks advice, informal suggestions, and formal nominations of candidates for the offices of President-Elect, Treasurer, Director of Publications, Secretary, and Councilor-at-Large. In making suggestions, please be sure you have received assurances from nominees of their willingness to serve. You may forward your suggestions to […]
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, […]
Historic! ~ ‘Hits’ and ‘Lits’ to Meet in Chicago—and ADE Will Be There
Jennifer Stertzer
Historic! ~ ‘Hits’ and ‘Lits’ to Meet in Chicago—and ADE Will Be There This year, for the first time, the Modern Language Association and the American Historical Association are meeting simultaneously in Chicago for their annual inter/national conferences. If you’ll be in the warm city of Chicago the first weekend […]
Confronting the Complexities of Digital Publication: A Glimpse into the ADE Seminar on Critical Issues
nwasmoen
By: Katie Blizzard, Communications Specialist at the Papers of George Washington and the respondent for this year’s Seminar on Critical Issues at the ADE Annual Meeting in Olympia, WA. In late June, numerous textual-editing scholars will travel to Olympia, Washington, to attend the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) Annual Meeting. […]