200 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202

The deadline for booking at the discounted conference rate has passed, but rooms at the hotel may be available at their regular rates. There are several additional hotels within short walking distance.

The Embassy Suites is an all-suites hotel, including separate sitting areas in each room. There is a fitness center, pool, and free wifi.

Your room rate includes made-to-order omelets and a hot breakfast buffet, as well as a guest reception each night including 2 complimentary drinks and lite snacks in the Bella Ciao lobby bar and restaurant, 5:00 pm- 6:30.

For conference guests, valet parking is discounted to $15.00 per car, per day, including In and out privileges.

Travel and Transportation

The closest airport is Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, which is located about a 15 minute drive from the hotel. For those arriving by plane, it is recommended that you use an airport taxi or Uber/Lyft to get from the airport to the hotel. An Uber/Lyft usually runs about $25-$30 depending on the time of your arrival.

The conference hotel is located right in the heart of downtown Buffalo, a mile and a half from Buffalo’s waterfront and a couple blocks from the complimentary light rail for easy city exploration. There are many restaurants to choose from within walking distance or a quick ride on the light rail.

The Primary Source Cooperative at the Massachusetts Historical Society: Introduction and Workshop

This special workshop session will combine a brief introduction to the principles of the Primary Source Cooperative with an opportunity to try out the publication system, including the content generation tool and the editorial dashboard. With several MHS Coop staff members on hand, we’ll walk attendees through the steps PSC editors use to generate XML from Word documents and upload files to a document management area. Participants who bring their laptops will also be able to work with the centralized Names and Subjects databases.

ALL ATTENDEES WHO WISH TO TRY OUT THESE SYSTEMS WILL NEED TO REGISTER FOR THE MAILING LIST, since we will need to share materials and information with you beforehand in order to make the workshop run as smoothly as possible. For active participation in the workshop, it will also be necessary to have a computer and to install an XML editor on that computer; we will share information in advance about downloading and installing a trial license. You can pregister for the workshop at https://forms.gle/7ndL2puRsMa8c26h7.

View/Download Conference Program as a PDF

All events held in Avant Ballroom unless otherwise noted. 

Thursday, June 20th

12:00 pm Registration opens outside Avant Ballroom

1:30-2:30: Business Meeting and Welcome

2:45-4:15 Featured Roundtable

The Ethics of Documenting Community: Collaboration Toward the Preservation of US Latina Texts

• Gabriela Baeza Ventura (Chair), University of Houston, Co-founder of the US Latino Digital Humanities Center, Executive Editor and Deputy Director of Arte Público Press
• Carolina Villarroel, University of Houston; Co-founder of the US Latino Digital Humanities Center
• Lorena Gauthereau, US Latino Digital Humanities Center, University of Houston
• Montse Feu, Sam Houston State University
• Linda García Merchant, University of Houston, Co-founder of Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective
• María E. Cotera, University of Texas-Austin, Co-founder of Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective

4:30-5:30: Town Hall

Education Committee

• Neal Millikan, Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Chair
• Samantha Cheng, Heritage Series LLC
• Zoie Horecny, Civil War Governors of Kentucky

5:30-6:30: Opening Night Reception, sponsored by the University of Virginia Center for Digital Editing and the Association for Documentary Editing

Friday, June 21st

8:30 am Registration table open

9:00-10:30: Panel

Collaborating on and Best Practices in the Digital Realm

• Victoria Sciancalepore (Chair), Jane Addams Papers Project located, Ramapo College
• Bronwen Arthur, Mary Baker Eddy Papers at the Mary Baker Eddy Library, “Discovery, Trial, and Triumph: Collaborating on the eBook Publication of a Major Biography of Mary Baker Eddy”
• Lisa Hermsen and Rebekah Walker, Rochester Institute of Technology, “Business Networks in the Steel City: Creating an Orgography for a Bookbinder in Sheffield, England”
• Virginia Kinniburgh, Department of State, “Collaboration in Digital Annotation and Indexing: A Case Study at the Foreign Relations of the United States Series”
• Katie Hatton, State of North Carolina Colonial Records Project, “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Online Digital Editions”

10:45-12:15: Panel

Textual Tangles in Print and Online Publication

• Emma Felin (Chair), University of Oxford, “Encoding the Messy Margins of Marianne Moore’s Manuscripts”
• Abhipsa Chakraborty, University at Buffalo SUNY, “Entangled Boundaries: Negotiating Space on the Digital Page”
• Cristanne Miller, University at Buffalo SUNY, “Textual Tangles: Editing Dickinson and Moore for Print and Digital Publication”

12:30-2:00: Lunch Speaker (Optional)

Building Indigenous Digital Infrastructure: The Haudenosaunee Archive, Resource, and Knowledge (HARK) Portal at the University at Buffalo

• Theresa L. McCarthy (Six Nations Onondaga, Beaver Clan), Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, University at Buffalo
• Mia McKie (Tuscarora, Turtle Clan), Clinical Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies, University at Buffalo; PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
• Waylon Wilson (Tuscarora Nation, Deer Clan), Digital Applications Librarian and Archivist, Department of Indigenous Studies, University at Buffalo

2:15-3:45: Roundtable

From Transcription to Edition: Crowdsourcing the Notebooks of a 17th Century Physician and Vicar of Stratford upon Avon and Discussing Next Steps in a Collaborative Digital Edition

• Heather Wolfe (Chair), Folger Shakespeare Library, Curator of Manuscripts
• Alexandra Kennedy, University of Virginia, PhD Candidate in English
• Emily Rendek, University of Rochester, Director of Undergraduate Research
• Sara Schliep, Folger Shakespeare Library, Archivist and Cataloger
• Robert Tallaksen, Retired Radiologist and Volunteer Transcriber
• Emily Wahl, Folger Shakespeare Library, Metadata and Digital Assets Management Librarian

4:00-4:45: The Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize Award Presentation

• Committee Chair: Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, Brown University
• Prize-winner: Marie Robin, “A Disguised Military Status: Women of the Bordel Militaire de Campagne and Military Prostitution in French Decolonization Wars in Algeria and Vietnam.”

5:00: Excursion (optional)

• Custom group bus tour of Buffalo’s downtown, harbor, and other nearby areas (~1.5 hours); optional additional walking tours or dining options on your own. Bus picks up and drops off from hotel entrance, or you can take the light rail back if you would like to stay out for dinner or further exploration.

Saturday, June 22

8:30 am Registration table open

9:00-10:30: Panel

Logistics and Challenges in Editing

• Sharon E. Nielsen (chair), The Joseph Smith Papers
• Jason Godfrey, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, “Collaborations within the Wilford Woodruff Papers Project”
• James Bradley & Andrew Wiley, The Papers of Martin Van Buren, “ A Double National Treasure: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Problem of Working with Older Transcriptions for Documentary Editions”
• Margo Burns, Records of the Salem Witch Hunt, “Records of the Salem Witch Hunt: A Cross-Disciplinary, International Collaboration”

10:45-12:15: Panel

Collaborating Beyond the Academy

• Andreas Meyris (chair), Center for Digital Editing, University of Virginia
• Rowena McClinton, The John Howard Payne Papers, “Collaborating With Cherokee Tribal Members to Unearth the Plight of the Cherokee Nation in the 1830s”
• Brian Burford, Timothy Hastings & Dalton Nelson-Sanger, The Meshech Weare Papers, “Border Disputes: Citizen Archivists & The Meshech Weare Papers”
• Riley Sutherland, The Salus Populi Project, “The Salus Populi Project: Community Editing and Reparative Genealogy”

Lunch on Your Own

1:45-3:15: Workshop

The Primary Source Cooperative at the Massachusetts Historical Society: Introduction and Workshop

• Ondine Le Blanc (chair)
• Neal Millikan
• Tess Renault

Note that this open workshop requires preregistration and a laptop with an XML Editor (e.g. oXygen XML Editor, which offers a free trial) if you would like participate hands-on. Attendees are also welcome to observe, but to receive the workshop files you will need to sign up beforehand at https://forms.gle/7ndL2puRsMa8c26h7.

3:15-3:45 Coffee Break sponsored by the Primary Source Cooperative at the Massachusetts Historical Society

3:45-4:45: Keynote

Editing the Editor: Reconstructing Mary Anne Rawson’s Anti-Slavery Anthology The Bow in the Cloud (1834) With Digital Tools

• Christopher Ohge, University of London

6:30-8:00 pm: Presidents’ Banquet (optional)

Sunday, June 23

9:00-1:00 pm: optional excursions to Niagara Falls or a guided trolley tour of Forest Lawn Cemetery in Delaware Park.