The Association for Documentary Editing 2024

Theme: Collaborations

Call for Papers

The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) will meet June 20-22, 2024 in Buffalo, New York. The Program Committee invites proposals for presentations and panels on the theme of “Collaborations” or any topic related to the editing, publication and recovery of historical or literary texts.

Editing has long been one of the more collaborative corners of scholarship. Editors often work in teams and have long been part of or had close relationships with archives, publishers, community groups, and other scholars.

Changes in both technology and in our understanding of our work has pushed us into more forms of collaboration. Publication has always involved working with publishers, but digital publication has both made publication a more constant process and a more complicated one. Projects increasingly seek to work with or are a part of the communities whose documentary record they seek to recover, edit, or publish.

Presentations may address these or other topics:

• Partnerships between editors and the communities whose papers they seek to publish
• Collaborations between projects whose subjects overlap, or who seek to combine resources for digital publication
• Interdisciplinary projects
• Partnerships with external institutions
• Experiences of collaboration with students
• How collaborative projects change how we teach texts in the classroom and train new editors
• Reflections on collaboration and public access
• Collaboration and the process of recovery
• How collaboration and diverse voices and partners broaden accessibility and knowledge

We also encourage submissions from individuals from underrepresented backgrounds and those working on topics currently underrepresented in the field of scholarly editing. We welcome proposals from projects and individuals in all disciplines and at any stage of their careers, including documentary editors, textual scholars, archivists, librarians, those who engage in public history, and other recovery practitioners both in and outside the academy. Submissions for individual papers, panels, roundtables, posters or poster sessions, and alternative presentation modalities are welcome. The conference will be in-person only June 20 to 22, but the Program Committee plans some special remote sessions after the conference. Those interested in a remote presentation should indicate that preference in their proposal.

Submission Instructions:

For individual paper and poster submissions, send 300-word abstracts, brief (100 word) bios, and email addresses.

For alternative formats (workshops, unconference sessions, others) panel formats (roundtable, traditional panel, multiple presenters), and remote sessions, please submit 500–750 word abstracts and brief (100 word) bios and email addresses for all presenters.

Please submit inquiries and proposals to the Program Committee Chair, Christy Regenhardt at cregenhardt@gmail.com no later than February 16, 2024.