Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting

The Association for Documentary Editing invites proposals for its 35th Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 11-13, 2013. The conference hotel will be the Sheraton Ann Arbor, and some meeting events will be held at the University of Michigan.

Through its annual meeting, the ADE promotes cooperative networking and the exchange of ideas among editors who employ critical thinking and technical skills to present original texts to diverse audiences in a variety of formats. Members of the association work with documents from the broad range of human experience, encompassing public papers, private correspondence, literary manuscripts, graphic images, and music. With funding by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the association offers additional opportunities in Ann Arbor in conjunction with the annual meeting: the Institute for Editing Historical Documents, to be held July 7-11 , and a set of pre-meeting advanced training workshops, July 10-11 .

The Program Committee welcomes submissions for presentations on all aspects of documentary editing and textual scholarship, including but not limited to editorial practice, theory, varieties of texts, collaboration, uses of edited documents in K-12 curricula, and publication. Proposals for individual papers are welcome. (If you are interested in proposing a complete panel, please consult with the program chair before preparing your submission.) Program participants do not have to be members of the ADE. The Program Committee encourages submissions by students.

This year’s annual meeting will include the ADE Forum, a full session devoted to poster presentations. This session will enable editing professionals, students, teaching faculty, and independent researchers to showcase their projects or present focused topics in a setting that features personal interaction and informal conversation. Participants will have the option of making their posters available on the ADE’s website before the meeting. Recognition will be given at the meeting to the best posters by students. (See below for tips on creating a poster presentation.)

To propose a paper or poster, send an abstract of no more than 250 words to the chair of the Program Committee at mcclur@princeton.edu no later than February 1, 2013. Please include a brief c.v. or biographical note and your address, email, and phone number.

A limited number of travel grants will be awarded to help defray partial expenses of program participants who are members of the association.

To join the ADE, see http://documentaryediting.org/membership/index.html.

James P. McClure, Program Committee Chair
Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University
mcclur@princeton.edu

Program Committee:
Noelle Baker, Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
Mary Claffey, Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
Paul Israel, Thomas A. Edison Papers, Rutgers University
Andrew Jewell, Willa Cather Archive, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Melody Miyamoto Walters, Collin College

Tips for Creating a Poster Presentation

Poster sessions, which have long been a feature of scholarly conferences in the sciences and social sciences, are becoming more common at conferences in the humanities. Several institutions offer helpful tips. Some examples are:

http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/presentations_poster.html (University of Wisconsin).

http://abacus.bates.edu/~bpfohl/posters/ (Bates College).

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/OO_research_opps_SURPS.html (Stanford University).