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Conference proceedings will be held in Antiquarian Hall. Lunches and the reception will be held across the street in the First Baptist Church. Directions and parking information are available here.
Fifteen-minute tours of Antiquarian Hall will be held during breaks.
Friday, May 29, 2015
Welcome (9.30-9.45)
- Ellen S. Dunlap, AAS President
Keynote (9.45-11.00)
- Kenneth Carpenter, Harvard Libraries (retired), and Michael Winship, University of Texas Austin,"The Old World and the New World" (text of keynote)
- Introduction by Paul J. Erickson, AAS (Director of Academic Programs)
BREAK (11.00-11.30)
Handling Newspapers PART I (11.30-12.30)
Moderator: Vincent Golden, AAS (Curator of Newspapers)
- Leon Jackson, University of South Carolina, “Historical Haptics: Digital and Print Cultures in the Nineteenth Century”
- Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University, "Translatio Studii and the TEI: Caribbean Newspapers, Networks, and New Knowledge Production"
- Lauren Klein, Georgia Tech, “The Carework and Codework of Nineteenth-Century Newspapers"(text of talk)
- William Slauter, University of Paris 8, “A Satirical News Aggregator in Eighteenth-Century London”
LUNCH (12.30-2.00)
Handling Newspapers PART II (2.00-3.00)
- Respondent: Mary Kelley, University of Michigan (text of response)
- Question and Answer / Discussion
BREAK (3.00-3.30)
Editorial Matters(3.30-5.00)
Moderator: Thomas Knoles, AAS (Marcus A. McCorison Librarian and Curator of Manuscripts)
- Todd Thompson, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Jessica Showalter, Penn State Libraries, “TEI Markup and Scholarly Editions of Newspaper Poetry”
- Craig Carey, University of Southern Mississippi, “Authors, Archives, and Finding Aids: A Media-Archaeological Point of View”
- Blake Bronson-Barlett, TU Dortmund, “Formatting 'Words' in Color: Marking Up Whitman's Most Vibrant Notebooks”
- Respondent: Dawn Childress, Penn State Libraries (text of response)
Digital Showcase and Reception (5.00-7.00)
Featuring presentations from A New Nation Votes (Tufts/AAS), Cassey & Dickerson Friendship Albums (Library Company of Philadelphia), Early Caribbean Digital Archive (Northeastern), The Occom Circle (Dartmouth), TEI Archiving Publishing and Access Service (TAPAS) (Northeastern), and Walt Whitman Archive (University of Nebraska Lincoln).
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Keynote(9.30-11.00)
- Carl G. Stahmer, University of California, Davis, “21st-Century Bibliography: Social Cataloguing, Linked Data, and the Computational Humanities”
- Introduction by Alan N. Degutis, AAS (Head of Cataloging Services )
BREAK (11.00-11.30)
Book Ends PART I (11.30-12.30)
Moderator: Elizabeth Watts Pope, AAS (Curator of Books)
- Meredith Neuman, Clark University, “Rabbit Holes and Metadata: Describing the Mather Library at the American Antiquarian Society”
- Thomas Knoles, AAS, “A Paradise of Information: William Bentley’s Book Accounts”
- Kyle Roberts, Loyola University Chicago, “Pedagogy in Practice: The Jesuit Libraries and Provenance Projects”
- Michael Kelly, Frost Library Amherst College, "Exposing Networks of Indigenous Literary History Through Metadata and Maps"
LUNCH (12.30-2.00)
Book Ends PART II (2.00-3.00)
- Respondent: Matt Cohen, University of Texas Austin
- Question and Answer / Discussion
BREAK (3.00-3.30)
Keyword Searches (3.30-5.00)
Moderators: Thomas Augst, New York University, and Molly O’Hagan Hardy, AAS (Digital Humanities Curator and ACLS Public Fellow)
