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Call for proposals for Video Lightning Talks to be posted to the SIMS YouTube Channel as part of the 14th Annual (Virtual) Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, November 17-19, 2021
Engaging with pre-modern books and manuscripts necessarily involves reckoning with the paradox of loss. While a historical document from the distant past is the material survivor of a singular attempt to hedge against the disappearance of an idea, image, or text, the extant specimen always has to be considered alongside missing exemplars, damage and erasure, lost comparanda, and the vanished life-worlds that produced the object in the first place. This symposium will interrogate the notions of loss, survival, and recuperation in manuscript studies, so often in the background but rarely acknowledged as defining features of the field.
For our 2021 Lightning Talk videos, we are particularly interested in talks that focus on digital aspects of loss in manuscript studies. The videos will be posted to the SIMS YouTube channel. You can see the 2020 Lightning Talks here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8e3GREu0zuD1mR_tXBvn4ovYib9E3qwq
Videos must be five minutes long or shorter, and may present any project relating to manuscript studies in the digital age.
Submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/6zJqNUgFgwbCxsyq5
Deadline for submitting applications is October 26 Applicants will be notified by November 2
Lightning Talk videos must be five minutes or shorter.
Videos must be submitted to SIMS by November 9
The symposium is Free and is open to the public! For more about the symposium, including registration, visit the website here: https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs_symposium14
Thanks and we look forward to reading your proposals!
Dot
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