This is to let you know that the deadline for the submission of papers for the ESTS conference ‘Editing Fundamentals: Historical and Literary Paradigms in Source Editing’ (Amsterdam, November 22-24, 2012) has been extended. Proposals should be submitted before June 1, 2012. Decisions about acceptance will be communicated before July 1, 2012.

The 9th conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship will be an international academic forum for communication between different approaches to historical and literary source editing. Edited source texts, documents and databases are essential to literary, political, historical scholarship, as well as to social studies, art history, music, philosophy or theology. The conference aims at bringing together academics working in disciplines that have so far worked within independently operating scholarly traditions, promoting innovative, multidisciplinary exchange and dialogue. The conference will examine the transformation of traditional editorial practice into a digital environment and the creation of innovative opportunities like the use of digital tools and media.

Scholars of any discipline related to editing texts and data nowadays have at their disposal almost limitless possibilities to present texts and data to the public. Traditionally reflection and practice show seemingly different approaches to textual scholarship and documentary editing of historical sources. The aim of this conference is to debate these topics and to strive for a common approach towards the challenges of publishing. Key concepts are heuristic, selection, representativeness and presentation to the user.

The conference is organized by the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS) and the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Huygens ING), a Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences institute.

Keynote speakers: Manfred Thaller (University of Cologne) Godfried Croenen (University of Liverpool) Andrew Jewell (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

For all other information about the conference, see http://www.textualscholarship.nl/?p=10313