Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership presents

Early Modern Texts: Digital Methods and Methodologies

University of Oxford
16 – 17 September 2013

Register for the conference!

The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, based at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, presents a conference on early modern texts, with particular emphasis on digital research, and editing methods and methodologies in early modern studies. Papers will cover topics including:

• Editing philosophies and practicalities
• Digital citation
• Hidden or developing research methodologies in the Humanities
• Bridging traditional and digital methods
• Comparative studies of different digital resources
• Research based on EEBO-TCP
• Digital tools to support early modern research
• Approaches to teaching methodology

Read the programme!

The conference is intended as an opportunity to explore the current state of early modern textual studies and editing, and to consider possibilities for the future. There will be a particular focus on developing potential for collaborative work through scheduled networking sessions.

We have a limited number of bursaries to cover postgraduate student speakers’ registration and accommodation. If you would like to be considered for a bursary, please email us.

Keynote speakers:

Professor Ian Gadd, Bath Spa University
Dr Jane Winters, Institute of Historical Research, University of London

The conference proceedings will be published online, through the Oxford University Research Archive.

Read about last year’s conference, “Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies”? The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership in 2012, and see what delegates said about it afterwards.

The image is taken from the title page of Bernardus à Mallinckrodt’s De ortu ac progressu artis typographicæ dissertatio historica, in qua de auctoribus et loco inuentionis inquiritur, proque Moguntinis contra Harlemenses concluditur (1640), Bodleian 258 b.102. Image copyright Bodleian Libraries.