A digital version of our printed programme is available for download [PDF].
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“Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies”?
The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership in 2012
Lincoln EPA Science Centre, University of Oxford
17-18 September 2012
Monday 17 September 2012
09.30 – 10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.00 – 10.10 Welcome
- Richard Ovenden, Associate Director of the Bodleian Libraries
10.10 – 10.15 House-keeping
10.15 – 11.15 Plenary lecture
- John Lavagnino, King’s College London
Scholarship in the EEBO-TCP Age
11.15 – 11.30 Refreshments break
11.30 – 13.15 Panel 1 – EEBO-TCP: Practice and Potential
- Rebecca Welzenbach, University of Michigan
Transcribed by hand, owned by libraries, made for everyone: EEBO-TCP in 2012 - Martin Mueller, Northwestern University
Towards a Book of English: A linguistically annotated corpus of the EEBO-TCP - Marie-Hélène Lay, Université de Poitiers/University of Poitiers
VariaLog : how to locate words in Early Modern Stages of French and English - Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, University of Leicester and Ben Burton, University of Oxford
Towards a Database of Poetic Form
13.15 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.40 Panel 2 – Early Modern Reception and Response
- Peter Auger, University of Oxford
Snapshots of Early Modern English Responses to French Poets - Mary Erica Zimmer, Boston University
From Aspiration, Through Education: Revisiting Spenser’s “Letter of the Authors” - Simon F Davies, University of Sussex
EEBO-TCP in reception studies: reading demonology in early modern England
15.40 – 16.20 Posters and refreshments break
- James Cummings, University of Oxford
Re-use, enhancement, and exploitation: An investigation of projects using EEBO-TCP materials - Ian Gadd, Bath Spa University, Giles Bergel, James Cummings and Pip Willcox, University of Oxford
Digitizing the Stationers’ Register - Jayne Henley, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales
Editing Welsh texts for EEBO-TCP - Jim Kuhn, Sarah Werner and Owen Williams, Folger Shakespeare Library
F21 – Interoperable Digital Editions of Early English Plays - Judith Siefring, University of Oxford
SECT: Sustaining the EEBO-TCP Corpus in Transition
16.20 – 17.45 Panel 3 – Building EEBO-TCP into Teaching
- Heather Froehlich, Richard J Whitt and Jonathan Hope, University of Strathclyde
TCP-EEBO as a tool for integrating teaching and research - Mark Hutchings, University of Reading
Editing the Renaissance in the Classroom - Leah Knight, Brock University
“EEBO-Driven”: Ten Years of Test-Driving
19.15 – 22.00 Drinks reception and dinner, Divinity School, Bodleian Library
Tuesday 18 September 2012
09.00 – 09.30 Refreshments
09.30 – 11.15 Panel 4 – Editing: Politics and Practicalities
- Daniel Carey and Anders Ingram, National University of Ireland, Galway
Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations: TCP and the Development of a Critical Edition - Giles Bergel, University of Oxford
The Politics and Poetics of Transcription - Michelle O’Callaghan and Alice Eardley, University of Reading
Using TCP Files in Digital Editions: Introducing Verse Miscellanies Online - Sebastian Rahtz and James Cummings, University of Oxford
Kicking and Screaming: Challenges and advantages of bringing TCP texts into line with the Text Encoding Initiative
11.15 – 11.45 Refreshments break
11.45 – 13.10 Panel 5 – Research from CREME (Corpus Research on Early Modern English)
- Alistair Baron and Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University
Prerequisites to a corpus-based analysis of EEBO-TCP - Stephen Pumfrey and Paul Rayson, Lancaster University
The semantics of liberty in Early Modern English - Alison Findlay and Liz Oakley-Brown, Lancaster University
Re-Marking Revenge
13.10 – 14.10 Lunch
14.10 – 15.35 Panel 6 – Digital Research Methods
- Jacob J S Halford, University of Warwick
The emergence of “new philosophy” in the discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy - Helen Sonner, Queen’s University Belfast
The “Popular Construction” of Meaning in Early Modern Print (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Full-Text Search) - Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University
Lost plays and EEBO-TCP: a case study from Dekker
15.35 – 16.00 Refreshments break
16.00 – 17.00 Summary and plenary discussion
- Moderator: Emma Smith, University of Oxford
17.00 End