2024 Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting of the Association
for Documentary Editing
Buffalo, New York
June 20–22, 2024
Program
Thursday, June 20th
Registration Open 12:00 pm
1:30-2:30: Business Meeting and Welcome
2:45-4:15 Featured Roundtable: The Ethics of Documenting Community: Collaboration Toward the Preservation of US Latina Texts
Gabriela Baeza Ventura (Chair), University of Houston, Co-founder of the US Latino Digital Humanities Center, Executive Editor and Deputy Director of Arte Público Press
Carolina Villarroel, University of Houston; Co-founder of the US Latino Digital Humanities Center
Lorena Gauthereau, US Latino Digital Humanities Center, University of Houston
Montse Feu, Sam Houston State University
Linda García Merchant, University of Houston, Co-founder of Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective
María E. Cotera, University of Texas-Austin, Co-founder of Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective
4:30-5:30: Education Committee Town Hall
Neal Millikan, Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Chair
Samantha Cheng, Heritage Series LLC
Zoie Horecny, Civil War Governors of Kentucky
5:30-6:30: Opening Night Reception
Sponsored by the University of Virginia Center for Digital Editing and the Association for Documentary Editing
Dinner on Your Own
Friday, June 21st
9:00-10:30: Collaborating on and Best Practices in the Digital Realm
Chair: TBD
Bronwen Arthur, Mary Baker Eddy Papers at the Mary Baker Eddy Library,” Discovery, Trial, and Triumph: Collaborating on the eBook Publication of a Major Biography of Mary Baker Eddy”
Lisa Hermsen, Rochester Institute of Technology, “Rebekah Walker (Rochester Institute of Technology) Business Networks in the Steel City: Creating an Orthography for a Bookbinder in Sheffield, England”
Virginia Kinniburgh, Department of State, “Collaboration in Digital Annotation and Indexing: A Case Study at the Foreign Relations of the United States Series”
Katie Hatton, State of North Carolina Colonial Records Project, “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Online Digital Editions”
10:45-12:15: Textual Tangles in Print and Online Publication
Emma Felin (Chair), University of Oxford, “Encoding the Messy Margins of Marianne Moore’s Manuscripts”
Abhipsa Chakraborty, University at Buffalo SUNY, “Entangled Boundaries: Negotiating Space on the Digital Page”
Cristanne Miller, University at Buffalo SUNY, “Textually Untangling Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore for Print and Online Publication”
12:30-2:00: Lunch (Optional) Building Indigenous Digital Infrastructure: The Haudenosaunee Archive, Knowledge and Resource Portal at the University of Buffalo
Dr. Theresa L. McCarthy (Six Nations Onondaga, Beaver Clan), Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, University at Buffalo.
Mia McKie, MA (Tuscarora, Turtle Clan), Clinical Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies, University at Buffalo; PhD Candidate, University of Toronto.
Waylon Wilson, MDes (Tuscarora Nation, Deer Clan), Digital Applications Librarian and Archivist, Department of Indigenous Studies, University at Buffalo.
2:15-3:45: Roundtable: From Transcription to Edition: Crowdsourcing the Notebooks of a 17th Century Physician and Vicar of Stratford upon Avon and Discussing Next Steps in a Collaborative Digital Edition
Heather Wolfe (Chair), Folger Shakespeare Library, Curator of Manuscripts
Alexandra Kennedy, University of Virginia, PhD Candidate in English
Emily Rendek, University of Rochester, Director of Undergraduate Research
Sara Schlipe, Folger Shakespeare Library, Archivist and Cataloger
Bob Tallasken, Retired Radiologist and Volunteer Transcriber
Emily Wahl, Folger Shakespeare Library, Metadata and Digital Assets Management Librarian
Nicole Winard, Retired Librarian, Folger Shakespeare Library Docent, and Volunteer Transcription Coordinator
4:00-4:45: The Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize Award Presentation
Chair: Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, Brown University
With a presentation by the prize recipient, Marie Robin: “A Disguised Military Status: Women of the Bordel Militaire de Campagne and Military Prostitution in French Decolonization Wars in Algeria and Vietnam.”
5:00: Optional walking tour (TBD)
Dinner on Your Own
Saturday, June 22
9:00-10:30: Logistics and Challenges in Editing
Chair: Sharon E. Nielsen, The Joseph Smith Papers
Jason Godfrey, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, “Collaborations within the Wilford Woodruff Papers Project”
James Bradley & Andrew Wiley, The Papers of Martin Van Buren, “ A Double National Treasure: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Problem of Working with Older Transcriptions for Documentary Editions”
Margo Burns, Records of the Salem Witch Hunt, “Records of the Salem Witch Hunt: A Cross-Disciplinary, International Collaboration”
10:45-12:15: Collaborating Beyond the Academy
Chair: Andreas Meyris, Center for Digital Editing, University of Virginia
Rowena McClinton, The John Howard Payne Papers, “Collaborating With Cherokee Tribal Members to Unearth the Plight of the Cherokee Nation in the 1830s”
Brian Burford, Timothy Hastings & Dalton Nelson-Sanger, The Meshech Weare Papers, “Border Disputes: Citizen Archivists & The Meshech Weare Papers”
Riley Sutherland, The Salus Populi Project, “The Salus Populi Project: Community Editing and Reparative Genealogy”
Lunch on Your Own
1:45-3:15: The Primary Source Cooperative at the Massachusetts Historical Society: Introduction and Workshop
Ondine Le Blanc (chair), Neal Millikan, Tess Renault
3:15-3:45 Coffee Break
Refreshments Sponsored by the Primary Source Cooperative at the Massachusetts Historical Society
3:45-4:45: Keynote Speaker: Christopher Ohge, University of London
“Editing the Editor: Reconstructing Mary Anne Rawson’s Anti-Slavery Anthology The Bow in the Cloud (1834) With Digital Tools.”
6:30-8:00 pm: The Association for Documentary Editing Closing Banquet
Sunday, June 23
Optional Excursions: (Information coming soon!)