2019 ADE Meeting in Princeton, Program

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Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting
Princeton, New Jersey
20-22 June 2019

Evidence! and the Editing of Historical Documents
Preliminary Program
Note: times for some events may shift slightly

Thursday, June 20

11:00–5:00
12:30-2:00
2:00-2:15
2:15-3:45
Registration Table Open, Gallery/Lower Level Hyatt Regency
Poster Session, Witherspoon Ballroom, Hyatt Regency
Break
Welcome and Critical Issues Discussion Session: Paths Forward for Another Forty, Witherspoon Ballroom, Hyatt Regency
Presidential Welcome:

Jefferson Looney, Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series

Critical Issues Discussion Session:

Ondine Le Blanc (moderator), Massachusetts Historical Society

Dale S. Brenneman, O’odham-Piipaash Documentary History Project
“Indigenous Oral Traditions as Evidence”

Marty D. Matthews, Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen
“Helping Historic Sites and Museums Recognize and Cite Evidence from Documentary Editions”

3:45–4:00
4:00–4:45
Break
Annual Business Meeting, Witherspoon Ballroom, Hyatt Regency

* BUSES FROM HYATT TO THE RECEPTION START AT 5:30 AND LOOP UNTIL 8:30 *

6:00
Reception begins, Princeton University Press, 41 William Street

* BUSES LOOP BACK TO THE HYATT THROUGHOUT THE RECEPTION, ENDING AT 8:30 *

Friday, June 21

* BUSES FROM HYATT TO THE FRIEND CENTER START AT 7:30 AND LOOP UNTIL 9:30 am *

8:30–3:30
9:00-10:30
Registration Table Open, outside Friend Center 006, Princeton University
Session: Navigating Evidence That Challenges Representation, Computer Science 104, Princeton University

Paul Israel (chair), Thomas A. Edison Papers

Ronald Broude, Broude Trust for the Publication of Musicological Editions
“Part Books Into Scores: Misrepresenting Fifteenth-Century Music in Modern Editions”

Mary Sherrer, Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen
“Editing Documents Using Diplomatic Codes and Exploring their Significance”

Kathryn Tomasek, Wheaton College, Massachusetts
“Accounting Records as Evidence: People, Things, and Services in the Past”

10:30-10:45
10:45-12:15
Break, outside Friend Center 006, Princeton University
Concurrent Sessions
Session A: The Evidence of Women in the Papers of Dolley Madison and the Pinckney Statesmen, Friend Center 006, Princeton University

Constance B. Schulz (chair), Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen
“Pinckney Wives and the Practice of Diplomacy”

Lauren Haumesser, Dolley Madison Digital Edition
“Evidence and the Documentary Edition: The Partisan Press and the Dolley Madison Digital Edition”

Amy Larrabee Cotz, Dolley Madison Digital Edition
“Evidence of Slavery: The Taylor Family in Slavery and Freedom”

Session B: Documenting War, Friend Center 004, Princeton University

Benjamin L. Huggins (chair), Papers of George Washington

Rhonda Barlow, Adams Papers
“Rumors of War”

Robb K. Haberman, Selected Papers of John Jay
“John Jay and the Limits of Partisanship during the Quasi-War”

Andrew J. B. Fagal, Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“Reconstructing the Social History of the Military in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

12:15-1:45
1:45-3:15
Lunch, on your own
Session: Cooperative Action for Documentary Evidence: The Primary Source Cooperative (roundtable), Computer Science 104, Princeton University

Sara Martin (moderator), Adams Papers

Deborah Gussman, Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters

Neal Millikan, John Quincy Adams Diary Digital Project

David Ramsey, Papers of Roger Brooke Taney

Serenity Sutherland, Ellen Swallow Richards Digital Archive

3:15–3:30
3:30–5:00
Break, outside Friend Center 006, Princeton University
Concurrent Sessions
Session A: Untangling Presidential Evidence, Friend Center 004, Princeton University

Martha J. King (chair), Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Coens, Papers of Andrew Jackson
“Did Andrew Jackson Write His Own State Papers?”

William M. Ferraro, Washington Papers and formerly Ulysses S. Grant Association
“President Ulysses S. Grant’s State Papers”

Session B: In Light of the Evidence: End-of-Project Goals and Reflections (roundtable), Friend Center 006, Princeton University

Michael David Cohen (moderator and participant), James K. Polk Project

Holly C. Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition

Lois More Overbeck, Letters of Samuel Beckett Project

Candace Falk, Emma Goldman Papers

* BUSES FROM THE FRIEND CENTER TO HYATT START AT END OF SESSIONS AND LOOP UNTIL 6:30 pm *

6:00
7:00
Reception starts, Witherspoon Foyer, Hyatt Regency
Banquet, Witherspoon Foyer, Hyatt Regency

Saturday, June 22

8:30–10:00
10:15–12:00
Breakfast, Witherspoon Foyer, Hyatt Regency
Session: Seeking the Papers of the Earliest Years of our National Government: The Presidency, Judiciary, Congress, War and Navy Departments (roundtable), Witherspoon Foyer, Hyatt Regency

Kenneth Bowling, on the First Federal Congress

Dennis Conrad, on the Navy Department

Theodore Crackel, on the War Department

Mary-Jo Kline, on Washington’s Presidency

Jonathan White, on the Supreme Court