Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
22-25 June 2023

Modalities of Text and Editing
Preliminary Program
Note: times for some events may shift slightly

Thursday, June 22, Katzen Arts Center, American University Main Campus

8:00-12:00          Council Meeting (Duber Hall)

12:30-1:30           Business Meeting

2:00-2:45             Poster/Digital Poster Session (with coffee sponsored by University of Tennessee Press)

3:00-3:45             Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize Winner Session

Chair: Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, Brown University,

• Riley Sutherland, Pinckney Papers Project
  “In Her Possession and Keeping: Revolutionary War Widows and the Politics of Family Archives, 1820–1850”

4:00-5:30           Session: New Technologies and Modalities of Editing

Chair: Mary-Jo, Kline, co-author of The Guide to Documentary Editing (UVA Press, 2008)

• Stephen Husarik, University of Arkansas – Fort Smith
  “Digitally Unpacking Musical Treasures from Archduke Rudolph’s Musikalien Register “
• Peter Melville Logan, Temple University, and Carolyn Dever, Dartmouth College
  “Crowdsourcing Diary Transcription for a Fin-de-siecle LGBTQ Poet”
• Christina Carrick, Assistant Editor, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
  “Speech to Text: Thomas Jefferson’s Second Inaugural Address and an Editor’s Challenge”
• Ellie Hancock, Historian for the Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation
  “The Wilford Woodruff Papers Project: Using Technology to Illuminate the Past”

6:00-7:30            Opening Reception (sponsored by AU Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, Center for Digital Editing/University of Virginia Digital Publishing Cooperative, and Primary Source Cooperative at the Massachusetts Historical Society)

Dinner on Own

Friday, June 23, Warren Building, American University Washington College of Law

8:30-9:45            Session: The Multimodal Joseph Smith Papers

Chair: Brent M. Rogers, Joseph Smith Papers

• Mark Ashurst-McGee, Joseph Smith Papers
  “Modes of Producing Routine Annotation”
• Sharon E. Nielsen, Joseph Smith Papers
  “Print and Digital: Challenges and Opportunities for Documentary Editions”
• R. Eric Smith, Joseph Smith Papers
  “Suit the Modality to the Text: Insights as We Have Ventured into Other Projects beyond the Joseph Smith Papers”
• Commenter: Jennifer E. Stertzer, Director, Center for Digital Editing, Director, Washington Papers, University of Virginia

9:45-10:00          Coffee Break (sponsored by the Organization of American Historians and Southern Historical Association)

10:00-11:15         Roundtable Session: Still Important Today: Recognizing Historical Patterns in the Present

• Michael David Cohen, Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore
• Candace Falk, Emma Goldman Papers
• Rachel Monroy, Mary Baker Eddy Papers Project
• Victoria Sciancalepore, Jane Addams Papers Project

Lunch on own

12:30–1:45         Plenary Session: A Keynote Discussion on Public Humanities and Indigenous Voices

Introduced by Robert Riter and facilitated by Christopher Brick

• Shelly Lowe, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities
• Linh Anh Moreau, Coordinator of International Programs on the Memory of the World at UNESCO

1:45-2:15              Light Reception (sponsored by National Coalition for History, National Humanities Alliance, and University of Virginia Press)

3:30-5:00            Tour, Archives of the National Gallery of Art

3:30-5:00            Tour, Behind the Scenes at the Preservation Directorate/Conservation Division of the Library of Congress

Dinner on Own

Saturday, June 24: Warren Building, American University Washington College of Law

8:45-10:00          Roundtable Session: Multimodality in Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the ADE

• Kathryn Tomasek, Professor of History, Wheaton College, Massachusetts, and co-Editor in Chief of Scholarly Editing
• Raquel Baker, Assistant Professor, California State University Channel Islands, Essays Editor of Scholarly Editing
• Shelby Brewster, Michigan State University, Reviews Editor of Scholarly Editing
• Jenifer Ishee, Connecticut College, Association Managing Editor of Scholarly Editing
• Raff Viglianti, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland, Technical Editor and Micro-Editions Editor of Scholarly Editing

10:00-10:15         Coffee Break (sponsored by Society for History in the Federal Government)

10:15-11:30          Roundtable Session: Internships and Emerging Professionals in Documentary Editing

• Zoie Horecny, PhD Candidate at the University of South Carolina, M.A. in Public History at the University of South Carolina
• Katie Hatton, North Carolina Colonial Records Project
• Gwen Fries, The Adams Papers
• Chad Allen, M.A. Public History Student at UNC Charlotte
• Trey Capps, Editorial Assistant with The Pinckney Papers
• Riley Sutherland, Pinckney Papers Project

Lunch on own

12:45-2:15            The First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE) Session: The Documentary Legacy of First Ladies: Location and Access

Chair: Nancy Kegan Smith, FLARE

• Nancy Kegan Smith, FLARE
  “Unfiltered History: The Records of First Ladies”
• Miriam Liebman, Massachusetts Historical Society
  “Letter Writing and Politicking: Abigail and Louisa Catherine’s Writings in Early America”
• Claudia Wilson Anderson
  “Lady Bird Johnson’s Digitized Diary and Historical Materials: A Window into her White House Years”
• Dr. Katherine Sibley, Saint Joseph’s University
  “First Ladies in the age of FOIA’s: The Waiting is the Hardest Part”

2:15-2:30             Coffee Break (sponsored by First Ladies Association for Research and Education [Flare])

2:30-4:00           Session: Authorial Intent and Digital Workflows: Examining Editions of the American Revolution and the Early Republic for New Perspectives and Practices

Chair: Katie Blizzard, Center for Digital Editing, University of Virginia

• Robb K. Haberman, Fordham University
  “The Revolutionary War Memorialist as Editor: The Memoir of James Selkirk”
• Kathryn Gehred, former Research Editor with the Center for Digital Editing at UVA,
  “A Correct History of the Country”
• Christopher F. Minty, Center for Digital Editing, University of Virginia
  “Reimagining Naval Documents of the American Revolution”
• Neal Millikan, Massachusetts Historical Society,
  “John Quincy Adams in the Early Republic”

4:15-5:30             Roundtable Session: Uncovering an Intersectional Women’s History through Digital Editions

Chair: Deborah Gussman, Catherine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters Project, Stockton University

• Cathy Moran Hajo, Jane Addams Papers Project, Ramapo College of New Jersey
• Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Executive Editor and Co-director, US Latino Digital Humanities Center, University of Houston
• Carolina Villarroel, Brown Foundation Director of Research, Co-director, US Latino Digital Humanities Center, University of Houston
• Lindsay R. Peterson, Senior Associate Editor, Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project, University of Southern Mississippi

7:00-10:00         Banquet (Embassy Suites)

Sunday, June 25: Embassy Suites

7:30-8:15             Council Meeting

8:30-10:00         Breakfast with Mia Owens, Program Associate, 1882 Foundation, Curatorial Assistant, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, “History of Slavery and its Legacies in Washington, DC”

10:15-11:45          Roundtable Session: “Doing Archival Work Together: Collaborating, Editing and Mentoring Digital Documentary Editions”

• Patricia Larson Kalayjian, Catherine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters Project, California State University, Dominguez Hills
• Deborah Gussman, Catherine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters Project, Stockton University
• David Ramsey, Roger Brooke Taney Papers, University of West Florida
• Neal Millikan, John Quincy Adams Digital Diary, Massachusetts Historical Society

Lunch on own

12:45-2:30           Eleanor Roosevelt-Themed Walking Tour

1:15/2:45              Reserved Admission, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture