Arts Lab

Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Death

2-4pm Thursday 22nd May 2025, on campus: 5 University Gardens, Room 205. Refreshments provided.

Prof. Rhona Brown and Dr Amy Wilcockson

2024 was the 250th anniversary of eighteenth-century Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson's (1750-74) death, bringing new interest in his life and works. As part of the commemorations, Prof. Rhona Brown is preparing a new edition of Fergusson's works with Dr Amy Wilcockson as Research Assistant, via the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies (2023-25). The edition, to be published by Edinburgh University Press, takes a divergent editorial route from previous editions by selecting first printed editions as copytext. In Fergusson's case, this means that our copytexts are generally from eighteenth-century periodicals, and particularly Fergusson's patron paper, The Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement. In this session, Rhona and Amy will discuss the complexities of editing Fergusson, the ways in which we handle Fergusson's tragic biography and his very chequered publication history.

Please register via Eventbrite for this event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/editing-robert-fergusson-at-the-250th-anniversary-of-his-death-tickets-1313587358149?aff=oddtdtcreator

Approaches to Annotation: Insights and Challenges from Editing Hogg and Woolf

1-3pm, Thursday 15th May 2025, on campus: 5 University Gardens, Room 205. Refreshments provided.

In this session Dr Megan Coyer and Dr Annie Strausa will reflect on both the insights gained and challenges faced while producing annotations for two major textual editing projects. What are the different challenges faced by editors annotating modernist short fiction versus short fiction (and poetry) from a late Romantic-era periodical? What specific opportunities and quandaries do Woolf and Hogg generate as authors? Megan and Annie will discuss their puzzles, the ways they have solved them, and the broader insights that have emerged from their work.

Dr Megan Coyer is in the final stages of completing her edition of James Hogg, Contributions to Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, which is forthcoming later this year from Edinburgh University Press as part of The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition. In the final years of Hogg’s life, Fraser’s became the most important outlet for his shorter writings, usurping the previous centrality of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. This volume collects for the first time Hogg’s many and various contributions to Fraser’s and presents them in a reliable scholarly form, complete with a wide-ranging introduction, explanatory notes, appendices and glossary

Dr Annie Strausa is an MHRA Research Fellow assisting with the completion of the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of Virginia Woolf’s collected shorter fiction, edited by Professor Bryony Randall. This will be the first full scholarly edition of Woolf’s shorter fiction—a major contribution to Woolf studies and modernist scholarship. Through meticulous annotation and collation of 86 extant pieces, including several previously unpublished texts, this edition will provide readers with a richly contextualised understanding of the complex, inventive, and often whimsical references woven throughout Woolf’s vast and varied short fiction.

Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/approaches-to-annotation-insights-and-challenges-editing-hogg-and-woolf-tickets-1313601550599?aff=oddtdtcreator

Textual Editing and Visual Art

2nd -15th December 2024

Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow

This exciting suite of public-facing events explores the ways in which visual artists have engaged with, and might engage with, questions of textual editing. It comprises an exhibition with a launch event and artist's talk; and a two-day practical workshop.

The exhibition (3rd-15th December 2024, open to all) will comprise artworks by Storm Greenwood, Jane Hyslop, Saul Pankhurst and Anna Chapman Parker. These artworks explore various dimensions of the intersection between text and image, and include illuminated manuscripts, works in book form, and film.

The exhibition launch will take place 6-8pm on Monday 2nd December 2024 featuring short talks from each of the artists. Attendance is free and all are welcome but please sign up on Eventbrite HERE for planning and catering purposes.

The two-day workshop (6th-8th December 2024, 15 participants), takes as its focus the publication Imprints: Art Editing Modernism. This multi-format work was one of the outcomes of the Imprints of the New Modernist Editing project, exploring the relationships between visual art, editing practices, and the experimentation associated with modernist literature. This workshop is designed to appeal to artists, designers, writers, editors, curators, archivists and academics. It will be organised around five sessions, with practical elements, each led by an individual involved in designing, making or contributing to the publication.

The workshop will comprise the following sessions:

• Introduction and overview, led by Bryony Randall, Professor of Modernist Literature, University of Glasgow
• Editing and typography, led Emlyn Firth, founding director, a visual agency and Edwin Pickstone, Artist in Residence and Typography Technician, Glasgow School of Art
• Editing and voices, led by Joanna Peace, artist, writer and educator
• Editing and interruption, led by Anna Chapman Parker artist and writer
• Editing and collaboration, led by Bryony Randall.

Since numbers on the workshop are limited we are operating a light-touch application process. Further details of the workshop and an application form can be downloaded by following the link HERE.

Quills, Threads, and Inky Fingerprints: Scribal Attribution and the Co-Production of Manuscript Texts in Early Modern England

A Masterclass for Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers

29th November 2024, 10am-12.30pm

Holly Riach and Clodagh Murphy, Leiden University, ERC FEATHERS Project

Textual production in early modern England was often a collaborative endeavour: men and woman alike made use of scribes and secretaries in the production of their correspondence, for instance, and the makers of literary manuscript miscellanies were also regularly reliant on scribal labour. But who were these scribes, who often remain frustratingly anonymous and whose contributions to the production of these manuscripts are often overlooked? Taking the scribal letters of Elizabeth I and a corpus of early modern miscellanies as case studies, participants of this workshop will explore the process and challenges of identifying early modern scribes and determining their contributions to collaboratively produced manuscripts, analysing scribal hands and unpicking the textual geneses of multi-layered miscellanies. We will consider and discuss questions such as: How do you identify a scribe? How do you determine their contribution to a given text? What impact does attribution have on how we approach these manuscripts and on our conception of early modern authorship and textual production?

On campus, venue tbc

Format:

• Tea, coffee, and biscuits will be provided.
• There will be a break half way through the workshop.
• There are no prerequisites for attendance: some experience with Early Modern handwriting would be beneficial, but those from a range of disciplines with or without specialist knowledge of Early Modern manuscripts are welcome.
• There is no required or essential preparatory work. Some suggested reading will be provided for attendees on an optional basis, especially recommended for those without prior experience of working with Early Modern scripts and hands.

To attend: For enquiries and to sign up to attend please email Alison Wiggins

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 11am-12noon

On campus, STELLA Lab, ground floor, 13 University Gardens

This will be a hands-on session about transcribing historical documents with Transkribus, the AI-powered text-recognition platform. The Textual Editing Lab team will demonstrate how to get started with Transkribus, even if you have never used it before. Bring along your own laptop and digital images of something handwritten (or use ours, or send your images in advance). We will experiment with different options and compare results. All are welcome to come along (no need to sign up). If you have any questions, you can email us on arts-textualeditinglab@glasgow.ac.uk.

Annotated Digital Editions with IIIF: What, Why and How

Wednesday 22nd November 2023, 1-2pm. Room 216, Hetherington Building. Refreshments provided.

Workshop leaders: Joshua Philips (University of Oxford), Luca Guariento (University of Glasgow) & Jo Tucker (University of Glasgow)

As digital images of texts and objects become more widely available, opportunities are expanding for annotating the images with scholarly metadata and potentially integrating these into digital editions, or for use in contexts such as teaching or public engagement. This workshop will introduce some of the technologies currently in use for this, with a particular focus on images which comply with the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). It will also explore the possibilities and challenges of this as a ‘methodology’ for a textual editor. The workshop is an open discussion for anyone interested in this topic, with no requirement of prior knowledge or experience with IIIF or annotating images.

Please let us know if you would like a hybrid option. Please sign up via Eventbrite for numbers https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annotated-digital-editions-with-iiif-what-why-and-how-tickets-747431035347?aff=oddtdtcreator

Is this Textual Editing?

Tuesday 21st November 2023, 3-5pm. Meeting Room, 6 University Gardens, University of Glasgow.

Dr Joshua Phillips, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Oxford

Dr Will Tattersdill, Senior Lecturer in Literature and Contemporary Fantasy Cultures, University of Glasgow

This session brings together two very different projects on texts from adjacent periods. The session will offer two case studies: an innovative digital edition of Virginia Woolf's late, unfinished work; and a new edition of H. G. Well's short fiction for a general audience. The first project works exclusively from extensive manuscript material, left unfinished and never published in Woolf's lifetime; the second takes as its base texts publications from periodicals or journals for which no manuscripts exist. What can these two kinds of edition tell us about the limits of textual editing, its challenges, and its aims?

All welcome. Please let us know if you would like a hybrid option. Please sign up via Eventbrite for numbers https://www.eventbrite.com/e/is-this-textual-editing-tickets-746277846127?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Problem of Authority in Editing the Poems of Allan Ramsay

Monday 4th September 2023, 2-4pm

Room 204 (meeting room), 6 University Gardens and by Zoom (link to follow). Refreshments provided.

This session will explore materialist approaches to textual editing. The presenters, Professor Rhona Brown and Dr Craig Lamont, are on the editorial board of the AHRC-funded project The Collected Works of Allan Ramsay, and this session will focus on the challenges of authenticating the bibliography of the neglected eighteenth-century writer Allan Ramsay. The workshop will offer the opportunity for attendees to share their own experiences of and good practice in relation to materialist approaches to textual editing across periods; and also to explore the complexities and peculiarities of Ramsay’s MSS.

Please sign up via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-problem-of-authority-in-editing-the-poems-of-allan-ramsay-tickets-707300874957?aff=oddtdtcreator

Editing (and) Paratexts

Friday 24th February 2023, 10am-1pm

Meeting Room, 6 University Gardens, University of Glasgow. Refreshments provided.

This event is one of a series on paratexts being held by the Textual Editing Lab in collaboration with the Titles of the New Testament project

This keynote event brings together experts from within and beyond Glasgow to share their experience of, and questions about, editing (and) paratexts. Short presentations will be followed by the opportunity for discussion around a number of themes, sharing good practice, and working on real examples of the challenges of working with paratexts. Topics covered to include: the process, pitfalls and benefits of gathering and processing a large dataset of paratextual information; using digital resources in editing paratexts; managing diversity as well as volume; challenges of different layouts; paratexts and their reference texts; readers' marginalia

With guest speakers:

Dr Saskia Dirkse, Ludwig-Masimilians-Universität, Munich

Francesca Pontini, University of Stirling and SGSAH

Dr Garrick Allen, University of Glasgow

Dr Graeme Kemp, University of Glasgow

Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/editing-and-paratexts-tickets-514287617107

Harnessing AI for handwritten and printed text recognition: lessons from Transkribus

Monday 13th February 2023, 10am-12 noon 

Venue: University of Glasgow, College Meeting Room (201), 6 University Gardens. Refreshments provided.

Hosted by: The Textual Editing Lab and the English Language & Linguistics Subject Area, University of Glasgow

Description: Transkribus is the most robust and comprehensive platform for AI-powered handwritten and printed text recognition, transcription, and editing, developed by a cooperative which has over 80 individual and institutional members from across Europe. This 2-hour session will look at the lessons we can draw from using Transkribus at individual and institutional levels, highlighting the benefits of cooperative membership and creating an opportunity to discuss the potential use of Transkribus at University of Glasgow for research, teaching, resource building, and archive work. Our speakers will introduce the functionalities of the software and showcase some projects developed with its help at the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh, and the National Library of Scotland.

Speakers:

• Luca Guariento (University of Glasgow College of Arts)
• Pamela McIntyre (University of Edinburgh Library and University Collections)
• Joe Nockels (University of Glasgow / National Library of Scotland / University of Edinburgh)
• Norman Rodger (University of Edinburgh Library and University Collections)

Outline:

• 10:00  Introduction to the session (Joanna Kopaczyk and Alison Wiggins)
• 10:10-10:30  Joining the READ-COOP, lessons from members and benefits for research (Joe Nockels)
• 10:30-10:50  Transkribus at Glasgow, the lessons so far (Luca Guariento)
• 10:50-11:20  The Edinburgh vision for Transkribus and a sample of one of the projects (Pamela McIntyre and Norman Rodger)
• 11:20-12:00  Questions and disscussion (tea, coffee, and biscuits provided)  

All welcome! Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/530314895127

PLEASE NOTE This event is cancelled due to industrial action

Transkribus: for research, teaching, resource building, and archive work

Thursday 9th February 2023, 10am-12 noon 

Venue: University of Glasgow, College Meeting Room (201), 6 University Gardens. Refreshments provided.

Hosted by: The Textual Editing Lab and the English Language & Linguistics Subject Area, University of Glasgow

Description: We have the pleasure to invite you to a 2-hour workshop introducing Transkribus - the most robust and comprehensive platform for AI-powered handwritten and printed text recognition, transcription, and editing. Our speakers will introduce the functionalities of the software and showcase some projects developed with its help at the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh, and the National Library of Scotland. Transkribus is developed by a cooperative which has over 80 individual and institutional members from across Europe. The meeting will highlight the benefits of cooperative membership and give an opportunity to discuss the potential use of Transkribus at University of Glasgow for research, teaching, resource building, and archive work.

Speakers:

• Luca Guariento (University of Glasgow College of Arts)
• Rachel Hosker (University of Edinburgh Library)
• Joe Nockels (University of Glasgow / National Library of Scotland / University of Edinburgh)
• Norman Rodger (University of Edinburgh Library)

Outline:

• 10:00  Introduction to the session (Joanna Kopaczyk and Alison Wiggins)
• 10:10-10:30  Introduction to Transkribus and its cooperative benefits (Joe Nockels)
• 10:30-10:50  What has already been done with Transkribus at Glasgow, the benefits and challenges (Luca Guariento)
• 10:50-11:20  The Edinburgh vision for Transkribus and a sample of one of the projects (Norman Rodger and Rachel Hosker)
• 11:20-12:00  Questions and disscussion (tea, coffee, and biscuits provided)  

All welcome! Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transkribus-for-research-teaching-resource-building-and-archive-work-tickets-514271248147

Lunchtime Digital Humanities inspirational event

Monday 7th November 2022, 1-2pm

Meeting Room, 6 University Gardens, University of Glasgow

Come and join the Textual Editing Lab for an informal lunchtime event where you will learn about how digital markup can enhance your texts and make them alive, unlocking new possibilities.

This event is aimed at colleagues, researchers, and other members of staff who want to know more about what digital humanities support is available within the college of arts; it is an occasion to bring your own questions and/or suggestions.

For inspiration, we will showcase a few web resources springing from recently-completed projects, and explain how digital tools can help textual editing and tagging, helping with cross-relationships and interlinking.

We will also encourage discussion about possible future training on different digital humanities tools and methodologies that you think are needed.

With

Dr Luca Guariento (TELab Co-director, College of Arts Research Systems Developer, luca.guariento@glasgow.ac.uk)

and

Mr Brian Aitken (School of Critical Studies Digital Humanities Research Officer, brian.aitken@glasgow.ac.uk) 

Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/441502384517

Dr Devani Singh, University of Geneva

Perfecting Chaucer: Between Manuscript and Print

Thursday 20th January 2022, 4.15pm (UK time)

Hosted by the University of Glasgow Textual Editing Lab in collaboration with the University of Glasgow English Language & Linguistics Subject Area

This event will take place online (via Zoom) and it is free but you will need to register in advance.

The event will start on time at 4.15pm (UK time) and will end at or before 5.30pm. Dr Devani Singh will present research based on her forthcoming monograph for Cambridge University Press on Chaucer's Early Modern readers and the history of editing Chaucer. There will be time for questions following the talk.

Abstract: 

In 1570, the reformist historian John Foxe enthused that 'Chaucers workes be all printed in one volume, and therefore knowen to all men'. As Foxe and other early modern commentators tell it, Chaucer's enduring reputation was to be attributed to his status as a print-published author. Yet fifteenth-century manuscripts containing Chaucer's works continued to be bought, collected, studied, and read alongside the printed folio volumes of the poet's complete Workes. Focusing on Chaucer's language, this paper considers what it meant to read these medieval manuscript books in an age of print. First, it introduces the difficulties Chaucer's words posed for early modern readers—their archaism, potential for obscenity, and susceptibility to error—alongside the competing claims of superior accuracy and comprehensibility made by contemporary prints. Next, the paper discusses a series of corrections, glosses, and emendations made by early modern readers in a range of medieval Chaucer manuscripts. I argue that these readerly interventions reveal contemporary anxieties about linguistic archaism and textual corruption, and strive to resolve them by recourse to readings contained in printed books.

Biography:

Dr Devani Singh is a book historian whose research spans the late medieval and early modern periods. She was educated at the universities of Toronto (BA, Hons), Oxford (MPhil), and Cambridge (PhD), where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Her monograph Chaucer's Early Modern Readers: Reception in Print and Manuscript is forthcoming from CUP, and she is currently Principal Investigator on the project 'To the Reader: The English Preface in Print, c. 1475-1623', for which she holds an 'Ambizione' grant (2019-2023) from the Fonds National Suisse. 

With Lukas Erne, she is co-editor of the first critical edition of the printed commonplace book Belvedere (1600). In addition, she collaborates with the University of Geneva's Bodmer Lab, a digital humanities initiative that aims to catalogue, digitise, and study the collections of the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, Geneva.

Modernist Editing

A Virtual Event Hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences at New York Institute of Technology and the Textual Editing Lab at the University of Glasgow

Wednesday December 8th, 2021, 10am, EST/ 3pm, GMT

What questions have twentieth century literary and cultural texts presented, and how have editors addressed them? How does an editor’s work shape the reading of a text? What do readers want to see in print and digital editions? This virtual event, co-hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences at New York Institute of Technology and the Textual Editing Lab at the University of Glasgow, considers new approaches to print and digital scholarly editing in modernist studies. Presenters will discuss a range of different kinds of editions, including digital projects focusing on the poet Amy Lowell’s letters, the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, the fiction of Dorothy Richardson, the prose of Virginia Woolf, and New York in the 1920s. Topics for discussion may include research with print and digital archives, textual encoding, collaboration, locating and dating materials, annotation, and innovative pedagogies.

Participants

Melissa Bradshaw, Loyola University

Amanda Golden, New York Institute of Technology

Jonathan Goldman, New York Institute of Technology

Adam Guy, University of Oxford

Joshua Phillips, University of Glasgow

Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow

Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University

Hosted with the College of Arts and Sciences at New York Institute of Technology

Please register for this event via Eventbite: 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/modernist-editing-tickets-216321642857

Tuesday 27th April 2021, 2–4pm

Dr Adrian Hunter, English Studies, University of Stirling, James Hogg’s Contributions to English, Irish and American Periodicals (2020)

Dr Megan Coyer, English Literature, University of Glasgow, James Hogg’s Contributions to Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, 1830-1836 (in preparation)

What are the challenges of editing texts extracted from nineteenth-century periodicals? This session examines this question based on the experience of two volume editors for the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg, published by Edinburgh University Press. Challenges to be discussed include identifying texts, uncertain attributions, addressing the publication context, working with digital and material periodical archives, and dealing with interfering editors (nineteenth-century not twenty-first!).

A New Approach to Editing a Multiple-Manuscript Text: The Declaration of Arbroath (1320) 

Late March 2021 (exact date tbc) 

Professor Dauvit Broun 

with Dr Jo Tucker (respondent/facilitator) 

There are multiple hand-written copies of the Declaration of Arbroath. How can we present an edition that gives equal weight to all of the scribes’ work? What kind of opportunities are presented by digital media? This new digital edition considers these questions and their implications for documentary editing. 

Bite-sized session: What is... A Multilingual Edition?

26th November 2020, 12-12.30pm

Bite-sized 5-minute talk by Dr Matthew Creasy (English Literature, University of Glasgow; PI AHRC-funded network: Decadence and Translation)

All welcome. These short, friendly, informal sessions are designed to prompt discussion, generate ideas and make connections. If you'd like to, you can bring a question, an example, or a textual-editing challenge on which you are working. Or, just come along with your hot beverage of choice.

For the Zoom joining link please email us at: arts-textualeditinglab@glasgow.ac.uk

Bite-sized session: What is.... Text as Object?

4th November 2020, 1-1.30pm

Bite-sized 5-minute talk by Dr Johanna Green (Information Studies and Digital Cultural Heritage Lab, University of Glasgow).

All welcome. These short, friendly, informal sessions are designed to prompt discussion, generate ideas and make connections. If you'd like to, you can bring a question, an example, or a textual-editing challenge on which you are working. Or, just come along with your hot beverage of choice.

For the Zoom joining link please email us at: arts-textualeditinglab@glasgow.ac.uk

Editions and Grant Capture

2-4pm, Monday 9th November 2020 Live online event via Zoom. Please register via Eventbrite and a joining link for the event will be sent out to you.

Dr Kerri Andrews, English Literature, Edge Hill University, British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship Award, Nan Shepherd's Correspondence, 1920-1980 (2020)

Dr Sìm Innes and Dr Geraldine Parsons, Celtic & Gaelic, University of Glasgow. Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network Research Grant, Gaelic Literature in Enlightenment Scotland: The McLagan Ossianic material (2018)

This session will offer practical advice on applying for grants that include the production of a scholarly edition; and issues arising when producing a scholarly edition funded by a grant-making body. If you are considering applying for a grant which includes the production of an edition; or are considering where to find possible funding for producing an edition; or would just like to find out more about either of these fascinating projects (and perhaps pick up some grant application tips along the way), do please come and join us. You are very welcome to come with specific questions, or even an example of a funding scheme and/or edition you are working on which we could discuss in the session. (If you do want to discuss something specific, please let us know so that we can facilitate the discussion accordingly.)

While scheduled for 2-4pm, the timetable will be roughly as follows:

2-2:50pm: Short presentations from each project; faciltiated discussion between presenters; initial questions or feedback from workshop participants

2:50-3pm: Screen break

3-3:50pm: Q&A from workshop participants with further questions, including discussion of any specific examples if appropriate.

Please register for this event via Eventbrite 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/editions-and-grant-capture-tickets-123971978525

Textual Editing Online Virtual Drop In Sessions, May - June 2020

Wednesday 24th June 2020, 4-4.30pm

Wednesday 10th June 2020, 12.30-1pm

Wednesday 27th May 2020, 3.30-4pm

All welcome: to keep the sessions to time, please come prepared to give a brief (2 minute) outline of the textual editing related project(s) you are currently working on or towards - or have not been able to work on! - and any particular challenges or problems you are currently facing. We can then make connections between people who might be able to help and support each other on particular issues, and follow up after the session. We will also use these sessions to continue to feed into our planning for TELab events in the next academic session, by gathering information about the support and information people need.

For the Zoom links please email us at: arts-textualeditinglab@glasgow.ac.uk

Please note: this event has been postponed due to the Coronavirus outbreak

Wednesday 6th May 2020, 2-4pm, venue: Talk Lab, Level 3, Glasgow University Library (Hillhead Street, Glasgow, G12 8QE)

Digital Editing and the Declaration of Arbroath

Dauvit Broun, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow

There are multiple hand-written copies of the Declaration of Arbroath. How can we present an edition that gives equal weight to all of the scribes' work? What kind of opportunities are presented by digital media? To celebrate the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath on 6th April 2020, this new digital edition considers methodologies and their implications for documentary editing.

There will be an Introduction and Response to this session by:

Dr Joanna Tucker, History, Arts & Humanities Innovation Researcher, Unviersity of Glasgow

All welcome. Refreshments provided. For numbers please register on our eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-editing-and-the-declaration-of-arbroath-tickets-76115167515

PLEASE NOTE This event is cancelled due to industrial action

Tuesday 25th February 2020, 3-5pm, SGSAH Meeting Room, 4 Lilybank Gardens (University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RZ)

Forging Links Between Multiple-Source Training Materials: A Demonstration of DARIAH-Campus

Vicky Garnett (Training and Education Officer, DARIAH-EU)

Are you looking for learning resources? DARIAH-Campus hosts free high-quality lectures, modules, recorded workshops, and courses on Digital Humanities topics. They range from training in digital editing tools, XML, TEI, and text analysis, to courses in data management, sustainability, open science, and eHeritage. Whether you are a learner, a researcher, or a trainer yourself, join us to hear about how DARIAH-Campus is being developed in order to support digitally-enabled arts & humanities research.

Abstract:

While there has been an increase in training and education provision within large projects and RIs in Europe, there still remains an issue of sustainability of resources. To this end, DARIAH (the 'Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities'), as part of the 2017-19 DESIR project, has sought to bring together training and education resources from multiple providers that focus on the needs of the (digital) humanities scholar, course provider, and cultural heritage practitioner.  In November 2019, DARIAH launched DARIAH-Campus, which offers links to existing external learning resources, a home for newly developed learning resources, and gives curated and contextualised listings of training resources around specific subjects. Furthermore, as an attempt to address the issue of the ephemeral training event, DARIAH-Campus also offers a means of 'capturing' training events through videos, speaker profiles, presentation slides and where possible, keynote talk transcripts. This presentation will demonstrate DARIAH-Campus from both the learner and course-provider's perspective, as well as outlining how DARIAH is giving careful consideration to training and education as part of its ongoing strategic planning.  There will be opportunity for discussion of practices around Training and Education in Digital Humanities, and how RIs such as DARIAH can assist in this.

Respondent: Dr Rachel Opitz, Lecturer in Spatial Archaeometry, Co-director Immersive Experiences Lab

All welcome. Refreshments provided. For numbers please register on Eventbrite

[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-demonstration-of-dariah-campus-tickets-89957213447]

This is a joint event co-hosted with the Digital Cultural Heritage Lab 

Thursday 23rd January 2020, 2-4pm, 6 University Gardens, Room 204 (Meeting Room No. 6)

Interpretative Frameworks in Scholarly Editing and Curatorial Practice

Dr Wim Van Mierlo, President of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and Lecturer in Publishing and English, University of Loughborough

Dr Greg Kerr, Co-curator, Truest Mirror of Life: Nineteenth-Century French Caricatures, Hunterian Art Gallery (2017-18) and Lecturer in French, University of Glasgow

This event will be chaired by: 

Dr Matthew Creasy, PI, Decadence and Translation Network, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow

This session will discuss editorial and curatorial practices in scholarly editions and at exhibitions. We will compare the processes by which scholars and experts contextualize texts on the page or screen, and art or museum objects in the gallery space.  The session will explore whether there are intersections between forms of annotation and commentary, on the one hand, and labelling and captions on the other.

All welcome. Refreshments provided. For numbers please register on our eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interpretative-frameworks-in-scholarly-editing-and-curatorial-practice-tickets-76111628931

Wednesday 15th January 2020, 5pm-6:30pm, Room 205, 5 University Gardens

This is a joint event with the English Literature Research Seminar Series.

Dr Alice Wood, De Montford University

Working with Virginia Woolf's Late Manuscripts

The origins of Between the Acts (1941), Woolf's last book, are to be found in the '1911' chapter of her penultimate novel The Years (1937). How are we to understand and map the genetic links across these two works? And what do learn by tracing Woolf's meditations on nationalism and pacifist internationalism through her composition of these novels and her feminist polemic Three Guineas (1938)? This paper reads across unpublished and published versions of all three works to show how the draft '1911' chapter functions as pre-text for Between the Acts and Three Guineas, and anticipates Woolf's famous assertion in the latter that 'As a woman my country is the whole world' (TG: 313).

Textual Editing Drop In

Tuesdays 1-1.45pm

Weeks 7-11 (5th, 12th, 19th, 26th November, and 3rd December) -- PLEASE NOTE: The drop-in sessions on 26th November and 3rd December are cancelled due to industrial action

STELLA Lab, 13 University Gardens (ground floor)

We have received various questions about textual editing, such as these below. So we are running a weekly drop in for the rest of this semster as an informal way to meet up and respond, either through discussion or hands on using the STELLA Lab resources. Do come along and bring a practical problem, or some text you are editing, or ideas, or questions, or just for a chat. We welcome textual editing queries of any kind, whether in relation to digital technologies or not.

• where do I find the right training, either as a total beginner or more advanced?
• what are the most recent and innovative scholarly digital editions?
• do I need a specific software for editing XML?
• I've heard about Oxygen but is it the only software I should use?
• how do digital editing questions and topics intersect with other critical themes and concerns?

No need to book, just come along from 1pm, but if you want to contact us we are at arts-textualeditinglab@glasgow.ac.uk

Wednesday 4 December 2019, 2-4pm, 4 Lilybank Gardens (SGSAH Meeting Room), University of Glasgow

Scholarly Editions and Grant Capture -- PLEASE NOTE This event is cancelled due to industrial action

Dr Tara Thomson, Edinburgh Napier, Royal Society of Edinburgh Narratives of Scottish Modernism: Christine Orr and Naomi Mitchison Project

Dr Sìm Innes, Dr Geraldine Parsons, Celtic & Gaelic, University of Glasgow, Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network Research Grant, Gaelic Literature in Enlightenment Scotland: The McLagan Ossianic material (2018)

This session will offer practical advice on applying for grants that include the production of a scholarly edition; and issues arising when producing a scholarly edition funded by a grant-making body.

The chair for this session will be: Dr Bryony Randall, English Literature, University of Glasgow

All welcome. Refreshments provided. For numbers please register on our eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scholarly-editions-grant-capture-tickets-76117697081

Tuesday 12th November 2019, 4-5.30pm, Meeting Room (Room 204, first floor), 6 University Gardens

Dr Kathryn Lowe, English Language & Linguistics, University of Glasgow

Editing Texts for Disparate Scholarly Audiences

The British Academy/Royal Historical Society Anglo-Saxon Charters series, founded in 1966, has had 19 fascicles published under its auspices as part of its aim to provide a corpus of pre-Conquest charters from each monastic archive. Each text is provided with a detailed critical commentary, as well as an introduction which contextualises the archive from a range of perspectives.

Around four-fifths of pre-Conquest charters are in Latin, royal diplomas granting privileges or estates to monasteries or individuals. However, there are texts in the vernacular: wills, writs and leases as well as more disparate records. A disproportionate number of these come from the Benedictine foundation of Bury St Edmunds, an archive unusual for its focus on the vernacular as well the survival of a large number of manuscripts dating from before the Conquest through to the early modern period. This archive and these texts are therefore of interest not just to the ecclesiastical or diplomatic historian, but also to the historical linguist and scholar of Old English. The series, however, is squarely aimed at the historian. How can one edit these texts in a way that is useful to a philologist but which respects the guidelines of a series designed for a different constituency? This paper outlines the challenges facing editors from the perspective of this specific project, now at press, the compromises reached, and the decisions taken in order to achieve a volume of maximum utility to its readers.

Respondents: 

Jeremy Smith, Professor of English Philology, English Language & Lingusitics, University of Glasgow 

Dauvit Broun, Professor of Scottish History, History, University of Glasgow

Chair:

Andrew Prescott, Professor of Digital Humanities, English Language & Linguistics, University of Glasgow, and AHRC Digital Transformations Theme Leader

All welcome. Refreshments provided. For numbers, please register on our eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/editing-texts-for-disparate-scholarly-audiences-tickets-76081817765

Monday 21 October 2019, 3-5pm, 4 Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow (SGSAH meeting room) G12 8RZ

Dr Lucy R. Hinnie, Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

A Modern Bannatyne - Digitising Scotland's 'Canon'

Dr Lucy Hinnie will present research from her current Leverhulm project to develop a framework for a new digital edition of the c. 1568 NLS Bannatyne Manuscript, one of the National Library of Scotland’s great treasures (NLS Adv.MS.1.1.6).

There will be 2 respondents to Dr Hinnie's presentation, followed by time for general discussion:

Dr Johanna Green, Lecturer in Book History and Digital Humanities, Information Studies, University of Glasgow, Co-director of the Digital Cultural Heritage Lab, and 2019-20 Fellow at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Dr Joanna Tucker, Arts & Humanities Innovation Researcher, History, University of Glasgow, Co-director of the Textual Editing Lab, and PI of the RSE-funded project Researching and Curating Active Manuscripts: Scotland's Medieval Cartularies

This session will be chaired by:

Dr Alison Wiggins, English Language & Linguistics, University of Glasgow

Refreshments provided. All welcome. For numbers please register on our eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-modern-bannatyne-digitising-scotlands-canon-dr-lucy-r-hinnie-tickets-74168428767

Wednesday 1 May 2019, 2pm-4pm

Room 204 (Meeting Room), 6 University Gardens

This workshop focuses on how to articulate work as a scholarly editor in a range of contexts related to career development, that include REF, promotion, grant capture, and digital outputs. The workshop will draw on key documents and their terminology (such as, REF guidance, promotion critieria, grant body guidance). We will then consider the next steps to support the career development of scholarly editors, which may include a further workshop to investigate issues arising in more depth.

Refreshments provided. All welcome.

For catering and numbers please sign up via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/o/textual-editing-lab-arts-lab-university-of-glasgow-18597605289

Thursday 21st March 2019, 3pm-5pm

Room 204, 6 University Gardens

Dr Jane Goldman will draw on her work as General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the works of Virginia Woolf

Prof. Jeffrey Robinson will speak about his forthcoming book on the poetics of the late Wordsworth, about which little is known

The session will enable a wider discussion of what might be revealed about the author's poetics, broadly interpreted, through close attention to manuscripts and the practice of textual editing.

Refreshments provided and all welcome!

For catering purposs please sign up via the Eventbite page https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetics-of-editing-tickets-58566928259

Thursday 31 January 2019, 2-4.30pm

Featuring around 22 lighning presentations, this event will be a chance to connect with other researchers working with editions. To attend all or part of the event please sign up via the Eventbrite page https://www.eventbrite.com/e/textual-editing-lab-launch-tickets-55306794110 

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:00-17:00

Prof. Scott McCracken, General Editor, AHRC Dorothy Richardson Scholarly Editions Project, QMUL

Dr Pauline Mackay and Dr Ronnie Young, AHRC Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century, University of Glasgow

This session covers both the practical processes and intellectual challenges involved in being part of a multi-volume editorial project, from the perspective of both General Editors and Volume Editors. Many people's first experience of working on an edition is through ain invitation to be a volume editor on collected works, so participants of all levels of expertise are most welcome.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-16:00

Dr Ronan Crowley, co-editor Digital Critical and Synoptic Edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, University of Antwerp

Brian Aitken, Digital Humanities Research office, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow

This workshop provides the opportunity to explore the technical and intellectual processes involved in preparing a digital edition, by working hands-on with sample material.

Friday 23 March 2018, 15:00-17:00

Iain Milne, AHRC Cullen Project, University of Glasgow

Dr Sheila Dickson and Graeme Cannon, Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde, University of Glasgow

Prof. Nigel Leask, Dr Alex Deans and Dr Luca Guariento, AHRC Curious Travellers Project, University of Glasgow

A workshop on proposing and producing a digital edition, probably as part of a larger grant bid. This session has a medical humanities element.

Wednesday 7 February 2018, 15:00-17:00

Dr Matthew Creasy, editor of Arthur Symons, The Symbolist Movement in Literature, University of Glasgow

Prof. Dauvit Broun, co-editor of the Chronicle of Melrose: A Stratigraphic Edition, University of Glasgow

A workshop on how to propose a new edition to a publisher and the practical process of developing a single volume.

Thursday 1 February 2018, 15:00-17:00

Jacqueline Norton, Senior Commissioning Editor, Oxford University Press

Michelle Houston, Commissioning Editor, Edinburgh University Press

A workshop giving the perspective of two major academic  publishing houses on the current scholarly publishing climate for new editions, including digital contexts and platforms.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 15:00-17:00

Dr Bryony Randall, co-General Editor, Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, and PI AHRC New Modernist Editing Network, University of Glasgow 

Dr Alison Wiggins, AHRC Leadership Fellow, Archives and Writing Lives, and PI AHRC Letters of Bess of Hardwick Project, University of Glasgow

A nuts-and-bolts look at the principles and apparatus involved in producing a scholarly edition, such as copytext, introduction, explanatory notes, textual apparatus and textual notes.