A Short Technical History of Textual Scholarship with Jesús Velasco
Tuesday, October 12, and Thursday, October 14, 4:00-6:00pm in HQ 207. Spots are limited, please register here.
On the tradition of textual scholarship and technicalities about copy, variation, semantics, and more.
Digital Editions with Alexander Gil Fuentes (Columbia) (VIRTUAL)
Wednesdays: October 27, November 3, November 10, November 17, 2:30-4:30pm EST Register here for Zoom link.
It is recommended that you attend the Textual Scholarship sessions for background information before participating in this workshop.
The past survives in large part because we remake its documents, its traces. Scholars from textual cultures have played a fundamental role in this endeavor throughout the centuries. Since the advent of personal computing and the Internet, the remaking of documents implies a dual or hybrid cultural record—parts digital, parts analog. In this course you will be introduced to the age-old art of editing literary or historical texts in this new context.
In this four week workshop series, participants will build their own critical edition using minimal computing principles. The course will include weekly readings, but the “seminar” portion will be optional and conducted at leisure on group chat. The course will introduce a broad number of concepts and debates in critical editing. In the process of applying those concepts using our modern tools, participants will learn the fundamentals of computations and networks, data preparation and management, static site generation, and version control. The result will be a durable minimal digital edition—a reading text with critical footnotes. This workshop assumes no previous familiarity with computational methods.
