Symposium Schedule

Platte River Room, City Union & on Zoom

Thursday, April 21, 2022

9:00 am: breakfast and welcoming remarks by Matt Cohen & Caterina Bernardini; Robert Wilhelm, Vice Chancellor for research and economic development; and William G. Thomas III, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences.

9:30-10:30 am: introductory talk by co-founders of the Whitman Archive Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom, “A Backward Glance and the Open Road Ahead: The Walt Whitman Archive”

10:30-10:45 am: coffee break

10:45 am-12:15 pm: PANEL 1. Moderator: Brett Barney.

• Fotis Jannidis, “Computational Literary Studies: Challenges and Results”
• Elena Pierazzo, “Distant Editing: The Challenges of Computational Methods to the Theory and Practice of Textual Scholarship”

1:45-3:15 pm: PANEL 2. Moderator: Matt Cohen.

• Stephanie Browner, “Kaleidoscopic Maps: The Case for Annotations”
• Robert Allen Warrior, “Alternative Publishing in the Native American World as a Challenge to Scholarly Editors”

3:15-3:30 pm: coffee break

3:30 pm-5 pm: PANEL 3. Moderator: Caterina Bernardini.

• K.J. Rawson, “Descriptive Justice: Metadata Ethics in Digital Archives”
• Sarah Patterson, “Categories of Freedom”

5-5:30 pm: open discussion. Moderator: Kevin McMullen.

Friday, April 22, 2022

9:30 am: breakfast and welcoming remarks by Claire Stewart, Dean of University Libraries

10:00 am – 12:15 pm: PANEL 4. Moderator: Ken Price.

• Whitney Trettien, “Not Reading the Edition”
• Julia Flanders, “Geometries of the Social Edition”
• Nicole Gray, “‘Rough Deific Sketches’: Whitman Framing the Futures of Digital Editing”

1:45 pm-3:15 pm: PANEL 5. Moderator: Kevin McMullen.

• Dirk Van Hulle, “The Complete Works Edition in a Digital Paradigm”
• Marta Werner, “‘It was a quiet seeming Day –’: Dearchivizing the Data Choirs of Dickinson’s Time-Shifted Birds”

3:15-3:30 pm: coffee break

3:30 pm-4 pm: open discussion. Moderator: Brett Barney.

4-4:30 pm: final remarks by John Unsworth