Harrington Symposium 2010: The Archives and the Profession

The Archives and the Profession of Literary Study:
Early Modern and Modern British and Irish Literature

A half-day symposium               February 20, 2010, 12:45-5pm
Governors’ Room / Sinclair Suite, Texas Union, University of Texas at Austin

11:30-12:30

Working Lunch: Legal Documents at the National Archives
Sinclair Suite, Space Limited – Please RSVP

“The Anglo-American Legal Tradition and Legal Documents at the British National Archives”
         An informal talk by Dr. Robert Palmer, Cullen Professor Law and History, University of Houston

12:45pm – 2pm:

Early Modern Scribes and Scribal Practice
Moderator: Brad Irish, University of Texas at Austin

“Renaissance Discourse: From Script to More Script”
          Steven W. May, Adjunt Professor of English, Emory University
                                 Senior Research Fellow, Sheffield University

"‘A name without a thing / A thing without a name’: Identifying Early Modern Scribes"
         H.R. Woudhuysen, Professor and Dean of Arts and Humanities, University College, London


2pm-3pm:

Manuscripts, Print, and Digital Editions
Moderator: Janine Barchas, University of Texas at Austin

"Coterie and Miscellaneous Contribution: Producing the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add MS 17492), Historically and in Scholarly Edition"
          R.G. Siemens, Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, University of Victoria

"Intimate Publication, Or Early Eighteenth-Century Social Media"
           Margaret J.M. Ezell, John Paul Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University


3pm-4pm:

Modern and Contemporary Manuscripts
Moderator, David Kornhaber, University of Texas at Austin

“Locating Irish Studies”
           Geraldine Higgins, Associate Professor and Director of Irish Studies, Emory Univeristy

“Science Gone Awry: the Abandoned Drafts of Banville and Stoppard”
           Kersti Tarien Powell


4:15-5pm:

A Roundtable on the Future of the Archives in the Profession
Sinclair Suite, Texas Union
Reception to follow

Sponsored by the Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellows Program, The University of Texas at Austin
Organized by Jason Powell and Kersti Tarien Powell 

Download the schedule: [Archives & the Profession]