Seminars on Editing Texts

This year, the Centre hosts a series of seminars on editing texts at The CTS, Clephan Room 1.01, De Montfort University, Leicester (Directions: on Mill Lane at the corner of Oxford Street. See the map and campus maps -- we are building 6). Discussions will be followed by refreshments.

Nov 1: Editing Jonathan Swift, 5-7 pm

Professor James Mclverty (Keele University), 'Shaping the Swift Archive'
Dr Adam Rounce (Keele University), 'Editing Gulliver's Travels'
Dr Paddy Bullard (Keele University), 'Naming and Shaming in Swift's Poems'

22 Nov: Editing Fulke Greville, 4:30 pm

John Gouws, Rhodes Univ., Grahamtown, South Africa
M.G. Brennan (Leeds)
Matthew Woodcock (East Anglia)
Gavin Alexander (Cambridge)

29 Nov: '"Here is something I can study all my life and never understand": Annotating Samuel Beckett', 1-2 pm

Chris Ackerley (Otago)

2 Mar: Darwin's Decent of Man, 10:30am

Gowan Dawson (Leicester)

21 Mar: Book History Roundtable, 4 pm

Topic questions:

What IS book history?
How does Book History relate to Textual Scholarship?
Are there adequate training programmes in the subject in the UK?

Features Participants:

Ian Willison (UCL)
Alistair McCleery (Edinburgh)
Paul Eggert (New South Wales)
Sukanta Chaudhuri (Javadpur)
A.S.G. Edwards (DMU)
Mark Bland (DMU)

To Be Arranged: David Chalcraft (Derby) Professor of Classical Sociology, on Editing Letters of Herbert Spencer.