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Revision as of 11:48, 23 November 2016

A program sponsored by The Folger Institute and the Early Modern Manuscripts Online project Thursday and Friday, 18-19 May 2017

Board Room at the Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003


Provisional Schedule Unless otherwise noted, all sessions take place in the Folger Board Room

Thursday, 18 May 2017

9:00 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries (Folger Tea Room)

9:30

Welcoming Remarks
Heather Wolfe, Folger Curator of Manuscripts and EMMO Principal Investigator
Owen Williams, Assistant Director, Scholarly Programs, Folger Institute

9:45

Roundtable: EMMO Progress report
Teaching with EMMO: Heather Wolfe
Crowdsourcing with Dromio: Sarah Powell, EMMO Paleographer
Database Development: Michael Poston, Folger Database Applications Associate, and Paul Dingman, EMMO Project Director
EMMO’s Place in the Folgersphere: Eric Johnson, Folger Director of Digital Access

11:00

Break

11:15

Roundtable: EMMO Pedagogical and Research Community
Jennifer Munroe (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) on EMROC
Joshua Eckhardt (Virginia Commonwealth University) on Dromio in the college classroom
Ivan Lupic (Stanford University) on Dromio in the college classroom

12:30

Lunch in the Foulke Conference Room (301 East Capitol Street, SE)

2:00

Workshops: Breakout Session I
A) Teaching with Dromio: A tutorial on using Dromio for personal and classroom use
Sarah Powell
B) Research Possibilities: Using Manuscript Metadata
Mike Poston and Caitlin Rizzo
C) Organizing and Leading a Transcribathon
Paul Dingman

3:00

Folger Tea (Folger Tea Room)

3:30

Workshops: Breakout Session II
See above for session descriptions

4:30

Reports from the floor on breakout sessions

5:00

Brews and Brevigraphs (optional)
Transcription contests; door prizes; pizza and local brews


Friday, 19 May 2017

10:25

Call to Order
Owen Williams

10:30

Roundtable: Putting Transcriptions to Work I: Texts
Telling Stories with Account Books
Alison Wiggins, University of Glasgow, and Paul Dingman
Manuscript Arcadia
Joel Davis, Stetson University
Paper and Water in Early Modern Recipes
Elaine Leong (Max Planck Institute) and Hillary Nunn (University of Akron)
Women’s Voices
Victoria Van Hyning (Shakespeare’s World)
Manuscript to Print to Manuscript
Margaret J. M. Ezell (Texas A&M University)

12:00

Lunch on your own (suggestions provided in folders)

1:30

Roundtable: Putting Transcriptions to Work II: Corpus
Comparing Print and Manuscript Corpora
Anupam Basu, Washington University in St. Louis
Semantic Models of EMMO Manuscripts
Mike Witmore, Folger Shakespeare Library
Network Analysis of Manuscript Correspondence
Ruth Ahnert, Queen Mary University of London
Historical Linguistics
Philip Durkin and James McCracken, Oxford University

3:00

Folger Tea

3:30

EMMO and the Futures of Manuscript Studies
Chair: Heather Wolfe

5:00

Closing Reception (Paster Reading Room, Folger Shakespeare Library)