BOOK LOGIC
Master Classes and Symposium
Friday–Saturday, 19–20 March 2010
Woolley Building (G3 on map) Common Room, University of Sydney
Sponsored by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
UNSW at ADFA and
Australian Literature at the University of Sydney
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The master classes and symposium are intended to be accessible to non-experts. Honours year and postgraduate students, as well as academics and others wishing to get up to scratch with current thinking and practice in textual studies, scholarly editing and the editing of student editions of literary works will benefit from this event.
An open meeting to discuss the state of textual studies in Australia and New Zealand, and the development and funding of electronically-based editions will also be held.
Topics covered: the editing of works from the early modern period to the present, including works of Australian literature; editorial theory, book history and print culture, editorial practice, manuscript study and online editions.
Master Speakers
Peter Shillingsburg, Martin J. Svaglic Professor of Textual Studies, Loyola University, Chicago
John Gouws, Emeritus Professor, North-West and Rhodes Universities, South Africa
Master Class Respondent
Paul Eggert, ARC Professorial Fellow, UNSW at ADFA
Other speakers will include: Mark Byron, Tim Dolin, Roger Osborne, Dirk van Hulle, Graham Tulloch, Margaret Sankey, Yvonne Smith, Desmond Schmidt, Simon Gatrell, Christine Alexander, Paul Salzman, Bryan Coleborne, Clive Probyn, Lawrence Warner and Dan Anlezark.
Location and map: Woolley Building (G3 on map), Common Room, University of Sydney
Registration
Registration is free. To confirm attendance, please contact the conveners providing your name, institution, email address and phone number:
Prof. Paul Eggert, p.eggert@adfa.edu.au
Prof. Robert Dixon, robert.dixon@usyd.edu.au