Friday, 4 January 2008, 1:30 – 4:30 p.m., Burnham, Hyatt Regency, Chicago
Cynthia Damon, organizer
advanced registration required
Greek and Latin texts in editions that harness technological advances for scholarly desiderata will serve us well in our work and in our endeavor to make classical antiquity accessible beyond our ranks. This seminar will consider what such editions might look like in a variety of textual traditions: verse vs. prose, literary vs. technical, individual vs. collective authorship, unique vs. multiple transmission, etc. Pragmatic considerations such as collaboration, funding, intellectual property rights, and the degree to which the academy values such infrastructure-building ventures will also be addressed, and projects already under way will be scrutinized as potential models.
- Editing Classical Commentary (Dirk Obbink, University of Oxford)
- Towards a New Edition of the Scholia to Euripides (Donald Mastronarde, University of California, Berkeley)
- Medieval Latin Editing: Problems and Prospects (Gregory Hays, University of Virginia)
- Ex Machina Quis Non Servabit? Are Computers Too Much of a Good Thing? (James McKeown, University of Wisconsin – Madison)
- New Challenges and Opportunities: Critical Editions in the Electronic Age (Mark Schiefsky, Harvard University)
- Respondent: John Duffy, Harvard University
