Digital History at SCSC 2013

SCSC2013Prog_Page_01The program for the 2013 meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Puerto Rico (October 24-27) has been posted, and it is encouraging to see a variety of panels focusing on digital research methods and topics. Here’s a quick overview:

Friday, October 25, 3:30-5:00pm

114. Early Modern Italy and Pedagogical Practice: From Lay Conservatories to Digital Humanities (Flamingo B)
Organizer: Meredith K. Ray
Chair: Mark Judjevic

  • Educating Rich and Poor Girls in Counter-Reformation Florence
    Jennifer Haraguchi, Brigham Young University
  • Machiavelli and Castiglione: In Service to a Senior Humanities Seminar
    Veena Carlson, Dominican University

120. Digital Maps (1): Mapping the History of Printing and Text Circulation (Tropical A)
Organizer: Colin F. Wilder
Chair: Niall Atkinson

  • “And All the Good Journeymen”: Visualizing the Early Printing Trade
    Greg Prickman, University of Iowa
  • Printing and Text-Transmission Networks in Early Modern Germany
    Colin Wilder, University of South Carolina
  • A cultural Industry on the Digital Highway
    Paul Dijstelberge, University of Amsterdam

Saturday, October 26, 8:30-10:00am

142. Digital Maps (2): Spatial Humanities / New Uses of Digital Mapping (Tropical A)
Organizer: Colin F. Wilder
Chair: Paul Dijstelberge

  • Mapping the Soundscape of Pre-Modern Florence
    Peter Leonard & Niall Atkinson, University of Chicago
  • Envisioning a Historiography: Geospatial and Thematic Connections between Local Social Histories of
    Early Modern Europe
    John Theibault, Richard Stockton College
  • Digital Maps (2): Spatial Humanities / New Uses of Digital Mapping
    Paul Dijstelberge, University of Amsterdam
  • Waves of Empire: Mapping Renaissance Sovereignty at Sea
    Jason Cohen, Berea College

Saturday, October 26, 10:30am-Noon

164. Digital Methods (1): Digitization, Editing and Text Curation (Tropical A)
Organizer: Colin F. Wilder
Chair: John Theibault

  • A comparison of computer-assisted collation techniques
    Gabriel Egan, De Montfort University
  • Standardization and Authenticity: Classroom Use of Archival and Digital Versions of Early Modern
    English Manuscripts
    Marie Baxter, Albion College
  • A Digital Edition of the Business Correspondence of the Venetian printer Giovanni Bartolomeo da
    Gabiano (ca. 1520-1530): Some Technical and Scholarly Considerations
    Giovanni Colavizza, Universitá Ca’Foscari Venezia

Saturday, October 26, 1:30-3:00pm

186. Digital Methods (2): Text Curation, Text Analysis and Network Analysis (Tropical A)
Organizer and Chair: Colin F. Wilder

  • Little Gidding: An Early Modern Digital Humanities Collaboratory
    Whitney Trettien, Duke University
  • Martyrs, Exiles and Dissemblers: The Networking of Protestants during the Marian Persecution (1553-1558)
    Martin Skoeries, University of Leipzig
  • Topic-Modeling the Correspondence of Hugo Grotius
    Matthew Simmermon-Gomes, University of Aberdeen

Saturday, October 26, 3:30-5:00pm
208. Roundtable: Early Modern Digital Humanities (Tropical A)
Organizer and Chair: Colin F. Wilder

Participants:

  • Matthew Simmermon-Gomes, University of Aberdeen
  • Whitney Trettien, Duke University
  • John Theibault, Stockton College
  • Greg Prickman, University of Iowa
  • Paul Dijstelberge, University of Amsterdam
  • Niall Atkinson, University of Chicago

Tropical A certainly looks like the place to be. You can download a PDF of the program here. This will be the first conference I’ve missed in a number of years, and it just happens to be one that is chock-full of sessions related to digital research! This is an encouraging trend, and no doubt one that will continue in the years ahead.