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.