The conference program is now available. We’re delighted to hear from researchers and practitioners investigating the challenges and opportunities inherent in digital explorations of the stage archive, and from those working on initiatives such as the Rose Revealed project, Digital Blackfriars, the AusStage database, the NUI-Galway and Abbey Theatre Digital Archive, the Early Modern English Drama project, the Database of Early Modern Extracts (DEx), the Collection of Theatre Architecture, the Reception & Circulation of Early Modern Women Writers project (RECIRC), to name but a few.
Please note that like all digital projects, the program is subject to iterative adjustment and some timings may change prior to 10 July. We expect to add several talks and abstracts as speakers finalize titles and confirm their availability. Most sessions include time for questions and discussion. All events will take place in the Weston Library unless otherwise noted. If you’d like to learn more about the talks, consult the current list of abstracts. Any questions or comments may be directed to Gabrielle Linnell at digitalconf@folger.edu.
Monday, July 10
9AM Registration opens
10AM Welcome and conference information | Eric Johnson and Pip Willcox
10:20AM Opening Keynote | Tiffany Stern
11:20AM Coffee and tea break
11:40AM Staging unknown quantities: explorations in the digital archive
Bed, blood and beyond: A quantitative analysis of early modern stage props | Brett Greatley-Hirsch
Women and the early modern stage: Reception, circulation, performance | Erin McCarthy
Shakespeare’s purchase of Blackfriars Gatehouse 1613: A digital analysis | Alan H. Nelson
1PM Lunch break
2PM Flash of genius: lightning talks from the digital archive
The “Rose Revealed” project | Johanna Schmitz
The Folger’s digital asset platform | Stacey Redick
Modeling Early Modern Textual Environments: Digital Archives and the Bookshops in Paul’s Cross Churchyard | Mary Erica Zimmer
“Give me ocular proof”: Digital theatre archives and the early modern at NUI Galway| Barry Houlihan
3PM Coffee and tea break
3:20PM Reimagining the stage: audiovisual experiments
Upon the platform(s) where we watch: Digital multimedia Shakespeare editions| Noam Lior
A Midsummer’s Night’s sonification: Sonic analysis of a community using A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Iain Emsley
Digital Blackfriars: A multimedia experiment | Kirk Quinsland and Rebecca Rouse
4:55PM Adjournment
6PM Opening reception at the Old Divinity School, with tours of the Old Bodleian Library available
Tuesday, July 11
9AM Coffee and tea available
9:30AM Exit, pursued by a database: developing the archive
Opening the Archives: DEx, a Database of Dramatic Extracts | Beatrice Montedoro
The digital theatre archive: Making the most of material for research and teaching | Claudine Nightingale
Collection of Theatre Architecture, TU Berlin | Franziska Ritter
Seeing is Believing: The AusStage Database and the development of visualisation tools | Julian Meyrick
11:10 Coffee, tea
11:30AM Reimagining Performance
Performance as research: Research as performance | Christie Carson
Reimagining performance | Sarah Ellis
12:30PM Lunch break
1:45PM Strange capers: experiments with the archive
200 Years of the Russian Stage: Establishing a TEI-encoded corpus to gain insights into the structural evolution of drama | Irina Pavlova
What we digitize when we digitize the stage | Ivan Lupić
“Not just a pretty picture”: Digitization as a catalytic instrument in the research of early modern theatre and performance | Ildiko Solti
3:15PM Coffee and tea break
3:30PM Tracing the stage: between text and tech
Genealogies of the text: digital provenance and early modern drama | Meaghan Brown
Early modern dramatic paratexts in print and digital archives | Sonia Massai and Heidi Craig
4.30PM Adjournment
7PM Conference dinner at the Cherwell Boathouse (Bardwell Road, Oxford, OX2 6ST)
Wednesday, July 12
9AM Coffee and tea available
9:30AM Digitizing the Bard: Reimagining the Shakespeare Archive with talks by Pip Willcox, Victoria Lane, and Eric Johnson
11AM Coffee and tea break
11:15AM The Screen’s the thing: performance multimedia and pedagogy
The MIT Global Shakespeares Merchant module, in 2017 | Diana E. Henderson
Teaching the digitized stage: pedagogy in the archives | Erin Sullivan
12:05PM Break
12:10PM Closing keynote | Michael Dobson