(April 29, 2024) Folio Futures: Editing Early Modern Plays for Tomorrow’s Audiences

In celebration of Texas A&M University’s designation as the host institution for the New Variorum Shakespeare (NVS) and in continued commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio, we are pleased to invite you to our upcoming symposium, Folio Futures: Editing Early Modern Plays for Tomorrow’s Audiences, on Friday, April 26 at Texas A&M University-College Station and livestreamed on Zoom.

The symposium will bring together scholars from around the world to assess the history of and future possibilities for editing Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Scholars of Shakespeare’s works, digital humanists, and NVS editors will discuss the challenges and opportunities of editing in the twenty-first century for new global audiences who read, perform, and teach in a variety of media.

The symposium will feature keynote speakers Kristen Abbott Bennett (Associate Professor at Framingham State University) and Eric Rasmussen (Regents Teaching Professor and Foundation Professor of English at the University of Nevada), as well as round-table discussants.

This symposium is free and open to the public thanks to the generous support of our sponsors:

• • Texas A&M College of Arts and Sciences
  • Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
  • Texas A&M Department of English
  • Texas A&M Center of Digital Humanities Research
  • John and Sara Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts

The group will discuss two works from Dr. Roopika Risam ahead of her lecture and campus visit on April 24-25, 2024. The group is encouraged to read the Introduction to The Digital Black Atlantic and "Chapter 1: The Stakes of Postcolonial Digital Humanities" from New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy.

Dr. Douglas Wunneburger will educate Texas A&M faculty, staff, and graduate students on the affordances of ArcGIS for Humanities work.

Presentation slides can be viewed here.

In this age of generative computational systems that appear to produce ‘human-responsibility-free’ images and texts, how can we better identify what it is that we are trying to sustain in our intentional, scholarly, digital work? What constitutes an ethical, productive sustainability practice in a computational environment increasingly populated by machinic outputs masquerading as human creations? How many of our approaches partake of the assumption that the more we retain the better for the machine and not for us humans? This talk will address a number of socio-technical constraints that impact many humanists as they make decisions about how long they want their projects, products, and communities to last.

Dr. Shawna Ross will educate Texas A&M faculty, staff, and graduate students how to effectively use Digital Humanities (DH) in the classroom.

Presentation slides can be viewed here.

The group will discuss various works from Dr. Alison Langmead in preparation for her visit to Texas A&M on February 28-29, 2024.

The Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) is hosting a “DH Project Showcase” for Principal Investigators to present their digital research to faculty, staff, and students:

- Katayoun Torabi, “The New Variorum Shakespeare”
- Daniel L. Schwartz, “Syriaca.org”
- Alexandra E. LaGrand, “Points Like A Man: The Shakespearean Breeches Performance Catalogue, 1660-1900”
- Susan Egenolf, “Maria Edgeworth Letters Project”
- Tianna Helena Uchacz, “Texas Art Project”
- Britt Mize, “Beowulf’s Afterlives”