Monthly Archives: March 2016

New Publication: Alf Lüdtke/Tobias Nanz [Eds.]: Laute, Bilder, Texte. Register des Archivs. Göttingen: V & R unipress 2015.

Published in 2015. ISBN 978-3-8471-0236-6. 137 pp. with 36 images. Available in print (€30.00) and e-book (€23.99).   Link to the publication; link to the table of contents and a sample chapter Review by Stefanie Martin, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Preserving traces of the past – the main task of an archive – is important […]

CfP: Terms, descriptive languages, representations of critical editions. Preparatory conference for a handbook on ‘Editionswissenschaft’, Heidelberg, 22-24 September 2016

This CfP comes from the Heidelberger Forum Edition (speakers: Roland Reuß, Urs Heftrich). Conference conveners are Janina Reibold and Martina Engelbrecht. This conference will pick up where Gunter Martens, Winfried Woesler and others left off in the 1990s. It also takes the volume »Editorische Begrifflichkeit. Überlegungen und Materialien zu einem ›Wörterbuch der Editionsphilologie‹« (2013) as […]

Conference: Biographies of the Book, 5-8 April, Wolfenbüttel

We would like to alert our followers and readers to an upcoming conference organized by the “Forschungsverbund MWW” in Wolfenbüttel on the “biographies of the book”. The book as a specific object, with its own history, its career, so to speak, will be discussed at this event, with contributions covering a broad range of topics […]