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[1] From: Patrick Sahle <sahle@uni-wuppertal.de>
Subject: CfP, submission deadline extension: Editopia. On the Future of Documentology and Scholarly Editing in the Post-Digital Age (173)
[2] From: Asmussen, Marvin Jonathan <marvin.asmussen@uni-muenster.de>
Subject: Announcement: Colloquium Early modern (climate) Sources – Data – Databases (61)
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Date: 2026-03-20 12:30:37+00:00
From: Patrick Sahle <sahle@uni-wuppertal.de>
Subject: CfP, submission deadline extension: Editopia. On the Future of Documentology and Scholarly Editing in the Post-Digital Age
Dear humanist list members,
The submission deadline for the Call for Papers of the “Editopia”
conference (see original invitation below) has been extended.
The (rediculously short) deadline of 22 March no longer applies. The new
deadline for the submission of abstracts is 5 April.
We warmly welcome further submissions addressing the themes outlined in
the call and look forward to receiving additional proposals. The link to
the call for papers is available here: https://editopia2026.i-d-e.de/
Patrick Sahle
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Dear digital humanists,
* Call for Papers: Editopia. On the Future of Documentology and
Scholarly Editing in the Post-Digital Age
(https://editopia2026.i-d-e.de/)
* Conference of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing
(IDE), University of Wuppertal, Germany; 2–4 September 2026. *Local
organization: Digital Humanities Team (DH@BUW), supported by of the
Interdisciplinary Center for Editing and Document Studies (IZED)*
What comes after the digital edition?
Digital editions have become an everyday scholarly practice. The
critical representation of historical documents is now routinely
digital, networked, openly accessible, and simultaneously available in
multiple forms of representation. As the analogue–digital debate has
largely come to an end, new questions come to the fore. We no longer ask
whether digital methods are epistemically justified and viable, but
howand to what endthey are best used. Alongside persistent or newly
emerging technical challenges, other challenges gain prominence in this
shift. By way of example: What constitutes “the text” in the
post-digital age, where principles of stability and processuality,
material transmission and processual data streams, and authority and
democratization coexist? How do source criticism and textual criticism
and their processes of knowledge generation change under the influence
of generative AI when machines act as “first readers” transcribing,
interpreting, and annotating documents? Moving beyond its incunabula
phase, how will the affordances of digital media shape concepts of
publications? Are we moving towards an era of media presentation as a
(as we used to say) mash-up or (as it is called now) transclusion of
ubiquitously reusable building blocks? What responsibility do editions
bear for the authenticity and trustworthiness of the edited material?
How can editions be made more open, accessible, and future-proof? Does
the edition as a formstill persist under these conditions, or does it
dissolve? And how might we need to rethink the models and processes that
lead to data in the first place?
One fundamental observation underlies all these questions: data
constitute the content and core of the edition, and data themselves are
primarily fluid, processual and networked.
On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the Institute for Documentology
and Scholarly Editing (IDE) invites scholars to engage with these
questions at the international conference Editopia. By post-digitalwe
understand a condition in which digital tools and modes of thinking are
no longer conceived primarily in opposition to the analogue, but as the
foundation of humanities scholarship and, consequently, as the basis for
further-reaching questions.
We therefore invite contributions addressing, but not limited to, the
following thematic areas:
The Post-Digital Document. What does materiality mean in the digital
realm, from file formats and storage media to infrastructures? Which
documentological properties characterize digitized or born-digital
sources such as emails, websites, or social media? How do we address
versioning, ephemerality, and the processual nature of digital
artefacts? What challenges arise from multimodal documents combining
text, image, audio, video, and interactive elements?
Identity and Coherence of the Edition. What constitutes an edition when
its components are fluid and networked, or when externally created
digital objects are integrated and reused? What roles do authorship,
boundaries, closure, and authority play when editions become permanently
updatable? What might establish coherence under such conditions, and is
coherence still a relevant claim at all?
Scholarly Editing and Artificial Intelligence. How do machine-based
methods transform editorial practice, from automated transcription to
annotation and contextualization? Where do they expand possibilities,
and where do new dependencies emerge? Which new objectives arise, and
which traditional aims may fade from view? How should we deal with
machine-generated uncertainty and opacity? What does it mean when
AI-generated texts themselves become objects of editing? How can the
influence of AI on the emergence and formation of an edition be
documented and critically reflected?
Source Criticism, Forensics, and Authentication. How does source
criticism change when documents are created digitally, migrated between
media states or data models, and are inherently manipulable? Which
methods of provenance research and authentication become necessary? How
can trust in digital editions be established, and what responsibilities
do editors bear with regard to transparency, traceability, and credibility?
Transmedial Representation and Aesthetics. How does the edition change
between print, screen, and other conceivable digital media? What design
possibilities do interactive or immersive formats offer? How does the
visual and sensory dimension of digital editions affect not only their
use but also the scholarly process of knowledge production?
Labour, Economy, and Institutions. How can editorial projects be
organized between project-based logic and long-term sustainability? Do
editions require new business models, and if so, which are compatible
with open access and scholarly independence? How do roles and
professional profiles change as editions become more collaborative,
technical, and data-intensive? How can the entire process of producing
an edition be fully documented? Under what conditions is good editorial
work possible today?
Community, Accessibility, and Knowledge Transfer. Who has access to
digital editions, and who remains excluded? What do communities such as
the TEI community contribute to editorial practice, and where are their
limits? How can collaborative modes of work and open infrastructures be
designed? How can scholarly editing be taught when digital competencies
are assumed, and when documentological foundations as well as other
technical skills must be newly conveyed?
Power, Participation, and Responsibility in Editing. How does
community-based knowledge production relate to academic gatekeeping
models? How can open workflows democratize editorial decision-making?
What may and what should be edited—what ethics of visibility are
required? Who edits whom, with what authority—and which new
perspectives, for example, gender-sensitive or decolonial approaches,
open up alternative paths? What responsibilities do editors bear toward
marginalized voices and sensitive content? How is the role of the editor
changing?
Theoretical Foundations. What is a “text” in the post-digital age? How
can the concept of the document be redefined between stability and
fluidity? What epistemic function does the edition fulfil—what do we
produce, what do we represent? How can post-structuralist,
neo-materialist, or other theoretical approaches renew scholarly
editing? Which concepts of authorship, work, transmission, and document
remain viable?
These thematic areas are intended as points of orientation. We also
welcome proposals that introduce additional perspectives.
We invite submissions for 20-minute papers. Abstracts should comprise
2,000–4,000 characters (including spaces and references)and clearly
outline the research question, methodological approach, and expected
results. Please also include a short biographical note.
The submission deadline is 22. March 2026. Notifications of acceptance
will be sent by the end of April 2026. Selected contributions are
planned for publication in the SIDE book series. The conference
languages are English and German. Participation is limited to 60
participants. No conference fee will be charged.
Please send abstracts and inquiries to editopia2026@i-d-e.de
<mailto:editopia2026@i-d-e.de>. Conference page:
https://editopia2026.i-d-e.de <https://i-d-e.github.io/editopia2026/>*
Best, Patrick
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Prof. Dr. Patrick Sahle <http://patrick-sahle.de>
Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities
<https://www.geschichte.uni-wuppertal.de/de/lehrgebiete/digital-humanities/>
Bergische Universität Wuppertal <https://www.uni-wuppertal.de/>
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Date: 2026-03-20 12:20:45+00:00
From: Asmussen, Marvin Jonathan <marvin.asmussen@uni-muenster.de>
Subject: Announcement: Colloquium Early modern (climate) Sources – Data – Databases
Dear digital humanists,
We are pleased to announce the program for the "Early Modern Climate Cultures
Colloquium" for the summer semester 2026, focusing on data-driven approaches to
early modern texts and climate discourses.
The interdisciplinary research colloquium “Early Modern Climate Cultures”, which
is organised by the Emmy Noether Research Group “Traces of the ‘Little Ice Age’
in Early Modern German Literature (LitLIA)”, is dedicated to the presentation
and discussion of current research in the field of Environmental Humanities. A
particular focus is placed geographically on Europe and historically on the
early modern period.
In the upcoming summer semester 2026, we will especially focus on the use of
data and databases in researching early modern texts and climate discourses: How
can literary and historical scholarship integrate quantitative methods into the
study of historical climate cultures? How do you build a database that is
suitable for environmental, historical, literary research? What are the
potential pitfalls of data-based approaches to early modern sources?
The colloquium will take place online. If you are interested in attending,
please register at: van.de.loecht@uni-muenster.de<mailto:van.de.loecht@uni-
muenster.de> or marvin.asmussen@uni-muenster.de<mailto:marvin.asmussen@uni-
muenster.de>. The sessions will be held in English.
Dates:
23.04.2026, 16:00 (CET): Sylvia Brockstieger, Rebecca Hirt
(Heidelberg/Karlsruhe): From Material Text to Digital Data: Creating the Writing
Calendar Database
21.05.2026, 16:00 (CET): Siv Gøril Brandtzæg (Trondheim): Songs on Screen: The
Making of a Database
02.06.2026, 14:00 (CET): Andrew Pettegree (St. Andrews): The Universal Short
Title Catalogue and the Perils of Big Data – joint event with Book Studies
Münster
25.06.2026, 16:00 (CET): Rüdiger Glaser (Freiburg): Climate Data Analysis from
the Little Ice Age to the Modern Warming
02.07.2026, 16:00 (CET): Jöran Landschoff, Carolin Schwegler, Leyla Rommel
(Cologne/Bremen): Close Reading/Distant Reading: Approaching Climate Discourses
in Large Text Corpora
Best regards,
Marvin Asmussen
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Marvin Asmussen
(er/ihm, he/him)
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Emmy-Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe "Die Spuren der 'Kleinen Eiszeit' in der Literatur
der frühen Neuzeit (1570–1780) (LitLIA)"
Universität Münster
Germanistisches Institut
Schlossplatz 34
48143 Münster
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