Events

Textual scholarship is inextricably linked with bibliography, textual criticism, history of the book and genetic criticism. OCTET tries to make bridges between these disciplines and organizes events that try to bring together researchers from various countries, traditions and faculties, working in different periods.  
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Regular seminars and lectures

OCTET Lectures

The OCTET Lectures on Textual Scholarship are a series of ‘tandem lectures', combining a talk by an Early Career Researcher with one by an experienced scholar.

Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies, 2021

Convenors: Daniel Wakelin, Martin Kauffmann

Seminar in the History of the Book

Conveners: Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College, Oxford) and Alexandra Franklin (Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book)

McKenzie Lectures

Delivered annually by a distinguished scholar on the history of the book, scholarly editing, or bibliography and the sociology of texts.

Past events

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Advances in Digital Editing: Virginia Woolf's Anon and Samuel Beckett's TV Plays

22 January
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Reading Behind the Lines: Ghost Texts & Spectral Imaging in Modern Literary Manuscripts

20 November 2024
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Lost in Publication: Epigenesis and the Identification of Relocated Text

13 November 2024
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Marginalia and Writers' Libraries: Between Reading and Writing

31 October 2024
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DRAFTS: A Roundtable

30 October 2024
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Towards a dynamic edition: making Kafka's writing process accessible to a general audience

16 October 2024
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Digital Scholarly Editing of Born-Digital Texts: Why and How?

29 February 2024
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What is a Text?

18 October 2023
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ICLA-CHLEL Conference 2023: Lived Experience and Literary History

02 June 2023
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Genetic Narratology

23 February 2023
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Digital Keys to Invisible Texts

07 February 2023
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Editing and Digitising Marginalia

11 November 2022
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Unlocking Digital Texts Workshop

01 November 2022
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Stephen King's IT From First Draft to First Edition: A Look at the Many Documents Produced Along the Way

31 October 2022
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Intimations of Postmortality: The Genetic Dossier of Samuel Beckett's Watt and Its Romantic Residues

16 May 2022
Bookwheel, from Agostino Ramelli's Le diverse et artificiose machine, 1588

ESTS 2022: Histories of the Holograph

17 March 2022
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Colloquium on Writers' Libraries

15 March 2022
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Genesis 2022: Creative Revision

15 March 2022
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Beckett Digital Manuscript Project Workshop

14 March 2022
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The Italian Tradition of Authorial Philology and Variant Criticism

08 March 2022
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Elements of Beckett Studies launch: a colloquium in honour of Rosemary Pountney

28 January 2022
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An Introduction to Digital Scholarly Editing

02 November 2021
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Modernising: a conference

24 April 2019
OCTET one-day conference: Modernising