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Women in the Archives: a Conference on the Role of Archival Materials in the Study and Teaching of Early Women’s Writing

This year’s conference theme is “Organizing Knowledge”, and focuses on systems of knowledge representation in relation to different kinds of archival practice. The Keynote lecture will be by Laurie Crumpacker, Simmons College: “Teaching the New American Renaissance and Margaret Fuller”. The conference’s full schedule is now available. Women in the Archives is co-sponsored by the Women in the Archives: a Conference on the Role of Archival Materials in the Study and Teaching of Early Women’s Writing

Women Writers Project

The newly designed Women Writers Project web site is now live, and there has been an addition of twelve new texts to Women Writers Online. Highlights include three dramas by Aphra Behn, Margaret Cavendish’s Philosophical Letters (1664), Sarah Stone’s A Complete Practice of Midwifery (1737), and Hannah Kilham’s Memoir of the Late Hannah Kilham (1837). Women Writers Project

Women in the Archives: Organizing Knowledge

Papers are now being invited for Women in the Archives, a two-day conference co-sponsored by the Women Writers Project and the Sarah Doyle Womens Center at Brown University. This year the theme is Organizing Knowledge, focusing on systems of knowledge representation in relation to different kinds of archival practice. The conference will be held April Women in the Archives: Organizing Knowledge

Julia Flanders quoted in Chronicle article

A May 23, 2010 article by Jennifer Howard entitled “Hot Type: No Reviews of Digital Scholarship = No Respect” features quotes from Julia Flanders, on the issue of achieving academic recognition for digital projects. Here is the relevant section: Julia Flanders is editor in chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly and director of the Women Writers Julia Flanders quoted in Chronicle article

Collaboration and Dissent

Podcasts are now available of the Interview and Lecture by Julia Flanders from the Digital Humanities Speaker’s Series, Future Knowledge: Prospects for a Digital Era. University of South Carolina. March 25, 2010. Julia is the Director of the Women Writers Project and Associate Director for Textbase Development here at the Center for Digital Scholarship.

Women in the Archives

Women in the Archives is a one-day colloquium co-sponsored by the Women Writers Project and the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center at Brown University, to be held on April 24, 2010 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Women in the Archives explores the use of archival materials in the study of women’s writing, and the Women in the Archives