LEGAL ISSUES IN TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP 

Guest speakers

Dirk Van Hulle (University of Oxford,  OCTET)

Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History at the University of Oxford, chair of the Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory (OCTET), and director of the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp. With Mark Nixon, he is co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, series editor of the Cambridge UP series Elements in Beckett Studies, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies. Dirk Van Hulle was President of the European Society for Textual Scholarship from 2009 to 2013 and is currently a board member of the Society. His publications include Textual Awareness (2004), Modern Manuscripts (2014), Samuel Beckett’s Library (2013, with Mark Nixon), The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (2015), James Joyce’s Work in Progress (2016), the Beckett Digital Library, and a number of volumes in the ‘Making of’ series (Bloomsbury) and genetic editions in the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, which won the 2019 Prize for a Bibliography, Archive or Digital Project of the Modern Language Association (MLA).

Fatiha Idmhand (University of Poitiers / ITEM – CNRS/ENS)

Fatiha Idmhand is a Professor at the University of Poitiers and a Researcher at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (Archivos, UMR-8132, Paris). Her academic background is in Literature and Hispanic Studies, with a particular focus on creative processes (genetic criticism studies) and Digital Humanities. Her research centers on archives and manuscripts in relation to the significant themes of cultural transfers, the circulation of literature, arts, and ideas between Europe and the Americas during the major conflicts and crises of the 20th and 21st centuries, new typologies for manuscripts, and on methods for literary computing. Currently, she is the PI of the project PICASSOLETTERS, granted by the EUR Translitterae, Lyon Univeristy, and the MSH Lyon Saint Etienne.  She is also a member of the ELDAH (Ethics and Legality in Digital Arts and Humanities) working group of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium DARIAH-EU.

Paweł Kamocki (Leibniz Institute for the German Language – IDS / CLARIN ERIC)

Paweł Kamocki holds degrees in Linguistics, Copyright Law, and IT Law. In 2012, he was awarded a PhD in Private Law from Sorbonne Paris Cité (now University of Paris) and WWU Münster. He has been working as a legal expert in the European Research Infrastructure Consortium CLARIN, acting as chair of the Legal and Ethical Issues Committee, and in CLARIN-D projects at the Leibniz-Institute für Deutsche Sprache – IDS. Kamocki has extensive international experience in data-intensive research and technology, as well as in academia. He has authored several articles and white papers on copyright and data protection, with a focus on textual scholarship and language data.

Wim Van Mierlo  (Loughborough University)

Wim Van Mierlo is a Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, where he is Programme Director for Publishing, Digital Lead for the School of the Arts, English and Drama; and co-leader of the digital humanities research group DH@Lboro. Although much of his work has concentrated on Modernism and the early twentieth century, his interests range across the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, including such authors as William Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats, T. Sturge Moore, James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, Thomas Pynchon, and Fred D'aguiar. His primary area of expertise is in the study of literary manuscripts and archives, but he also works on textual scholarship and scholarly editing, reception history, literary history and literary heritage, marginalia, writers' libraries, digital humanities, poetry, Irish studies, and photography. Wim Van Mierlo is currently the President of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. 

Speakers

Elsa Pereira (University of Lisbon, CLUL)

Elsa Pereira is a contracted researcher at CLUL, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, where she has been teaching in the Textual Criticism Programme. After graduating from the University of Porto – Lic (2003), MA (2007), and PhD (2013) in Romance Literatures and Cultures – she has worked as a Post-doc fellow of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2014-2019). Her research interests lie in Portuguese literature, with a focus on textual studies, scholarly editing, the materialities of writing, and the ethics and legality of literary research. She is also a board member of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. 

Maia Ninidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)

Maia Ninidze is a Principal Researcher at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and serves as a co-supervisor of the doctoral programme in Textual Scholarship and Editorial Studies at Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University. She has published several books and research articles and has co-authored two textbooks. In the course of her research, she has dated more than 300 personal letters of Grigol Orbeliani and Ilia Chavchavadze and has edited these writers' bio-bibliographies. In 2018, she and her colleagues founded the Association for Textual and Editorial Studies and Digital Humanities, the aim of which is to investigate, catalogue, and digitise the family archives of renowned Georgian writers.

Veijo Pulkkinen (University of Helsinki)

Veijo Pulkkinen is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, where he was awarded the Title of Docent in 2018. He earned his PhD in literature at the University of Oulu in 2010 and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Academy of Finland from 2011 to 2014. He has published a monograph (Runoilija latomossa: geneettinen tutkimus Aaro Hellaakosken Jääpeilistä [2017, The Poet in the Typesetting Room: a Genetic Study on Aaro Hellaakoski’s Jääpeili]) and several articles on visual poetry and the application of genetic and textual criticism to literary interpretation. In his current project, Pulkkinen is developing a genetic study of Christer Kihlman's and Kalle Päätalo's Born-Digital Manuscripts.

Wout Dillen (University of Borås)

Wout Dillen is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT (including the Swedish School of Library and Information Science) at the University of Borås. He holds a PhD in Literature with a focus on text encoding and digital scholarly editing from the University of Antwerp. From 2016 to 2017, he held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Experienced Research Fellowship in the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT ITN) at the University of Borås, Sweden. From 2016 to 2020, he was the Coordinator of platformDH and the Coordinator of the University of Antwerp’s contribution to DARIAH-Flanders. Currently, he is a member of HUMINFRA, a Swedish infrastructure that combines specialised expertise from 12 consortium nodes in the domains of Digital Humanities, with a focus on e-scientific/digital materials, tools, and critical interpretative perspectives. Wout Dillen is a member of the Steering Committee of the DH Benelux and co-editor of the DH Benelux Journal. He is also the Secretary of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and General Editor of the ESTS journal Variants. 

Chairs

Elli Bleeker (DHLab of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands)

Elli Bleeker is a researcher at the DHLab of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. She completed her PhD at the Centre for Manuscript Genetics of the University of Antwerp (2017) and was a research fellow in the DiXiT network (2013–2017). Her research interests lie in text modeling, digital scholarly editing, semi-automated collation, textual scholarship, markup, ontologies for text, and semantic markup. Currently, she studies the potential of graph technologies for the modeling and comparison of literary and historical texts. Elli Bleeker is the Treasurer of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and the Associate Editor of the ESTS journal Variants. She is also a member of the DHBenelux Executive Board and Steering Committee and a member of the TEI Technical Council.

Hande Özkayagan Prändl (University of Vienna)

Hande Özkayagan Prändl is a university assistant and research associate at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna, where she lectures courses on intellectual property, data ethics, and legal issues and is involved in third-party-funded research projects. She earned her LL.M. degree in European and International Business Law at Leiden University. She is also a researcher affiliated with NOVA Law School's Knowledge Center on Intellectual Property and Sustainable Innovation and is a member of Europeana's Copyright Community Steering Group.

Wout Dillen (University of Borås)

Wout Dillen is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT (including the Swedish School of Library and Information Science) at the University of Borås. He is the Secretary of the European Society for Textual Scholarship.