{"id":2692,"date":"2025-08-06T09:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=2692"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:41:28","slug":"cbcp-modernist-editing-symposium-23-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing\/event\/cbcp-modernist-editing-symposium-23-september-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"CBCP Modernist Editing Symposium, 23 September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

This symposium brings together leading scholars and practitioners in modernist textual criticism and scholarly editing. Organised by Dr Buxi Duan<\/a> and Lawrence Jones<\/a> at the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing<\/a> (CBCP), with support from the Samuel Beckett Research Centre<\/a> and the Bibliographical Society UK<\/a>, the event explores how scholarly editions of modernist texts can better preserve and reflect their dynamic evolution \u2013 from manuscript and typescript to first editions, serial publications, and comprehensive scholarly editions.<\/p>\n

With CBCP\u2019s commitment to examining book and publishing cultures, as well as the political and material conditions of textual production, this symposium focuses on the key issue of how editorial theory and practice have shaped these cultures and the modernist texts we read today. Our speakers will discuss how they respond to publishing contexts, editorial interventions, and book cultures reflected in the many editions of the works they are editing \u2013 and how, as 21st-century readers and researchers, we might critically evaluate these often-competing editions of modernist texts, especially those that remain or become controversial.<\/p>\n

This in-person symposium is free to attend. However, due to limited capacity, please click here to reserve your tickets. Because of the nature of the presentations, which involve discussions of unpublished materials and in-progress editorial work, we regret that online participation is not possible on this occasion.<\/p>\n

To join us, please register here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Refreshments (incl. lunch – vegetarian & vegan) will be provided. If you have any dietary or accessibility requirements, please email the Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing at cbcp@reading.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We are delighted to announce that, thanks to the generous conference subvention provided by the Bibliographical Society UK, four travel grants of up to \u00a350 will be available to PGRs and ECRs who do not have institutional support<\/b> to attend this in-person symposium. If you would like to be considered for this financial support, please send a short message to Dr Buxi Duan (b.duan@reading.ac.uk<\/a>) by Monday, 1 September 2025 at 5pm<\/b>, describing how you expect this symposium to benefit your research project. Decisions will be communicated on Monday 8 September 2025.<\/p>\n

Please note that campus parking is limited, and availability cannot be guaranteed.<\/p>\n

Image: Typescript with handwritten annotation for Three Guineas<\/em> by Virginia Woolf from the Hogarth Press archive. Courtesy of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Programme<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

10.30-10.45am<\/b>: Refreshments & Welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n

10.45-12.00pm: Modernist Authorship in Scholarly Editions <\/b>(20mins each + 15mins Q&A)<\/p>\n