International and Interdisciplinary Aspects of Scholarly Editing

15 - 18 February 2012

The topic of the conference is based on the notion that international cooperation in scholarly editing often has to cope with the fact that the participants are affected by scholarly traditions, theoretical and practical issues that have been developed in the intellectual and institutional environment of their original countries. This may stimulate, but also complicate transnational and translingual communication. In addition, scholarly editing is increasingly influenced by other disciplines such as computing and natural sciences (e.g., for the analysis of writing procedures and material or of phenomena of textual genealogy). The result of this development is that the art of editing shows increasingly hybrid forms of methodology, the genesis of which is not always made explicit. The Bernese symposium wishes to give occasion to reflect on this point.