Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2026

The Society for Textual Scholarship (North America) warmly invites scholars to participate in its annual conference to explore the rich and evolving relationship between Textual Studies and Memory Studies.

Proposals are welcome to engage with a wide range of topics, including (but not limited to):

• Texts (broadly conceived) as Sites or Agents of Memory and Forgetting
• Editorial Practice and the Politics of Remembrance
• Manuscripts and Memory work 
• Scribal Memory / Print Memory / Digital Memory
• Text, Palimpsest, Memory
• Textual Ruins, Fragmentary Memory 
• Text as Monument / Monuments as Text
• Archival Memory / Archival Forgetting
• Archives and the Future of Memory
• Memory, Materiality, and Textual Transmission
• Textual scholarship in Transitional Justice and Historical Reckoning
• Memory, Censorship, and the Re-writing of History
• Canon, Memory, Forgetting: What/whose texts are remembered, whose are forgotten?
• AI and Memory / AI’s Memory
• Editing and Re-memory / Editing and Post-memory
• Artifacts as Memory Sites
• Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches to Memory
• Diaspora and the Textual Transmission of Memory
• Textual Memory and Decolonization
• Queer Memory
• Testimony, Trauma, and Textual Forms
• Aging Bodies / Texts of Memory
• Memory and the Textual Poetics of Care
• Memory in Marginalia, Annotations, and Paratexts

In a joint effort to strengthen the bonds between the Society for Textual Scholarship (STS) and The European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS), we invite our members to participate in the 2026 STS conference in New York. Proposed session formats may include workshops/seminars, panels, roundtables, and individual papers. As such, ESTS members planning to attend the conference are welcome to submit an individual paper proposal, informing the STS organisation that it should be included in the ESTS panel. Alternatively, a joint panel proposal of 3-4 ESTS members may also be submitted on behalf of the ESTS membership.

Abstracts should be submitted by 1 February 2026 to societyfortextualscholarship@gmail.com

Please do not hesitate to contact the ESTS Secretary if you need assistance to coordinate this delegation.

For more details, including how to submit, visit the conference website here.