Author: Elsa Pereira

ESTS 2025 Programme

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For its twentieth annual conference, the European Society for Textual Scholarship is heading to Tours, the heart of the Loire Valley, from the 28th to the 30th of April 2025. The CESR – Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance at the University of Tours – welcomes the ESTS community to the birthplace of the French Renaissance to discuss Manuscripts in the Age of Print. The conference topic is inspired by the new ERC project PRIMA, which focuses on manuscript production, circulation, and consumption in Ancient Regime Europe.

The programme organised by the conference team includes various social activities, a workshop, a poster session, plenary lectures, and almost 50 oral presentations. It will also host the Board Meeting that welcomes the newly elected Board Members and Officers of the ESTS.

For more details, please visit the conference website here.

2025 Membership and Board Elections

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The ESTS Board has received nominations from three strong candidates whose eligibility has been confirmed. Since the number of eligible candidates did not exceed the number of vacancies, we do not need to organise further elections. Instead, we are pleased to announce Beatrice Nava, Krista Stinne Greve Rasmussen, and Paulius V. Subačius as Board members and look forward to welcoming them to our next annual meeting.

In 2025, the ESTS conference is heading to Tours (France) from the 28th to the 30th of April. Registration will officially open by the end of January, but please note that all registered speakers must be paid-up members of the Society. The ESTS annual membership begins on the 1st of January (ending on the 31st of December). Please do not forget to renew your membership by transferring the 2025 fee to the Society’s bank account. For further information, please refer to the webpage https://textualscholarship.eu/membership/.

Variants 17-18 is out!

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The ESTS is happy to announce a new issue of Variants, the peer-reviewed journal of The European Society for Textual Scholarship, published in Open Access via the OpenEdition platform at https://journals.openedition.org/variants. This double issue was edited by Wout Dillen, Elli Bleeker, and Stefano Rosignoli.
Variants 17–18 contains essays from the consecutive GENESIS and ESTS 2022 conferences as well as essays and reviews that have been submitted outside this context but fit beautifully within the joint themes of creative revision (GENESIS) and the history and study of ancient and modern holographs (ESTS). For more context regarding the composition and publication of this issue, please refer to the Editors’ Preface.
We hope that you enjoy the research presented in this volume. If you do, you may be happy to learn that the work on our next volume is already well underway. We have a number of essays accepted and under review that are expanded full-paper versions of research presented at last year’s GENESIS conference in Taipei, the ESTS conference in Canterbury, as well as some conference independent submissions. As such, Variants 19, which is scheduled for publication in 2025, is already shaping up to be another sizeable volume of relevant research that, like our current issue, we hope will provide plenty food for thought and help inspire spirited discussions in the field.