Venue: Vartov, Farvergade 27, 1463 Copenhagen, Denmark
Dates: 19-21 April 2027
Diversity – in textual scholarship and editorial practice
Abstract submission deadline: 5 December 2026
We warmly invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners to the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and the 19th Conference of the Nordic Network for Textual Scholarship in Copenhagen. For the first time, the ESTS and the NNE gather for a joint conference exploring diversity in textual scholarship and editorial practice and fostering collaboration across the field.
We welcome contributions that engage with questions of diversity from a range of textual, material, linguistic, infrastructural, and methodological perspectives.
Contributions may, for example, address the following topics:
- textual variation, versions, and the constitution of the work;
- editorial theory and practice;
- manuscript, print, and digital textuality;
- multilingual texts, translation, and transmission;
- archival organisation, cataloguing, and metadata;
- the role of digital tools in textual scholarship;
- absence, fragmentation, and issues of representation.
Submission Guidelines
- Abstracts must be submitted in English (maximum 250 words, accompanied by a bio of maximum 100 words) by email to estsnne2027@cas.au.dk
- Presentations will be allocated 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
- Presenters must pay the conference fee and must be members in good standing of the European Society for Textual Scholarship for 2027 (except invited speakers).
- Conference fees: standard registration €100; reduced rate (postgraduate students and early-career researchers) €75.
- Travel bursaries: A limited number of travel bursaries will be available for PhD students / early career scholars / scholars without a permanent academic position.
Important Dates
- Abstract Submission Deadline: 5 December 2026
- Notification of Acceptance: 5 January 2027
- Final Program Publication: 15 February 2027
- Conference Fee Payment Deadline: 1 March 2027
- Pre-Conference Half-day Workshop: 19 April 2027 (Theme TBA)
- Conference: 19-21 April 2027
For more details, visit the conference website here.
