JEANNINE DELOMBARD, Department of English, University of Toronto
TESS CHAKKALAKAL, Africana Studies and English, Bowdoin College
KENNETH WARREN, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
The objective of this conference is to assemble an international group of scholars to address and evaluate editorial approaches to early African American Literature. Examining recent methods used to recover and rethink works by Olaudah Equiano, Frances E.W. Harper, Harriet Wilson, Hannah Crafts, and Julia Collins, we hope to understand the complex relation between race and editorial practices during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Important topics will include: Sutton E. Griggs and the black-owned publishing industry, white editor/black author, oral culture vs. print culture, and digitizing dialect.

MARKUS STOCK, Department of German, University of Toronto
The objective of this conference is to assemble an international group of scholars to address and evaluate the variety of editorial approaches to medieval German literature. Focusing on high and late medieval texts, it strives to elucidate and evaluate the varied currents in the history of editing medieval German epic and prose texts. Important topics will include: Karl Lachmann and nineteenth-century textual criticism; the series Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters and the Leithandschriftenmethode; "New Philology" and the German philologists; and web-editions (for example, the Basel Parzival Project).