Conference Programme
Conference Venue
All sessions from 28 to 30 May 2026 will take place at the John Paul II Collegium of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, located at:
5 Hieronima Łopacińskiego Street, 20-041 Lublin, Poland
Room 1031 (10th floor) · Rooms 101, 102 and 103 (1st floor)
10:30 – 12:30
ESTS Board Meeting (C-103A)
12:30 – 13:30
Registration & Lunch
13:30 – 13:45
Conference Opening (C-1031)
13:45 – 15:00
Keynote 1 (C-1031)
Alternatives in Performance: Reworking Chopin
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00
3 Parallel Sessions (A)
Session A1 (C-1031)
Editing Errors and Interpretative Shifts: Lessons from the Critical Editing of Fernando Pessoa
Framing ‘Difficult’ Authorship in the Scholarly Edition: The Case of Wyndham Lewis’ Apes of God
“You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the Truth in”: A Fluid-text Edition of Herman Melville’s “Hawthorne and His Mosses”
Session A2 (C-101)
Creative Decline in Christer Kihlman’s Born-Digital Manuscripts
Source Code Philology – Born-Digital Poetry and Authorial Textual Variants
Interpreting Writing Processes Co-Authored with Generative AI
Session A3 (C-102)
Explanatory Strategies: A Comparative Study of Three Editions Aimed at a Wider Readership
Editorial Legacies and Interpretive Challenges: Editing a Romantic Poet’s Poems of Commemoration as a Social Text
Who Is She: Editorial Decisions in the Representation of Žemaitė
17:00 – 17:30
Coffee break
17:30 – 18:30
3 Parallel Sessions (B)
Session B1 (C-1031)
Johanna St John, Her Booke (1680) — A Digital Edition
Editing Fluid Texts, Shaping Interpretation: Reconfiguring the Print Page
Session B2 (C-101)
Universal Tool or Tailored Solutions? The Apocrypha Database and the Diversity of Texts and Editorial Methods
Connecting Criticism and Scholarliness. The Analysis of Abstracts of Articles about Digital Scholarly Editions on GoTriple Platform
Session B3 (C-102)
Scoping and Organizing a Capacious Digital Edition
Keystroke Interpreted: Interpretation in Editing and Analysing Keystroke-Logged Literary Writing Processes
18:30
Cocktail
09:00 – 10:30
Keynote 2 (C-1031) (online)
Matter and Memory: The Collected Manuscripts of Lu Xun (2021)
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
3 Parallel Sessions (C)
Session C1 (C-1031)
Scholarly Annotation in a Critical-Interpretative Edition of Poetry by Violante do Céu
Leggo Leopardi: building an Integrated Environment for Scholarly Editions, Translations and Genetic Editions
Quotation of the Nth Degree. Textual Genesis and Intertextuality in Karl Kraus’s Dritte Walpurgisnacht (1933)
Session C2 (C-101)
“The Text Going Wild?” Editorial Circulation of the Approved Polish Catholic “Wujek’s Bible” (1593–1900)
Editorial Interventions or Scribal Errors? Challenges in Interpreting Occasional Poetry from the XVIII Century
Fragmented Corpus in Modern Editions: Re-contextualising The Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Croatian Petris Miscellany (1468)
Session C3 (C-102)
Sustainable Prêt-à-Porter: the eDITem Project at the Huygens Institute
A Shared Methodology for Visualizing Textual Variation: the VIDIT Working Group
Toward a Computational Workflow for Critical Editions: Challenges and Experiments from a Philological Case Study
12:30 – 13:00
Coffee break
13:00 – 14:30
3 Parallel Sessions (D)
Session D1 (C-1031)
Material and Digital Advances in the Study of Manuscripts: Codex Vercellensis (VL3) and Codex Sangallensis 1395 (Σ)
Determining Writing Chronology from Handwriting Changes: A Case Study on Kafka’s Early Manuscripts
Experiments with Handwriting: Nonverbal Signifiers for a Semiotics of the Genesis of Modern Manuscripts
Session D2 (C-101)
Raiders of the Found Ark: Editing, Translating and Publishing Fernando Pessoa’s English Poems
Interpreting and Editing the Imperfect: A Case Study from The Duke of Parma by Fernando Pessoa
In Search of Definitive Edition: The Case of O Penitente, by Teixeira de Pascoaes
Session D3 (C-102)
From Trauma to Arcadia: Editorial Strategies for the Softening of Memory in Józef Wittlin’s My Lwów
Re-vision of the Maria Cheliga’s Archival Dramas. A Few Observations from the Process of Constructing the Anthology
Marginalia and Paratexts in the Family Library of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
14:30 – 15:30
Lunch break
15:30 – 17:30
Visualizing and Investigating Differences in Texts (VIDIT) Working Group Meeting (C-102)
18:00
Special Event
An Evening with Olga Tokarczuk & Anders Olsson
Borders of Imagination: Perspectives on Textual Scholarship
Sala Widowiskowa
Centre for Culture in Lublin
12 Peowiaków Street
20-007 Lublin
12 Peowiaków Street
20-007 Lublin
20:00
Conference Dinner
Spokojna 2
2 Spokojna Street
20-074 Lublin
20-074 Lublin
09:30 – 11:00
3 Parallel Sessions (E)
Session E1 (C-1031)
Between Libretto and Score Text: XML-TEI Strategies for the Critical Complexity of the Opera Libretto
A Model for the Digital Edition of Eighteenth-Century Operatic Librettos. Challenges and Prospects
COREL – Evolution of Chinese Law Sources (1646–1906)
Session E2 (C-101)
“Enriched” Paratexts in the Paper Book in Russia: Textual, Visual and Material Elements in Book Design
Frame the Letter! Materiality, Text, and Contemporary Logovisual Art
Glosses as Performance Indicators in Mediaeval Polish Gniezno Sermons. From Written to Oral Version of the Mediaeval Text
Session E3 (C-102)
Digital Editions and New Horizons for Humanities Data
From Pattern to Interpretation: Topic Modeling as Editorial Record
Letter Shapes from Punch to Print: Applying Semi-Automated Geometric Morphometrics to the Lettering of John Baskerville (1707–1775)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00
3 Parallel Sessions (F)
Session F1 (C-1031)
Reduction, Proliferation. Genetic Criticism and Text Interpretation
The Editor as Translator: Interpretation and the Translation of Literary Drafts
The Materiality of the Narrator in Hertig Fredrik av Normandie
Session F2 (C-101)
Historical and Institutional Conditions of Scholarly Editing in Modern Japanese Literary Studies
A story that did not catch up with history
The Database of Historical Polish Lexicons: Edition and Interpretation
Session F3 (C-102)
From Transcription to Interpretation: Transcribathons as Editorial Laboratories in Digital Textual Scholarship
To Open and Not to Close: The Perils of Tagging
The Literary Work and Its Value Chain: Rooting the Sociology of Texts in Empirical Realism
13:00 – 13:30
Concluding Remarks and Closing of the Conference
13:30 – 14:30
ESTS Members’ Meeting (C-1031)