This March 14th and 15th at STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY (New York), the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature will host a seminar and humanities lab on early modern news-sheets, pamphlets, relaciones de sucesos and their networks in Europe and South America, mainly between 1650 and 1750. This event is funded by a FAHSS Award from Stony Brook College of Arts and Sciences and forms part of Prof. Paul Firbas’s larger project on the edition, data visualization and study of the Diarios y memorias de los sucesos principales y noticias más sobresalientes en esta ciudad de Lima, corte del Perú  published by printer Joseph de Contreras y Alvarado in Lima between 1700 and 1711.

Early Modern Textuality and Journalism in Spain and South America (1650-1750)

PANEL (SEMINAR). Thursday March 14th (2019) in Humanities 2036 (In Spanish)

2.30-4 pm: TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP, ANNOTATION AND TEXT CIRCULATION

• Carmen Espejo Cala (Universidad de Sevilla)
• José Antonio Rodríguez Garrido (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
• Paul Firbas (Stony Brook University)

4.15-5.30 pm: ROUND TABLE. Doctoral student presentation and discussion on the assigned readings:

(1) Carmen Espejo Cala, “Un marco de interpretación para el periodismo europeo en la primera edad moderna”; (2) Nieves Pena Sueiro, “El portal BIDISO: pasado, presente y futuro inmediato. Un ejemplo de evolución en aplicaciones de las Humanidades Digitales”; (3) José A. Rodríguez Garrido, “Un entremés para la corte virreinal limeña: anotación e interpretación de una pieza de teatro breve de Peralta Barnuevo”; (4) Roger Chartier and Peter Stallybrass, “What is a Book?” y (5) Jerome McGann, “Why digital textual scholarship matters; or, philology in a new key”.

10 am: Skype conversation with Prof. Nieves Pena Sueiro (Universidade da Coruña).  Digital catalogs, bibliographic resources, online editions and digital archives.

11 am: Web platforms analysis: design and dispositio, web tools, reading online, collaborations. Editing, reading and visualizing the Diario de Lima: networks, material culture, news and relaciones de sucesos.

12 m:  Semantic web for the study of early journalism. Skype conversation at 12.15 pm with Prof. Francisco Baena Sánchez (Universidad de Sevilla).  Open conversation on mapping networks, digital humanities and early modern journalism in Europe and Spanish America.

1 -1.30 pm: Lunch break (in seminar room Hum 1051)

1.30-2 pm: Indexing, text mark-up, technical options? Additional Skype connection.

2-3 pm: Final ideas, conclusions and video statement.

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Watch our video (in Spanish with English subtitles)

Joseph Contreras de Alvarado en su taller en Lima hacia 1700 (detalle)Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library