VARIANT: a research network of textual criticism and scholarly editing
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Variant Colloquia
The network has organized annual colloquia on various themes:
- Variant-Colloquium 2016: Manuscript as Sources.
(4.11.2016, Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies) - Variant-Colloquium 2015: Translations, adaptations, and other radical textual changes.
- (04.06.2015, SKS)
- Variant-Colloquium 2014: Scholarly Editing in Finland.
(05.06.2014, SKS) - Variant-Colloquium 2013: Corpus — Database — Edition.
(05.06.2013, SKS) - Variant-Colloquium 2012: Non-linear Texts.
(24.05.2012, University of Helsinki, folkloristics)
(In association with the Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics Project, 24 -25.5.2012 Text Encoding Initiative XML workshop, led by guest speaker Øyvind Eide, University of Oslo.) - Variant-Colloquium 2011: [sic] — Mistakes.
(30.05.2011, SKS) - Variant-Colloquium 2010: At the Extreme Limits of the Literary Works.
(31.05.2010, SKS) - Variant-Colloquium 2009: Darwin — Drosophila melanogaster — stemmatology.
(18.05.2009, University of Helsinki, systematic theology) - Variant-Colloquium 2008: Making Editions of Letters.
(03.06.2008, SKS)
Publications
- Lukin, Karina, Frog and Sakari Katajamäki. (eds.), Limited Sources, Boundless Possibilities. Textual Scholarship and the Challenges of Oral and Written Texts. A special issue of RMN Newsletter No 7, December 2013. Helsinki: Folklore Studies / Dept. of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki 2013. (120 pp.). Available at: http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/English/RMN/RMN_7_Dec_2013_Limited_Sources_Boundless_Possibilities.pdf
- Hallamaa, Olli – Tuomas Heikkilä – Hanna Karhu – Sakari Katajamäki – Ossi Kokko – Veijo Pulkkinen: Tekstuaalitieteiden sanasto [Lexicon on textual scholarship]. [On-line.] Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura 2010. Available at: http://tekstuaalitieteidensanasto.finlit.fi:8080/. URN:NBN:fi:sks-201010061001
- Katajamäki, Sakari and Ossi Kokko (reviews edited by Mika Hallila and Samuli Hägg) (eds.) Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain 3/2010. Tekstuaalitieteet (special issue on textual scholarship). (111 pp.). Available at: http://pro.tsv.fi/skts/Avain3_10sisalto.pdf
For more information:
Managing Editor Sakari Katajamäki
Finnish Literature Society, Research Department
Edith — Critical editions of Finnish Literature
Hallituskatu 2 B, PO Box 259, 00171 Helsinki
Tel. 0400 908 056
E-mail: sakari.katajamaki [at] finlit.fi