From May 28-30, the Society of Textual Scholarship (STS) will hold their annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. During this year’s conference, presenters and attendees will explore and reimagine the concept of remediation.

The STS reminds that In addition to having access to the diverse and exciting collections held at Penn, participants will be near some of the country’s most eminent research libraries and archives, including the Rosenbach Museum and Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical Society. Attendees would also be welcome to come early to attend DreamLab, Penn’s four-day training course in digital humanities skills (May 20-23, 2025) or stay later to attend one of several popular Rare Book School courses held in Kislak during the two weeks after STS.

STS is an interdisciplinary organization, with a tradition of offering papers from diverse disciplines, including literature, history, musicology, classical and biblical studies, theology, philosophy, art history, legal history, the history of science and technology, computer science, library and information science, lexicography, epigraphy, paleography, codicology, cinema studies, new media studies, game studies, theater and performance studies, linguistics, gender and sexuality studies, race and ethnicity studies, indigenous studies, and textual and literary theory. Participants share an interest in the recovery and analysis of the material traces of the textual past broadly defined, and the creation of a community of interpreters sharing knowledge and methods to that end.