Call for Papers: Histories of editions. European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS) Conference, December 16-17, 2005, Amsterdam. The conference will focus on the ways in which specific texts have been edited throughout history. The aim is to chart tendencies that mark different periods in the history of scholarly editing by examining the evolution of editing older and classic texts such as the Divina Commedia, the Nibelungen sagas, the Canterbury Tales, Esopet, the Bible. Interested scholars are invited to write an abstract for papers that follow the editorial tradition of a text, either within a specific historical period or leading up to the present day, including new developments in electronic editing. Abstracts (300 words) for 20-minute papers can be sent to the chairman of the academic programme committee: herman.brinkman@chi.knaw.nl. Deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2005. Click here for further details.