BSA Panels at The Society for Textual Scholarship Conference 2026

The 2026 Conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, Materiality, Memory, Forgetting: Cross-currents in Textual Studies and Memory Studies, will take place from 3–5 June 2026 at The New School in New York City.

BSA-STS Liaison Kinohi Nishikawa (Princeton University) will moderate two BSA sponsored sessions on Thursday 4 June. See below for more information and a link to register for the conference.

Infrastructures of Memory: Collections, Artifacts, and Historical Study of the Spanish Empire (10:15-11:30 am)

Speakers

  • Peter Haskin, Yale University — Collective Memory and Historical Patrimony in the Hiram Bingham III Archives

  • Manny Medrano, Harvard University — Knotted Cords in the Library: Inca Quipus and Book History in Two University Rare Book Collections

  • Angelina Coronado, Columbia University — Print Circuits of Imperial Design: Architectural Guides in the Spanish Habsburg Empire

Keywords for Textual Studies (1:30-2:45 pm)

Speakers

  • Claire Climer, Brown University — “(In)commensurability”

  • Dennis Schäfer, Princeton University — “Loss”

  • Maeva O’Brien, Yale University — “Scale”