We are pleased to announce that preparations for the fourth annual EDIT colloquium are now well underway. The colloquium will take place at our home university, Birmingham, between Tuesday 13th and Thursday 15th December 2016. The electronic edition of the Estoria that we have spent the past four years preparing will be launched during these days. We have already confirmed our two plenary speakers: Inés Fernández-Ordóñez of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Real Academia Española, and Leonardo Funes of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, as well as several of the members of our team and consejo cientīfico who have agreed to give papers. We have also launched our Call for Papers and we hope to receive many abstracts from our existing friends of the project, previous colloquium guests and also some fresh faces. It will also be possible to attend the conference for those who will not be giving a paper, and registration will open later in the year – information will be available here on the project blog.
It is not without a hint of heavy-heartedness that we approach our final colloquium as as well as being the much-anticipated launch of the edition we have all been working towards for the past four years, and which Aengus has been thinking about for getting on for a couple of decades now, it will also signify the end of the current phase of the Estoria de Espanna Digital project. The colloquium is still around eight months away and 2016 is set to be an extremely busy year for the project with exhibitions, schools outreach sessions and of course promoting the edition left right and centre, as well as completing the transcriptions, checking, collation, critical edition, onomastic index, mapping tools, concordance… the list feels endless! Plus for Christian and me there is the small matter of a doctoral thesis each which need to be finished or close to finished by the time the colloquium rolls around. Easy peasy, no? With so much on the agenda the year is bound to speed by and be our busiest and most exciting yet.