Dear Council colleagues, I’m passing on a request from a junior scholar. I wholeheartedly support this person’s desire for a “Mx” option in ConfTool. Dr. and Prof are great gender-neutral options for people with PhDs and/or academic appointments but non-binary folks without those privileges don’t have an option that reflects their identity. I'm very pleased to hear about your goals to make TEI more gender-inclusive. On that note, I'm not sure how involved you are with the Newcastle conference, but when I was submitting my abstract it required an honorific and only gave Ms, Mr, Dr, and Prof as options. I had the same issue with the same conference tool when submitting to SHARP for this year, but they were able to add a custom option after I asked about it. It would be great if Mx was an option going forward! I only bring this up to you now because you mentioned gender inclusivity as a goal of TEI. Can we leave an action item for the next program committee, so they are prompted to add a custom non-binary option to our deployment of ConfTool? Since conference registration is happening now, it might be nice to do it for this year, if it’s possible. With good wishes, Janelle Janelle Jenstad (she/her) Professor, Department of English, University of Victoriahttps://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/scene/ Traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples – the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ Co-Coordinating Editor, Digital Renaissance Editionshttps://digitalrenaissance.uvic.ca/, the New Internet Shakespeare Editions, and the MoEML Mayoral Shows Anthology Director, Map of Early Modern Londonhttps://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/; Director, Linked Early Modern Drama Onlinehttps://lemdo.uvic.ca/ Co-Applicant, The Endings Project Email: jenstad@uvic.camailto:jenstad@uvic.ca, lemdo@uvic.camailto:lemdo@uvic.ca, or london@uvic.camailto:london@uvic.ca
Hi Janelle,
I've added Mx as a Salutation field in conftool. Apologies for not spotting its absence before. If we roll-over the conftool installation for TEI2023 then that should be there, but I'll try to remember to remind the organisers to add it if not.
I'll try to make sure that it is also available in the actual registration site's webform when I can convince the bloody webstore people to actually release it. (*grr*) (Though we're not planning on having salutation titles on name badges.)
Many Thanks,
James
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Dr James Cummings, Senior Lecturer in Late-Medieval Literature and Digital Humanities,
School of English, Newcastle University
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From: Tei-council
Hi James,
Thank you so much! You are a star!
Good luck with the webstore folks.
J.
Janelle Jenstad (she/her)
Professor, Department of English, University of Victoriahttps://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/scene/
Traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples – the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ
Co-Coordinating Editor, Digital Renaissance Editionshttps://digitalrenaissance.uvic.ca/, the New Internet Shakespeare Editions, and the MoEML Mayoral Shows Anthology
Director, Map of Early Modern Londonhttps://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/; Director, Linked Early Modern Drama Onlinehttps://lemdo.uvic.ca/
Co-Applicant, The Endings Project
Email: jenstad@uvic.camailto:jenstad@uvic.ca, lemdo@uvic.camailto:lemdo@uvic.ca, or london@uvic.camailto:london@uvic.ca
From: James Cummings
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