Michael Sinatra, CRIHN director, invites you to the fourth annual Stéfan Sinclair-CRIHN lecture on Monday 2 December 2024 @ 9am at Concordia University.
Named in honour of Stéfan Sinclair, one of the founders of our Centre in 2013, this conference will feature a keynote delivered by Isabel Pedersen entitled « Create Me, Break Me, Remember Me: Art and AI in an Age of Reinvention » . Based at the Ontario Tech University, Dr. Isabel Pedersen focuses on embodied computing, algorithmic culture, augmented reality, emergent media, and AI ethics.
Her talk will be followed by a round-table chaired by Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta) with two graduate students, Corina MacDonald (Concordia University) and Alice Truc (Université de Montréal) presenting their research.
Lectures | Alice Truc, Corina MacDonald, CRIHN, Geoffrey Rockwell, Isabel Pedersen, Stefan Sinclair Lecture
In this lecture, I take a step back from recent developments to consider the long history of close reading. I aim to solve two large puzzles in this history:
Lectures | Close Reading, Criticism, John Guillory, Lecture, New Critics
Online on Zoom (registration through Eventbrite here) Most often someone writing a poem believes in, depends on, a delicate, vibrating range of difference, that an “I” can become a “we” without extinguishing others, that a partly common language exists to which strangers can bring their own heartbeat, memories, images. —Adrienne Rich, “Someone Is Writing A Poem” […]
Collections, Lectures, Talk
SpokenWeb presents Mountain Many Voices: The Archival Sounds of Fred Wah Thursday, June 16, 2022 1:00 – 2:30pm Wosk Room, Special Collections (7th Floor) WAC Bennett Library 8888 University Dr E Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Participants: Teddie Brock (SFU) Ana Brulé (Concordia) Liza Makarova (Concordia) Mozhgan Nourafkan (SFU) Kathryn Rouse (Concordia) Donald Shipton (SFU) […]
Lectures, Presentations, Talk
What might an audiobook liberated from preconceived notions of the printed book sound like?
Lectures, Presentations, Talk | Audiobook, Concordia University, Literary Recordings, Matthew Rubery, Montreal, Queen Mary University of London, Soundtracks, SpokenWeb
SpokenWeb and the Media History Research Centre Present Iben Have (Aarhus University, Denmark) Friday, 8 November 2019 3pm – 5pm Milieux Institute, EV 11.705 (11th floor) Concordia University 1515 St. Catherine St. W Reading with the Ears: Digital Audiobooks in a Cultural and Institutional Perspective This presentation is about digital audiobooks and how the current […]
Lectures, Presentations, Talk | Aarhus University, Iben Have, Media History Research Centre, Milieux
In this plenary session, Dr. Camlot will discuss the great potential for humanities research of conceptualizing collaborative projects around unique yet largely unused collections of cultural heritage materials. Speaking from the experience of developing the SpokenWeb research program from small beta collaborations via SSHRC Research Development Initiative, Connections and Insight Grant support, into a large-scale […]
Conferences, Lectures | DHSITE, Jason Camlot, Ottawa, University of Ottawa
The SpokenWeb research network, in collaboration with the Media History Research Centre presents: THIRD PERSONISM: The FBI’s Poetics of Immediacy in the 1960s, A talk by Lytle Shaw (New York University) Drawn from Narrowcast: Poetry and Audio Research (Stanford, 2018), this talk positions the tape recording Allen Ginsberg undertook in his VW van on a […]
Lectures
SpokenWeb, along with SFU Library and the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, invite you to an upcoming talk by Lytle Shaw on “The Strategic Idea of North.” Shaw will explore the importance of sound to the construction of Canadian space, especially the North, through an examination of the work of R. Murray Schafer and Glenn Gould, […]
Lectures | Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, Glenn Gould, Lytle Shaw, R. Murray Schafer, SFU, Vancouver