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A Partly Common Language: Roundtable on the Poetics Essay — Nov 17, 2022 (Events)

Simon Fraser University

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

Mountain Many Voices: The Archival Sounds of Fred Wah — Jun 16, 2022 (Events)

Vancouver - Simon Fraser University - Wosk Room, Special Collections

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

Reading with the Ears: Digital Audiobooks in a Cultural and Institutional Perspective — Nov 08, 2019 (Events)

Montreal, QC - Concordia University - Milieux Institute, EV 11.705 (11th floor)

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 […]

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Building (Digital) Humanities Communities around Sound Archives: The Story of SpokenWeb — May 16, 2019 (Events)

Ottawa - University of Ottawa - CreatorSpace (room 302 of Pérez Hall)

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 […]

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THIRD PERSONISM: The FBI’s Poetics of Immediacy in the 1960s — Mar 20, 2019 (Events)

Montreal, QC - Concordia University - Milieux Institute, EV 11.705 (11th floor)

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

Lytle Shaw on “The Strategic Idea of North” — Sep 27, 2018 (Events)

Vancouver, BC - Simon Fraser University - Bennett Library (Wosk Room)

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, […]

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