We dive into what we’re calling the “paratexts” of the reading: the material and contextual circumstances that informed Gallant’s performance. These include an unrecorded and unarchived event that took place the day before; questions about the audience; the theatre; and the physical tape itself. We interview Ann Cowan-Buitenhuis and Carolyn Tate, who attended and contributed to the organization of the two events, and talk to Grazia Merler, a professor at SFU and friend of Gallant’s at the time of the reading. Their contributions provided both memories and facts not captured by the archival remains of the reading.
Interviews, Presentations | Ann Cowan-Buitenhuis, Carolyn Tate, Grazia Merler, Listening Party, Simon Fraser University, SpokenWebPod
This network shows us how the absences, or received lack, in one publishing project generates desire for new ones. These panelists will share their personal memories of scenes and magazines as sites of discursive community, reflecting on how one magazine can emerge as a response to another.
Presentations, Talk | Access to Print, Concordia, Desire Lines, Joy Xiang, Kass Banning, Rinaldo Walcott, SpokenWeb, Will Straw, York University
This online panel presentation will use the recent volume, Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media (ed. Dario Llinares, Neil Fox, Richard Berry) as an opportunity to think and engage in discussion about the emergence of podcasting as a field of critical study.
Presentations, Talk | Dario Llinares, Deanna Fong, Elena Razlogova, Hannah McGregor, Kim Fox, Michael O’Driscoll, Stacey Copeland
On Thursday November 12, 7pm ET (4pm PT), join nearly all contributors to CanLit Across Media in a virtual conversation that promises to be one of liveliest and “live” book launches (on Zoom) you may ever attend!
Launch, Presentations | archive, book launch, Can Lit, Canada, Literary Event, Media, SpokenWeb, Unarchiving
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
In the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, Concordia researchers Jason Camlot and Katherine McLeod co-produced “How are we listening, now? Signal, Noise, Silence” for The SpokenWeb Podcast series in order to document our reactions to the changes in our sonic environments during this time of social distancing and self-isolation. […]
Presentations, Talk | Alvaro Echánove, Anglophone Heritage Network, Aphrodite Salas, Concordia University, Jason Camlot, Katherine McLeod, Klara du Plessis, Marlene Oeffinger, Montreal, Oana Avasilichioaei, Podcast, SpokenWeb, Stacey Copeland
SpokenWeb invites you to A Podcast Listening Party to listen together – online, at the same time – to the newest episode of The SpokenWeb Podcast. Episode 8: How are we listening, now? Signal, Sound, Silence is co-produced by Jason Camlot and Katherine McLeod and features the voices of many SpokenWeb researchers, graduate students, poets from […]
Presentations
An innovative collection that evaluates diverse methods of recording, archiving, and remediating literature and literary culture in Canada. The materials we turn to for the construction of our literary pasts – the texts, performances, and discussions selected for storage and cataloguing in archives – shape what we know and teach about literature today. The ways […]
Presentations | book launch, Can Lit, Jason Camlot, Katherine McLeod, Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore
What kinds of labour are visible in historical accounts of literary communities? What kinds of labour are audible? Drawing on collaborative research with Deanna Fong on archival recordings from the SoundBox Collection held at the the University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus), this talk interrogates how attending to the medium of sound recording can remap history […]
Presentations, Talk | Deanna Fong, Karis Shearer
Feminist Close Listening in SpokenWeb Literary Audio Collections by Karis Shearer (Associate Professor in English & Cultural Studies at UBCO) focusing on literary audio, the literary event, the digital archive, book history, and women’s labour in literature and how attending to the medium of sound recording can remap history by citing gendered affective labour as an important foundation to collectivity and […]
Collections, Presentations, Talk | Karis Shearer