Halfway between the bellicose and the belletristic, BELLITRIST is a new Montréal-based reading series, curated by The Capilano Review Literary Editor Deanna Fong. It presents writing that reflects on “what the body can do” in terms of affect, sensation, relation, labour, and enjoyment.
Performances | Ashton Diduck, BELLITRIST, Carlson Gracie Montreal, Clint Burnham, Dani Carter, Deanna Fong, readings, SpokenWeb, The Capilano Review
We invite applicants for a one-year postdoctoral fellow to explore SFU’s extensive holdings on the theme of the multimedia archive. The aim of this fellowship is to promote critical and creative responses to SFU SpokenWeb’s rich literary audio archive—one of the largest collections in Canada—and to investigate the connections between this audio archive and the Library’s holdings in rare and fine books, manuscripts, and other media, as well as connections between other literary audio collections.
Opportunities | Multimedia Archive, PostDoc, Postdoctoral Opportunity, SFU, Simon Fraser University, SpokenWeb
Three members of SpokenWeb UAlberta’s research team will be speaking about their work on Tuesday, March 26 from 7-8:30 PM via Zoom as part of the EPL on The Edge Speaker Series.
Talk | Catalina Torres Benjumea, Edmonton Public Library, Sarah Freeman, SpokenWeb, Talk, University of Alberta, Xuege Wu, Zoom
SpokenWeb, a SSHRC funded Partnership Grant, PI Jason Camlot, is seeking a student to transcribe episodes of The SpokenWeb Podcast.
Opportunities | CREW, Opportunity, SpokenWeb, The SpokenWeb Podcast, transcription
Join us for an end of term social on December 20th! Spend time with students from across the network and join in a festive game to mark the end of 2023 (bonus points for attending in a holiday sweater or bringing your favourite holiday beverage!).
Meetings | Governing Board, Social, SpokenWeb, Students
Join us as we gather to see the hard work of the five teams who answered SpokenWeb’s call for participation in a challenge to construct lo-fo and/or minimal computing solutions to make front end presentations from Swallow data.
Talk, Workshops | Development, hackathon, LoFi Computing, Metadata, Minimal Computing, Sir George William Collection, SpokenWeb, Swallow
SpokenWeb – a SSHRC funded Partnership Grant, Principal Investigator Jason Camlot – is seeking one undergraduate or graduate student to generate written and AV content for the website for the SpokenWeb AmpLab.
Opportunities | AmpLab, AmpLab Website, content creator, Copywriter, Opportunity, SpokenWeb, Wordpress
Institutes | Sound Institute, SpokenWeb, University of Alberta, workshops
The SpokenWeb Research Network is pleased to invite you to attend our next in-person gathering to be held in Calgary, June 5-7, 2024. Join us for “Sounding the Futures: Listening Across Time and Space,” a Symposium and Sound Institute that brings together academics, archivists, librarians, artists, and members of diverse communities interested in literature and sound to exchange ideas, methods, art, and knowledge about modes of engaging with the sonic dimensions of literary practice. This year we will be “sounding out the futures,” with panels, workshops, and guest speakers asking how we engage with questions of futurity across—tethered to, or in resistance of—times and spaces.
Conferences, Symposia | Calgary, Call for Papers, Futurity, Listening, literature, Sound, Space, SpokenWeb, SpokenWeb Symposium 2024, Time, University of Calgary
This talk will explore some of the literary responses to an emerging and expanding consciousness of outer space, highlighting the impact of efforts to listen to space for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence.
Talk | Aliens, Concordia University, Gregory Betts, Listening, Literary Umbrella of Quebec, Outer Space, SpokenWeb, Talks