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
Join us for the fourth in a series of intimate events that will feature readings and conversations with PhD students at Concordia University who have both creative writing and research practices.
Talk | Concordia University, Creatique, creative writing, Erin Robinsong, Melanie Power, Montreal, research, Talk
Join us for the third in a series of intimate events that will feature readings and conversations with PhD students at Concordia University who have both creative writing and research practices.
Talk | Concordia University, Creatique, creative writing, Kasia Van Schaik, Madelaine Caritas Longman, Montreal, research, Talk
Join us for the second in a series of intimate events that will feature readings and conversations with PhD students at Concordia University who have both creative writing and research practices.
Talk | Concordia University, Creatique, creative writing, Klara du Plessis, Montreal, Peter Dube, research, Talk
Join us for the first in a series of intimate events that will feature readings and conversations with PhD students at Concordia University who have both creative writing and research practices.
Talk | Alexei Perry Cox, Charlotte Wetton, Concordia University, Creatique, creative writing, Montreal, research, Talk
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” […]
Alex Gil will walk-through minimal computing as a critical practice, which invites us to reflect on the “inherent tension between universals and particulars, the global and the local, choice and necessity.”
Talk | Alex Gil, DH, digital humanities, Edmonton, hybrid, Minimal Computing, Talk, University of Alberta
Join us for a conversation with author Kit Dobson on methodologies of listening and the ways they might open up alternative forms for scholars.
Talk | Canadian Literature Centre, Edmonton, Kit Dobson, Listening, SpokenWeb, Talk, University of Alberta
The Media History Research Center is running a Book Salon on September 22nd, showcasing and celebrating recent local publications. The works showcased here will feature SpokenWeb Principle Investigator Jason Camlot, as well as SpokenWeb team co-applicants Jonathan Sterne and Darren Wershler. Their guest Dr. Armond R. Towns (Carleton University), author of On Black Media Philosophy (U of California Press, 2022) will present his talk: The Medium is the Message Revisited: Media and Black Epistemologies
Talk | Armond R Towns, Book Salon, Concordia University, Media History Research Centre, MHRC, SpokenWeb, 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) […]