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) […]
In this talk, editors Jason Camlot (Professor and CURC, Concordia University) and Linda M. Morra (Farley Visiting Scholar) speak about Collection Thinking: Using, Moving, Holding (Routledge, forthcoming 2022, with Dr. Martha Langford), a volume designed to examine the communities and institutions involved in collecting practices in their various forms.
Talk | Collection Thinking, Jason Camlot, Linda Morra, Simon Fraser University
SpokenWeb UAlberta and the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta are pleased to present a dual reading and discussion featuring three prominent Edmonton-based authors.
Performances, Talk | Edmonton, Ifeoma Chinwuba, Reading, SpokenWeb, Titilope Sonuga, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, University of Alberta
In this panel conversation, each participant will open with a brief opening reflection upon the current state of scholarly work and practice, and will move towards a broader dialogue about the current transformation of critical modes, media, formats and forms that we are experiencing.