In this episode, SpokenWeb contributor Julia Polyck-O’Neill shares an archived recording of Canadian poet Lisa Robertson with us and talks us through two interviews she recorded with Robertson. Polyck-O’Neill invites us to consider the significance of Robertson’s intimate archival collections in light of the relationships between archives, memory, affect, and mortality.
Launch, Talk | Feminist Archive, launch, Lisa Robertson, Listening Party, Season 3, SpokenWeb, The SpokenWeb Podcast
We welcome Season 3 of The SpokenWeb Podcast by reintroducing and replaying an episode for you that exemplifies what our podcast is all about.
Presentations, Talk | Elizabeth Smart, Hannah McGregor, launch, Listening Party, Myra Bloom, Podcast, Season3, SpokenWeb, The SpokenWeb Podcast
The Library of Historical Audio Recordings at I78s is the public portal into the Giovannoni Collection—an extensive private archive of sound recordings on cylinders and discs from the 1890s through the 1930s. In this presentation, we’ll introduce the site’s conception, design, and features, followed by a guided tour highlighting categories of content which are likely to […]
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A new episode of The SpokenWeb Podcast features jamilah malika and Jessica Karuhanga talking with producer Katherine McLeod about the sounds and sound-based practices that have informed their projects as recipients of the 2020-2021 SpokenWeb Artist-Curator in Residence Award. SpokenWeb RA, poet, and spoken word artist Faith Paré also talks about exploring the SpokenWeb audio […]
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Presented in partnership with the Blue Met Festival, this event will screen a new interview with Daphne Marlatt and Carole Itter, the editors of the Oral Historical book Opening Doors in Vancouver’s East End: Strathcona (1979).
Launch, Talk | Blue Met Festival, Carole Itter, Daphne Marlatt, interviews, Oral History, Vancouver
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
What is ethical listening? This new episode of the SpokenWeb Podcast will be released next Monday, April 5. It brings us into a series of interviews with Humanities scholars Mathieu Aubin, Clint Burnham, Treena Chambers, and T.L. Cowan about their approaches to the ethics of listening in their own research.
Talk | Concordia, Concordia University, Listening, poetry
Intergenerational mentoring is a central experience of cultural transmission; within publishing networks we can sense a print-based trace of Black feminist sensations of belonging. Magazines of the 1980s, such as Fireweed and Tiger Lily, offer a view into activist spaces where gaining access to print was a means to rewrite the terms of racialization and socioeconomic oppression. This panel will conjure personal memories around institutions such as Sister Vision Press and Fresh Arts as crucibles for cultural production in Toronto.
Talk | Art Gallery of York University, Artexte, Concordia University, Cultural Transmission, Desire Lines, Intergenerational, Magazines, Mentoring, Speaker Series, SpokenWeb, Toronto
This speaker series takes an algorithmically produced network diagram of publishing metadata as a jumping off point for story-telling around personal memories.
Talk | Art Gallery of York University, Artexte, Concordia University, Desire Lines, Mapping, Metadata, Montreal, Publishing, Speaker Series, SpokenWeb, Toronto