Today’s post starts with a bit of a throw back to the popular series of public-facing “Press Play” workshops we offered in the AMP Lab in 2018-19. Co-facilitated by me and SpokenWeb RAs Caitlin Voth and Deserae Gogel, the workshops […]
By Karis Shearer (AMP Lab Director) With Season 2 of “SoundBox Signals” on the horizon, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on our podcast’s first season. Since we launched “SoundBox Signals,” a SpokenWeb-affiliated podcast that “brings […]
AMP Lab Manager Want to work in a fun, collaborative Digital Humanities space? The AMP Lab is seeking to hire a Lab Manager GAA (Graduate Academic Assistant) or GRA (Graduate Research Assistant) position to assist with lab management and facilitation […]
Meeting Report: June 30, 2020 by Amy Thiessen (Project Manager) and Claire Halston (Podcast Collaborator) Collection processing—which includes digitization, metadata entry, and transcription—is a core part of the work that UBC Okanagan’s SpokenWeb team has been dedicated to over the […]
Meeting Report: July 14, 2020 by Craig Carpenter (MA student, SoundBox Signals Season 2 Co-Producer) and Amy Thiessen (Project Manager) On July 9th a number of SpokenWeb UBCO team members joined an Oral History Workshop—facilitated by Steven High, Mathieu Aubin, […]
Meeting Report: June 16, 2020 by Amy Thiessen (Project Manager) This week at SpokenWeb UBCO our team has primarily been focussed on medium-term, complex, and collaborative projects—many of which have been presented in the last few meeting minute blog posts. […]
Meeting Report: June 9, 2020 by Amy Thiessen (Project Manager) The SpokenWeb team at UBCO has been focussed on a number of projects this week ranging from graphic design work, to starting work on a new SoundBox Signals podcast episode, […]
Meeting Report: June 2, 2020 by Amy Thiessen (Project Manager) This week the SpokenWeb team at UBCO has been primarily focused on three endeavours. On May 28th, 2020, Dr. Tanya E. Clement (University of Texas at Austin) and her research […]
By Nour Sallam (BA Hons English, SpokenWeb Undergraduate RA) When I first met with Karis Shearer in spring 2019 at the AMP Lab, I didn’t know that much about archival sound recordings. But the opportunity to learn more excited me, […]
Speculative Listening: Reading Audible Writing By Megan Butchart (Undergraduate RA, SpokenWeb) One of the richest audio genres within the SoundBox Collection are class lectures recorded between the 1960s and 1980s by UBC English professor Warren Tallman. From the clicking […]