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Moving Archival Targets: “Radical Empathy” and Research in (and outside) of the Archives: A Talk by Linda Morra

March 23, 2022April 4, 2022 amplabuncategorized
Linda Morra, a white woman with dark brown hair wears a bright pink jacket and sits at a desk with microphone and a stack of three books

  The AMP Lab and Cultural Studies program welcome Dr. Linda Morra (Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar, SFU) to UBCO! Linda will be giving a talk in the lab on April 1st, 11:15am. In-person registration here.   Moving Archival Targets: “Radical […]

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It’s more of a feeling… Digitizing Reel-to-Reel for the SpokenWeb SoundBox Collection

March 17, 2022March 17, 2022 amplabuncategorized

It’s more of a feeling… Digitizing Reel-to-Reel for the SpokenWeb SoundBox Collection by Sarah Cipes (PRC Doctoral Fellow) As a doctoral fellow joining the AMP Lab in 2021-22, I was so eager to begin digitizing the final batch of reel-to-reel […]

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The AMP Lab welcomes Michael Treschow!

March 8, 2022March 6, 2022 amplabuncategorized

By Yasaman Lotfizadeh (Lab manager) & Karis Shearer (Lab Director) The AMP Lab community is pleased to welcome our newest research affiliate, Michael Treschow. An Associate Professor of English in the area of medieval literature, Michael is the Head of […]

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Archival Bonds: the Baird-Bowering and SoundBox collections in conversation

March 6, 2022March 6, 2022 amplabuncategorized
George Bowering and Jean Baird sit at their kitchen table with cassette tapes and tea pots in front of them.

This is the second installation of an ongoing series coordinated by Paige Hohmann (UBCO Archivist) and Karis Shearer (Assoc. Professor, English) called “Archival Bonds.” The series explores the connections across collections housed in the UBCO Special Collections and the AMP […]

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Transcribing “Warren, Roy, Moon, etc.”

January 14, 2022March 7, 2022 amplabuncategorized

  By Megan Butchart (SpokenWeb RA) On July 20th, 1969, around 3:30PM EDT, Angela Bowering, George Bowering, Roy Kiyooka, and Warren Tallman gathered around the TV in the Bowerings’ Montreal home on Grosvenor Avenue to watch the Apollo 11 moon […]

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Pressed to a Receiver: Literary Aurality & Acousmatic Listening

November 8, 2021March 6, 2022 amplabuncategorized

In sound studies, the term acousmatic refers to “a sound that has no visually identifiable cause.” Acousmatic listening emerged out of this term, and was aligned with a movement called Musique Concrète, which its founder, Pierre Schaeffer, describes as “A […]

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The Spark Research Incubator, or the lab as iterative community

November 4, 2021March 7, 2022 amplabuncategorized

By Karis Shearer (AMP Lab director) It’s Thursday, so it seemed like a good time for a throwback. This post was sparked by a conversation I had with someone recently who wondered if I was familiar with our FCCS Spark […]

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AMP Lab Manager Position

August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 amplabuncategorized

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) position to assist with lab management and facilitation of research over 2021 Winter […]

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“It really was an elaborate trip”: Earle Birney on work, writing, and the BC Southern Interior

March 17, 2021March 6, 2022 amplabuncategorized

By Karis Shearer (Assoc. Prof, English) & Paige Hohmann (UBCO Archivist) In the following exchange, UBC (Okanagan) SpokenWeb affiliates Karis Shearer and Paige Hohmann turn their attention to a clip from the SoundBox Collection and consider its connection to the […]

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“Well, there was a tape”: Private and Communal Listening

February 22, 2021April 11, 2021 amplabuncategorized

by Karis Shearer (AMP Lab director) In the SpokenWeb research network, we do a lot of listening: close listening, machine-aided close listening, “distant’ listening, and critic-led virtual listening practice. As I listen my way through the recordings in the SoundBox […]

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