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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
By Karis Shearer (Director) Our AMP Lab community is delighted to welcome our 5th Principal Investigator Dr. Hussein Keshani and his team to the lab. An original collaborator on the lab’s CFI, Hussein leads a number of digital humanities […]
By Miles Thorogood The SpokenWeb project relies on concrete approaches to audio analysis for uncovering the patterns embedded in archival spoken word recordings. The 2019 SpokenWeb Sound Institute at Simon Fraser University highlighted the strategies that researchers are following and […]
By Marjorie Mitchell This has been a busy May and June conference-wise for me. Fresh off the amazing week at SFU campuses in Vancouver immersed in all things SpokenWeb, I came to Berlin for their Erasmus + International Week. At both […]
By Evan Berg At the end of May, I attended the 1st annual SpokenWeb Sound Institute. The Sound Institute was the first time the entire SpokenWeb team was together in the same room. The institute kicked off with 3 rounds […]
By Megan Butchart (BA Hons candidate, UBCO SpokenWeb Research Assistant) On May 28th and 29th, 2019, I joined the SpokenWeb UBCO team in attending the first annual SpokenWeb Sound Institute (SSI), held at the Burnaby campus of Simon Fraser University. […]
By Paige Hohmann (UBCO Archivist & SpokenWeb Collaborator) UBCO Archivist Paige Hohmann is the newest member to join the SpokenWeb UBCO team as a Collaborator. Here is her reflection on her time at the SpokenWeb Sound Institute: “Attending the Spoken […]
By Amy Thiessen (BA Hons candidate, UBCO SpokenWeb Project Manager) On May 28th and 29th on SFU’s Burnaby campus I joined a room full of fellow SpokenWeb team members in reflecting on our past year, learning from each other, planning […]