Two Undergraduate Research Assistant Positions (Work Study) The AMP Lab and the (Re)Media Infrastructure seek to recruit a student to assist in the development of the Introduction to Feminist Oral History Badge. This project is a collaboration among research projects […]
Vibrate in Sympathy A personal essay following SpokenWeb Symposium 2022: The Sound of Literature in Time by Xiao Xuan Huang (SpokenWeb RA) * The SpokenWeb Symposium of 2022 begins with a plenary talk given by T.L. Cowan. […]
Ordering Audio: Accessioning and describing the Fred Wah fonds by Sarah Cipes (SpokenWeb RA) Archival accessioning is best described as an intuitive process with vigorous rules. The rules are many, but they work towards two specific goals for archivists: […]
Sound scholars and members of the SpokenWeb team from across Canada (and the globe) got together at Concordia University in Montreal this May for the two-day Symposium followed immediately by a three-day SpokenWeb Sound Institute. I was fortunate to attend […]
Rights Management Cooking Class By Paige Hohmann The last SpokenWeb Sound Institute I attended was in 2019, when I was a brand-new collaborator. At that time I summed it as “energizing, timely, and inspiring.” That hasn’t changed. What is different […]
Oral Histories of Flamenco Dance in Canada Undergraduate Research Assistant Job Description The Nuevo/Antiguo research project (Co-PIs Emily Murphy and Katherine McLeod) recruits a student to assist in gathering oral histories on flamenco dance in Canada. The successful candidate will […]
SpokenWeb Undergraduate Research Assistant Position Position Title: SpokenWeb Research Assistant Academic Level: Undergraduate Location: AMP Lab (Fipke 251) or remote Contract term: Summer semester (June 1 to August 31 2022, or until project is complete) Wages: 12 to 20 hours […]
On April 1st, Drs. Linda Morra (SFU Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar) and Karis Shearer (PRC Digital Arts & Humanities, UBC Okanagan) co-organized an event called “Archival Research: A Best Practices Workshop” which featured short presentations by archivists, historians, and literary […]
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 […]
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 […]