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January 10th: Humanities Discussion, Lecture, and Reception

We are pleased to announce a discussion sponsored by the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, followed by a talk and reception. All members of the Victoria community are invited to participate. We are delighted to have Prof Harris share her insights with us and ask that those interested in attending email Ray Siemens at siemens@uvic.ca . Pleased note the revised schedule:

3:45 pm, University Club
Reception

4:30 pm, University Club
Discussion: Big Humanities? Digital Humanities? Evolving Humanities?
Discussants include Ray Siemens, James Nahachewsky, Janelle Jenstad, Richard J. Lane, Jentery Sayers, Stephen Ross, Catherine Caws, and Ulf Schuetze

5:00 pm, University Club
Lecture: "Buried in the Archives: Recovering British Literary Annuals from an ‘Unbawdy & Unmasculine Age’"
Katherine D. Harris, San Jose State U

Katherine D. Harris, San Jose State U. Harris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and specializes in Romantic-Era and 19th-century British literature, women’s authorship, the literary annual, 19th-century history print culture and history of the book, textuality, editorial theory, Digital Humanities, and pedagogy. Her work ranges from pedagogical articles on using digital tools in the classroom to traditional scholarship on a "popular" literary form in 19th-century England. (She will join us again in June, along with Jentery Sayers and Diane Jakacki, as instructor at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s course on Digital Pedagogy. See dhsi.org .)