The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) is pleased to sponsor and support a number of events and discussion group activities. For more information, please contact Ray Siemens, ETCL Director, at siemens@uvic.ca .
ETCL-sponsored Event Groups, Ongoing:
1. Digital Humanities Summer Institute (dhsi.org ). Lead: Ray Siemens (English and Computer Science). Members: various, year by year; as of January 2012, instructional team of 33, and total attendees confirmed at 308; alumni group in excess of 1200.
2. ETCL Brown Bag Lunch Sessions. Lead: Jentery Sayers (English). Members: various, session by session, several per term; now in its third year.
3. Nuts and Bolts of DH Discussions. Lead: Constance Crompton (ETCL, English). Members: various, session by session, several per term; now entering its second year.
ETCL-sponsored Discussion Groups, 2012:
1. 21st Century Literacies. Lead: James Nahachewsky (Education). Members: Kathy Sanford (Education), Ray Siemens (English, Computer Science), Daphne Churchill (Westshore Learning Centre), Devon Stokes-Bennett (Westshore Learning Centre).
2. Digital Geohumanities Working Group. Lead: Janelle Jenstad (English). Members: Laurel Bowman (Greek and Roman Studies), John Lutz (History/Office of Community Based Research), Greg Newton (HCMC), Reuben Rose-Redwood (Geography), Stephen Ross (English), Jordan Stanger-Ross (History), Patrick Dunae (History), Elizabeth Grove-White (English), Megan Harvey (History), Joel Legassie (History), Mitchell Lewis Hammond (History), Derek Murray (History), Ian O’Connell (Geography), Chris Petter (Library), Eric Sager (History), Michael Stevens (English).
3. DH-Theory Intersections Group. Lead: Richard J. Lane (MeTA Digital Humanities Lab & VIU Digital Humanities Research Group, Vancouver Island U). Members: Emile Fromet de Rosnay (French), Stephen Ross (English), Jentery Sayers (English), Sally Carpentier (English, VIU), Ian Whitehouse (English, VIU).
4. Humanities Physical Computing. Lead: Jentery Sayers (English). Members: Alyssa Arbuckle (English), Ted Hiebert (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, U Washington Bothell), Doug Jarvis (Artist), Alyssa McLeod (English), Daniel Powel (English), Emily Smith (English), Michael Stevens (English).
5. Issues in Large-Scale, Multi-Site, Collaborative Versioning. Lead: Stephen Ross (English). Members: Jentery Sayers (English), Alison Chapman (English), Janelle Jenstad (English), Constance Crompton (ETCL, English), Brendan Gibb (Britec Computer Systems).
6. TRUTH (Teaching and Research Using Technology in the Humanities). Co-leads: Catherine Caws (French) and Ulf Schuetze (Germanic & Slavic Studies). Members: Ray Siemens (English, Computer Science), Elizabeth Grove-White (English), John Lutz (History), Claire Carlin (French), Emile Fromet de Rosnay (French), Helga Thorson (Germanic & Slavic), Alex D’Arcy (Linguistics), Li-Shi Huang (Linguistics), Karen Tang (Pacific & Asia Studies), Martin Holmes (HCMC), Stewart Arneil (HCMC), and Erik Fleischer (Systems).
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