The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria
(http://etcl.uvic.ca/) invites you to attend the seventh meeting of the
2013-14 Brown Bag Speaker Series. This is a series of informal lunchtime
seminars for faculty and graduate students in the Faculty of Humanities
and across the university to discuss issues in digital literacy, digital
humanities, and the changing face of research, scholarship, and teaching
in our increasingly digital world. For an hour once per month, we meet
to hear from an invited speaker, share ideas, and build knowledge.
On Tuesday December 3rd, from 12 until 1 p.m., Richard Lane (Professor of English at Vancouver Island University, Principle Investigator at MeTA DH Lab, Director of Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Literary Theory Research Group, and Co-Director of the Innovation Lab at VIU Cowichan) will be presenting a talk entitled,
DH in 3D: Digital Innovation and the Modernist/Postmodernist Experimental Novel (Rebecca West/BS Johnson).
Details are below. Please share this announcement with anyone who might be interested in attending.
Tuesday December 3rd, 12 – 1 p.m.
Maclaurin Building, Room D103, University of Victoria
Abstract: Diverse types of digital labs continue to proliferate around the world, driving social change, technological innovation and small business incubation; this paper examines the potential convergence of digital innovation labs, maker spaces, and DH labs, with focus on specific humanities projects in the MeTA DH lab at VIU that explore the materiality of modernist and postmodernist texts. Two key processes explored are reverse engineering and remediation, and how humanistic innovation can emerge from the application of technological concepts to literary critical and theoretical methodologies.
Bio: Dr. Richard J. Lane is the Principal Investigator of the CFI-funded MeTA DH Lab, Director of the Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Literary Theory Research Group, and a professor in the Department of English at Vancouver Island University. He also co-directs the Innovation Lab at VIU Cowichan, and is a Director of Innovation Island Technology Association in Nanaimo. Lane is the author or editor of eleven academic books, the most recent being Global Literary Theory: An Anthology (Routledge, 2013); he is currently writing a book on ‘Big Humanities’.
Bring your lunch and join us to discuss digital technologies and research in our community!
Aaron Mauro
Visiting Assistant Professor, English
SSHRC and INKE Postdoctoral Fellow
Electronic Textual Cultures Lab
Department of English
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC
www.aaronmauro.com