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 Thursday January 30th, from 12 until 1 p.m., Emile Fromet de Rosnay (Assistant Professor of French at the University of Victoria) will be presenting a talk entitled, “Teaching the Tour de France Online.”
Details are below. Please share this announcement with anyone who might be interested in attending.
Tuesday January 30th—12 – 1 p.m.
David Strong Building C130, University of Victoria
Abstract: Emile will share his experiences with building, delivering and managing a very popular online course on the Tour de France at the University of Victoria.
Bio: Emile Fromet de Rosnay teaches in the Department of French and specializes in Critical Theory and post- Romantic aesthetics. He has watched the Tour and raced bikes since he saw Bernard Hinault battle Greg Lemond in the 1985 Tour.
Please also mark your calendars for our future speakers:
On February 20th at noon in Cornett B135, Inba Kehoe (Copyright Officer and Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Victoria) will discuss the role of libraries in DH research and current projects underway to support researchers on campus.
On March 13th at noon in Cornett B135, Joel Legassie (PhD Student in the Department of History and Migration Program Assistant at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives at the University of Victoria) will present his geospatial research on the process of Japan’s colonization of Hokkaido in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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