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 March 13th, from 12 until 1 p.m., Joel Legassie (PhD Candidate in the History Department at the University of Victoria) will be presenting a talk entitled, “Hokkaistory: A digital exploration of space, time and historical narrative.”
Details are below. Please share this announcement with anyone who might be interested in attending.
Thursday 13th March—12 – 1 p.m.
Cornett Building B135, University of Victoria
Abstract: Hokkaistory is a prototype online historical atlas of Hokkaido. It provides a temporal and spatial framework to support local, regional and international historical narratives based on a variety of sources. At root it is an attempt to bring together the skills and problem solving approaches of traditional historiography and networked electronic communications to explore, and collaborate on, different perspectives of the history of this unique region of Japan.
Bio: Joel Legassie is a PhD Candidate in the department of history. His dissertation explores colonization and empire in Hokkaido, Japan in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. He designs and develops websites for non-profit and academic clients, and his hobbies include single-variable calculus and fiddling with his triple-boot Hackintosh.
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
