Re-Defining Open Social Scholarship in an Age of Generative ‘Intelligence’—CAPOS 2025

Jan 9, 2026 | Blog Posts, Events

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) team recently organized the 7th annual gathering of the Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) with the theme “Re-Defining Open Social Scholarship in an Age of Generative ‘Intelligence’ on 2-3 December...

Nuts & Bolts Talk: Alan Colín-Arce on Web Archives and Digital Silences

Oct 24, 2025 | Events, Nuts and Bolts

We are pleased to announce the next talk in the ETCL Nuts and Bolts series, which will take place on Thursday, November 6th, to mark World Digital Preservation Day. This session will feature Alan Colín-Arce, the ETCL’s Mitacs Internship Fellow in Open, Collaborative...

ETCL and HSS Commons at the First Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship

Oct 16, 2025 | Events

On October 9th and 10th, ETCL team members Ray Siemens, Britt Amell, and Alan Colin-Arce participated at the First Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship at Concordia University in Montreal. As part of the event, we had a booth where we had lively...

**POSTPONED** Nuts and Bolts: Citizen Science, Collective Memory, and Gestapo.Terror.Places

Sep 3, 2025 | Events, Nuts and Bolts

UPDATE (8 September 2025) Unfortunately, due to illness in the lab, we need to postpone today’s ETCL Nuts & Bolts talk to later in September. We are coordinating with our esteemed speaker, Lambert Heller, to reschedule the session in an online format, as he will...

HSS Commons events in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Apr 23, 2025 | Events

From April 1-5, ETCL Director Ray Siemens and Assistant Director Graham Jensen visited the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, to participate in meetings and a conference hosted by the PUCRS Digital Humanities...

Reimagining Digital Scholarship: A New Chapter for the ETCL Nuts and Bolts Series

Mar 7, 2025 | Events, Nuts and Bolts

We are thrilled to announce the revival of the ETCL Nuts and Bolts series. This relaunch will explore emerging methodologies in Digital Humanities, open scholarship, and community-driven research. The Nuts and Bolts discussions are designed to focus on the pragmatics...