BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250805T213259EDT-6831rW81OI@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250806T013259Z DESCRIPTION: \n\n'Listening for Labour: Feminist Close Listening in the Lit erary Audio Archive'\n\nWhat kinds of labour are visible in historical acc ounts of literary communities? What kinds of labour are audible? Drawing o n collaborative research with Deanna Fong on archival recordings from the SoundBox Collection held at the the University of British Columbia (Okanag an campus)\, this talk interrogates how attending to the medium of sound r ecording can remap history by citing gendered affective labour as an impor tant foundation to collectivity and community. In its account of that labo ur\, the talk outlines and reflects on a practice Fong and Shearer have te rmed 'feminist close listening.'\n\nKaris Shearer is an Associate Professo r in English & Cultural Studies at UBCO where her research and teaching fo cus on literary audio\, the literary event\, the digital archive\, book hi story\, and women’s labour within poetry communities. She has published es says on Sina Queyras’s feminist blog Lemonhound\, George Bowering’s little magazine Imago\, and Michael Ondaatje’s The Long Poem Anthology. She is t he author of a chapter in Canlit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Ev ent (ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ-Queens UP\, 2020) and is co-editor with Deanna Fong of the for thcoming Wanting Everything: The Collected Works of Gladys Hindmarch (Talo nbooks\, April 2020). She directs the AMP Lab at UBCO and sits on the Gove rning Board of the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership.\n\nDeanna Fong is a Postdo ctoral Fellow in English and History at Concordia University in Montreal\, Canada\, where her research focuses on the intersections of auditory medi a\, ethics\, and listening. She is a member of the federally funded Spoken Web team\, who have developed a web-based archive of digitized sound recor dings for literary study. With Ryan Fitzpatrick and Janey Dodd\, she co-di rects the audio/multimedia archive of Canadian poet Fred Wah\, and has don e substantial cataloguing and critical work on the audio archives of Japan ese-Canadian poet and painter Roy Kiyooka. She is the author of chapters i n Canlit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ-Queens UP\, 2020) and Pictura: Essays on the Life and Work of Roy Kiyooka (Guernica Ed itions\, 2020).\n DTSTART:20200206T200000Z DTEND:20200206T210000Z LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Peel 3487\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W7\, 3487 rue Peel SUMMARY:'Listening for Labour: Feminist Close Listening in the Literary Aud io Archive\,' a talk with Karis Shearer and Deanna Fong URL:/igsf/channels/event/listening-labour-feminist-clo se-listening-literary-audio-archive-talk-karis-shearer-and-deanna-fong-318 874 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR