Upcoming Events
Sustainably Don(n)e: Taking Care of Digital Literary Resources with Brent Nelson
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 7:30 pm
Grace-Westminster United Church Social Hall
Free and open to the public
In the year 2025, we find ourselves at risk of losing large swatches of our digital cultural heritage. The last thirty years have seen an accumulation of open-access digital resources, many of them built by individuals or groups of scholars; but how sustainable are these resources? What happens when funding for developing and maintaining them runs out and/or the faculty champion of the project retires or leaves the host institution? This paper will present the case of one such project, DigitalDonne, which is poised to be removed from the university servers that developed and supported it. But we have a plan! And we have a cross-sector partnership to implement that plan and to address the question of sustainability in digital scholarly resources.
Literature Matters: Literature in the Community is a lecture series sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan's Department of English.
Info: 306-966-1268 | english.department@usask.ca
Literature Matters Line-up for 2024-2025
Sept. 25: “ ‘Holy Mackerel! What a Show!’: Spectacle and Spectatorship in Giant Monster Films,” with faculty member Brad Congdon
Oct. 23: “Why Writing is Like Death (in Early Medieval England),” with faculty member Yin Liu
Nov. 20: “matriarch rising,” poetry reading and discussion by graduate student Tenille Campbell (NOTE: held in Gordon Oakes Red Bear Centre at 4:30 pm)
Jan. 22: “Sustainably Don(n)e: Taking Care of Digital Literary Resources,” with faculty member Brent Nelson
Feb. 26: “Listening to the Voices of Children in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience,” with Professor Emerita Lisa Vargo
March 19: “The Greatest Australian Poet Who Never Was,” with faculty member Peter Robinson
April 30: Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan 2025 Season, panel led by faculty member and SOTS board member Jessica McDonald
About
Reading, studying, and talking about literary works helps us to make sense of the world around us. Since 2012, the Department of English has sponsored its literature in the community series, Literature Matters, featuring talks about our research for the Saskatoon community. Presenters are members of the department, including professors, sessional lecturers, and graduate students. All events are held on Wednesdays between September and May at 7:30 p.m. in the social hall of Grace-Westminster United Church, 505-10th Street East, Saskatoon. Everyone is welcome.
For our upcoming lectures, please watch for our Facebook and front page event postings for more detailed day/time information or contact english.department@usask.ca.