Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara): “Remembering Networks: Agrippa, RoSE, and Network Archaeology”

Alan Liu is Chair and Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published three books: Wordsworth: The Sense of History (1989); The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information (2004); and Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database (2008). Liu directs the University of California Transliteracies Project on online reading. He is the instigator and co-founded of 4Humanities.

Steven High (Concordia University): “From Collection to Curation: Oral History in a Time of Multi-Media Authorship and Collaborative Practice.”

Steven High is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Oral History at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. He is the co-founder of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and is principal investigator of the Montreal Life Stories Project , a five-year community-university research alliance investigating the life stories of Montrealers displaced by war, genocide and other human rights violations. He has been awarded several national and international prizes for his books and has directed an online memoryscape , a digital toolbox , and an open-source oral history database tool called Stories Matter

Conference funding and support was generously provided by the University of Guelph’s Office of the Vice-President Research, the Dean’s Office, the College of Arts, the School of English and Theatre Studies, the Department of History, and the TransCanada Institute.