The SpokenWeb Podcast
The SpokenWeb Podcast
SpokenWeb
Every month The SpokenWeb Podcast brings you different stories that explore the intersections of sound, poetry, literature, and history, created by scholars, poets, students, and artists from across Canada.
Concluding the SpokenWeb Podcast : Introducing the Literary Listening Podcast
In this episode, producer Maia Harris and co-host Emily Stuchbery say goodbye to The SpokenWeb Podcast and introduce the all new Literary Listening Podcast.
Feb 16
24 min
The SpokenWeb Symposia Retrospective: Celebrating Sound Studies
This "farewell" podcast episode was recorded live at the SpokenWeb Institute on May 17, 2025, at the University of British Columbia Okanagan campus, Kelowna, BC. Producers Nick Beauchesne and Chelsea Miya, with host Maia Harris, lead an audio-visual journey exploring the roots and evolution of SpokenWeb's Symposia and Institutes from 2019 through 2025.
Aug 4, 2025
1 hr 3 min
Recording Without a Trace: The Forgotten Legacy of Kurtis Vanel
In this episode, producer Garin Falman reflects on the life of Kurtis Vanel.
Jul 7, 2025
23 min
Listening on the Radio
Sonic Lit: A SpokenWeb Radio Show is a bi-weekly radio show on CJLO, the campus radio station of Concordia University (Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada). Based on this project, Katherine McLeod and Jason Camlot produced this audio, "Listening on the Radio," as a radio-show-as-podcast-episode to answer questions about Canadian talk radio, podcasting, listening, and literature as audio – out loud.
Jun 16, 2025
1 hr 3 min
Sound & Seconds: A Roundtable on Timestamping for Literary Archives
How does timestamping shape the preservation and curation of literary sound? This roundtable episode brings together four SpokenWeb researchers––Jason Camlot, Tanya Clement, and Mike O’Driscoll in conversation with moderator Michael MacKenzie––to explore this deceptively simple yet profoundly complex question. What emerges is a layered, multidisciplinary view of timestamping, not just as a technical task, but as an archival, aesthetic, and philosophical practice.
May 20, 2025
57 min
Sounding New Sonic Approaches – A Podcast of A Live Recording Session of A Journal Issue Located in Multiple Spaces and Temporal Dimensions
This podcast episode performs a sound-media meditation on a live event launching the triple-issue of English Studies in Canada (ESC)'s “New Sonic Approaches in Literary Studies” in May 2023.
Mar 10, 2025
58 min
From Me to You, A Sonic Glimpse at Proprioception
A proprioception-enthusiast and a thespian walk into a podcast booth. Together, they engage with scholars from three different fields outside of those traditionally working with and through the sense of proprioception.
Feb 3, 2025
44 min
Sound Box Signals Presents – "Sharon Thesen's reading at the Bowerings'"
In this episode, from Season 2, Episode 1 of the SoundBox Signals Podcast, University of Exeter undergraduates Sofie Drew and Emily Chircop carry out a close listening of a 1980 recording of Sharon Thesen reading.
Dec 2, 2024
46 min
Virtual Pilgrimage: Where Medieval Meets Modern
From medieval itineraries to modern livestreams, Christian pilgrimage is often, if not always experienced through an imaginative transposal from a physical reality to a spiritual truth. In this episode, hosts Lindsay Pereira and Ella Jando-Saul explore the concept of virtual pilgrimage through conversations with two guests: Michael Van Dussen and Simon Coleman.
Nov 4, 2024
51 min
Invitation to Sonic Poetry: Demarcations, Repositories, Examples
Andrew Whiteman invites listeners to step into an arena of collaboration between poetry and sound.
Oct 7, 2024
50 min
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