Symposia Archives - AVAnnotate

A grid of four black-and-white photographs showing a man in a suit and tie seated at a desk with a clipboard, pen, cigarettes, and a glass of water. He is captured in different conversational poses: looking left while speaking, gesturing with his hand, listening thoughtfully with a finger to his lip, and smiling while holding his pen.

Re-Sounding Poetries: Collections, Classrooms, Communities

This AVAnnotate project explores the final annual Sound Institute of the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership, Re-Sounding Poetries: Collections, Classrooms, Communities, at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, in Kelowna, in May 2025. Over four days, poets, professors, archivists, artists, librarians, and researchers participated in a “summer camp” of immersive literary-audio activities. During the SpokenWeb Collections Showcase—where each […]

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A poster or program cover for "A Symposium on Contemporary Art and Literature of Latin America." The center features large, angled, bold purple text that reads "Speak-Out! !Charla! Bate-Papo!". Additional smaller text notes the dates "October 27-29, 1975," lists various university sponsors, and provides the location at the Joe C. Thompson Conference Center in Texas.

Speak-Out! Symposium Collection

The Speak Out! Symposium AVAnnotate site, developed at the LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Lab by Rebekah Ramos and Ash Catalan, presents a digital edition of the 1975 UT Austin symposium “Speak-Out! Charla! Bate-Papo! Contemporary Art and Literature in Latin America.” It features time-coded recordings of panels held over three days, in English, Spanish, and Portuguese,

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Harvard 1953 Summer Conference on “The Contemporary Novel”

The “Harvard 1953 Summer Conference on the Contemporary Novel” AVAnnotate project, created by Professor Tanya Clement, is a digital collection of audio recordings and transcripts from the “The Contemporary Novel” conference held at Harvard University in 1953. The site offers annotated, time-stamped sessions featuring writers, critics, and editors such as Ralph Ellison, Georges Simenon, Stanley

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