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Presentation — 2021

Authors: Caroline Winter, Graham Jensen, Alyssa Arbuckle, and Ray Siemens

Conference: Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2021: Research Data Management for Digitally Curious Humanists

Cite this work: Winter, C., Jensen, G., Arbuckle, A., & Siemens, R. (2021, June 14). RDM for the Large-Scale Research Commons. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oA5GBgPdNN40HIEyNvC4vPhR0ZUEFLfG

Presentation — 2021

Authors: Graham Jensen, Alyssa Arbuckle, Caroline Winter, Talya Jesperson, Ray Siemens

Conference: Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2021: Conference & Colloquium

Jensen, G., Arbuckle, A., Winter, C., Jesperson, T., & Siemens, R. (2021, June 2). Fostering Digital Communities of Care: Safety, Security, and Trust in the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1olA92kJ7ibzHs7CII75qSDjnhHyV3Rxc/view?usp=sharing&usp=embed_facebook

Presentation — 2021

Authors: Alyssa Arbuckle, Graham Jensen, Luis Meneses, Ray Siemens, and Caroline Winter

Conference: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH) 2021

Cite this work: Arbuckle, A., Jensen, G., Meneses, L., Siemens, R., & Winter, C. (2021, June). Reimagining the Digital Research Commons for the Canadian HSS Community. CSDH/SCHN 2021. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:38809/

Open, collaborative, digital scholarship is gaining increasing prominence in Canada and internationally. In our online world, the possibility to co-create and share knowledge across departmental, institutional, and social boundaries is more attainable than ever. A key endeavour of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership is to collaboratively develop the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Commons. The Canadian HSS Commons is a national-scale digital research commons that will connect HSS researchers in order to accelerate research, development, community building, and engagement across the broad spectrum of specialists and active non-specialists in Canada. This talk will provide an update on the Canadian HSS Commons, with a focus on how this initiative can foster open social scholarship for humanities and social sciences practitioners.

Authors: Ray Siemens and Alyssa Arbuckle

Conference: Engaging Open Social Scholarship 2020

Password for content: #EngagingOSS

Cite this work: Arbuckle, A., & Siemens, R. (2020, December). The Canadian HSS Commons as an Open Social Scholarship Tool [Recorded lightning talk]. Engaging Open Scholarship. https://inke.ca/engaging-open-social-scholarship/lightning-talks/

Recorded panel discussion — 2020

Co-chaired by: Ray Siemens (UVic) and Alyssa Arbuckle (UVic)

Featuring: Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Michigan State University), Gabriel Miller (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences), Susan Haigh (Canadian Association of Research Libraries), Clare Appavoo (Canadian Research Knowledge Network), and Chad Gaffield (U Ottawa)

Conference: Digital Humanities (DH) 2020

Cite this work: Siemens, R., & Arbuckle, A. (2020, July 20). Open, Digital Scholarship: Issues, Initiatives, and Research Commons in the Humanities and Social Sciences [Recorded panel discussion]. DH 2020. https://inke.ca/videos/OpenDigitalScholarshipPanel_07-20-20.mp4

This paper introduces the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Commons, an open online space where Canadian HSS researchers and stakeholders can gather to share information and resources, make connections, and build community. Situated at the intersection of the fields of digital scholarship, open access, digital humanities, and social knowledge creation, the Canadian HSS Commons is being developed as part of a research program investigating how a not-for-profit, community-partnership research commons could benefit the HSS community in Canada. This paper considers an intellectual foundation for conceptualizing the commons, its potential benefits, and its role in the Canadian scholarly publishing ecosystem; it explores how the Canadian HSS Commons’ open, community-based platform complements existing research infrastructure serving the Canadian HSS research community.

Cite this work: Caroline Winter, Tyler Fontenot, Luis Meneses, Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens, The ETCL and INKE Research Groups, 2020. "Foundations for the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons: Exploring the Possibilities of Digital Research Communities." Pop! Public. Open. Participatory. no. 2 (2020-10-31). https://www.popjournal.ca/issue02/winter

This essay argues that Le Guin radically reimagined the Künstlerroman (“artist’s novel”) through its intervention in contemporary debates about art and science. Leveraging the revolutionary, utopian potential linked to the figure of the Romantic artist but frequently denied art (e.g., by those theorists for whom art serves largely to reproduce ideology), The Dispossessed parlays science’s utilitarian function into an artistic process that imaginatively transcends its material and political origins, rehabilitating both science and art within a generic frame that is at once familiar and alien, conventional and revisionary. The essay concludes that the Künstlerroman form changes how we read Le Guin’s narrative and its relationship to the intellectual debates of its time, but that it also alters our understanding of the Künstlerroman tradition itself.

This article synthesizes the work of video game theorists such as Gonzalo Frasca (2003), Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman (2003), Ian Bogost (2008), and Steven E. Jones (2008) in order to build on academic and interdisciplinary discussions of play and its effect on PC- or console-based video games.  Examples are used to elucidate the potentially problematic categories of “paidic” and “ludic” games, as well as to explore further the ways in which uninhibited play, “metagaming,” and the inevitable influence of socio-cultural factors gradually transform—and become codified within—the landscape of digital games. Finally, the article offers Mikhail Bakhtin’s notions of opposing “centripetal” and “centrifugal” forces as analytical tools according to which the connections between in-game activities and out-of-game social and cultural contexts can be usefully examined by future critics.

While Louis Dudek celebrated and promoted Canadian poetry through teaching, public lectures, personal letters, active involvement in the publication of other poets' work, and the publication of an incessant fusillade of his own poems, epigrams, essays, and newspaper articles, few critics have commented at length on Dudek's late poetry. This article addresses that gap by discussing the significance of Dudek's late meta-poetry in relation to his final long poem, Continuation (1961-2001)—an experimental multi-volume work whose self-reflexive narration of the poet's struggle to negotiate the boundary between the real and the transcendental, the visible and the invisible, and the known and the unknowable demonstrates a clear continuity between his early and late poetry.

This essay seeks to elucidate the tensions between the necessarily provisional categories of "reality" and "the imagination" in the Canadian poet-critic Louis Dudek's writings of the 1950s and 1960s in general, and in his self-reflexive and increasingly autobiographical poetry in particular. Examining Dudek's meta-poetry (poetry about poetry), it demonstrates how Dudek's earliest self-reflexive poems and privately recorded musings reveal a much more nuanced understanding of the phenomenal world and the imagination's role in poetry than his earliest polemics suggest.

A detailed bibliography of the Canadian poet Margaret Avison that serves as a companion piece to Francis Mansbridge's "Bibliography to Margaret Avison," picking up where Mansbridge, Avison, and Avison's critics left off in 1987. It features works by and about Avison, with detailed cross-referencing between entries. This bibliography was solicited for inclusion in The Avison Centenary in 2018, a special issue of Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews edited by David A. Kent.

This essay examines how James’s distinction between “personal” and “institutional” religion in The Varieties of Religious Experience informs modernist literature. Specifically, it points to the inescapably social dimensions of “personal” forms of religious experience, demonstrating how modernists such as E.J. Pratt –once Canada’s leading poet – extended James’s notion of personal religion in relation to his pragmatic philosophy. I place James in conversation with modernists such as Pratt to challenge scholars to consider anew not only the nature of James’s literary influence, but also the many forms of religious expression that shaped the cultural landscape of the twentieth century.