The AMP Lab at UBCO

It’s 2026. Do you know where your data is?

From audio tapes and soil samples to images and datasets, data can be anything. At ICER, in collaboration with & applied research our BIG project this year is all about Data Management. We’ll be diving into best practices, sharing resources, research findings, and workshops so keep an eye out! Join us as we rethink how we manage community engaged research data, and remember

This infographic from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada: Fortin, É., Shea, M. C., Stobbs, R., Tomé, A., & Digital Research Alliance of Canada. (2025). Research Projects Last Longer than Hard drives. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17516643

We are excited to announce the publication of Amodern 13: Affective Signals, edited by Jason Camlot and Klara du Plessis.

Featuring contributions from from T.L. Cowan, Tanya Clement, Klara du Plessis, Jason Wiens and Duncan Mercredi, Brandon Hocura, Chelsea Miya, Nicholas Beauchesne, Ariel Kroon, J Shea-Carter, Christopher Reeves, Irene Revell and Sarah Shin.

https://amodern.net/

Amodern 13: Affective Signals

Introduction, by Jason Camlot and Klara du Plessis
https://amodern.net/article/amodern-13-affective-signals/

Technologies of Fabulous, Transmedial Drag & Minor Digitization, by T.L. Cowan
https://amodern.net/article/technologies-of-fabulous/

Material Resonance, Jason Camlot and Tanya E. Clement
https://amodern.net/article/material-resonance/

Curating Poetry Relationally as Sound, by Klara du Plessis
https://amodern.net/article/curating-poetry/

Do I Have Time for One More?, by Jason Wiens and Duncan Mercredi
https://amodern.net/article/do-i-have-time/

Word of Mouth, by Brandon Hocura
https://amodern.net/article/word-of-mouth/

A Voice of Their Own, by Chelsea Miya, Nicholas Beauchesne, and Ariel Kroon
https://amodern.net/article/a-voice-of-their-own/

Our Love of Music Closer Together, by Joseph (J) Shea-Carter
https://amodern.net/article/our-love-of-music/

Transcription as Curation, by Luc Marraffa
https://amodern.net/article/transcription-as-curation/

Curating Noise, by Christopher Reeves
https://amodern.net/article/curating-noise/

Sound Draws Us Together, by Klara du Plessis, Irene Revell, and Sarah Shin
https://amodern.net/article/sound-draws-us-together/

The ICER Community Engaged Research Awards are now open!

In recognition of ICER’s commitment to supporting students involved in community engaged research, we are providing two $1,000 awards 2026.

For more information including eligibility, the process and the link to the online application, please go to the News announcement on our website: https://icer.ok.ubc.ca/2025/12/the-icer-student-cer-award-applications-are-open/

📢 The JHI invites applications for the 2026–27 Critical Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship.

This one-year fellowship supports a recent PhD whose work advances critical digital humanities research while engaging with DH@UofT and strengthening DH projects across the University of Toronto.

Theme: Doubles, Doppelgangers

📅 Apply by Nov 25, 2025 | 4pm EST
🔗 More info: https://uoft.me/cdh26-27

Congratulations ! Post-Mortem for the Event is a finalist for the 2025 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the ! Best of luck to Klara and all of the finalists!

Did you know we’re also on Instagram? We’re much more active over there!

Follow the activities in The AMP Lab at UBCO — or, “the people and the projects” as we like to say — and find all our interdisciplinary digital humanities updates over on Instagram:



Coming up this month and next, Francisco Peña and his Digital Edition General e Grand Estoria team, including Hussein Keshani, head to Granada, Spain, while Karis Shearer and Klara du Klara du Plessis head to Lund, Sweden for the Sound + PURPOSE conference.

Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies UBC Okanagan - English Program Languages and World Literatures SpokenWeb

Read Klara du Plessis’s beautiful post about her time at the Poetry off the Page conference in Vienna, Austria this summer. What an amazing combination of creative and critical!

https://amplab.ok.ubc.ca/index.php/2025/08/05/poetry-off-the-page-a-conference-in-vienna/

SpokenWeb UBC Okanagan - English Program Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies

We’ve got some new blog posts coming up from Dr. Klara du Plessis. In her latest post, “Listening Without Pressing Play: the 1994 Writing Thru Race Conference,” read about her visit to the UBC Rare Books and Special Collections, and her reflections on not listening.

https://amplab.ok.ubc.ca/index.php/2025/01/15/listening-without-pressing-play-the-1994-writing-thru-race-conference/

SpokenWeb Institute for Community Engaged Research UBC Okanagan - English Program

Listening Without Pressing Play: The 1994 Writing Thru Race Conference – The AMP Lab Listening Without Pressing Play: The 1994 Writing Thru Race Conference By Klara Du PlessisJanuary 15, 2025October 5, 2025Reports and Reflections, Updates By Klara du Plessis (SpokenWeb UBCO Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-26) During a brief research trip to Vancouver (Nov 1-3, 2024) with Dr. Karis Shearer....