{"id":27775,"date":"2026-06-01T11:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=27775"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:50:10","slug":"shannon-lectures-fall-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/shannon-lectures-fall-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Lectures \u2013 Fall 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Shannon Lectures \u2013 Fall 2026\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Call & Response | Appel et R\u00e9ponse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Convenor<\/strong>: Sali Lafrenie, Archivist, Private Archives, Library and Archives Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description:<\/strong> Call and response is about filling in the gaps, listening, and being in community usually in prayer, conversation or music. With this in mind, our theme invites speakers to share how they are addressing gaps, working in community, and imagining new approaches. While the archive isn\u2019t the usual gathering place (ex. the kitchen table, the living room, the community centre) maybe there\u2019s something to be gained by showing up anyway. Join us and find out for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All lectures will take place in the Pellan Room at Library and Archives Canada (395 Wellington Street). Lectures will begin at 7pm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Session 1:<\/strong> Thursday, September 17<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

More information to be added as it becomes available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 2:<\/strong> Tuesday, October 13<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Title:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cNot worth mentioning\u201d: Preserving Unremarkable Videogames<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Classic videogames are in peril. Indeed, a 2023 report by The Video Game History Foundation and the Software Preservation Network revealed that 87% of games released in the United States before 2010 are critically endangered. The frequent removal of games from online stores, their closure, and recent announcements that physical game production will be discontinued only serve to reinforce this call to action. Fortunately, the fields of video game preservation and history are quite healthy, but initial efforts to preserve video games and their history focused generally on the great men of videogame history, the most successful or impactful titles or series and companies, or the countries whose industry was most developed or had the most impact on gaming culture. This effectively relegated most of videogame history to the shadows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dany Guay-B\u00e9langer will present a novel approach to researching and preserving the history of videogames that answers this call by putting players first. By conducting interviews that position participants as experts on their own memories and taking seriously the contributions of lay historians and the gaming community, this approach attempts to create fissures in the proverbial ivory tower and create better, more connected scholarship that will hopefully change the public\u2019s perception of academic video game historians and vice versa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dany<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dany Guay-B\u00e9langer<\/strong> is a SSHRC and FRQSC-funded PhD candidate in game studies at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al and holds a master\u2019s degree in public history from Carleton University. His research aims to devise a methodology favouring a holistic approach for the preservation and study of videogames as cultural heritage artefacts in order to allow players and researchers, present and future, to access videogames from every era of this medium\u2019s history. Dany has worked in the Canadian heritage sector for several years and is currently the treasurer of the Canadian Game Studies Association and a member of the History of Games conference steering committee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

RSVP here: https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/event\/not-worth-mentioning-preserving-unremarkable-videogames\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 3:\u00a0<\/strong>Tuesday, November 10<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Gossip practice in the archives<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description: <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does it mean to take gossip seriously as an information practice in archival work? Often maligned as untrustworthy, gossip\u2019s focus on relationships and feelings can help open up alternative paths through institutional records. In this talk, I\u2019ll be using the archives of artist-run centres as a case study, considering them as a site that is in-between an institutional and community archive. How might this mutability create openings for thinking about how we can work in (and across) different archival spaces as information labourers and researchers? A good gossip session usually happens on the apartment stoop or in the bar, but gossiping in the archive can similarly help us get under and through the \u201cofficial\u201d record, when too often the record means gaps, silences, and erasures <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography:<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Emily<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Emily Guerrero<\/strong> is an information worker, writer and parent living in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. They hold an MLIS from the University of British Columbia, and have worked in archives and both public and academic libraries for over a decade. They currently work as a Community Librarian with a focus on providing library services to patrons who are historically underserved and systematically marginalized. Their work on gossip, arts archives, community work, and abolitionist librarianship have been published in Archivaria, C Magazine, and forthcoming in In The Library With a Lead Pipe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

RSVP here: https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/event\/gossip-practice-in-the-archives\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 4:\u00a0<\/strong>Tuesday, November 24<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Title:\u00a0<\/strong>1978<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description: <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published in 1977, Toni Morrison\u2019s Song of Solomon is a story of overwhelming grief, the search for gold, and bags of bones. It is a story of flying and magic. The following year, Song of Solomon won the National Book Critics award and in a 1978 interview about her work as an editor, as a mother, about hurt and loneliness, Morrison shares that writing novels brought her relief, a way of ordering the world. It is well known that Song of Solomon and her other brilliant writing projects were acts of creation that were worked on after-hours. Moved by the creative relief that Morrison shares, as well as her demanding schedule, in this presentation, I draw connections between black cultural production, representation, and creative labour that is performed \u201coff the clock\u201d or outside our normative rhythms. Using 1978 as a touch point, or a prompt (call), I will share a set of materials, that are tactile and nostalgically analogue, sonic and groovy and sad, and function to elicit solace and creative relief (response) precisely because they cannot be easily captured or institutionalized.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography:<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Katherine<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Katherine McKittrick<\/strong> is Professor of Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen\u2019s University. Her book projects include Dear Science and Other Stories, Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle, Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, and Heartbreak and Other Geographies (edited by Brittany Mech\u00e9 and Camilla Hawthorne). Her collaborative and creative projects include Yarns (Haint Blue), Trick Not Telos, Twenty Dreams, and A Smile Split by the Stars. McKittrick\u2019s research and writing spans black studies, cultural geographies, and the arts, with a steady focus on how black creatives and theorists disrupt and remake spatial and scholarly norms. McKittrick is also a scholar of Sylvia Wynter. She participates in the working group, the Revolutionary Demand for Happiness, who dream and realize small scale placemaking projects and other creative adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RSVP here: https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/event\/1978\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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