Welcome to ETRUS

ETRUS is a research group at the University of Saskatchewan. Our members are faculty, students, and others, at the University of Saskatchewan and elsewhere, who are engaged in or interested in research on electronic text in any form.

Welcome to ETRUS

Please take a moment to browse the site, and to create a user account if you are interested in joining ETRUS.

New member: Sarah Savage

Welcome to new ETRUS member Sarah Savage, who is the Research Coordinator for Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Saskatchewan. She has been watching for funding and networking opportunities for us, so U of S researchers, we hope you get to know her sometime soon.

2011 Dec 12: Meet the Interaction Lab

ETRUS is providing an opportunity for interested members to learn about the work of the Interaction Lab at the U of S. The Human-Computer Interaction Lab is a research facility in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan. It carries out research in computer-supported cooperation, next-generation interfaces, computer games, affective computing, surface computing, and information visualization, and is supervised by Carl Gutwin and Regan Mandryk.

2011 Nov 1: Chad Gaffield on Universities in the Digital Age

ETRUS members at the U of S should take note of this event:

Helping re-imagine universities in the Digital Age
Chad Gaffield

PhD, FRSC, President
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

4:00 p.m.
November 1, 2011
Convocation Hall, University of Saskatchewan

Universities are among the few institutions that can trace their history to the Middle Ages. One key reason is their ability to adapt to changing internal and external forces.

Welcome to Meghan Witzel

ETRUS welcomes new member Meghan Witzel, an English Honours student at the U of S who is working on Brent Nelson's Culture of Curiosity project. Her interests include the Early Modern Period in England with particular emphasis on Renaissance plays.

Welcome to Catherine Nygren

ETRUS welcomes Catherine Nygren, an English Honours student at the University of Saskatchewan. She is interested in the creation and presentation of, and potential for, digital texts, particularly born-digital texts, and has worked with ETRUS members Allison Muri and Craig Harkema.

Welcome to Rob Imes

ETRUS welcomes new member Rob Imes, just starting his PhD program in English at the U of S.

Deb Leiter now at IWU

This year, ETRUS member Deborah Leiter Nyabuti is Visiting Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Indiana Wesleyan University.

2011 Sept 29: Jon Bath on "Imagining Architectures of the Book: or, what Jon did while he was away"

2011 Sept 29 Thursday
4:00 pm
DRC (Arts 145), University of Saskatchewan

Following up on Brent Nelson’s talk from a couple of years ago, I will be discussing the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project and, in particular, ArchBook: Architectures of the Book (http://inke.ischool.utoronto.ca/archbook). ArchBook is an online reference resource that details the means by which texts have organized information in the past, with an eye towards how these past practices may help us design improved platforms for using and creating electronic texts.

Jon Bath is the Director of the Humanities and Fine Arts Digital Research Centre at the U of S.

All are welcome.

2011 June 27: Jeff Smith on "Creativity as Theft"

Jeff Smith presents "Creativity as Theft: The Honourable and Necessary Art of Stealing From Others In the Pursuit of Creative Expression"

The history of art has a rich tradition of thievery among artists. Honourable thievery. Creativity researcher and fantasy novelist Jefferson Smith will give a public lecture on his research into exploiting creative theft, improving software tool design and appropriating new tools from other fields. This talk will be a blend of research results, anecdotal experience and practical advice for both software developers and fiction writers. Refreshments will be served.

Date: Monday, June 27, 2011
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Graduate Student Commons (previously Emanuel and St Chad bldg) on the corner of Wiggins and College Dr.

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