by Jerome de Groot The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, E-mail: Jerome.Degroot@manchester.ac.uk Julie Creet’s The Genealogical Sublime, a book about the development of genealogy databases and their effect on genealogical consciousness, is forthcoming from University of Massachusetts Press in February 2020. Jerome de Groot interviewed her about this project and the way the book deals [...]
DOCTalks Connects Across Canada 2022 - Panel October 26, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyquXeGbLVk&feature=youtu.be On October 26, 2022, in partnership with DOCTalks, Research Impact Canada (RIC) hosted a “DOCTalks Connects Canada” panel that invited speakers to discuss the use of filmmaking as a medium for knowledge mobilization. David Phipps, our Network Director of RIC, provided wonderful [...]
Julia Creet, The Genealogical Sublime: New Narratives of Numerical Selves MillerComm2022 - September 13, 2021 - Zoom event WATCH NOW ON THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS WEBSITE Professor Julia Creet of York University presented on her latest research on the genealogy industry. Her research explores the widespread phenomenon of desiring to know one’s [...]
Watch Prof. Creet summarizing The Genealogical Sublime in this 30 minute talk. https://youtu.be/9fkJdgLgXxw MAY 2, 11AM - The Genealogical Sublime In this talk, drawn from her new book, The Genealogical Sublime, Dr. Creet traces the histories of the largest, longest-running, most lucrative and rapidly growing genealogical databases to delineate a broader history of the industry. Through a [...]
by Julia Creet, originally published at TheConversation.com Surprising news recently emerged from the personal genetics business. The two leading direct-to-consumer companies in North America, 23andMe and Ancestry.com, announced within a week of each other that they were laying off a significant proportion of their workforce as a result of a steep drop in sales. This past Christmas, the [...]
by Paul Lungen, Staff Reporter, originally published at CJNews.com DNA testing and tracing one’s family roots are pretty popular endeavours these days, but they’re also big business, and one with a potentially dark side, according to Julia Creet, a professor of English who has a longstanding interest in family heritage matters. There are questions of [...]
York University English Professor Julia Creet traces the histories of the largest, longest-running and most rapidly growing genealogical databases, and seeks to explain North Americans’ current obsession with family history, in her new book set to publish on Feb. 28. The Genealogical Sublime (University of Massachuestts Press, 2020) is a crossover academic/trade book seeks to delineate [...]
Interview by Jerome de Groot Julie Creet's The Genealogical Sublime, a book about the development of genealogy databases and their effect on genealogical consciousness, is forthcoming from University of Massachusetts Press in February 2020. Jerome de Groot interviewed her about this project and the way the book deals with archives, religion, and the uncanny. Jerome [...]
Originally published by the Harvard Law Petrie-Flom Centre Written by Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup “Any idea we had about privacy is over,” says Dr. Julia Creet, leading international scholar in Cultural Memory Studies, Professor of English at York University, and author of the upcoming book, The Genealogical Sublime. In 2017, Dr. Creet received a York Research Leader Award in part [...]