FIMS Public Events
Public Lectures and Events in Winter 2024
Additional events will be added as they are announced.
Presented by Meghan Voll, Media Studies PhD candidate, Mark Ambrogio, LIS PhD candidate, and Amalie Hutchinson, Biology, all of Western University.
This event is part of the FIMS Mediations Lecture Series 2023/24.
4:30 p.m.
Attend in person: FNB 4110
Attend online: Zoom link
This is a public event.
More information.
Presented by Professor Olateju Jumoke Ajanaku, Post-Doctoral Associate, Western University.
This event is part of the FIMS Mediations Lecture Series 2023/24.
4:30 p.m.
Attend in person: FNB 4110
Attend online: Zoom link
This is a public event.
More information.
Thursday,
April 25 Gaming the Future: How Video Games Help Us Play What's to Come
Presented by Sina Torabi, Media Studies PhD candidate, Western University.
This event is part of the FIMS Mediations Lecture Series 2023/24.
4:30 p.m.
Attend in person: FNB 4110
Attend online: Zoom link
This is a public event.
More information.
Thursday,
May 2 Public Health and Safety: An Integrative Review Examining the
Use of Pharmaceutical AI for Evergreening
Presented by Earlel Thiyagaratnam, Master of Health Information Science student, Western University.
This event is part of the FIMS Mediations Lecture Series 2023/24.
4:30 p.m.
Attend in person: FNB 4110
Attend online: Zoom link
This is a public event.
More information.
Thursday,
May 9 Feedback and Focus: Exploring Post-Secondary Students'
Perceptions of Feedback, Mindfulness, and Stress
Presented by Erin Isings, Lecturer, and Hugh Samson, LIS PhD candidate, both of Western University.
This event is part of the FIMS Mediations Lecture Series 2023/24.
4:30 p.m.
Attend in person: FNB 4110
Attend online: Zoom link
This is a public event.
More information.
Previous Fall 2023 Events
Tuesday,
January 16 AI, Data and the City
Presented by Professor Katharine S. Willis, School of Art, Design and Architecture at University of Plymouth.
This event is co-hosted by the Western Academy for Advanced Research and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies.
10:30 a.m.
IGAB 3N72
This is a public event.
More information.
Wednesday,
January 17 Mapping the Chalatenango Massacres: Community-Based
Research in El Salvador
Presented by Professor Amanda Grzyb, Adriana Alas Lopez, Yarubi Diaz Colmenares, Maria Laura Flores Barba, and Zack MacDonald, all of Surviving Memory in Post War El Salvador.
This event is part of the FIMS Seminar Series 2023/24.
12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.
Attend in person: FNB 4130
Attend online: Register on Zoom
This is a public event.
More information.
Wednesday,
January 31 Useful & Beautiful: A Roundtable on Creative Techniques in
Knowledge Organization Research
Presented by Assistant Professor Melissa Adler, Alec Mullender, Jack Kausch (LIS PhD students), Gigi Wong, Mackenzie Jessop (Media Studies PhD students), and Greg Nightingale (PhD'20, LIS).
This event is part of the FIMS Seminar Series 2023/24.
12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.
Attend in person: FNB 4130
Attend online: Register on Zoom
This is a public event.
More information.
Monday,
February 12 Embroidering Absence: War Memories of Salvadoran Civil War
Refugees
Presented by Teresa Cruz, Museum of Word and Image, El Salvador (MUPI) and a member of the Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador research team.
This event is part of the Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador research initiative.
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
FNB 4130
This is a public event.
More information.
Tuesday,
February 13 Bouncing a few balls - notes on creativity with Nasser Hussain
Presented by Nasser Hussain, lecturer in Creative Writing at Leeds Beckett University, and author of SKY WRI TEI NGS.
This event is hosted by the Creative Arts and Production program.
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
FNB Creative Commons (2nd floor)
This is a public event.
More information.
Wednesday,
February 28 Instapoetics, Poetic Expression and Screen-Capitalism
Presented by Professor Warren Steele, and Zak Bronson, PhD in Media Studies candidate, from Western University.
This event is part of the FIMS Seminar Series 2023/24.
12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.
Attend in person: FNB 4130
Attend online: Register on Zoom
This is a public event.
More information.
Thursday,
February 29 Knowledge Translation: Theories and Practices
Presented by John Kausch, LIS PhD candidate in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University.
This event is part of the 2023/24 Mediations lecture series.
4:30 p.m.
Attend in person: FNB 4110
Attend virtually: Zoom link
This is a public event.
More information.
Thursday,
March 7 Disposable People: Data cleaning and power in AI ethics
Presented by Pinar Barlas, LIS PhD candidate in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University.
This event is part of the 2023/24 Mediations lecture series.
4:30 p.m.
Attend in person: FNB 4110
Attend virtually: Zoom link
This is a public event.
More information.
Friday,
March 8 The Nest - with Julietta Singh and Chase Joynt
Presented by Julietta Singh, decolonial scholar and author, and Chase Joynt, filmmaker, writer, director.
This event is hosted by the FIMS Asper Fellowship.
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m
FNB Creative Commons
This is a public event.
More information.
Tuesday,
March 12 Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing
Presented by Danielle Taschereau Mamers, Managing Director of the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Toronto.
Author of Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art (2023).
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Attend in person: FNB 4130
Attend online: Zoom Link
This is a public event.
More information.
Wednesday,
March 13 Reporting in a house of mirrors
Presented by Justin Ling, Montreal-based investigative journalist and author.
This event is hosted by the FIMS Rogers Chair.
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Attend in person: FNB 4130
Attend virtually: Zoom Link
This is a public event.
More information.
Thursday,
March 21 Film Screening: Hey Viktor!
Writer/director Cody Lightning will join CAP students and faculty for this free screening of his mockumentary about filming a sequel to Smoke Signals. Q&A to follow.
This event is hosted by the Creative Arts and Production program.
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
McKellar Room, UCC
This is a public event.
More information.
Wednesday,
March 27 Big Data Analytics in Higher Education in Canada
Presented by Professor Olateju Jumoke Ajanaku, Post-Doctoral Associate, Western University.
This event is part of the FIMS Seminar Series 2023/24.
12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.
Attend in person: FNB 4130
Attend online: Register on Zoom
This is a public event.
More information.
Tuesday,
April 2 Speaking of Genocide: The Holocaust, Israel-Palestine, and the war
in Gaza since the October 7 attack
Presented by Omer Bartov, genocide historian, Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.
Moderated by Carol Off, award-winning journalist, author and former host of CBC Radio's As It Happens.
4:00 p.m.
Attend in person: University College, Conron Hall
Attend online: Check event page for details
This is a public event.
More information.
Tuesday,
April 9 Libraries Do Good Work
Presented by Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association (ALA).
This event is scheduled as part of Generating Community - An Interdisciplinary FIMS Grad Conference.
7:00 p.m.
Museum London
421 Ridout St. North
This is a public event.
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Featuring research in media studies, communication, health information, library science and information science.
ALA president Emily Drabinski will present the keynote lecture.
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Various Locations
This is a public event.
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