FIMS Public Events

Public Lectures and Events in Winter 2025

Additional events will be added as they are announced.

January -
April 2025
The Glass Room Exhibit

Students browsing an exhibit at The Glass Room

What power do you have to shape your relationship with technology?

Examine this question and much more at The Glass Room, a family-friendly exhibit running at Weldon Library until April.

Open all day.
Weldon, Room 113

This is a public event.
More information.

Photo of Alissa Centivany in a striped shirt and dark blazer

Presented by Assistant Professor Alissa Centivany, Faculty of Information and Media Studies. 

This event is part of the FIMS Seminar Series 2024/25.

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,
February 11
NACDI Now! Queer Diplomacies

Eduardo Tadeo's Headshot

Presented by Douglas Victor Janoff (Global Affairs Canada) and Eduardo Tadeo Hernandez (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Unidad Xochimilco)

Hosted by NACDI in partnership with the Practitioner Media Lab at Western.

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Zoom (Register now)

This is a public event.
More information.

Headshot of Professor Nancy Fraser

Presented by Nancy Fraser, Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research.

Hosted by the FIMS Rogers Chair.

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
McKellar Room, UCC.

This is a public event.
Abstract TBA

Movie poster for Prisoner No. 626710 is Present

Join us for a special film screening of Prisoner No. 626710, directed by filmmaker Lalit Vachani.

"Prisoner No. 626710 waits interminably for a bail hearing in court...".

3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
FIMS & Nursing Building, Creative Commons.

This is a public event.
More information.

Headshot of CBC journalist Nahlah Ayed

This Winter 2025, FIMS is excited to present Nahlah Ayed, host of CBC's IDEAS, as our guest lecturer.

As long-standing models of journalism become outdated and discarded, the foreign correspondent has become an easy target (continuing reading).

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
In-person: SOLD OUT.
Register for Zoom.

This is a public event.

Syrus Marcus Ware's headshote

Presented by Amanda Cachia (University of Houston) and Syrus Marcus Ware (McMaster University)

Conversations on Access aims to bring scholars, activists and practitioners together to consider issues around accessibility and disability.

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Virtual (Zoom link TBA)

This is a public event.
More information.

Photo of Shengnan Yang

Presented by Assistant Professor Shengnan Yang, Faculty of Information and Media Studies. 

This event is part of the FIMS Seminar Series 2024/25.

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.

Computers and You poster

Presented by Myrna Moretti, post-doctoral fellow, Western University.

Part of the 2024/25 Mediations Lecture Series.

New date TBA. 
Attend in-person: FNB 4130
Attend online
: Zoom link

This is a public event.
More information.



Previous Winter 2025 Events

Headshot of Professor Wayne Hope

Presented by Wayne Hope, co-director of the Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) research centre at the Auckland University of Technology.

Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, via Professor Nick Dyer-Witheford.

1:30 p.m.
Stevenson Hall 3165

This is a public event.
More information.

Photo of Mohamed Satti

Presented by Mohamed Satti, Associate Professor of Management Communications at the Ivey Business School. 

This event is part of the FIMS Seminar Series 2024/25.

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.

Paris Marx standing at a podium giving a presentation

Presented by Paris Marx, journalist and host of the podcasts Tech Won't Save Us and System Crash.

Hosted by the Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies at Western University.

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Weldon, Room 115

This is a public event.

Headshot of Professor Luke Stark in a blue plaid shirt

FIMS Professor Luke Stark presents a discussion of his article "Animation and Artificial Intelligence," which proposes that ChatGPT and similar chatbots can be understood as animated characters.

Hosted by the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities at Western University.

4:00 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.
FNB 2210

This is a public event.
More information.

Thursday,
January 30
FIMS Alumni Reception in Toronto

Western logo on a purple background

Join FIMS and Dean Lisa Henderson in Toronto for the 2025 Alumni Reception. Reconnect with your peers and chat with faculty and staff.

Registration is open now.

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas St. W, Toronto

Register.