FIMS Public Lectures & Seminars

Featuring the work of artist Mary Kavanaugh, drawn from the From Remote Stars exhibition currently showing at Museum London.

From Remote Stars is co-curated by Sarah E.K. Smith, FIMS CRC Tier II in Art, Culture and Global Relations.

Presented by Alex Mayhew, LIS PhD student, and Professor Grant Campbell, Western University.

Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Seminar Series.

Presented by Kyle Edwards, award-winning journalist and managing editor at Native News Online.

Brought to you by the 2022 Clissold Lecture.

Featuring Jonathan Dewar (First Nations Information Governance Centre), Sofia Locklear (Western University) and Jason Lewis (Concordia University).

Part of the Big Data at the Margins lecture series.

Featuring Akram Kangouri, PhD candidate in Media Studies, Western University.

Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Mediations lecture series.

Presented by Professor Joanna Redden, and Media Studies PhD student Sananda Sahoo, Western University.

Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Seminar Series.

Featuring Marisa Grant, DJ, event planner, consultant and creator.

Part of Western's Black History Month Speaker Series. Co-hosted by FIMS.

Presented by Sandra Ristovska, College of Media, Communication, and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Featuring Giada Ferrucci (PhD Media Studies), Ebenezer Martin-Yeboah (PhD Health Information Science), Sananda Sahoo (PhD Media Studies and Eunice Annan-Aggrey, (PhD Geography and Environment), all from Western University.

Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Mediations lecture series.

Presented by Professor Karen Nicholson, Manager, Information Literacy, University of Guelph.

Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Seminar Series.

Featuring Brittany Melton, PhD student in Media Studies, Western University.

Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Mediations lecture series.

Presented by Roger Chabot, LIS PhD'19, and Davin Helkenberg, LIS PhD'19, Western University.

Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Seminar Series.

Featuring Melissa Adler, Sananda Sahoo and Luke Stark, all from Western University.

Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Mediations lecture series.

Featuring Angela Sterritt, award-winning journalist, artist and Indigenous author, in conversation with Sara Mai Chitty, Indigenous Curriculum and Pedagogy Advisor in the Office of Indigenous Initiatives at Western University.

Angela Sterritt is the current FIMS Asper Fellow.

Featuring Lauren Pelley, journalist, CBC News, Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia, Craig Silverman, journalist, Propublica, and Ahmed Al-Rawi, Simon Fraser University.

Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Rogers Chair event series.