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.
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Zoom Webinar.
This is a public event.
More information.
Previous Fall 2021 Lectures
Wednesday,
January 19
Inheritance and Lamination in the Representation of
Bibliographic Relationships
Presented by Alex Mayhew, LIS PhD student, and Professor Grant Campbell, Western University.
Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Seminar Series.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Register by emailing: kueneman@uwo.ca
This is a public event.
More information.
Thursday,
January 20
Challenging What's Newsworthy: Reporting on Indigenous
Communities in a Post-Covid World
Presented by Kyle Edwards, award-winning journalist and managing editor at Native News Online.
Brought to you by the 2022 Clissold Lecture.
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Via Zoom Webinar.
This is a public event.
More information.
Thursday,
January 27
Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Indigenous Futures
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.
7:00 p.m.
Via Zoom Webinar.
Register now.
This is a public event.
More information.
More about the series.
Thursday,
February 3
Storytelling and the Phenomenology of Displacement
Featuring Akram Kangouri, PhD candidate in Media Studies, Western University.
Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Mediations lecture series.
4:30 p.m.
Via Zoom.
For link, email fimsmediations@gmail.com
This is a public event.
More information.
Wednesday,
February 9
Mapping Canadian Government Uses of AI for Social Services
Presented by Professor Joanna Redden, and Media Studies PhD student Sananda Sahoo, Western University.
Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Seminar Series.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Register by emailing: kueneman@uwo.ca
This is a public event.
More information.
Wednesday,
February 23 Reflections on Black Queerness: Joy, History and Significance
Featuring Marisa Grant, DJ, event planner, consultant and creator.
Part of Western's Black History Month Speaker Series. Co-hosted by FIMS.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Zoom Webinar.
Register now.
This is a public event.
About the series.
Wednesday,
March 2
Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession
Presented by Sandra Ristovska, College of Media, Communication, and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Register by emailing: kueneman@uwo.ca
This is a public event.
More information.
Thursday,
March 3
Data Collection During the Pandemic: When the Unwritten
Rules Become the Applied Rules
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.
4:30 p.m.
Via Zoom.
For link, email fimsmediations@gmail.com
This is a public event.
More information.
Wednesday,
March 9
Higher education, "diversity," and information literacy
Presented by Professor Karen Nicholson, Manager, Information Literacy, University of Guelph.
Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Seminar Series.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Register by emailing: kueneman@uwo.ca
This is a public event.
More information.
Thursday,
March 10
"By Women For Women" Communication Gender
Discourse in r/FemaleDatingStrategy
Featuring Brittany Melton, PhD student in Media Studies, Western University.
Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Mediations lecture series.
4:30 p.m.
Via Zoom.
For link, email fimsmediations@gmail.com
This is a public event.
More information.
Wednesday,
March 23
The Discourses of Drag Queen Story Time Challengers and
Supporters
Presented by Roger Chabot, LIS PhD'19, and Davin Helkenberg, LIS PhD'19, Western University.
Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Seminar Series.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Register by emailing: kueneman@uwo.ca
This is a public event.
More information.
Thursday,
March 24 Data Imaginaries
Featuring Melissa Adler, Sananda Sahoo and Luke Stark, all from Western University.
Part of the 2021/2022 FIMS Mediations lecture series.
4:30 p.m.
Via Zoom.
For link, email fimsmediations@gmail.com
This is a public event.
More information.
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.
2:00 p.m.
Zoom Webinar.
Limited in-person seating,
email nmitche7@uwo.ca to register for a seat.
This is a public event.
More information.
About the FIMS Asper Fellow.
Thursday,
April 28
Disinformation on social media during the COVID-19
pandemic: Prevalence and journalistic challenges
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.
2:00 p.m.
Zoom Webinar.
This is a public event.
More information.
About the Rogers Chair.