Events

Join us in person on October 30 for this event cohosted by FIMS Rogers Chair 2025/26 lecture series where Assistant Professor Becca Lewis from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present her paper on “Reactionary Futurism”. Details at a Glance Time: 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (reception to follow) Location: Conron Hall, University College *This […]

The Starling Centre welcomes faculty and students to a welcome reception at the FIMS Grad Library on 24 September 2025. We will be screening a film by Dr. Myrna Moretti, a Starling Post-Doc, called, “Become/ing Otherwise”. Light refreshments will be served. Details at a Glance: Where: FIMS Grad Library, 2nd Floor, FIMS & Nursing Building […]

Details at a Glance:Central Branch, London Public Library251 Dundas Street London, ON Sept. 20 – Dec. 31 2025  Today more than ever, we need to reflect critically on our relationship with technology. How do technologies impact the way we get informed and make decisions? How can we as a society face the ‘side-effects’ of an […]

All are invited to attend this Community Keynote, “AI Won’t Fix Our Social Problems: Deconstructing Risk in Predictive Risk Models,” by Dr. Shion Guha (University of Toronto) on 25 September 2025 to launch the Glass Room at London Public Library. The Glass Room, an interactive exhibit, invites participants to learn what power they have to […]

Event Details: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 4pm Scholar’s Lab, Ground Floor, Weldon Library @ Western Computing the Planet: Images and Imaginaries Earth is now treated as a computable object in a host of domains. In industry, this manifests in initiatives like Microsoft’s Planetary Computer or Nvidia’s Earth-2. In the military and government, there are […]

Presented by Assistant Professor Alissa Centivany, Faculty of Information and Media Studies. All are welcome. Part of the FIMS Seminar Series 2024/25. Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm Attend in-person: FNB 4130Attend virtually: Register on Zoom Abstract: This research challenges dominant understandings of ubiquity, mobility, and connectivity and explores the […]