Events

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 […]

Weldon Library is hosting the much-lauded Glass Room exhibit. If you didn’t get a chance to explore it during Starling’s launch in October, now is your chance! The exhibit will run through April which we hope will give members of the community, and their family and friends, a chance to visit. January 23 to April 2025 Weldon […]

The Starling Centre will be hosting Paris Marx, journalist and podcast host of “Tech Won’t Save Us” and “System Crash” on 23 and 24 January. On Thursday, January 23, he will give a talk about the perils and pitfalls of artificial intelligence technologies, and on Friday, January 24, will lead a focused discussion with graduate […]