Events

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 […]

The Starling Centre seeks contributions for its Open Panel: “Just Technologies for Just Societies” at the 50th 4S Conference in Seattle this September. Imagine the synchronous movement of a flock of starlings. Murmurations are a vivid metaphor for the relationships between just societies and just technologies: complex, interwoven, and capable of reverberating across boundaries, spaces, […]

The Starling Centre invites the Western community to an informal, open forum to unpack and discuss the issues and implications of Trump 2.0. Creative Commons, FIMS & Nursing Building20 November 202412:00 to 1:30pm