CAIJ Talks

The CAIJ organizes a Politics of Information Colloquium Series that draws together faculty and graduate students from across the social sciences and humanities. UPCOMING TALKS:

*Topic: Data Brokers, Information Access, and Privacy
Who: Sarah Lamdan, American Library Association
When: Mar 3, 2025 2:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

*Topic: Access Through Information: FOI Best Practices in a Disability Justice Context
Who: Meg Linton, Carleton University
When: Mar 18, 2025 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

*Topic: Surveillance in the Shadows: the Data Broker Industry and the Fight for Location Privacy
Who: Lisa Femia, Electronic Frontier Foundation
When: APR 1, 2025 2:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Talks available to view on the CAIJ Youtube Channel

PREVIOUS TALKS:

*Media Escalation and New Transparencies. Dr. Joshua Reeves. Oregon State University. Mar 6, 2024 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

*Surveillance and the Global War on Terror: Muslims and 21st-Century Racism. Dr. Saher Selod. Simmons University. Mar 7, 2024 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

*Freedom of Information Requests and The Study of Asylum Policy and Politics. Sule Tomkinson, Université Laval. Apr 11, 2023 2:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada). Zoom.

*Data Colonialism Revisited: The Violent Side of the Politics of Information. Marco Antônio Sousa Alves from The Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Jan 16, 2023 3:00 PM CST. Zoom.

*Capitalist Frontier-Making in Northwest China: Technologies of Muslim Enclosure, Dispossession and Subtraction. SFU anthropologist Darren Byler, author of Terror Capitalism. Jan 6, 2023. Zoom.

*Accessing Information on Immigration Detention and Deportation in Canada: Toward Carceral Transparency, with Professors Sarah Turnbull and Joao Velloso, MAR 10, 2022, Zoom.

*The Craft of Computational Social Science, with Alex Luscombe, Jamie Duncan and a Panel of Amazing Computational Social Scientists, JAN 13, 2022, Zoom.

*Moving to Independent News in Canada and Why it Matters, with Robyn Smith of The Tyee, Dani Paradis (freelance), Martin Lukacs of The Breach, Steph Wood of The Narwhal, and Jen Osborne (freelance), DEC 14, 2022, Zoom.

*Access to Information and Nonfiction Media: Contrasting U.S. and Canadian State Archives and Access Approaches, Andrea Conte (Filmmaker) Aug 17, 2021; Zoom.

*Access to Information in the Time of COVID-19: Obstacles and Opportunities in Canadian Journalism, Elyse Amend and Margaret Thompson July 6 2021; Zoom.

*The Prison is Always Spreading: Carceral Spaces, Criminalization, and Abolition in the Age of Pandemics El Jones, PhD Candidate June 3 2021; Zoom.

*The Craft of Finding Records in the Archives, Sarah Ramsden, Senior Archivist, City of Winnipeg Archives LOCATION: 2M70 DAY: Wednesday, MARCH 26 2020 TIME: 1130am-1230pm

*Finding Stories in Data, Michael Pereira, data journalist at Winnipeg Free Press LOCATION: 1L07 DAY: Wednesday, MARCH 11 2020 TIME: 1220pm-130pm

*Digging for Data, with Tom Cardoso, crime and justice reporter at The Globe and Mail LOCATION: 2M70 DAY: Wednesday, FEBRUARY 26 2020 TIME: 1220pm-130pm

*Data Science in Canadian Newsrooms: Media's Foray into Social Sciences, Jacques Marcoux, data journalist, CBC News LOCATION: 1L07 DAY: Wednesday, JANUARY 29 2020 TIME: 1220pm-130pm

*How to Use Freedom of Information (FOI) Requests in Social Science, Kevin Walby LOCATION: The Hive (UWSA space) DAY: Wednesday, JANUARY 15 2020 TIME: 1220pm-130pm