The following iSchool faculty and students will participate in iConference 2026, which will be held virtually from March 23–26 and physically from March 29–April 2 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The theme of this year's conference is "Information Literacies, Authenticity and Use: The Move Towards a Digitally Enlightened Society."
Virtual Presentations
Monday, March 23
Professor Jiangping Chen and PhD student Milo Ono will present "The Role of Misinformation in Elder Fraud: A Conceptual Framework."
Teaching Assistant Professor David Charles will serve as a moderator for session, “Algorithm, Competencies, and Trust.”
Tuesday, March 24
Professor Kate McDowell will serve as a moderator for the session, "Qualitative Research: Patterns and Participants."
Wednesday, March 25
PhD students Melissa Wilfley and Mengting Ai and Assistant Professor Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo will present "Competing Visions of Ethical AI: A Case Study of OpenAI."
Glen Layne-Worthey, associate director for research support services at the Hathitrust Research Center; Professor J. Stephen Downie; Ryan Dubnicek, digital humanities specialist; and Deren Kudeki, visiting research programmer, will present "Illuminating the large-scale digital library with TORCHLITE from the HathiTrust Research Center."
PhD student Puranjani Das and Professor Allen Renear will present "The Semantics of Active/Passive Annotations: Informing as an Example."
Associate Professor Colin Rhinesmith and Teaching Associate Professor Martin Wolske will serve as moderators for the session, "Community Informatics: Conceptualizing epistemic justice within community informatics: A First Brainstorming Session."
In-Person Presentations
Sunday, March 29
PhD student Puranjani Das and Professor Allen Renear will present "The Semantics of Active/Passive Annotations: Informing as an Example."
Glen Layne-Worthey, associate director for research support services at the Hathitrust Research Center; Professor J. Stephen Downie; Ryan Dubnicek, digital humanities specialist; and Deren Kudeki, visiting research programmer, will present "Illuminating the large-scale digital library with TORCHLITE from the HathiTrust Research Center."
Postdoctoral Research Associate Cheeno Marlo M. Sayuno will present "Locating Childness in Text-Based Digital Storytelling Navigations and Narratives" at the Early Career Colloquium.
Monday, March 30
Postdoctoral Research Associate Janaynne Carvalho do Amaral and Teaching Assistant Professor David Charles will present the workshop "From Language Proficiency to Learning Gains: promoting effective knowledge sharing among international audiences."
Informatics PhD student Daniela Markazi will present during the workshop "Envisioning Critical Climate Literacy."
Tuesday, March 31
Associate Professor Colin Rhinesmith will co-chair the session, "Community Informatics: The Journal of Community Informatics: Advancing Engaged Information Sciences."
PhD students Melissa Wilfley and Mengting Ai, and Assistant Professor Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo will present "Competing Visions of Ethical AI: A Case Study of OpenAI."
Professor Jiangping Chen and PhD student Milo Ono will present "The Role of Misinformation in Elder Fraud: A Conceptual Framework."
Wednesday, April 1
Assistant Professor Travis L. Wagner will present during the workshop "Arts & Information Science: Projects and Provocations."
Interim Dean and Professor Emily Knox will present during the workshop "Critical literacy and censorship: the power of reading."