Professor Michael Twidale and doctoral candidate Aiko Takazawa spoke on May 14 at the Workshop on Social and Collaborative Information Seeking hosted by the Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University. The workshop brought together multidisciplinary scholars, including innovators in social and collaborative information seeking, with the goal of defining research challenges in the field.

Assistant Professor Elizabeth Hoiem will speak at the second Mapping the Landscapes of Childhood Conference, which will be held May 8-9 at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. The conference is hosted by the multidisciplinary Institute for Child and Youth Studies and will address three themes: Appropriations of childhood Is work the opposite of play? Does humanitarian aid…

Professor Michael Twidale will speak this Thursday at a conference hosted by the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (CHAMP) at Illinois. The conference, “Entrepreneurial Heritage and the Information Economy,” will draw local and international scholars to discuss the trend of managing world heritage sites as economically productive resources and the role of cultural heritage…

J. Stephen Downie, professor and associate dean for research, will deliver the opening keynote address at an international colloquium titled, “Scholarly Networks and the Emerging Platforms for Humanities Research & Publication.” The colloquium is hosted jointly by the Virtual Humanities Lab in the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University, the Center for Digital Scholarship in the…

Assistant Professor Emily Knox will speak at the upcoming conference, Outlawed: The Naked Truth About Censored Literature for Young People, to be held April 10-12 at California State University, Fresno (Fresno State). The conference, hosted by the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, a department of the Henry Madden Library at Fresno State, explores the role censorship plays…

Research Associate Professor David Dubin and Associate Professor Victoria Stodden participated in the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), held March 8-11 in San Diego. They organized a session on the use of provenance encoding vocabularies for supporting research replication, with discussions focused on a use case in the field of epidemiology. The session was jointly…

Deborah Stevenson, assistant professor and director of The Center for Children’s Books at GSLIS, will participate in several events in the coming weeks.

Join GSLIS faculty, staff, and students for the following activities during the ACRL 2015 Conference, including our reception on Thursday, March 26, from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront (RSVP by March 20). Please stop by and visit us at Booth 571 as well! Thursday, March 26 Panel Session: Collections, “The Neoliberal in YOUR Library: Resisting Corporate…

The following GSLIS faculty, students, and staff will participate in iConference 2015, which will be held March 24-27 in Newport Beach, California. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the annual conference, which is presented by the iSchools, a worldwide association of information schools dedicated to advancing the information field. The event brings together scholars, researchers, and…

GSLIS Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke recently spoke at the Digital Sociology Mini-conference, which was held February 27-28 in New York. Her talk, "Combating Cultural Misinformation/Disinformation on the Internet," was presented as part of a panel discussion titled, "Race, Racism, and Digitally Mediated Spaces." The mini-conference was hosted by the Digital Laboratory Working Group of The…