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…

 Zahra Mohaghegh, GSLIS-affiliated faculty member and assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering (NPRE), has been honored with the 2015 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research from the College of Engineering at Illinois.

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…

Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke has been selected to receive the University YWCA’s 2015 Leadership Award in Education in recognition of her work in social justice and higher education. The annual award honors individuals or organizations whose work supports the mission of the YWCA, which is “dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity…

A prestigious campus award will allow Associate Professor Carol Tilley to expand her comics research through a new project, Children, Comics, and Print Culture – A Historical Investigation. The Campus Research Board has funded Tilley’s project in the amount of $19,036 and has designated the award as the Arnold O. Beckman Award. Only projects of special distinction or promise receive this designation.

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…

Assistant Professor Jana Diesner will speak Saturday at the 2015 Illinois Digital Humanities Symposium. Cosponsored by GSLIS, the symposium will bring together graduate students, faculty, and researchers from across campus to discuss current work and methodologies in digital humanities. Registration is free and open to anyone. Diesner's talk, “Bringing Computational Social Science to the Real…

Associate Professor Carol Tilley has several speaking engagements scheduled in March, including two on campus at the University of Illinois. On March 3, Tilley will deliver the opening address of Central Michigan University’s (CMU) ComiConference 3. Her talk is titled, “The Secret History of Comics Readers,” and will be held in the CMU Park Library Auditorium. ComiConference 3 is free and open…

Professor Michael Twidale will speak this Friday, February 27, at a lightning symposium hosted by the University of Illinois College of Education. The event, Toward an Illinois Learning Sciences Design Laboratory, will launch the new Illinois Learning Sciences Design Laboratory (ILSDL), a venture developed by campus leaders in response to recommendations made in the 2013 Visioning Future…