Future Speakers

Alistair Black, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Kelly V. Kirshtner, Assistant Professor, Department of Film, Video, Animation, & New Genres, UW-Milwaukee.

Spring 2013 Speakers

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Ganaele Langlois, Assistant Professor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology "Software Studies - a Case for New Critical Methodologies," February 22, 3:30PM, Curtin R 175.

Jenna Hartel, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Information, "A Recipe for the Social Study of Information." February 28, 5:00 PM, NWQB 1st Floor Student Lounge. SSIRG Workshop: Visual Response to the Perennial Questions: "What is Information?" March 1, 12:00 PM, NWQB 3511.

Sara Dean, MSDR, Adjunct Faculty, College for Creative Studies and Co-Director, Institute of Improbable Poromechanics "From Form to Platform: Designing Connectivity," March 8, 1:30 PM, NWQB 3511.

Kelly Gates, Associate Professor, University of California-San Diego Department of Communication, "The Computational Work of Policing: Surveillance Video & the Forensic Sensibility." May 1, 2:00 PM, Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Room.

Diana Belscamper, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of History, "Good Girls and Better Consumers: The Functions of Teen Magazines in American Girl Culture of the 1960s," & Lindsey Harness, Ph.D. Candidate & Learning Technology Consultant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Communication, "The Myth of the Happy Gay: A Critical Analysis of the It Gets Better YouTube Narratives." May 8, 1:00 PM, NWQB 3511.

Fall 2012 Speakers

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Rina Ghose, Associate Professor, UW-Milwaukee Department of Geography. The CIPR/SSI Research Lunch with Dr. Rina Ghose: "Bridging the Geospatial Divide through Public Participation GIS" is October 19, 2012 from noon-1:30pm, in Northwest Quadrant 1st Floor Student Lounge. Lunch will be provided by the School of Information Studies.

Alessandra Renzi, Social Studies of Information Postdoctoral Fellow, UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies. "Protests and Multi-Issue Extremism: Reassessing Knowledge Categories in Post-Crisis Security" November 2, 2012 from 11:30-1pm. Northwest Quadrant, Room 3511. Snack will be provided by SOIS.

Jean-François Blanchette, Associate Professor, UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSEIS), "Heavy Clouds: Towards a Material Analysis of Computing" November 15, 2012 from 3:30-5:00pm. in Northwest Quadrant 1st Floor Student Lounge.