FIMS Events Calendar
20170713
Thursday, July 13, 2017
9:00 am
2017 Summer Research Computing Workshops
Location: Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB)
Location: Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB)
20171028
Saturday, October 28, 2017
2:00 pm
"Making a Difference: Research for Social Justice"
Location: Museum of Ontario Archeology
Location: Museum of Ontario Archeology
20171122
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
12:30 pm
Canada 150 Lecture-The Future of the Supreme Court of Canada
Location: Josephine Spencer Niblett Law Building (LB)
Location: Josephine Spencer Niblett Law Building (LB)
20180413
Friday, April 13, 2018
9:30 am
FIMULAW Interdisciplinary Conference
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20180919
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
12:00 pm
Barnett Open House
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
20181024
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
1:30 pm
The History and Future of the Book: An Academic Panel
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
20190207
Thursday, February 7, 2019
5:30 pm
Explore the Possibilities of Your Degree
Location: Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB)
Location: Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB)
20190312
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
11:00 am
Junos Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
20191001
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
11:00 am
Wikipedia and Libraries: an interactive workshop
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
20200107
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
11:00 am
Wiki Tuesday - Wikifying the Library Catalogue
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
20200115
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
11:30 am
Western University #1Lib1Ref 2020
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20200122
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
11:30 am
Western University #1Lib1Ref 2020
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20200204
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
11:00 am
Western University #1Lib1Ref 2020
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
20200205
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
7:00 pm
Ivan Coyote at Western University
Location: University College (UC)
Location: University College (UC)
20200207
Friday, February 7, 2020
12:30 pm
Alexandra Kimball, PhD, Journalist & Author
Location: University College (UC)
Location: University College (UC)
20200305
Thursday, March 5, 2020
5:30 pm
Arts & Music Annual Alumni Mixer
Location: John Labatt Visual Arts Centre (VAC)
Location: John Labatt Visual Arts Centre (VAC)
20200312
Thursday, March 12, 2020
12:30 pm
The New Billion Dollar Industry: eSports, A Legal Primer
Location: Josephine Spencer Niblett Law Building (LB)
Location: Josephine Spencer Niblett Law Building (LB)
20210128
Thursday, January 28, 2021
2:00 pm
Post-Degree Diploma Virtual Info Session
Location: Virtual - Zoom
Location: Virtual - Zoom
20210304
Thursday, March 4, 2021
2:00 pm
Post-Degree Diploma Virtual Info Session
Location: Virtual - Zoom
Location: Virtual - Zoom
20210930
Thursday, September 30, 2021
9:00 am
Open Access Policy Town Hall
Location: via Zoom Webinar
Location: via Zoom Webinar
20211005
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
1:00 pm
Open Access Policy Town Hall
Location: via Zoom Webinar
Location: via Zoom Webinar
12:30 pm
20211210
Friday, December 10, 2021
12:00 pm
GSWS Speakers Series: Hazel V. Carby on Imperial Intimacies
Location: via Zoom
Location: via Zoom
20220111
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
2:00 pm
Massimiliano Simons: Synthetic biology as a technoscience
Location: Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB)
Location: Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB)
20220119
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
12:00 pm
Inheritance and Lamination in the Representation...
Location: Via Zoom
Location: Via Zoom
20220120
Thursday, January 20, 2022
7:00 pm
Challenging What's Newsworthy: Reporting on Indigenous...
Location: Zoom Webinar
Location: Zoom Webinar
20220127
Thursday, January 27, 2022
7:00 pm
Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Indigenous Futures
Location: Zoom Webinar
Location: Zoom Webinar
20220201
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
12:00 pm
Black History Month with Christina Lord
Location: Online via Zoom
Location: Online via Zoom
20220203
Thursday, February 3, 2022
4:30 pm
Storytelling and the Phenomenology of Displacement
Location: Zoom
Location: Zoom
12:00 pm
Black History Month with Dr. Andrew Campbell
Location: Online via Zoom
Location: Online via Zoom
20220209
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
12:00 pm
Mapping Canadian Government Uses of AI for Social Services
Location: Via Zoom
Location: Via Zoom
4:00 pm
Black History Month with Andrea Thompson
Location: Online via Zoom
Location: Online via Zoom
20220210
Thursday, February 10, 2022
4:00 pm
Black History Month with Greg Frankson
Location: Online via Zoom
Location: Online via Zoom
20220216
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
12:00 pm
Black History Month with Robert Small
Location: Online via Zoom
Location: Online via Zoom
20220223
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
4:00 pm
Black History Month with Marisa Rosa Grant
Location: Online via Zoom
Location: Online via Zoom
20220302
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
12:00 pm
Seeing Human Rights - Video Activism as a Proxy Profession
Location: Zoom
Location: Zoom
20220303
Thursday, March 3, 2022
4:30 pm
Data collection during the pandemic: When the unwritten...
Location: Zoom
Location: Zoom
20220309
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
12:00 pm
Higher education, "diversity," and information literacy
Location: Via Zoom
Location: Via Zoom
7:00 pm
Healing + Belonging: Blackness and Indigeneity
Location: Online via Zoom
Location: Online via Zoom
20220310
Thursday, March 10, 2022
4:30 pm
"By Women For Women" Communicating Gender...
Location: Zoom
Location: Zoom
20220323
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
12:00 pm
The Discourses of Drag Queen Story Time Challengers...
Location: Via Zoom
Location: Via Zoom
20220324
Thursday, March 24, 2022
3:00 pm
Climate Crisis, Multi-Generational Resilience Wisdom Council
Location: Delivered on Zoom
Location: Delivered on Zoom
4:30 pm
Data Imaginaries
Location: Zoom
Location: Zoom
20220325
Friday, March 25, 2022
2:00 pm
Destinations & Detours: FIMS Career Conference 2022
Location: Online via Brazen
Location: Online via Brazen
9:30 am
Reflecting on Canada's Trucker Convoy & Pandemic Protests
Location: Zoom
Location: Zoom
11:00 am
Reflecting on Canada's Trucker Convoy & Pandemic Protests
Location: Zoom
Location: Zoom
20220408
Friday, April 8, 2022
2:00 pm
Disrupting Colonial Narratives in Newsrooms
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20220428
Thursday, April 28, 2022
2:00 pm
Disinformation on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic
Location: Zoom Webinar
Location: Zoom Webinar
20220505
Thursday, May 5, 2022
12:00 pm
Trinity3: Screening & Discussion with Mary Kavanagh and...
Location: Zoom Webinar
Location: Zoom Webinar
20220519
Thursday, May 19, 2022
7:00 pm
David Nemer: Technology of the Oppressed
Location: Brown & Dickson
Location: Brown & Dickson
20220923
Friday, September 23, 2022
5:00 pm
FIMS Homecoming Human Library
Location: John Labatt Visual Arts Centre (VAC)
Location: John Labatt Visual Arts Centre (VAC)
20220928
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
6:00 pm
Screening - Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Location: Music Building (MB)
Location: Music Building (MB)
12:00 pm
Big Data and Dementia: Implications for Diagnosis
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20220929
Thursday, September 29, 2022
4:30 pm
Cronenberg and the Abnormal Body
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20221005
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
12:00 pm
Writing at the Graduate Level - with Paul Schmidt
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20221013
Thursday, October 13, 2022
4:30 pm
Imagined Audiences: Connecting the History and Theory...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20221019
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
12:00 pm
The Telenovela Archives: The Early Years
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20221026
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
12:00 pm
Disinformation Disorder and Potential Solutions for Canada
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20221027
Thursday, October 27, 2022
4:30 pm
Poisoning of Alexei Navalny: Understanding...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20221109
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
12:00 pm
Organizing your Research with Zotero
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20221110
Thursday, November 10, 2022
5:30 pm
Anna Friz Public Talk
Location: University College (UC)
Location: University College (UC)
20221116
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
12:00 pm
A Snapshot of Community Engaged Learning in...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
4:30 pm
THE AUTOCRATS ARE AT THE GATE!: And we're busy...
Location: University College (UC)
Location: University College (UC)
20221117
Thursday, November 17, 2022
12:15 pm
Master of Media in Journalism & Communication - Open House
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
4:30 pm
Value, Values, and Visibility: Public Value Conflation...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20221206
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
12:00 pm
Demystifying the Scholarly Publishing Process
Location: Zoom
Location: Zoom
20230112
Thursday, January 12, 2023
1:30 pm
Kairos Blanket Exercise (KBE)
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
20230119
Thursday, January 19, 2023
7:30 pm
Jeremy Dutcher at Alumni Hall - Musical Performance
Location: Alumni Hall (AH)
Location: Alumni Hall (AH)
20230125
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
12:00 pm
What Stage of Capitalism is This?
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230208
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
12:00 pm
Housing Experiences of American/Indian/Alaska Native...
Location: Via Zoom (registration required)
Location: Via Zoom (registration required)
20230301
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
12:00 pm
Hacking Online Virality
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230302
Thursday, March 2, 2023
12:00 pm
Conversations on Access: Black Disability Activism
Location: Zoom Webinar
Location: Zoom Webinar
4:30 pm
An Afternoon with Cameron Bailey
Location: University College (UC)
Location: University College (UC)
20230308
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
6:30 pm
Museum Diplomacy in Changing Times
Location: Aga Khan Museum
Location: Aga Khan Museum
12:00 pm
The Politics of Remembering through Civic Space
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230309
Thursday, March 9, 2023
4:30 pm
Playing Videogames Their Own Way
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230314
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
12:00 pm
Challenging Imposter Syndrome with Dr. Melanie-Anne Atkins
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230315
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
2:30 pm
Creativity Workshop with Beau Dixon
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230316
Thursday, March 16, 2023
4:30 pm
The author and finisher of her craft: authentic creative...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230323
Thursday, March 23, 2023
4:30 pm
Using Panlex Swadesh Lists to Create a Phonosemantic...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230329
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
20230330
Thursday, March 30, 2023
4:30 pm
Understanding Genre Through Journeying
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230331
Friday, March 31, 2023
2:00 pm
Media Arts Festival
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230406
Thursday, April 6, 2023
4:30 pm
Necropolitics Illustrated: the Covid-19 pandemic and...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230420
Thursday, April 20, 2023
4:30 pm
The Role of Influencers on Instagram and Twitter During...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230517
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
6:30 pm
Local or Global? The Future of Diaspora and Immigration...
Location: Aga Khan Museum
Location: Aga Khan Museum
20230707
Friday, July 7, 2023
1:30 pm
Cultural Awareness and Racial Understanding - Public Talk
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230712
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
10:00 am
20230823
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
10:00 am
Course Readings Faculty Information Session
Location: Zoom
Location: Zoom
20230909
Saturday, September 9, 2023
1:00 pm
Public Art & Publishing: Zine Creation
Location: Somerville House (SH)
Location: Somerville House (SH)
20230920
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
12:00 pm
Deception Detection Research for News Verification
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230925
Monday, September 25, 2023
5:00 pm
Whose Objectivity is it Anyway?
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230928
Thursday, September 28, 2023
12:00 pm
Mastering Zotero: Discover the Power of Citation Management
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20230929
Friday, September 29, 2023
12:00 pm
The Nature of Healing: A NDTR Event
Location: John George Althouse Faculty of Education Building (FEB)
Location: John George Althouse Faculty of Education Building (FEB)
20231004
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
12:00 pm
FIMS Film Festival Critics Lab: An Insider Experience at...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
12:00 pm
20231018
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
12:00 pm
Lies, damned lies and democracy!
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20231106
Monday, November 6, 2023
12:00 pm
Inter/Trans/Multidisciplinarity: Why all the buzz?
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20231109
Thursday, November 9, 2023
7:00 pm
ArtNow! Western Voices in Canadian Art: Hon.Patricia Bovey
Location: Fanshawe Community College
Location: Fanshawe Community College
12:00 pm
Master of Media in Journalism & Communication Open House
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
5:00 pm
Emma Donoghue and Chris Roulson: In Conversation
Location: Museum London
Location: Museum London
12:00 pm
Pride Library Tour and Talk with Dr. James Miller
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
20231110
Friday, November 10, 2023
10:00 am
Advocating for Creativity: Patricia Bovey on Arts Activism..
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20231115
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
12:00 pm
Community-based Experiential Learning in Canadian...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20231116
Thursday, November 16, 2023
4:30 pm
Femcel Forums: Exploring Gender Identity and...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
12:00 pm
Unlocking the Power of ORCID iD
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20231122
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
12:00 pm
Making #Charlottesville: Media from Civil Rights to...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
12:00 pm
Research Ethics Workshop: Conducting Research with or...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20231123
Thursday, November 23, 2023
4:30 pm
Defining and Classifying the Broadway Musical in an...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20231211
Monday, December 11, 2023
2:00 pm
Visual Pleasure with Dr. Jeff Preston and Erin Clark
Location: John Labatt Visual Arts Centre (VAC)
Location: John Labatt Visual Arts Centre (VAC)
20240116
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
10:30 am
AI, Data and the City
Location: International and Graduate Affairs Building
Location: International and Graduate Affairs Building
20240117
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
12:00 pm
Mapping the Chalatenango Massacres
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240131
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
12:00 pm
Useful & Beautiful: A Roundtable on Creative Techniques...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240207
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
12:00 pm
Workshop - Unpacking Anti-Black Racism
Location: Online via Zoom
Location: Online via Zoom
20240212
Monday, February 12, 2024
4:00 pm
Embroidering Absence: War Memories of Salvadoran Civil...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240213
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
10:00 am
Bouncing a few balls - notes on creativity, with Nasser...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240228
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
12:00 pm
Instapoetics, Poetic Expression and Screen-Capitalism
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240229
Thursday, February 29, 2024
4:30 pm
Knowledge Translation: Theories and Practices
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240307
Thursday, March 7, 2024
4:30 pm
Disposable People: Data cleaning and power in AI ethics
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240308
Friday, March 8, 2024
10:30 am
The Nest with Julietta Singh and Chase Joynt
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240312
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
12:00 pm
Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240313
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
12:00 pm
Reporting in a house of mirrors
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240321
Thursday, March 21, 2024
7:00 pm
Film Screening: Hey Viktor!
Location: University Community Centre (UCC)
Location: University Community Centre (UCC)
20240322
Friday, March 22, 2024
10:30 am
Public Universities as Real Estate Developers
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240327
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
12:00 pm
Big Data Analytics in Higher Education in Canada
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240409
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
9:00 am
Generating Community - FIMS Graduate Student Conference
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
7:00 pm
Libraries Do Good Work
Location: Museum London
Location: Museum London
20240416
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
1:30 pm
WDSS Introduction to Python Workshop
Location: Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB)
Location: Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB)
20240418
Thursday, April 18, 2024
10:00 am
Gender-Based Violence & The Sustainable Development Goals
Location: Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB)
Location: Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB)
4:30 pm
Generative AI: A Disruptive Game Changer in Higher Education
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240422
Monday, April 22, 2024
1:30 pm
WDSS Intermediate R Workshop
Location: Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB)
Location: Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB)
20240502
Thursday, May 2, 2024
4:30 pm
GradCast: Disseminating Academic Research on Air
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240509
Thursday, May 9, 2024
4:30 pm
Feedback and Focus: Exploring Post-Secondary Students'...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20240516
Thursday, May 16, 2024
20240717
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
9:00 am
Smart Cities and Communities Workshop
Location: International and Graduate Affairs Building
Location: International and Graduate Affairs Building
20240930
Monday, September 30, 2024
2:00 pm
Silent No More: A virtual tour of the former Mohawk...
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
Location: The D.B. Weldon Library (WL)
20241002
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
12:00 pm
Reflections and Reframing: Student perspectives on using...
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
20241003
Thursday, October 3, 2024
5:00 pm
At a Loss for Words: Conversation in the Age of Rage
Location: University Community Centre (UCC)
Location: University Community Centre (UCC)
20241030
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
12:00 pm
Communicating Solidarity in the Neoliberal University
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)
Location: FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB)