Coronavirus Information

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Colloquia/Guest Speakers

There are no events currently scheduled. Check back soon!

Past Talks

2019-2020 Talks

"Analyzing Interaction in Online Learning Environments", presented by Anna Rose Leach

2 p.m. April 23, 2021

"Love Me Binders & Digital V-Mail: Military Veterans’ Personal Archives in the 21st Century", presented by Edward Benoit III

Noon to 2 p.m. April 9, 2021

"Utilizing Technology for Multimodal Learning", presented by Jack Clark

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. March 5, 2021

"Hobbyists: The Historical Roots of White Geek Masculinity", presented by Aaron Trammell

2 p.m. Feb. 26, 2021

"Community Privacy Technologies", presented by David Sidi

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 12, 2021

“Assembling Information from Big Corpora by Focusing Machine Reading”, presented by Enrique Noriega

10 a.m. Dec. 16, 2020

"Neural Network Algorithms for Ontology Based Information Extraction", presented by Dongfang Xu

9 a.m. Dec. 15, 2020

iSchool Faculty Research Blitz

2 p.m. Dec. 4, 2020

"To Look with Love: Emerging Themes on Records and Grief Work", presented by Jennifer Douglas

2 p.m. Nov. 13, 2020

"'To say I lost motivation is an understatement': Inequity and STEM Student Experiences during COVID-19", presented by Jill Williams and Stephanie Murphy

2 p.m. Nov. 6, 2020

"Encountering Emulation for Software Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums", presented by Amelia Acker

Noon to 2 p.m. Oct. 30, 2020

"Beyond Medical Cure: Remedy, Care, and Curation of HIV-Positive Artists Records with the Visual AIDS Archive Project," presented by Marika Cifor

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 23, 2020

Coming Full Circle: Centering Relationality and Indigenous Ways of Knowing in LIS Teaching, Research, and Practice, Presented by Sandra Littletree

4 p.m. Sept. 15, 2020

“Recovering Borderland Modernism: Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo and El Paso’s Spanish-Language Print Culture”, presented by Yolanda Padilla

1 p.m. to 2 p.m. April 23, 2020

“Sexuality’s Abundance: Towards a Poetics of the Archive”, presented by Anjali Arondekar

1 p.m. March 26, 2020

“Centering Indigenous Knowledge in the Archival Paradigm”, presented by Jennifer R. O’Neal

3 p.m. Feb. 6, 2020

“Centering practitioner experiences in archival scholarship: What does feminist editorship look like?”, presented by Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez

2 p.m. Feb. 6, 2020

“Centering Archives on Oppressed People: Feminist Standpoint Epistemology and Archival Values”, presented by Michelle Caswell

1 p.m. Feb. 6, 2020

"Are Neural Networks Learning Spurious Hidden Patterns?", presented by Mithün Paul Panenghat

1 p.m. Nov. 1, 2019

"The Quest for Vision Comfort in Virtual and Augmented Reality Displays", presented by Hong Hua

1 p.m. Oct. 25, 2019