IS Colloquia 2012-2013
The Information Studies Colloquium provides a forum for intellectual exchange and professional networking. All events are free and open to interested members of the community.
The colloquium is sponsored by the UCLA Department of Information Studies and the Breslauer Professor Fund.
The department announces upcoming colloquia to a variety of discussion lists, including IS-TALKS. Please feel free to subscribe yourself to IS-TALKS in order to keep up to date with our announcements!
Unless otherwise noted, all colloquia are held in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS) Building, room 111, on Thursdays at 3:00pm. Receptions to follow in the 2nd floor Salon.
Podcasts and recordings of past colloquia
For more information, contact: desk.gseis@gmail.com - 310-825-8799
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2012
September 27 - Welcome to 2012-2013 - Colloquium Flyer
October 4 - DataCenter.org on Social Justice Movements and Grassroots Organizing - Colloquium Flyer - Please note that this lecture will take place in the Young Research Library Presentation Room.
October 11 - Paul Dourish on Representational Practice and Digital Forms: Towards a Materiality of Digital Data - Colloquium Flyer
October 25 - Siva Vaidhyanathan on "The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry)" - Colloquium Flyer - Please note that this lecture will take place in the Young Research Library Conference Room.
November 1 - Karen Wilson, Department of History, UCLA - Please note that this lecture will take place in the Young Research Library Presentation Room.
November 8 - Diversity Event - Telling Our Stories: History and Challenges of Two Spirit Persons Through Personal Digital Storytelling - Colloquium Flyer - Please note that this lecture will take place in the Young Research Library Conference Room from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
November 15 - Anjali Arondeker on The Aporia of Exemplarity: Sexuality, Archives, South Asia - Colloquium Flyer
November 29 - Peter Lunenfeld on How To Do Generative Humanities - Please note that this lecture will take place in the Young Research Library Presentation Room.
