FIMS Public Events

What power do you have to shape your relationship with technology?

Examine this question and much more at The Glass Room, a family-friendly exhibit running at Weldon Library until April.

Presented by Assistant Professor Shengnan Yang, Faculty of Information and Media Studies. 

This event is part of the FIMS Seminar Series 2024/25.

Presented by Associate Professor Michael Richardson, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

This event is hosted by the Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies.

Presented by Sara Falahatpisheh, PhD candidate in Media Studies, Western University.

Part of the 2024/25 Mediations Lecture Series.

Join authors T.L. Cowan and Jas Rault (both University of Toronto) for a discussion about their recently published book Heavy Processing.

Hosted by FIMS.

Presented by Nehal El-Hadi, writer, researcher, editor, and creator of The Observer Effect.

Hosted by the Creative Arts and Production program at Western University.

This special event features Winter 2025 Asper Fellow Kathy Gannon and students from her course International News, Independent Media: Illusion or Reality?

Students will discuss what they found out and what they can take away.

Presented by Peymon Montazeri, recent PhD graduate from McGill University's School of Information Studies.

Hosted by FIMS.

Fourth year students in Creative Arts & Production are excited to invite you to: TAP, a CAP Creative Showcase Initiative and a special event celebrating creativity, community, and storytelling.

Come for the art, stay for the stories!

Students enrolled in Creative Arts 3200 - Sound, Image, Text II, will present a showcase of their final work in the class.

CA 3200 is taught by Assistant Professor Sally Kewayosh.

Presented by Associate Professor Ajit Pyati, Western University.

Part of the 2024/25 Mediations Lecture Series.

Students enrolled in MMJC 9606 - By, For, About: Telling Stories from/with the Margins, will showcase their final documentary work.

Taught by Assistant Professor Sally Kewayosh.

Presented by Earlel Thiyagaratnam, PhD candidate in Health Information Science, Western University.

Part of the 2024/25 Mediations Lecture Series.

Presented by Wayne Hope, co-director of the Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) research centre at the Auckland University of Technology.

Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, via Professor Nick Dyer-Witheford.

Presented by Mohamed Satti, Associate Professor of Management Communications at the Ivey Business School. 

This event is part of the FIMS Seminar Series 2024/25.

Presented by Paris Marx, journalist and host of the podcasts Tech Won't Save Us and System Crash.

Hosted by the Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies at Western University.

FIMS Professor Luke Stark presents a discussion of his article "Animation and Artificial Intelligence," which proposes that ChatGPT and similar chatbots can be understood as animated characters.

Hosted by the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities at Western University.

Join FIMS and Dean Lisa Henderson in Toronto for the 2025 Alumni Reception. Reconnect with your peers and chat with faculty and staff.

Registration is open now.

Presented by Douglas Victor Janoff (Global Affairs Canada) and Eduardo Tadeo Hernandez (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Unidad Xochimilco)

Hosted by NACDI in partnership with the Practitioner Media Lab at Western.

Presented by Nancy Fraser, Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research.

Hosted by the FIMS Rogers Chair.

Join us for a special film screening of Prisoner No. 626710, directed by filmmaker Lalit Vachani.

"Prisoner No. 626710 waits interminably for a bail hearing in court...".

This Winter 2025, FIMS is excited to present Nahlah Ayed, host of CBC's IDEAS, as our guest lecturer.

As long-standing models of journalism become outdated and discarded, the foreign correspondent has become an easy target (continuing reading).

Presented by Assistant Professor Alissa Centivany, Faculty of Information and Media Studies. 

This event is part of the FIMS Seminar Series 2024/25.

Presented by Myrna Moretti, post-doctoral fellow, Western University.

Part of the 2024/25 Mediations Lecture Series.

Presented by Amanda Cachia (University of Houston) and Syrus Marcus Ware (McMaster University)

Conversations on Access aims to bring scholars, activists and practitioners together to consider issues around accessibility and disability.

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University invite you to a special panel discussing the upcoming Canadian federal election.

Leading voices in Canadian news try to answer some of the most important political questions of our time.