No. 494 - November 30, 2022

  • Coming Events:

    - FIMSWrites - Fall Edition
    - Level Up for Research Excellence
    - Demystifying the Scholarly Publishing Process (Online Workshop)
    - Hold the Date: Kairos Blanket Exercise (KBE) for the FIMS Community

  • Important Dates:

    - Friday, December 2, 2022 - Senate (1:30-4:30PM, AHB 1R40) 
    - Saturday, December 3, 2022 - Indigenous Winter Vendor Market (11AM-5PM, Wampum Learning Lodge)
    - Tuesday, December 6, 2022 - Holiday Bake and Craft Sale (10AM-2PM, UC Foyer)
    - Thursday, December 8, 2022 - Fall/Winter Term classes end (undergraduate)
    - Saturday, December 10 - Thursday, December 22, 2022 - Undergraduate exam period
    - Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - Last day of FIMS graduate classes

  • News & Announcements:

    - FIMS Holiday Food Drive 2022
    - EDI Strategic Planning Survey

  • Publications & Presentations:

    - Santasil Mallik
    - Martin Nord
    - Anabel Quan-Haase
    - Luke Stark

  • In the Media:

    - Giada Ferrucci
    - Amanda Grzyb
    - Talia Méndez
    - Carol Off (Fall 2022 Clissold Lecturer)
    - Selma Purac

  • News from the FIMS Graduate Library:

    - Library Hours for December/January
    - FIMS Holiday Food Drive
    - Winter Term Course Readings for Graduate Courses
    - FIMS Graduate Library Presents...Demystifying the Scholarly Publishing Process
    - FIMS Graduate Library Presents...Kairos Blanket Exercise (KBE)

  • Next Issue:


Coming Events


FIMSWrites - Fall Edition
Every Wednesday
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Check your Western email for the link (or contact Pam McKenzie)
Do you expect to have assignment, story, article, report, thesis, and/or book writing deadlines coming up in the Fall term? Does having other people writing around you help keep you on-task? Then join us for FIMSWrites, an informal initiative to provide some solidarity in the sometimes-solitary writing process. What it is: a group of people sitting silently together working on their individual writing projects for 25-minute Pomodoro sessions, with short breaks between and a longer mid-morning coffee, snack, and socializing break. What it's not: a writing tutorial or workshop. Open to FIMS faculty and grad students who have writing to work on.

Level Up for Research Excellence
December 6-8, 2022
Via Zoom
The Level Up for Research Excellence series combines the best of the Western Research Conference and the annual Knowledge Exchange School into a set of virtual sessions geared towards providing the research community with substantive information and tools to accelerate their research impact. Researchers and scholars will be able to leverage skills learned during these sessions to 'Level Up' their research programs. Open to Western faculty, staff, students, trainees, and postdoctoral scholars, you are invited to register for live workshops offered virtually December 6-8, 2022 or get access to our asynchronous (pre-recorded) sessions. Register now.

Demystifying the Scholarly Publishing Process (Online Workshop)
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Presented by: Emily Carlisle-Johnston and Kristin Hoffmann, Research & Scholarly Communication Librarians with Western Libraries. Publishing scholarly work is a key expectation for researchers. In this session, you’ll learn about some of the behind-the-scenes processes that go into getting academic work published, such as how to navigate the peer review process and how to identify journals that would be suitable, high quality venues for your work. The session will also include a discussion of open access publishing. Register now.

HOLD THE DATE: Kairos Blanket Exercise for the FIMS Community
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
DB Weldon Library, Community Room (First Level)
Hosted by the Office of Indigenous Initiatives (OII) and facilitated by an Indigenous Elder, FIMS students, faculty, and staff are warmly invited to participate in a Kairos Blanket Exercise (KBE), an experiential learning exercise that takes "participants through the history of the colonization of Turtle Island to better understand the ongoing impact of Canadian government policies, institutions, and colonial ideologies, and their intergenerational effects on Indigenouse Peoples and communities". The session will offered in The D.B. Weldon Library's newly opened Community Room. Space is limited, so registration in advance is encouraged.


Important Dates

- Friday, December 2, 2022 - Senate (1:30-4:30PM, AHB 1R40) 
- Saturday, December 3, 2022 - Indigenous Winter Vendor Market (11AM-5PM, Wampum Learning Lodge)
- Tuesday, December 6, 2022 - United Way Holiday Bake and Craft Sale (10AM - 2 PM, UC Foyer)
- Thursday, December 8, 2022 - Fall/Winter Term classes end (undergraduate)
- Saturday, December 10 - Thursday, December 22, 2022 - Undergraduate exam period
- Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - Last day of FIMS graduate classes


News & Announcements

FIMS Holiday Food Drive 2022
Due to your generosity in previous years the FIMS Holiday Food Drive has been a huge success! In 2019 you helped the Businesses Care 2019 Campaign donate more than 476,000 lbs. worth of food to the London Food Bank. In 2020, despite not having an in-person collection location within FIMS, you have helped the Businesses Care 2020 Campaign reach record heights by contributing to a donation of more than 597,000 lbs of food. This year your donation is more important than ever as inflation rates have dramatically increased our community’s need for food bank services, both on campus and throughout the city. For questions or concerns, contact Sam Vander Kooy at svande88@uwo.ca. See details on giving (pdf). 

EDI Strategic Planning Survey
As part of Western's Towards 150 strategic planning process, the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is creating a five-year EDI Strategic Plan. The strategic plan will build on the findings from the Census, as well as other important EDI work achieved together over the last few years. The strategic planning process will dig deeper and further engage the voices of students, staff, faculty and other groups to learn more about your needs, expectations and aspirations related to EDI. To begin the engagement process, we are pleased to launch the EDI Strategic Planning Survey. Your input will help us identify where we are now, where we want to go and what we need to prioritize to create an inclusive campus. Complete the EDI Strategic Planning Survey.


Publications & Presentations


Media Studies PhD student Santasil Mallik chaired a panel titled "Playful Temporalities: Multi-Dynamic Relations of Space, Time, and Image" on November 19 at Reframing the Archive, hosted by ARCHIVO Research Platform. The panel featured a discussion of three papers.

Santasil also attended the conference Photographic Practices and the Making of Religion at Leipzig University on November 25-26 to present a paper titled "Performance of Spirituality: Photographs of Sri Ramakrishna and Late 19-Century Forms of Religious Power."

Martin Nord, PhD in LIS student, published the following article: 

Nord, M. I. (2022). Thinking like a bricoleur: New forms of rigor in research on information experience. Library & Information Science Research, 44(4), 101197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101197

Professor Anabel Quan-Haase co-authored an article titled "The social-ecological model of cyberbullying: Digital media as a predominant ecology in the everyday lives of youth," published in New Media & Society.

Assistant Professor Luke Stark gave a number of presentations between October and December, including:

1) An invited talk as part of the Queen's University Social, Ethical and Legal Issues in Computing Lecture Series on October 31.

2) A presentation on "Waiting for the Woggles: Animating Emotion Computationally in the 1990s" at the 2022 Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] meeting, Society for the History of Technology annual meeting in New Orleans, LA, on November 13.

3) As an invited panelist and keynote speaker at Critical Codes Roundtable event on Ethical Codes of Conduct as a mode of governance for emerging technologies, University of Edinburgh on November 18.

Professor Stark will also give a conference presentation on "Laws for Inference: Conceptual Limits to Automated Decision-Making at the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting in Cholula, Mexico on December 10. 


In the Media

Media Studies doctoral students Giada Ferrucci and Talia Méndez, along with Associate Professor Amanda Grzyb, are featured in an article titled "FIMS PhD students and Western Libraries help launch Media Library in El Salvador," published on the FIMS website on November 24.

Carol Off, the Fall 2022 Clissold Lecturer who visited FIMS in November, was interviewed by Western News for an article titled "Carol Off says autocrats and populists cannot be simply wished away," published on November 22. Off delivered a lecture titled "The Autocrats are at the Gate!: And we're busy watching cat videos," on November 16.

Assistant Professor Selma Purac will appear as a guest on an upcoming six-episode program (airing on CBC Gem) titled Stay Tooned, a show that will take a deep dive through popular cartoons to see how they've helped to shape society. The show will be available for streaming starting on December 2, 2022.


Additional Activities of Note


Andrew Lewis, FIMS instructor, has a couple of art and design announcements to share. First, he again worked with Canada Post on a new stamp design, developing their 2022 Hanukkah stamp. The design is a "contemporary interpretation of the flames on a hanukkiyah (eight-branched menorah)." 

Lewis also has a solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints coming up, titled In The Meantime at Strand Fine Art Services. An opening reception will be held on December 9, 6PM-9PM. The exhibition will run until January 13, 2023.

Henry Standage (MMJC'22) recently produced, wrote and hosted a three-part podcast for Sportsnet that's airing this month during the World Cup. Titled Painting the Pitch Red, it "explores the heroic rise, grim decline, and eventual triumph of Canada's men's national team, through the lens of some of the most respected soccer voices in the country."


News from the FIMS Graduate Library


Library Hours

December 2022

Wednesday, December 14th - 11:30am - 2:30 pm (CLOSED for a staff event)
Saturday, December 17th & Sunday, December 18th (CLOSED)
December 19th - 22nd (Monday - Friday, 9am - 4pm)

Holiday Closure

Friday, December 23rd, 2022 - Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023 (CLOSED)

January 2023

January 4th - 8th, 2023 (Wednesday - Friday, 10am - 2pm, Saturday & Sunday, CLOSED)

N.B. Regular hours continue through Friday, December 16th, 2022, and will resume on Monday, January 9th, 2023.

FIMS Holiday Food Drive

In-person donations of non-perishable food items are now being accepted in both the Dean's Office and in the FIMS Graduate Library. Items in demand include: canned vegetables and fruit (no sugar, or salt added); canned tuna and salmon; peanut butter; special-diet foods (gluten-free, lactose-free, etc.); dried vegetables (lentils, chickpeas, legumes, etc.); and healthy breakfast cereals.

Winter Term Course Readings for Graduate Courses

FIMS Graduate instructors - let us take care of your course readings this term. You can find instructions for accessing the Course Readings Service here.
Alternatively, you can email your syllabus to fimslib@uwo.ca and we will start finding the materials you need.

FIMS Graduate Library Presents...

Demystifying the Scholarly Publishing Process (Online Workshop)

Emily Carlisle-Johnston and Kristin Hoffmann, Research & Scholarly Communication Librarians with Western Libraries

Tuesday, December 6th (12-1pm, EST)

Publishing scholarly work is a key expectation for researchers. In this session, you’ll learn about some of the behind-the-scenes processes that go into getting academic work published, such as how to navigate the peer review process and how to identify journals that would be suitable, high quality venues for your work. The session will also include a discussion of open access publishing.

Zoom registration link: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpdOmorTIsE9NPtT6KdlUWZ_SLpZY1dhIT 

*HOLD THE DATE*
Kairos Blanket Exercise (KBE) for the FIMS Community

Thursday, January 12th (1:30-4:30pm), The Wampum Learning Lodge (adjacent to the Faculty of Education, Althouse College)

In partnership with Danica Pawlick-Potts' LIS 9370 course, hosted by the Office of Indigenous Initiatives (OII) and facilitated by an Indigenous Elder, FIMS students, faculty, and staff are warmly invited to participate in a Kairos Blanket Exercise (KBE), an experiential learning exercise that takes "participants through the history of the colonization of Turtle Island to better understand the ongoing impact of Canadian government policies, institutions, and colonial ideologies, and their intergenerational effects on Indigenouse Peoples and communities". The session will offered in the newly opened Wampum Learning Lodge, adjacent to the Faculty of Education at Althouse College. Space is limited, so registration in advance is encouraged.

N.B. If you are unable to attend this program offering, another KBE for the FIMS community will be offered in the spring.


Next Issue


The Grad Bulletin is your source for news, announcements, and events pertaining to FIMS graduate programs. Submissions from the FIMS community are always welcome and may be sent via e-mail to fims-communications@uwo.ca.

The final issue of the FIMS Graduate Bulletin for the Fall 2022 term will be published on Wednesday, December 14, 2022. The deadline for submissions is noon on Tuesday, December 13, 2022.