No. 495 - December 14, 2022

  • Coming Events:

    - FIMSWrites - Fall Edition
    - New Date: Kairos Blanket Exercise (KBE) for the FIMS Community
    - Tickets now available: Jeremy Dutcher at Alumni Hall

  • Important Dates:

    - Saturday, December 10 - Thursday, December 22, 2022 - Undergraduate exam period
    - Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - Last day of FIMS graduate classes
    - Friday, December 23, 2022 - Tuesday, January 3, 2023 - University offices closed
    - Monday, January 9, 2023 - Undergraduate and graduate classes resume
    - Friday, January 20, 2023 - Meeting of the Senate (A&HB, 1:30PM)

  • News & Announcements:

    - FIMS Holiday Food Drive 2022
    - EDI Strategic Planning Survey

  • Awards & Accomplishments:

    - Martins Oluwole Olu-Omotayo

  • Publications & Presentations:

    - Melissa Adler
    - Nicole Dalmer (LIS PhD'18)
    - Giada Ferrucci
    - Nataleah Hunter-Young
    - Pam McKenzie
    - Paulette Rothbauer
    - Ebenezer Martin Yeboah
    - Kevin Oswald
    - Selma Purac

  • In the Media:

    - Andrew Lewis
    - Selma Purac

  • News from the FIMS Graduate Library:

    - Course Reading Service (Winter 2023)
    - Upcoming Hours, Winter 2023 Hours
    - Winter 2023 Programming

  • 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.

New Date: Kairos Blanket Exercise (KBE) for the FIMS Community
Thursday, January 12, 2023
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Wampum Learning Lodge
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 Indigenous Peoples and communities". The session will be 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.

Tickets now available: Jeremy Dutcher at Alumni Hall
Thursday, January 19, 2023
7:30 p.m.
Alumni Hall
Get tickets
FIMS is pleased to present a special musical performance featuring Juno Award-winner Jeremy Dutcher at Alumni Hall. Tickets are free and the show is open to everyone. Artist Bio: Performer, composer, activist, musicologist - these roles are all infused into Jeremy Dutcher's art. His music, too, transcends boundaries: unapologetically playful in its incorporation of classical influences, full of reverence for the traditional songs of his home, and teeming with the urgency of modern-day struggles of resistance (read more).


Important Dates


- Saturday, December 10 - Thursday, December 22, 2022 - Undergraduate exam period
- Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - Last day of FIMS graduate classes
- Friday, December 23, 2022 - Tuesday, January 3, 2023 - University Offices closed
- Monday, January 9, 2023 - Undergraduate and graduate classes resume
- Friday, January 20, 2023 - Meeting of the Senate (A&HB, 1:30PM)


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.


Awards & Accomplishments


Martins Oluwole Olu-Omotayo, LIS PhD candidate, successfully defended his thesis titled Discourse, Power Dynamics, and Risk Amplification in Disaster Risk Management in Canada, on Monday, December 12, 2022. 


Publications & Presentations


Associate Professor Melissa Adler participated in two sessions at the 4S/ESOCITE (Society for the Social Studies of Science/La Sociedad Latinoamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología) meeting in Cholula-Puebla, México:

  1. She organized and chaired an author-meets-critics (friends/fans) session for David Nemer's book, Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil, which earned the prestigious ESOCITE book award at the meeting. The discussants were Lucy Suchman, Raoni Rajão, Lilly Irani, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Raquel Velho.
  2. She presented her paper "Mounting the Antelope: How the Early American Wild became Information" in the panel “Studies of multispecies: Animals.”
Assistant Professor Nicole Dalmer (LIS PhD'18), Associate Professors Pam McKenzie and Paulette Rothbauer and current LIS PhD students Ebenezer Martin Yeboah and Kevin Oswald published a report titled "Palaces for the People": Mapping Public Libraries' Capacity for Social Connection and Inclusion, as part of their SSHRC-funded research project of the same name.

Media Studies PhD student Giada Ferrucci co-authored an article titled "Anti-Mining Networks Support Land Defense Movements in Central America," published the North American Congress on Latin America on November 28, 2022.

Assistant Professor Nataleah Hunter-Young authored two publications:

"Transgressive Frames.” Journal of Visual Culture 21.1 (2022): 111-131. [Open Access]

"Poetry from Endless Futures." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 61 (2022). [Open Access]

Assistant Professor Selma Purac published a chapter called "Myth, manga, technology and gender: Chobits and the post-war Pygmalion" that appears in the recently published book Capture Japan: Visual Culture and the Global Imagination from 1952 to the Present, edited by Marco Bohr. The chapter is pages 245 - 268 and the book is part of Bloomsbury's Visual Arts series.


In the Media


FIMS instructor Andrew Lewis was featured in an article titled "London artist's new exhibit explores COVID's psychological toll," published by the London Free Press on December 7, 2022.

Assistant Professor Selma Purac was featured in a Western News article titled "Western professor examines the consumerism behind cartoons," published on December 2 to coincide with the streaming release date for CBC Gem's Stay Tooned.

Professor Purac also appeared as a guest on CBC's London Morning with Rebecca Zandbergen on December 6 to discuss cartoons and consumerism.


News from the FIMS Graduate Library


Course Readings Service (Winter 2023)

Faculty and course instructors are invited to take advantage of the Library’s Course Readings Service for any required or recommended readings for students during the Winter 2023 academic term. If you questions or would like to submit you syllabus directly to us here in the FIMS Graduate Library, please email your course outline to fimslib@uwo.ca so that we can begin preparing your readings for next term.

Upcoming Hours, Winter 2023 Hours

December 2022
**Wednesday December 14th, 11:30am – 2:30pm (CLOSED for a FGL Staff event)
Saturday, December 17th & Sunday, December 18th (CLOSED)
December 19th – 22nd, 2022 (Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm)

Holiday Closure
Friday, December 23rd, 2022 – Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023 (CLOSED)

January
January 4th, 5th & 6th, 2023 (10am-2pm)
January 7th & 8th (CLOSED)

**NEW**
Winter 2023 Term Hours
Monday – Wednesday, 8:30am-7pm
Thursday & Friday, 8:30am-4pm
Saturdays, 12-4pm

Winter 2023 Programming

Kairos Blanket Exercise
Thursday, January 12th (1:30-4:30pm) at 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 Indigenous Peoples and communities". The session will be 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 Issues


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 is the final issue of the FIMS Graduate Bulletin for the Fall 2022 term. Publication will resume on Wednesday, January 25, 2023. The deadline for submissions is noon on Tuesday, January 24, 2023.