School of Information Sciences
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Sidney E. Berger, director emeritus of the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum of Salem and an adjunct professor in the iSchool, will give the talk "The Fabrication, Materials, Design, Cultural Context, Uses, and Miracle of Paper." He will provide an examination on many of the most extraordinary forms of paper decoration, with a look at many of its uses.
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Join the faculty and students of the School of Information Sciences as they share the breadth of their research. Presentations and posters will address socially relevant topics such as crowdsourcing, social media and misinformation, machine learning, text mining, censorship, and more. The showcase is open to the public, and refreshments will be provided.
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The first speaker in the Data Privacy Seminar Series will be David E. Grogan, associate director of university compliance at the University of Illinois, who will give the talk, "A Risk-Based Approach to the GDPR."
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John Walsh, director of the HathiTrust Research Center and associate professor of information and library science at Indiana University, will give the talk, "Katy, Millie, Misty, and Me: Participatory Culture in Teen Fashion and Humor Comics." The seminar, sponsored by the iSchool's Center for Informatics Research in Science, is open to all.
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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, professor and coordinator for information literacy services and instruction in the University Library, and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, manager of surveys and research at Ithaka S+R, will give the talk, "Data Gathering and Dissemination in Real-Time: Academic Library Response to COVID-19."
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The iSchool's 4th annual fall open house will provide prospective MS in Library and Information Science students an opportunity to interact virtually with current students, faculty, alumni, and staff members. In addition, prospective students will gain insight into the application process at the iSchool. This event will be live streamed and recorded.
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Matthew Rubery, professor of modern literature at Queen Mary University of London, will present "Book Audio" as part of The Center for Children's Books (CCB) 2020-2021 Speaker Series.
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Sarah Park Dahlen, associate professor in the MLIS program at St. Catherine University, will give the 2020 Gryphon Lecture, "(Re)Presenting Korea: The Carpenters and the White American Imaginary."
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Angel Daniel Matos, assistant professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at Bowdoin College, will present “Queer YA Novels that Sadden and Hurt: Adam Silvera’s Oeuvre and the Politics of Unhappiness” as part of The Center for Children's Books (CCB) 2020-2021 Speaker Series.
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Joan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, will present "What is Media Manipulation?" Donovan leads the field in examining internet and technology studies, online extremism, media manipulation, and disinformation campaigns.
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Betsy Hearne, professor emerita in the School of Information Sciences, will present, "CENTERED: The Life and Times of a Book Review Journal," as part of the Center for Children's Books 75th Anniversary Celebration speaker series.
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Kate McDowell (MS '99, PhD '07), associate professor in the School of Information Sciences, will present, "Storytelling: From Story Times to Epistemological Information Divides," as part of the Center for Children's Books 75th Anniversary Celebration speaker series.
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Lee Skallerup Bessette, Katia Bowers, Maria Cecire, Quinn Dombrowski, Anouk Lang, and Roopika Risam, will present “Tropes and Tribulations: Exploring Computational Text Analysis with the Data-Sitters Club” as part of The Center for Children's Books (CCB) 2020-2021 Speaker Series.
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Sarah Park Dahlen (MS '09, PhD '09 iSchool), associate professor at St. Catherine University, will present, "Advocacy and Infographics: Doing the Work for Diversity in Youth Literature and Librarianship," as part of the Center for Children's Books 75th Anniversary Celebration speaker series.
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Dipesh Navsaria (MS '04), pediatrician and medical director of Reach Out and Read Wisconsin, will present, "Books Build Better Brains: Sharing Books as a Public Health Intervention," as part of the Center for Children's Books 75th Anniversary Celebration speaker series.
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Matthew Grenby, director of the Humanities Research Institute and professor of eighteenth-century studies at Newcastle University, UK, will present "Going Global: Transnational Networks and the Spread of Early Modern Children’s Books."
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Jonathan Fox, aprivacy engineering expert, will share his experience of how one may distinguish privacy threats from vulnerabilities, what strategies can be employed to create context diagrams for privacy threat modeling, how privacy engineers can translate threats into user stories, and then utilize user stories to apply controls to reduce or eliminate threats to privacy.
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The Responsible Data Science and AI Speaker Series discusses topics such as explainability, reproducibility, biases, data curation and governance, and privacy. Lindah Kotut, assistant professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, will present "Amplifying the Griot: (Ancient) Stories Guiding the Design of Fair, Equitable and Transparent Systems."
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The Responsible Data Science and AI Speaker Series discusses topics such as explainability, reproducibility, biases, data curation and governance, and privacy. Pardis Emami-Naeini, postdoctoral scholar in the School of Computer Science at the University of Washington, will give the talk, "Designing an Informative and Usable Security and Privacy Label for IoT Devices."
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The Responsible Data Science and AI Speaker Series discusses topics such as explainability, reproducibility, biases, data curation and governance, and privacy. Rainer Böhme, professor for security and privacy at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, will present "Privacy Preferences and Choice Architecture: the Case of Consent Management on the Web."
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The Responsible Data Science and AI Speaker Series discusses topics such as explainability, reproducibility, biases, data curation and governance, and privacy. Alexandra Olteanu, principal researcher in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) group at Microsoft Research, will present "Challenges to the Foresight and Measurement of Computational Harms.
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Hacking is inherently a creative process. It’s finding a vulnerability in a system: something the system allows, but is unintended and unanticipated by the system’s creators – something that follows the rules of the system but subverts its intent. In this session, we will hear from Bruce Schneier, an internationally renowned security technologist.
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The School of Information Sciences (iSchool) Research Showcase will share human-centered, interdisciplinary research that connects people with technology to achieve their goals. It focuses on socially relevant topics through the keynote speech and a series of short presentations and posters.
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Writing from the Intersections is a HRI research cluster that aims to open a conversation about writing practices that foreground intersectionality across our campus. Join us for our kickoff meeting where we will be discussing our plans, goals, and calendar of events and speakers.
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The iSchool Research Showcase shares human-centered, interdisciplinary research through a keynote speech and a series of short presentations and posters. All are invited to learn more about advances in AI, accessible computing/data science, information behavior, digital collections, and other research being conducted in the School of Information Sciences.
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This panel discussion featuring Joseph Turow, Itzhak Yanovitzky, Julie Pryde, and Cherie Avent will explore how media, technology, infrastructure, and community can come together to foster a holistic communication ecosystem.
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Quinn Dombrowski, academic technology specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and in the Library, at Stanford University, will present the 2024 Windsor Lecture, "What Happens After the End? Crafting Sustainable Librarianship in an Age of AI."
