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April 17, 2024
Museum Studies students dig up rare ‘diary’ detailing daily life in German POW camps. It’s on display in a new exhibit at the National Air...
April 10, 2024
The University of Toronto has been named as one of the world’s top universities for the study of 50 subjects, including Library and Information Management,...
April 4, 2024
PhD student Hassan Asif, who has just been named a Chancellor Jackman Graduate Fellow in the Humanities, plans to use his fellowship to advance his...
March 14, 2024
The Master of Museum Studies (MMSt) is delighted to celebrate the opening of the Museum Studies Capstone Projects 2023/2024 season! In the full year...
February 2, 2024
Join the Faculty of Information’s Crosstalk Series, an informal weekly speaker series in which two faculty members discuss their current research, look for common themes...
November 29, 2023
The University has recognized four Faculty of Information assistant professors with Connaught New Researcher Awards. Congratulations to Profs Claire Battershill, Priyank Chandra, Rafael Grohmann and...
November 13, 2023
Professor Kelly Lyons has been appointed Interim Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, effective January 1, 2024. She is currently serving...
November 7, 2023
The Los Angeles-Toronto connection: A binational gay media production history of an early feature-length physique film A discussion by Finley Freibert, Southern Illinois University Released...
November 7, 2023
An unusually high number of PhD students will be officially graduating from the Faculty of Information on Wednesday, November 8. Browsing their thesis title gives...
October 26, 2023
The Faculty of Information’s Beth Coleman debuts her upcoming international exhibition at the Centre for Culture and Technology. Titled, “Reality was Whatever Happened: Butler AI...
October 23, 2023
Join the Faculty of Information’s Crosstalk Series, an informal weekly speaker series in which two faculty members discuss their current research, look for common themes...
October 20, 2023
The Archives of Ontario has enlisted the support of the Faculty of Information’s GLAM Incubator as it looks to break new ground in the Canadian...
October 19, 2023
Assistant Professor Priyank Chandra’s STREET Lab marks its first birthday this fall In its first year of existence, the STREET Lab, founded by Assistant Professor...
October 19, 2023
More than a week has passed since the tragic events of October 7 – beginning with the unspeakable atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians,...
October 12, 2023
Dis/Usability is a monthly cross-disciplinary speaker and workshop series at the intersection between technology and disability justice. This month’s speaker is Professor Alison Harvey from...
October 12, 2023
The first installment of U of T’s Black Research Networks Dialogues Speaker Series for 2023/24 features the Faculty of Information’s SA Smythe and curator Gaëtane Verna...
October 11, 2023
The Faculty of Information wishes to call your attention to the following University of Toronto statement on the ongoing war in the Middle East. Students...
October 5, 2023
Black Poiēsis Launch Poster The Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis (CBP) is thrilled to welcome you to its inaugural gathering. Over food and music, learn more...
October 4, 2023
Join the Indigenous Action and Anti-Colonialism Committee for an engaging presentation by Jesse Boiteau, Senior Archivist at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, about...
October 3, 2023
Monday Night Seminars at the Centre for Culture and Technology are back. Here’s what’s happening for the rest of this fall semester: Eric A. Stanley...
September 13, 2023
The latest venture for Mike Borg (Class of 2012) is a company that uses microscopic barcodes made from baker’s yeast to trace products in the...
September 7, 2023
Assistant Professor Shion Guha, who is also a Schwartz Reisman Faculty Fellow this year, is giving an SRI Seminar Series talk on predictive risk models,...
September 5, 2023
The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society is pleased to announce the appointment of three distinguished University of Toronto faculty members, including two Faculty...
September 1, 2023
“I don’t want our field to be just a problem/solution field,” says Javed Mostafa, the new Faculty of Information Dean. (Photo by Polina Teif) The...
August 21, 2023
The Black Digital Humanities Speaker Series, held online last spring, was designed to highlight the many different pathways available to students of archives. Keith Cheng...
August 17, 2023
Algorithms, data extraction, digital marketers monetizing “eyeballs”: these all seem like such recent features of our lives. And yet, Lee McGuigan tells us in this...
August 11, 2023
When Ana Villegas enrolled in the Faculty of Information’s Master of Museum Studies Program, after completing her BA in history, she was looking for ways...
August 10, 2023
The Dis/Usability monthly cross-disciplinary speaker and workshop series looks at the intersection between technology and disability justice. On Friday, August 18, 2023, 11am – 12pm, please...
