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Past Research Symposiums

Speaker	Date	Symposium Title
Jin Ha Lee, Professor and Founder/Director of the GAMER Group at the UW's iSchool	12/5/2022	Misinformation & Popular Culture
Casey Fiesler, Associate Professor in Information Science & Computer Science at CU Boulder	11/28/2022	Remember the Human: Ethical Considerations for Internet Research
Jason De León, Professor of Anthropology and Chicana, Chicano, and Central American Studies at the UCLA,  Executive Director of the Undocumented Migration Project and the Colibri Center for Human Rights, and Head Curator of the ongoing global exhibition “Hostile Terrain 94"	11/14/2022	Hostile Terrain 94: Visualizing Undocumented Migration
Andrea Thomer, Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona School of Information	11/7/2022	Curating longitudinal natural history data through the CHANGES project
Pedja Klasnja, Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan	10/31/2022	When does it work? Using micro-randomized trials to inform the design of mobile health interventions
Emma Spiro, Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Adjunct Associate Professor in UW's Dept. of Sociology, co-director of SoMeLab, co-founder & co-director of DataLab, and co-founded CIP	10/24/2022	Election Disinformation: Rapid Response and Repeat Spreaders
Alan Mislove, Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University	10/17/2022	Discrimination through optimization: Measuring fairness and bias in social network ad delivery
Ryan Calo, Professor in the iSchool and the School of Law at University of Washington; Co-founder of the Center for an Informed Public (CIP)	10/10/2022	The Scale and the Reactor
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Assistant Professor of Science Technology and International Affairs (STIA) Program, Georgetown University	5/9/2022	Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India
Benjamin Xie and Jean Salac, UW Information School postdoctoral scholars	5/2/2022	Benjamin Xie: “Roles of Student Feedback for Equity in Large Computing Courses”; Jean Salac: “Moving from Equity to Justice in Computing Instruction for Youth”
Charlotte Lee, Associate Professor, UW Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering	4/25/2022	Organizational Ecologies and the Development of Information Infrastructures
Yunhe Feng, Maddy Jalbert and Lassana Magassa, UW Information School postdoctoral scholars	4/18/2022	Postdoc lightning talks
Kayla DesPortes, Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and the Learning Sciences at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development	4/11/2022	In Pursuit of Culturally Sustaining Education and Technology: Examining the Design of Artistic Computing and Data Literacy Experiences
Morteza Dehghani, Associate Professor of psychology, computer science, and the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) at the University of Southern California	2/28/2022	Morality, Hate and Computation: Integrating diverse data to study extreme moral behavior in the wild
Nicholas Weber, UW iSchool	2/14/2022	An Architecture of Accountability for Civic Institutions
Cait McKinney, Assistant Professor of Communication, Simon Fraser University	1/31/2022	On Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information Studies, UCLA	11/01/2021	Visual Epistemology and Information Studies
Daniel Greene, assistant professor, University of Maryland	10/25/2021	The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope
Gordon Pennycook, assistant professor, University of Regina	10/18/2021	Lazy thinking and inattention to accuracy drive misinformation on social media
Afra Mashhadi, assistant professor, UW Bothell	10/11/2021	Analyzing biases that impact visit estimation of urban parks & green spaces
Michelle Johnson-Jennings, professor, UW School of Social Work	10/4/2021	Indigenous Land-Based Healing
Joe Bak-Coleman, Kolina Koltai and Rachel Moran, postdoctoral researchers, UW Center for an Informed Public	5/24/2021	Student-Faculty Collaborations at the Center for an Informed Public
Joe Bak-Coleman, Kolina Koltai and Rachel Moran, postdoctoral researchers, UW Center for an Informed Public	5/17/2021	Postdoctoral Research at the Center for an Informed Public
Tara Dawson McGuinness, fellow and senior adviser, New Practice Lab	5/10/2021	Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology
Libby Hemphill, associate professor, University of Michigan School of Information	5/3/2021	How Should We Save Social Media Data?
Adele Vrana and Anasuya Sengupta, co-directors and co founders, Whose Knowledge?	4/26/2021	Knowledge (in)justice online: the principles and practices of Whose Knowledge?
Jennifer Wemigwans, Assistant Professor - Adult Education and Community Development Program, Dept of Leadership, Higher and Adult Ed, University of Toronto	4/19/2021	Digital Bundles and the Role of the Helper
Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics	4/12/2021	Technological Refusal: Reflections on a Politics of Computing
Kevin Clark, director of original animation, Netflix	4/5/2021	Media Youth: Tech, TV & Games, Oh My!
Nicole Cooke, Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and Associate Professor, School of Information Science, U of SC	3/29/2021	Re-envisioning LIS: Activating Social Justice
Roderic Crooks, Department of Informatics, UC-Irvine	12/7/2020	Access Is Capture: Edtech, Datafication, and Racial Capitalism
Andre Brock, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology	11/30/2020	Interrogating the Role of Belief in Technology Design and Use
Marisa Duarte, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University	11/16/2020	McDonalds WiFi is Not a Solution: Challenges to Digital Divide Research in Indian Country Amid COVID-19
Tanu Mitra, UW iSchool	11/9/2020	Algorithmic Governance: Auditing Search and Recommendation Algorithms for Misinformation
Bill Howe, UW iSchool	11/2/2020	Integrative Data Equity Systems
Alicia Cheng, MGMT Design	10/26/2020	This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot
Tonia Sutherland, Information and Computer Sciences Department, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa	10/19/2020	Speaking for the Dead
Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University	10/12/2020	Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society
Temi Odumosu, Malmö University, Sweden	10/5/2020	Colonial JPEGs and Questions of Care in Collections
Sid Suri, principal researcher, Microsoft	4/27/2020	Ghost Work: The Labor that Powers AI
Eric Gordon, director, Engagement Lab at Emerson College	4/22/2020	Meaningful Inefficiencies: Incorporating play and care into the design of socio-technical systems
Daniel M. Russell, Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness, Google	2/14/2020	The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics
Bernie Boscoe, postdoctoral researcher, UW iSchool	2/7/2020	With Strings Attached: Reusing Open Data in Research
Bo Zhao, assistant professor, Geography, UW	2/3/2020	Deep Fake in Geography? When Geospatial Data Encounter Artificial Intelligence
Lisa Nathan, associate professor, University of British Columbia School of Information	1/27/2020	Changing Course: Information Schools & Our Climate Crisis
Zetta Elliott, children's literature author	1/21/2020	Fairies Are for White Girls' and Other Lies My Sister Told Me
Andrea Hartzler, associate professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, UW	12/2/2019	UnBIASED: Understanding Biased Patient-Provider Interaction and Supporting Enhanced Discourse
Amy J. Ko, associate professor, UW iSchool	11/26/2019	Big Ideas Behind the Whyline
Jens Molbak, founder, WinWin	11/25/2019	Building a 'Tri-Sector' Open Data Tech Platform to Drive Societal Progress at Scale
Greg Vanderheiden, director & founder, Trace R&D Center, University of Maryland - College Park	11/22/2019	Underestimating Barriers Posted by Cognition and Digital Literacy
Michelle H. Martin, Beverly Cleary Professor for Children & Youth Services, UW iSchool	11/18/2019	A tribute to black childhood in music, story, and pictures
Michaeil Best, associate professor, Georgia Institute of Technology	11/5/2019	Value Sensitive Design & U.N. Peacekeepers
Anind K. Dey, Amy J. Ko & Jacob O. Wobbrock, UW iSchool faculty members	11/4/2019	Lasting Impact: A Panel with 3 Recent iSchool Award Winners
Emma Spiro, assistant professor, UW iSchool	10/29/2019	Online Social Behavior during Crisis Events
William Jones, research professor emeritus, UW iSchool	10/28/2019	Information, knowledge and successful aging
Megan Finn, assistant professor, UW iSchool	10/21/2019	We are all well: A partial history of public information infrastructures after disasters
Chirag Shah, associate professor, UW iSchool	10/14/2019	Counteracting Bias and Increasing Fairness in Search
Jevin West, associate professor, UW iSchool	10/7/2019	Calling BS in an Age of Misinformation
Tung Bui, chair, professor & director, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai'i	9/30/2019	Toward the institutionalization of communication practices in social media platforms
S. Craig Watkins, director, Institute for Media Innovation, University of Texas at Austin	6/10/2019	The Digital Age: Why Educators Should Develop Future Ready Schools
Hans Jochen Scholl, professor, UW iSchool	6/3/2019	Disaster Response in the Pacific Northwest
Miranda Belarde-Lewis, assistant professor, UW iSchool	5/20/2019	Indigenous Curation: How Community Voices, Tribal History, and Native Art Can Inform Information Science
Julia Flanders, professor of practice & director, Digital Scholarship Group, Northeastern University	5/13/2019	The Shape of Data
Susan Hildreth, professor of practice, UW iSchool	5/21/2018	Co-Creating MLIS Curriculum for Cultural Competence and Community-Driven Learning: Making Progress for the Future of Libraries
Kevin Crowston, Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Associate Dean for Research, Syracuse University	4/12/2018	Gravity Spy: Humans, Machines and The Future of Citizen Science
Anna Lauren Hoffmann, assistant professor, UW iSchool	1/8/2018	Toward a Conception of Data Violence: Data Justice Beyond Distributions
Jevin West, assistant professor, UW iSchool	12/4/2017	Calling BS on Phrenology 2.0
Batya Friedman, professor, UW iSchool; and Emily Bender, professor, UW Linguistics Department	11/20/2017	Articulating How NLP Data and Systems Do and Don't Represent the World: Toward Mitigating Bias and Enabling Better Science
Joseph T. Tennis, associate professor, UW iSchool	11/13/2017	Through Formal Analysis and Theories of Meaning: Extending the Trajectory of S. R. Ranganathan’s Theoretical Frameworks in Classification Research
Bob Boiko, teaching professor, UW iSchool	11/6/2017	Figuring Out What’s Next in Pedagogy and Learning Systems
Volker Wulf, Professor of Information Systems and New Media at the University of Siegen Germany	12/5/2016	Grounded Design: A Practise-based Approach to the Design and Use of IT Artefacts
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland-College Park	10/6/2016	Interactive Visual Discovery in Event Analytics: Exploring Education & Other Data