If you weren’t able to attend the lecture last Thursday you can now listen to Dr. Anabel Quan-Haase’s lecture online.

SIMSA Co-chairs Alan and Amy thank Dr. Quan-Haase

Join us on October 19th as Dr. Lisa Lynch discusses Cablegate, Wikileaks, and the Evolving Global Mediascape in her upcoming lecture, “The Leak Heard Round the World?”

Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 7.00 pm at the Ondaatje Hall, McCain Building (next to the Killam Library), Dalhousie University

Once upon a time, 200 years ago this year, the Brothers Grimm published the first volume of what was to become one of the most important books in Western culture. Their evolving collection of Children’s and Household Tales gathered together 200 widely circulated folk tales, and through their rewriting brought them into wide public circulation. Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and so many other tales are with us today because of the stories’ amazing adaptability and also because of the Brothers Grimm and their transformative scholarship.

To celebrate this important anniversary, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has invited Dr Jack Zipes, today’s most prominent fairy tale scholar, to Halifax. He has written and edited scores of books, he has lectured all over the world, and he is also a storyteller himself. His work was recently profiled in The New Yorker.

Dr Zipes will talk about the way Walt Disney films (Snow White, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast and others) have been massively influential in the transmission of the tales, as a single widely known version that becomes culturally dominant. Yet fairy tales have a dynamic form that is maintained through retelling. A tale like Little Riding Hood can be retold in many different ways. Some of the widely circulated alternative versions were considered scandalous at their time of production and still challenge the stereotype that Grimms’ tales are simply for children. This scholarly talk is open to all those in the community interested in fairy tales, folklore, literature (including writing for children), film, literature, and cultural studies. There will be a reception afterwards, at which you can meet Dr Zipes.

For further information, please contact:

Krista Armstrong

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Dalhousie

Tel 902.494.6288

The School of Information Management launches another informative series of Information Management Public Lectures next week to which all members of academic and professional communities are invited.  Mark your calendars and plan to attend!

The Fall 2012 lectures are listed below and the attached file; the winter 2013 lectures will be announced shortly. Further details about each lecture are available at the School’s website

Inquiries about the lectures or ideas for future lectures can be addressed to Dr. Bertrum MacDonald, School of Information Management (e-mail: bertrum.macdonald@dal.ca; 902 494-2472).

Thursday, 27 September 2012, 5:30 pm – Room 1020, Rowe Management Building
“Serendipity Models: How We Encounter Information and People in Digital Environments”
Dr. Anabel Quan-Haase, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University

Friday, 19 October 2012, 10:30 am – Room 1009, Rowe Management Building
“The Leak Heard Round the World? Cablegate, Wikileaks, and the Evolving Global Mediascape”
Dr. Lisa Lynch, Department of Journalism, Concordia University

Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 1:30 pm – Room 3089, Rowe Management Building
“The Ghosts of Info-Wars Past:  Lessons for the Law and Politics of Internet Censorship Resistance Today” 
Prof. Jon Penney, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University (and doctoral candidate, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University)

Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 7:30 pm – Potter Auditorium, Rowe Management Bldg.
“The Natural History of a Sustainable Institution: The Nova Scotian Institute of (Natural) Science Since 1862″*
Dr. Suzanne Zeller, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University

*Co-sponsored by the School of Information Management, the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, the Atlantic Node of the Situating Science Cluster, and the University of King’s College History of Science and Technology Programme

FREE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

What: #Influence12: Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media
Where: Social Media Lab, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
When: September 28-29, 2012
Website: http://SocialMediaLab.ca/influence12
Twitter Hashtag: #Influence12

Keynote Speaker: Gilad Lotan, VP of Research & Development, Socialflow.com

ABOUT THE EVENT:

The objective of this 2-day event is to bring together experts in social media and online social networks from both the academic and business worlds to share ideas on the best practices around how to study the impact of social media on our society, and specifically how to measure influence on social media. The workshop will provide researchers in this area an opportunity to present and debate their ideas, and provide graduate students with the opportunity to build academic and professional contacts, present their research, and learn about the latest research in this area from a multidisciplinary perspective.

SCHEDULE:

During the first day (Symposium), the participants will present and conduct discussions based on their work in this area. On the second day (Workshop), the participants will be tasked to brainstorm and develop new metrics for studying and measuring influence and engagement on social media.

REGISTRATION FEE: None

The registration for the event is now open and the registration form is accessible from the event page above. Please feel free to circulate it and invite your colleagues and students to attend the event.