34th Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture | 19 Sept 2024
Nadia Caidi, Professor and Director of International Student Experience, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
HYBRID: in-person (School of Information Sciences., Champaign, IL; Room TBA) AND online
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BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Nadia Caidi is Professor and Director of International Student Experience at the Faculty of Information in the University of Toronto. She is a scholar of information (and) marginalization and the role that information resources, institutions, and technologies play in the everyday lives of individuals and communities in various states of transition. Her research has been conducted in the context of global migration, language communities in a minority context, techno-spiritual and religious practices, and diversity by design in the information fields. [Personal webpage | other]
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Past Lectures
Engineering Change and the Power of Information: Otherness, Exclusion, Propaganda, DislocationDr. Agnes Kaposi
November 8, 2021
BBC World Affairs Correspondent, presenter and author of Syria’s Secret Library
Mike Thomson
November 16, 2020
The Evolving Library Profession and Education Driving Social Justice: A Perspective from the Global South
Dr. Reggie Raju (speaker) & Professor Jaya Raju
November 15, 2019
Evaluating The Impact of Rural Village Libraries in Uganda: A Mixed-Methods Narrative
Valeda Dent, PhD
November 26, 2018
Enduring Wars In Transpacific Memories
Viet Thanh Nguyen
September 14, 2017
Right to Accessible Information for Global Citizenship
Dr. Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg
October 27, 2015
Supporting Global Research:Libraries, Access, and Social Responsibility
Barbara J. Ford
October 7, 2014
Community Libraries as Platforms for Sustainable Development
Sanjana Shrestha
September 17, 2013
Isolation and Information Famine: Stifling Africa’s Growth
Ellen Tise
October 22, 2009
Libraries Advocating for Access to Knowledge: our role in the global A2K movement
Teresa Hackett
September 17, 2008
The Enchanted Libraries of Chile: a story of transformation
Clara Budnik
October 19, 2007
Information Competencies: A Bridge to Narrow North-South Knowledge Gaps
Jésus Lau
September 23, 2003
Whither Russia?
The Role of Libraries in the Transformation of a Society
Ekaterina Genieva
November 16, 1999
Arcs of the Rainbow:
The Heritage of Knowledge and Contemporary Life
Edwin Thumboo
October 29, 1998
Reading the Minds of Democracy
Michéle Duvivier Pierre-Louis
November 12, 1997
Preserving the Written Intellectual and Cultural Heritage: An Obsolete Task of Libraries?
Hans-Peter Geh
September 28, 1995
The Metamorphosis of the Word:
Libraries With a Future
Juan Rada
October 11, 1994
The Heart of the University:
The Making of a Global Library
Robert Wedgeworth
September 30, 1993
Culture and Development Between Tradition and Modernity
Julieta Campos
November 18, 1992
The Electronic Erosion of Democracy
James H. Billington
September 10, 1990