The Brown Bag is a weekly talk series that is more informal that the IS Colloquium. It is entirely run by the PhD students, although we sometimes invite faculty to give talks.
This semester, we are meeting on Mondays at 11:15am in Gates 122.
Upcoming talks:
| Date | Speaker(s) | Talk title / panel focus | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5/19 | N'Dri Therese Assie-Lumumba | Gender, Education, ICTs and Access: Case Studies across Africa | A survey of several studies dealing with dimensions of the quest for democratic access to education through/and ICTs amidst the structure of the formal education system, grassroots intervention and the ensuing disruption of power relation in the learning space and society. |
| 5/26 | Rediet Abebe | Mechanism Design for Social Good | TBA |
| 4/9 | Leo Kang and Xiao Ma | Practice CHI and WWW talks | TBA |
| 4/16 | Sharifa Ela | Design within a Patriarchal Society | Let me know if you'd also like to give a practice talk here! |
| 4/23 | TBA | Talking across the aisle: Perspectives from different IS domains | (This might be the self-promo advice talk instead, pending changes.) |
| 4/30 | Michael Lynch and Samir Passi | IS and Ethnomethodology | An introduction to ethnomethodology and what it might bring to different domains of IS. |
| 5/7 | Us | Wrap-up Pecha-Kucha | What we did this year, what that tells us about our field, and where are we headed (programmatically and disciplinarily) |
To request or nominate a speaker or talk idea, or if you need more information, please contact Ian Arawjo.