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Past Events

Moving Beyond Google's Digital Incunabula
Jean-Claude Guédon

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

The recording of Jean-Claude Guédon's talk is now available. Click here to listen.

Jean-Claude Guédon is a professor in the Département de littérature comparée at the Université de Montréal. He is the founder of the first Canadian scholarly electronic journal Surfaces (started in 1991) and a Steering Group member of Open Humanities Press, an international open access publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory. He has long been involved in the Open Access movement and was one of the 16 original signatories to the Budapest Open Access initiative in 2002.

 

It's Tough Out There For A Geek: The Battle For Online Freedom
Tim Hwang

Wednesday February 25th, 2009

The recording of Tim Hwang's talk is now available. Click here to listen.

Tim Hwang is a member of Harvard Free Culture and a researcher with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where his work focuses on the mechanisms of online collaboration, internet filtering, open institutions, and the networked public sphere. 

WHY COPYRIGHT? The Fight for Canada's Digital Future
Dr. Michael Geist

Friday October 24, 2008

The recording of Dr. Geist's talk is now available. Click here to listen

Dr. Michael Geist is a Canadian academic, and the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. His weekly columns on new technology and its legal ramifications appear in the Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star and the Ottawa Citizen. He served on Canada's National Task Force on Spam and is the founder of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic.

Open Access: The Sea Change in Scholarly Publishing
Dr. John Willinsky

Tuesday March 20, 2007

The recording of Dr. Willinsky's talk is now available. Click here to listen

Dr. John Willinsky is a Canadian educator, activist, and author currently on the faculty of the Stanford University School of Education. Until 2007 he was the Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.