📆 Wednesday, March 25th
⏰12:30 PM PST / 3:30 PM EST
📍 In-person at the DDI and online - DM for more info and joining link!
This session offers an opportunity to support graduate research in progress and provide constructive feedback ahead of conference presentations. #SFUCMNS
Please join us for the first presentation in the Digital Democracies Institute's #GraduateFellowSeries 2026–2027. Our first recipient of the DDI Travel Grant, Mallory Mariano, will present “Visibility Politics: Race, Sexuality, and the Digital Panopticon of Romance #BookTok’s Erotic Imaginary.”
Dr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun had a thriving career at an Ivy League university. Find out what drew her to a research chair role at SFU —and back to Canada.
SFU is recruiting leading international researchers through the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program.
Join us and the @digitaldemocracies.bsky.social for an in-person talk by Dr. Bonnie Honig: "Architecture’s Last Laugh: Hannah Arendt’s *Eichmann in Jerusalem* from a Televisual Point of View".
Wednesday, February 25th at 12 PM!
Register now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SFU Demshot Challenge is a campus-wide invitation for SFU students to bring forward bold, practical ideas to strengthen democratic trust and resilience in Canada—with $2,500 in total cash prizes.
For more info, head to the SFU Demshot website: lnkd.in/gfsntT2S
@sfu.ca @sfuceri.bsky.social
🔊 Did you hear about SFU's Demshot Challenge yet?
If you have an idea that could strengthen trust, participation, or social cohesion in Canadian democracy, SFU wants to hear from you!
📆 Launch event: Tuesday, Jan 27, 6–7 PM (all undergrad + grad students welcome)
✍️ Register: lnkd.in/gYgzKpzN
⏰ Spring Deadline: March 2, 2026
DM us/email ddi_comms@sfu.ca for the application forms, submission, or any questions you have.
@sfucmns.bsky.social @sfu.ca
🔊 Digital Democracies Institute Travel Grant Funding Series 2026-2027 - now accepting applications!
If you're an FCAT student enrolled full-time, the DDI has $500 to contribute towards your travel expenses for conferences, exhibitions, festivals etc.
Details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
📢 Happening Dec 3, 12.30 PM PST: Join us for a hybrid talk by Dr. Iván Chaar López from @utaustin.bsky.social entitled 'The Cybernetic Border and Technoaesthetics of Dissent'.
This talk is both in-person and online. DM/comment for the Zoom link to attend!
#DDISpeakerSeries #SFU
Adrian Ivakhiv presents an incisive new way of thinking about images and imagination in this book in conversation with Am Johal at this launch event.
@sfucmns.bsky.social #BookLaunch
🚨 Happening this week: 'The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds' - A book launch and discussion with author, eco-philosopher, and cultural theorist Adrian Ivakhiv.
📆 Nov 20, 6 PM
📍 SFU Harbour Centre, Room 2270
events.sfu.ca/event/46062-...
For application details, responsibilities, and more, head to www.sfu.ca/communicatio...
@sfulinguistics.bsky.social @scasfu.bsky.social @sfucriminology.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social
Eligibility: The fellowship is open to permanent SFU faculty members. Applicants must:
- Be a member of the regular SFU faculty (tenured, tenure-track, and/or lecturer track).
- Have a letter of support from their department chair for the fellowship proposal and proposed course.
The Digital Democracies Institute’s (DDI) Data Fluencies (DF) 2.0 Project is sponsoring a semester-long fellowship for Simon Fraser University faculty members. Fellows are expected to develop one new course related to their humanities-engaged research on AI.
@sfu.ca @sfucmns.bsky.social
🚨 Hiring Alert!
We're on the lookout for engaged SFU Faculty members for SFU Faculty Fellows in Teaching Multivocal AI.
Find more info here: www.sfu.ca/communicatio...
Deadline: November 30, 2025
Compensation: $5,000 and an MA TA for the course!
#Hiring #SFUFaculty #CMNS #DDI #datafluencies
On how not to do sentiment analysis:
doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Stay tuned for upcoming lectures and videos from the Fall Speaker Series at the DDI. To get on the invitee list for the Series, DM us your email ID and your institution!
#ContemporaryArts #Academics #SFU #SpeakerSeries
@sfu.ca @sfucmns.bsky.social
On July 9 of this year, we had the privilege of hosting Dr. Claudette Lauzon (@claudettelauzon.bsky.social)
from @scasfu.bsky.social for a talk entitled 'Technics and Termites: Swarm Intelligence in Art and Visual Culture'.
To view their full lecture, click here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFY2...
Dr. Chun poses the question, "What role does technology play in the re-emergence of global fascisms?" in this keynote organized at the #GlobalFascisms exhibition, organized by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin.
More info at www.hkw.de/en/programme...
📆 Upcoming Keynote titled 'Technofascism' by @whkchun.bsky.social (Director, DDI) at @hkw-berlin.bsky.social on September 12, 19:15 PM CEST at Miriam Makeba Auditorium as part of an exhibition titled 'Global Fascisms'.
Entry FREE!
#keynote #berlin #hkw #globalfascisms
Co-hosted by the DDI, @sfu-fhs.bsky.social, and The School for International Studies, Dr. Erikson's book launch is a conversation between her and critics Anke Kessler and Iveoma Udevi-Aruevoru.
📍The Teck Gallery, SFU Harbour Centre
⏰ 4 PM - 6 PM
🎫 FREE ENTRY!
#Anthropology #HealthSciences #SFU
📆 Event Alert: Join in for an electric conversation with Dr. Susan Erikson, an SFU Distinguished Professor, who studies highly complex political economies that shape human health.
Link - investable.eventbrite.ca
#BookLaunch #Investable #SFUVancouver
@sfucmns.bsky.social
🚨 Academic Position Alert 🚨 I am hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow at SFU in Metro Vancouver. The candidate will work on a project studying the (un)intended consequences of platform regulations for journalism.
The position is funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant.
www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...
📢 Happening today, 2 PM PT: Join us for a hybrid talk titled 'The Celestial Latent Space of Benevolent Knowledge' by Evan Donahue, an outgoing member of the DDI team. The talk will cover his research during his time at the lab and beyond.
DM to register!
@sfucmns.bsky.social
Wendy Chun giving a lecture
What a lovely day - full room and then some for @whkchun.bsky.social’s brilliant talk on LLMs and the return of critical theory co-hosted by Data Loss and @mariaa.bsky.social at the @aicentre.dk
It’s been such a wonderful week hosting @whkchun.bsky.social as part of the #dataloss @erc.europa.eu project. Last night we were treated to a brilliant talk at the @aicentre.dk on shared archeologies of LLMs and lit theory, co-hosted with @mariaa.bsky.social ✨✨✨
Stay tuned to our #SpeakerSeries in the coming Fall term, as we hear from experts, September - December! Got any suggestions/recommendations for a Speaker? Let us know in our DMs!
About the speaker:
@claudettelauzon.bsky.social is an associate professor of contemporary art history in the School for the Contemporary Arts at @sfu.ca | @scasfu.bsky.social.
She is currently completing a manuscript on the gods and monsters of technomilitary culture.
📆 July 9th, 12.30 PM PT: Hear from Dr. Claudette Lauzon at the DDI's Speaker Series, with a talk titled 'Technics and Termites: Swarm Intelligence in Art and Visual Culture'.
DM to register for our hybrid session at Burnaby and online!
#DDI #Talks #VisualCulture