DOCTalks Connects Across Canada 2022 - Panel October 26, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyquXeGbLVk&feature=youtu.be On October 26, 2022, in partnership with DOCTalks, Research Impact Canada (RIC) hosted a “DOCTalks Connects Canada” panel that invited speakers to discuss the use of filmmaking as a medium for knowledge mobilization. David Phipps, our Network Director of RIC, provided wonderful [...]
Julia Creet, The Genealogical Sublime: New Narratives of Numerical Selves MillerComm2022 - September 13, 2021 - Zoom event WATCH NOW ON THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS WEBSITE Professor Julia Creet of York University presented on her latest research on the genealogy industry. Her research explores the widespread phenomenon of desiring to know one’s [...]
Watch Prof. Creet summarizing The Genealogical Sublime in this 30 minute talk. https://youtu.be/9fkJdgLgXxw MAY 2, 11AM - The Genealogical Sublime In this talk, drawn from her new book, The Genealogical Sublime, Dr. Creet traces the histories of the largest, longest-running, most lucrative and rapidly growing genealogical databases to delineate a broader history of the industry. Through a [...]
IAS Screening Mum, by Julia Creet IAS Forum Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL Gower Street London, WC1E 6BT https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ias-screening-mum-by-julia-creet-tickets-56405906585 Discussant: Joanna Beata Michlic (IAS, UCL) -- Part literary detective story and part personal journey, MUM is a documentary drawn from Magda Creet's memoirs, letters and poems, an archive of a survivor who left a paper [...]
Join us for a screening of Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family to explore the popularity of genetic testing for ancestral heritage. What kind of pasts are we archiving for families of the future and why? Filmmaker Julia Creet (York University,Toronto) will introduce the film. Afterwards a panel of experts [...]
Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 2 PM – 4 PM Wellington Branch Library, 261 Main St. Wellington, ON, K0K 3L0 FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/2098992593548918/ Genealogy is arguably the largest historical enterprise in the world, and one of the largest data mining operations. Data Mining the Deceased takes a probing look at individual and industry stakes [...]