AROUND THE WORLD ONLINE CONFERENCE

The Around the World forum, is an experiment that brings together scholars from around the globe to talk about digital culture without the environmental cost of traditional conferences. Institutes and researchers are invited to participate either through presenting or by joining in the discussion. This is a hybrid e-Conference event, which means it will be screened for live audiences at the University of Alberta and our other partner institutes as well as live-streamed online around the world.

Previous years' conferences focused on Sustainable Research: Modelling Nearly Carbon-Neutral Practices in the 21st Century (2018),  Digital Media in a Post-Truth Era (2017), Libraries, Archives and Public Life (2016), Big Data (2015), Privacy and Surveillance (2014), and Technology and Culture (2013). In 2015, the symposium website attracted 973 unique visits from 39 countries and 179 cities, and the official hashtag of the event (#UofAWorld) trended on Twitter at #1 in Edmonton on the day of the conference.

In 2016, the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) has been recognized with a Campus Sustainability Leadership Award for Green Spaces by the UAlberta Office of Sustainability for the 2015 KIAS Around The World event.

You can view the 2018 Around the World Conference on the KIAS YouTube Channel