Mon, Nov 9 · 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
University of Toronto – Haultain Building · University
170 College Street ·
CLASSIFICATION: What happens when we divide the world into categories?
Faculty Participants: Julian Quiros & Shion Guha
Monday November 9, 2026
11am–noon (ET)
Room 401, Haultain Building (rear of 170 College Street)
In person only
Note: The main entrance to Haultain Building is on the south side of the building. The designated accessible entrance is located on the west side of the building.
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About the Crosstalk Series
The annual Crosstalk series brings together faculty, students, staff, and other community members to explore the field of information in all its diversity through conversation.
This year, the series is organized around a working glossary of ten concepts that cut across research in the Faculty of Information: Record, Memory, Classification, Knowledge, Infrastructure, Mediation, Behaviour, Connectivity, Labour, and Agency. Rather than treating these as settled definitions, each session pairs two faculty members whose research provides different ways of thinking through one of the concepts.
These sessions are intended as conversational exchanges (not research presentations) guided by PhD students who will lead the discussion connecting each concept to the faculty members’ work. The aim is to let our PhD students and the wider community encounter faculty research as part of a larger intellectual conversation about the concepts that organize Information as a field.
Full Crosstalk Schedule for 2026/2027
Schedule
Date Concept & Question Faculty Participants
Sep 28, 2026 THE RECORD When does something become a record? Eliza Pertigkiozoglou & Fiorella Foscarini
Oct 19, 2026 MEMORY How does information become something a society remembers? Jessica Lapp & Joshua Arthurs
Nov 9, 2026 CLASSIFICATION What happens when we divide the world into categories? Julian Quiros & Shion Guha
Nov 23, 2026 KNOWLEDGE Who—or what—can know? Huili Chen & Julia Gallucci
Feb 1, 2027 INFRASTRUCTURE What must already exist for information to become possible? Christoph Becker & Evan Light
Mar 1, 2027 MEDIATION Does information ever reach us directly? TBC
Mar 15, 2027 BEHAVIOUR What do people do with information? Jenna Hartel & Aviv Shachak
Mar 29, 2027 CONNECTIVITY Who organizes the conditions under which information circulates? David Nieborg & Jeffrey Boase
Apr 5, 2027 LABOUR Who makes information work? TBC
Apr 12, 2027 AGENCY What does it mean for an information system to act? Anastasia Kuzminykh & Ebrahim Bagheri
Location details: University of Toronto – Haultain Building — Room 401; rear of 170 College Street. Main entrance: south side; accessible entrance: west side.
Monday, November 9
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The designated accessible entrance is located on the west side of the building.
University of Toronto – Haultain Building · 170 College Street
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