MAKS research seminars series 2024-2025 - Upcoming
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Interesting Narratives: Documentary across Media
Speaker: Dr Laura Liverani, Isituto Superiore Industrie Artistiche, Italy
Hosted by: Department of Digital Arts
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Research Activities of the Multidisciplinary Media & Mediated Communication Research Group (M3C)
Speaker: Prof. Andreas Veglis, Aristotelean University of Greece
Hosted by: Department of Media and Communications
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Maltese Cartography: Various Representations of Reality
Speaker: Joseph Schiro
Hosted by: Department of Library Information and Archive Sciences
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
TBA
Speaker: Prof. Saviour Catania
Hosted by: Department of Media and Communications
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Wednesday, 26 March 2025
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research: The Past, The Present, The Future
Speaker: Prof. Christina Theodoraki, Aix-Marseille University, France
Hosted by: Department of Corporate Communications
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Wednesday, 9 April 2025
TBA
Speaker: Prof. Holger Mitterer
Hosted by: Department of Cognitive Sciences
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MAKS research seminars series 2023-2024 - Upcoming
Thursday, 5 October 2023
A Conversation with Joe Toscano
Speaker: Joe Toscano
Hosted by: Department of Media and Communications together with Spazju Kreattiv and 3CL Foundation.
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Missejt il-Qiegħ: Uncovering layers of meaning in a painting undergoing conservation treatment
Speaker: Manuel Ciantar
Hosted by: Department of Digital Arts
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Careful with what you post! The use of OSINT in threat identification
Speaker: Dr Aitana Radu
Hosted by: Department of Information Policy and Governance
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Socio-cognitive processes and mechanisms in social relations
Speaker: Prof Gordon Sammut
Hosted by: Department of Cognitive Science
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
What Impact for Entrepreneurship? A Conversation on the State of the Art and Open Questions for Sustainability
Speaker: Prof Amandeep Dhir, University of Agder, Norway, Prof Andrea Caputo, University of Trento, Italy
Hosted by: Department of Corporate Communication
Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Research title to be known
Speaker: Dr Nicole Talmacs
Hosted by: Department of Media and Communications
Friday, 15 May 2024
Investigating influences and national identities through archive curricula:
the Maltese case study
Speaker: Dr Charles Farrugia and Dr Valeria Vanesio
Hosted by: Department of Library Information and Archive Science
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
The Art of Disappearing
Speaker: Prof. Kat Mustatea, New York University
Hosted by: Department of Digital Arts
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Artistic Research: Art For Futures Lab
Speaker: Prof. Angelica Böhm, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.
Hosted by: Department of Digital Arts
Friday, 14 July 2023
Inside the energy salon: aesthetics and literal meaning in elite policy settings (Sabbatical Wrap-Up)
Speaker: Professor Arthur Mason, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and London School of Economics.
Hosted by: Department of Digital Arts
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
The new EU Pact on Migration in action – a set of solutions or yet another set of obstacles?
Speaker: Ana Ćuća
Hosted by: Department of Information Policy and Governance
Friday, 26 may 2023
Moral Decision-Making: A Talk in Three Acts
Speaker: Professor Diego Fernandez-Duque, Villanova University College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, USA
Hosted by: Department of Cognitive Science
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Tourism marketing in the age of the consumer
Speakers: Prof. Alastair Morrison and Prof. Dimitrios Buhalis
Hosted by: Department of Corporate Communication in collaboration with the University of Greenwich, United Kingdom and the University of Bournemouth, United Kingdom.
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
A Documentary History of the Immunity (or Vaccine) Passport: Health Certificates of Public Health, Identity, and Power from the Plague to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Speaker: Dr. Marc Kosciejew
Hosted by: Department of Library Information & Archive Sciences
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Erasmus XR - Experience and immersive technologies – from creative practice to educational theory
Speakers: Prof. Marta Materska-Samek, Prof. Dimitris Charitos, Prof. Krzysztof Pijarski
Hosted by: Department of Digital Arts
Friday, 17 February 2023
Translating Principles to Actions: UNESCO Internet Universality R.O.A.M-X Framework
Speaker: Dr. Xianhong HU
Hosted by: Department of Information Policy and Governance
Wednesday, 7 December 2023
Stereotypes may be beneficial in language
Speaker: Prof Holger Mitterer
Hosted by: Department of Cognitive Science
Friday, 28 October 2022
Engagement in Online Learning and Teaching
Speaker: Dr Milla Järvipetäjä
Hosted by: Department of Media & Communications
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Around and About: An Exploration and Discussion into My Continued Fascination with the 360 Degree Panoramic View
Speaker: Professor Chris Meigh Andrews
Hosted by: Department of Digital Arts
Speaker: Ms Monika Maslowska
Hosted by: Department of Media and Communications
Speaker: Mr Tony Cassar
Hosted by: Department of Digital Arts, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences
Speakers: Professor George Mather
Hosted by: Department of Cognitive Science, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences
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Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Understanding Conspiracy Theories in the era of infectious Communication
Speaker: Professor Irena Chiru
Hosted by: Department of Information Policy & Governance
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Issues of Maltese Bibliographical Control: Challenges and Ways Ahead
Speaker: Professor William Zammit
Hosted by: Department of Library Information and Archive Sciences
Friday, 18 October 2019
Intelligence Governance and Democratisation
Prof. Peter Gill
Department of Politics and International Relations at Leicester,
University of Leicester
(hosted by the Department of Information Policy & Governance, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences)
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Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Somewhat untried and untested: Why Intelligence Oversight is still Work-in-Progress
Ms Tanita Cotarcea
Department of Information Policy and Governance,
Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences
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Thursday, 19 October 2017
Preserving Documentary Heritage in Belarus: Achievements and Current Challenges
Friday, 15 December 2017
The Death of Newspapers is Greatly Exaggerated~
Prof. Marc Edge
Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications
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Friday, 23 February 2018
Software//Sculpture
Matthew Galea
Visiting lecturer, Department of Digital Arts
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Friday, 2 March 2018
Internet Governance Multistakeholderism: Between Normalisation and Generativity
Mr Joao Araujo Monteiro Neto
Research Support Officer, Department of Information Policy and Governance
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Wednesday, 25 April 2018
Research and Development at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
Julia Schwarzacher, MA Director
International Relations, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
Josef Schinwald, MSc
Head of Program/for MultiMediaArt, Salburg University of Applied Sciences
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Friday, 4 May 2018
Flying Air Taxis: A solution to the traffic problem in Malta?
Prof. Dr Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
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