Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences

Research seminars

Research seminars

MAKS research seminars series 2023-2024 - Upcoming

Details pertaining to each research seminar will be uploaded in due time.

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. 

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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 

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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

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Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Socio-cognitive processes and mechanisms in social relations

Speaker: Prof Gordon Sammut

Hosted by: Department of Cognitive Science 

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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 

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Wednesday, 24 April 2024

Research title to be known

Speaker: Dr Nicole Talmacs

Hosted by: Department of Media and Communications

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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 

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MAKS research seminars series 2022-2023

 

Tuesday, 26 September 2023

The Art of Disappearing

Speaker: Prof. Kat Mustatea, New York University 

Hosted by: Department of Digital Arts 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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 

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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 

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Wednesday, 7 December 2023
Stereotypes may be beneficial in language

Speaker: Prof Holger Mitterer
Hosted by: Department of Cognitive Science

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Friday, 28 October 2022
Engagement in Online Learning and Teaching

Speaker: Dr Milla Järvipetäjä
Hosted by: Department of Media & Communications

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MAKS research seminars series 2021-2022

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

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Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Storytelling and Screenwriting in Malta from 1971 to 2020

Speaker: Ms Monika Maslowska
Hosted by: Department of Media and Communications 

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Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Digitising Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage

Speaker: Mr Tony Cassar
Hosted by: Department of Digital Arts, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences

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Wednesday, 23 February 2022
What can vision science tell us about art?

Speakers: Professor George Mather
Hosted by: Department of Cognitive Science, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences

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Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Updates on Luxury (tourism) Consumption: Implications for Marketing and Communication

Speaker: Professor Metin Kozak 
Hosted by: Department of Corporate Communications, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Understanding Conspiracy Theories in the era of infectious Communication

 

Speaker: Professor Irena Chiru
Hosted by: Department of Information Policy & Governance

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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

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MAKS research seminars series 2019-2020

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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MAKS research seminars series 2018-2019

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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Friday, 11 January 2019
Fourtoni: an AR Sculpture

Dr Matthew Galea, Mr Matthew Attard
Department of Digital Arts,
Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Malta's MEMORJA Project: research dimensions
Dr Charles Farrugia
Department of Library Information and Archive Sciences,
Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences

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Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Is Fear Hot or Cold? Measuring psychophysiological responses to threat
Mr Luca Guido Valla
Department of Cognitive Science,
Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences

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Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Spotlight on: Malta's Emerging Film Industry

Ms Rebecca Ansatasi
Department of Media and Communications,
Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Corporate greed and its effect on customer satisfaction, CSR and corporate reputation among bank customers

Dr Joseph Vella
Department of Corporate Communication,
Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences

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Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Videos Theory

Professor Andreas Treske
Department of Communciation and Design
Bilkent University, Ankara,Turkey
(hosted by Department of Digital Arts, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences)

MAKS research seminars series 2017-2018

Thursday, 19 October 2017
Preserving Documentary Heritage in Belarus: Achievements and Current Challenges

Dr Artsiom Nazaranka
Senior Lecturer, Department of Source Study, Belarusian State University
Chairman of the Faculty of History Council of Young Scientists, Belarusian State University

Professor Andrei Prokhorov
Associate Professor, Department of Ancient and Medieval History, Belarusian State University
Deputy Dean on Educational Innovations and International Cooperation, Belarusian State University

Dr Katsiaryna Smaliakova
Senior Lecturer, Department of Source Study, Belarusian State University

Professor Stsiapan Zakharkevich
Associate Professor, Department of Ethnology, Museology and History of Arts, Belarusian State University

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Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Complexity, Individual Differences, and the Menstrual Cycle: Understanding Reproductive Steroid Effects on Psychology

Prof. Jeff Kiesner
Associate Professor at the University of Padova, Italy

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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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https://www.um.edu.mt/maks/calendar/