Updates (2023-05-10)

It’s been quite a while since I’ve updated this site, as I’ve been quite busy with the new job and settling back into Winnipeg. Here are some things that I’ve been up to:

  • “Worldliness and Freedom in the Academy” published in AAUP’s Academe journal’s special issue on academic libraries and librarians.

  • I taught a course on AI ethics for University of Winnipeg’s Professional, Applied, and Continuing Education predictive analytics program.

  • I gave the opening keynote for the fifth annual Politics of Libraries conference on democracy and intellectual freedom.

  • I’m presenting on the political economy of ChatGPT at the Manitoba and North Dakota chapter of ACRL, and having a closing keynote conversation on intellectual freedom with Melanie Sucha, Manitoba Library Association president at this year’s MLA conference.

  • And finally, I’m presenting on “Libraries and Stolen Land” for the Canadian Political Science Association and on “Varieties of Knowledge” for the Canadian Association of Academic Librarians at Congress at the beginning of June.

Sam Popowich is an academic librarian in Edmonton, Alberta. He holds an MLIS from Dalhousie University and an MA in Music and Cultural Theory from Carleton University. He is currently a PhD Student in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at University of Birmingham. His field of research is in Marxist political theory, intellectual freedom, and the politics of libraries.

Recent Writing

“Canadian Librarianship and the Politics of Recognition” Partnership 16(1, 2021): 1-23

“The Onus of Explanation” Pathfinder 2(1, 2021): 5-26.

“Wittgenstein and Intellectual Freedom” Journal of Radical Librarianship, Vol. 7 (2021)

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