20th Annual Allied Media Conference: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference!

Browse all 300+ sessions below on our online schedule. Please note: bookmarking a session on our online schedule does not guarantee you a place in the session. All sessions are first come, first serve.

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11:00am EDT

Hacking Wikipedia: How to bring your community to the world

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Presenters

Sanghapali Aruna

Dalit History Month

Grace Banu

Project Mukti

Maari Zwick Maitreyi

Equality Labs

Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Sainaiba Ali

Sainaiba Ali is communications director of Equality Labs

Friday June 15, 2018 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
STUDENT CENTER: Room 384

Hands-on Session

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Everybody (AMCers with or without experience / knowledge of the topic)

11:00am EDT

Libraries Empower Incarcerated Youth

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How can libraries move beyond traditional services and empower incarcerated youth to develop transformative strategies that disrupt the narrative of incarceration as identity? This session will explore how Nashville Public Library connected incarcerated youth to media mentors, their families, and community through media-based workshops. We will explore library partnerships using provided tools for identifying partners, and creating goals and strategies under the connected learning framework.

Presenters

Liz Atack

Elizabeth (Liz) Atack works at Nashville Public Library (NPL), where she oversees Bringing Books to Life (BBTL), a literacy outreach program. In addition to managing the daily and long range operations, she is on the front lines of helping kids learn (and love!) to read, juggling story times, trainings for teachers and adult education providers, and reading workshops for parents. Under her leadership, BBTL has won local and national awards and, in 2014, she was named the Toyota Family Teacher of the Year by the National Center for Families Learning. Before coming to NPL, Liz was a teacher and museum educator. She graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and possesses a master’s degree in Childhood Museum Education from Bank Street College of Education in New York City., Nashville Public Library BBTL

Klem-Mari Cajigas

Family Literacy Coordinator for Bringing Books to Life, Nashville Public Library BBTL

Klem-Marí Cajigas has been with Nashville Public Library since 2012, after more than a decade of academic training in Religious Studies and Ministry, including doctoral work at Vanderbilt University. As the Family Literacy Coordinator for Bringing Books to Life!, Nashville Public... Read More →

Raemona Little Taylor

Raemona is the Teen and Adult Services librarian at the Fairfax branch of the Marin County Free Library in Northern California. While working at Nashville Public Library as a teen librarian, she was awarded a 2015 LRNG Educator Innovator grant from the National Writing Project, the MacArthur Foundation, and John Legend’s Show Me Campaign to bring connected learning into the Woodland Hills juvenile detention center. In 2016, Raemona was named an American Library Association Emerging Leader., Marin County Free Library

Niq Tognoni

Studio NPL Manager, Nashville Public Library

Niq began working for the innovative Digital Youth Network in 2010 as a mentor at the Chicago Public Library's YOUmedia learning lab space. A background in performance arts and education attracted him to the research-based learning models that guided the creation of the "Connected... Read More →

Friday June 15, 2018 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
STATE HALL: Room 118

Strategy Session

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Everybody (AMCers with or without experience / knowledge of the topic)

2:00pm EDT

Reflections in BlaQ: Performing Black Queer Archives

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Can performance offer counterhegemonic approaches of constructing history? Reflections in BlaQ is a performance that explores the lives of Black gender/queer and trans people, based on research in filmmaker Marlon Riggs’ archives at Stanford University. This session will reflect on performance as queer(ing) history, archives as blueprints for intergenerational community building, and exhuming the voices of Black gender/queer artists from the archive.

Presenters

Kiyan Williams

Kiyan Williams is a multidisciplinary artist and writer who explores Black queer subjectivity. They create performances, text, sounds, and installations informed by autoethnography, archival research, and social practice. Kiyan was born in Newark, NJ. They have performed/exhibited work across the country and internationally at venues including: Dixon Place (NYC), JACK Theater (NYC), La Mama Experimental Theater Club (NYC), SOMArts (San Francisco), SFMOMA (San Francisco), Bing Concert Hall (Stanford), Orpheum Theater (Graz, Austria) and more. Kiyan`s honors and awards include the EMERGENYC fellowship at the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics at NYU, Destiny Arts Center artist residency (Oakland, CA), Create Dangerously writing fellowship at the Obie-winning JACK Theater (Brooklyn, NY), Astraea Foundation Global Arts Fund, Stanford Arts Award, Trans Justice Funding Project Award, and the Gates Millennium Scholarship. Kiyan earned a BA with honors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Columbia University

Friday June 15, 2018 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
MCGREGOR: Room B

Film Screening / Performance

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Everybody (AMCers with or without experience / knowledge of the topic)

2:00pm EDT

Archiving Movement Media

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How do movement media organizations preserve raw media content? Over the last 12 years the Media Mobilizing Project has been documenting movements in Philadelphia and beyond. In the summer of 2017 we began the process of cataloging and preserving our raw media with the intention of deploying a public archive of movement media. In this session participants will learn what our process looks like and strategize around how MMP and other movement media organizations can take on preservation.

Presenters

Helyx Chase Scearce Horwitz

Helyx Chase Scearce Horwitz is the Technology Manager at the Media Mobilizing Project. Based in their hometown of Philadelphia, Helyx is a independent video artist and activist who is passionate about storytelling as a means to draw connections. Their video art is built by, about, and for televisions and computers and lives at the intersection of experimental video and technology. Helyx holds a B.A. from Hampshire College where they studied Video, Social Movements, and Youth Development, Media Mobilizing Project

Helyx Chase Scearce Horwitz is a Philadelphia based video artist, technologist, and activist who is committed to the power of story. They have worked on documentaries, non-fiction and experimental narratives, multi-channel video installation, archival video presentations, and oral... Read More →

Friday June 15, 2018 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry B

Strategy Session

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Everybody (AMCers with or without experience / knowledge of the topic)

2:00pm EDT

791.4 HYPE Radio - Teen Podcasting in the Library

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How does a teen librarian and a library foundation director prove to young adults that their voices matter? Add a podcast studio to the teen center, of course. This hands-on session will have attendees creating their very own group podcasting segments that will be broadcasting live on 791.4 HYPE Radio! Topics will range from creating ownership opportunities for teens/ young adults, learning how librarians and library foundations work together for common goals to offering new programming in the library.

This session takes place at the Detroit Public Library's HYPE Teen Center: 5201 Woodward Ave.

Presenters

Amisha Harijan

Librarian III - Assistant Manager, Detroit Public Library

Amisha Harijan is the Assistant Manager of the HYPE Teen Center and Children's Library of the Detroit Public Library. After earning a BA in Africana Studies and a Master in Information and Library Science (with a focus in fine and performing arts) from Wayne State University, she... Read More →

Friday June 15, 2018 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + Kirby

Tour / Field Trip

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Everybody (AMCers with or without experience / knowledge of the topic)

4:00pm EDT

Transforming the Family Album into a Tool for Social Change

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How can we build a radical collective archive from everyday family albums? We’ll explore how archives inherited, found, and generated can come together to meaningfully reflect and empower communities. We’ll screen clips of Family Pictures, share parts of our archives, and envision what collective archives can look like in the context of creative practice. Participants will gain collaborative strategies for collecting oral and photographic histories tailored to their own works and organizations.

Presenters

Thomas Allen Harris

Family Pictures USA

Thomas Allen Harris is a filmmaker and artist whose work across film, video, photography, and performance illuminates the human condition and the search for identity, family, and spirituality. His deeply personal films have received critical acclaim at international film festivals... Read More →

Friday June 15, 2018 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry B

Hands-on Session

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Everybody (AMCers with or without experience / knowledge of the topic)

4:00pm EDT

I’ma Read, I’ma Read, I’ma Read: Collecting a Hip Hop Archive

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"We just a couple cunts tryna archive; we celebrate trans queer artists in the hip hop diaspora and document/record these moments and movements to combat ongoing erasure and plagiarism. No one else can hold us like us so, we do this to ensure these legacies and legends are remembered. This workshop will explore: What is needed to tear down barriers to sharing & preserving our lives? How do we document in ways that center our pleasure & joy? How do we explore the depths of our stories?
Bring a piece of your knowledge of what’s cunt to share as we continue collecting a living resource and archive of hip hop culture."

Presenters

Shanna Collins

A Tribe Called Cunt // Black Brown Indigenous Crew

Bonita Africana (Shanna Collins) is a sexy bisexual queerdo who believes in the power of DIY collectives. In addition to A Tribe Called Cunt, she is also a part of the DIY music collective Or Does It Explode: Black, Brown, and Indigenous Crew and is a former VIBE intern. She also... Read More →

darien r wendell

Transdisciplinary artist, curator, & educator, Chicago Black Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Collective (BTGNC), FTP, & For Youth Inquiry (FYI)

darien r wendell is a sensitive, black, gender expansive, queer being & punk living in Chicago, IL from many other places like Phoenix, AZ & Pontiac, MI. A transdisciplinary artist, curator, & educator, ey makes art and work creates space/time for refuge, repair, and release between... Read More →

Friday June 15, 2018 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
STATE HALL: Room 117

Strategy Session

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Everybody (AMCers with or without experience / knowledge of the topic)

4:00pm EDT

Today's Equity, Tomorrow's Museum

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LinCT is an all-female, high school group from the Science Museum of Minnesota’s KAYSC. LinCT youth give a fresh perspective on museums and equity surrounding race, gender, and ability. We will work together to reflect on the responsibility of a museum, examine issues still plaguing museums, and brainstorm solutions to create a Dream Museum that embodies our ideas. This Dream Museum will be turned into an online resource for those looking to address these problems in new environments.

Presenters

Rhea Boese-Colond

I am an ambitious high school youth, who is passionate about social change. I have been working around computational thinking and social justice with the Science Museum for around three years and have only been inspired more to make a difference in my community., Science Museum of Minnesota

Abby Liegl

I am a female high school age leader. I have worked at the museum for over 2 years where I focus on Social Justice and STEM., Science Museum Of Minnesota

I am a female high school age leader. I have worked at the museum for over 2 years where I focus on Social Justice and STEM.

Opeyemi

I am a high school senior from central high school. I am a Nigerian immigrant that is passionate about diversifying the stories told in our society., Science Museum of Minnesota

I am a high school senior from central high school. I am a Nigerian immigrant that is passionate about diversifying the stories told in our society.

Friday June 15, 2018 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
MCGREGOR: Room B

Strategy Session

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Everybody (AMCers with or without experience / knowledge of the topic)

11:00am EDT

Remix History

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How can youth-produced archival documentaries serve as a tool to critically examine social issues from a historical perspective? During this session, participants will engage in an activity taken from a youth program where participants remix a documentary about a social issue and embed it in a website aimed at social action. The hands-on activity will be followed by a reflective discussion about how to support a media learning project grounded in a critical historical understanding.

Presenters

Yashan Clarke

Yashan Clarke currently attends Orchard Collegiate Academy, a public high school in New York City. Yashan was granted a full scholarship to Ithaca College and is eagerly anticipating graduation in June 2018. Yashan has many passions including: Songwriting, singing, playing the piano... Read More →

Iliana Lugo

Iliana Lugo is a freelance Graphic Designer, Web Developer, and Photographer. Her goal is to become a profound artist and designer who can reflect the day-to-day of our current society. She is currently studying for a EQF Level 5 Professional diploma in Graphic Design and certifications... Read More →

Laura Scheiber

Laura Scheiber is the Director of the New Media Arts Program at the Educational Video Center, a social justice organization that teaches young people how to make documentaries and websites about social issues. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. As a Fulbright recipient, she researched youth living in high conflict urban areas and social entrepreneurship aimed at social inclusion. She also previously worked at Edlab, Teachers College, as an Innovation Fellow, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Brazil. She is passionate about empowering youth through innovative educational experiences., Educational Video Center

Saturday June 16, 2018 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
STATE HALL: Room 118

Hands-on Session

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Everybody (AMCers with or without experience / knowledge of the topic)

12:45pm EDT

RADLAM Lunch: Building a Community

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Participants will walk away from this lunch with a new perspective on how to contribute to an inclusive culture [or community] within their institutions and across the LAM professions.

Presenters

Krisandra Ivings

Ivings is a librarian with an interest in information equity and civic engagement. A recent graduate from Western University with a background in musicology and gender studies, she is particularly curious about social empowerment in artistic practice and institutions.

Andrea Kampen

Simon De Salvo

Simon is a public librarian committed to making libraries inclusive spaces for both the public and staff., Detroit Public Library

Simon is a public librarian committed to making libraries inclusive spaces for both the public and staff.

Marianne Williams

Librarian-in-Residence at the University of Arkansas., University of Arkansas

Williams is a peripatetic librarian and cultural researcher. Her practice focuses on civic empowerment, primary source research, and information activism. She is an alumnus of the University of Toronto and the Banff Centre, and is currently the Librarian-in-Residence at the University... Read More →

Saturday June 16, 2018 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
STATE HALL: Room 134

Mealtime Meetup

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Everybody (AMCers with or without experience / knowledge of the topic)

4:00pm EDT

Fringe Issue: Sex Work & Night Life Organizing

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Stripping is a skilled trade existing at the crux of four labor sectors: service/hospitality, entertainment/performance, sex work, and creative freelance. Sex work is being criminalized nation-wide by a fringe of the Christian Right. Strippers from New Orleans and several major cities will present their recent, ongoing work as a "Field Guide" to recognize and resist Dominionist tactics meant to close our venues, and discuss organizing alongside Night Life workers to build a "Red Light Archive."

Presenters

Lyn Archer

Red Light Archive

Lyn Archer is a stripper, agrarian and artist, raised in the bay area and living in New Orleans. Her creative research is done with the intention of decriminalizing sex work.

Saturday June 16, 2018 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
STATE HALL: Room 106

Panel / Presentation

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Advanced (AMCers will need some background in the session’s content)

4:00pm EDT

Breaking Library Silos for Social Justice (BLS4SJ)

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How can local libraries and communities work together to devise an action plan based on initial conversations centered on serving vulnerable communities? Using the BLS4SJ workshop as a case study, community members and folks from across the information field are invited to share their own experiences of tackling social injustices. Participants will be creating vision boards and skill-sharing. They’ll gain access to the BLS4SJ toolkit to help initiate sustainable and mindful shifts in library work.

Presenters

Elle Covington

Elle Covington is a recent graduate of the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. As a graduate student, Elle co-founded iSchool Pride, a student group advocating for the interests of students from underrepresented groups at the School of Information. She also developed guides for users with differing abilities to promote greater access to buildings and resources at the University of Texas Libraries. Combining her newly acquired master’s in information studies with a background in nonprofit communication and a passion for social justice, her goal is to promote and empower libraries to engage, impact, and build communities.

Cindy Fisher

Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Cindy is all about building bridges in the library world and the Breaking Library Silos for Social Justice workshop is the direct product of years of trial and error in community building in Austin, TX. As a First-year Experience Librarian at UT-Austin, she worked with school librarians... Read More →

Ayshea Khan

Austin History Center

Ayshea is the Asian American Community Archivist for the Austin History Center, where she works to document, preserve, and provide access to the history of Asian American communities in Austin. She holds a Bachelor's in Cinema Production & Photography from Ithaca College and a MSIS... Read More →

Saturday June 16, 2018 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
STATE HALL: Room 135

Strategy Session

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Everybody (AMCers with or without experience / knowledge of the topic)

4:00pm EDT

Maroon Oracle Network and Decolonizing Digital Spaces

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Presenters

Nasah Kiam Crockett

P. Gabrielle Foreman

P. GABRIELLE FOREMAN teaches and studies African American studies and nineteenth-century literary history and culture. She is known for her collaborative work including an edition of Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig as well as dance/poetry performance pieces on Wilson, David Drake or “Dave the Potter” and the Colored Conventions. Her forthcoming monograph is entitled The Art of DisMemory: Historicizing Slavery in Poetry, Performance and Material Culture. She is the Ned B. Allen Professor of English with appointments in History and Africana Studies and is a Senior Library Research Fellow at the University of Delaware. The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) is a collective of that includes Foreman, graduate student leaders, librarian team members, undergraduate researches and national teaching partners. Foreman is co-editing the forthcoming volume, Colored Conventions in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age. CCP is supported by the NEH and Mellon Foundation. Foreman tweets at @profgabrielle., Colored Conventions Project

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of M Archive: After the End of the World, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. Alexis lives and loves in Durham, North Carolina. She is also currently engaged in a collaboration... Read More →

Vanessa Holden

Dr. Holden an assistant professor of History and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Holden’s current book project is titled, SurvivingSouthampton: Gender, Community, Resistance, and Survival During the Southampton Rebellion of 1831. In it, Dr. Holden explores the contributions that African American women and children, free and enslaved, made to the Southampton Rebellion of 1831, also called Nat Turner’s Rebellion. In addition to her work on enslaved women and slave rebellion, Dr.Holden also co-organizes the Queering Slavery Working Group with Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins). Her second project, Forming Intimacies: Queer Kinship and Resistance in the Antebellum American Atlantic, will focus on same-gender loving individuals and American slavery., University of Kentucky

Dr. Holden an assistant professor of History and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Holden's current book project is titled, SurvivingSouthampton: Gender, Community, Resistance, and Survival During the Southampton Rebellion of 1831. In it, Dr... Read More →

Jessica Marie Johnson

African Diaspora, Ph.D.

Jessica Marie Johnson is a writer and historian of slavery at Johns Hopkins University. She is co-editor with Mark Anthony Neal of Black Code: A Special Issue of the Black Scholar (2017) and the author of Practicing Freedom: Black Women, Intimacy, and Kinship in New Orleans Atlantic... Read More →

Saturday June 16, 2018 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
STATE HALL: Room 114

Strategy Session

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Everybody (AMCers with or without experience / knowledge of the topic)

10:00am EDT

Organizing Communities to Stop Library Closures

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How do you stop library closures when it`s an inside job? Appointed boards can leave public libraries governed by people with private interests. In this panel discussion we will share the story of how the people of Cincinnati rose up and stopped the sale of the downtown North Building that the board considered a piece of "prime real estate." Participants will walk away with community organizing tools, direct action tactics, & the sense of professional solidarity we need to resist these attacks.

Presenters

Kristy Cooper

The Library Defense Network

Public Librarian turned library vigilante

Jami Thompson

Former TeenSpot Librarian at PLCH, The Library Defense Network

Former TeenSpot Librarian at PLCH

Sunday June 17, 2018 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
STATE HALL: Room 115

Panel / Presentation

Track Radical Libraries and Archives and Museums Track
Audience Everybody (AMCers with or without experience / knowledge of the topic)