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The Women and Gender Studies Section (WGSS) Research Committee is thrilled to announce our upcoming Lighting Talk Event! It will be hosted on Wednesday, May 20th from 2-3:30pm EST via Zoom. REGISTER HERE.
Below are the names of our presenters and short summaries of their presentations:
Michaela Bettez, California State University, Fullerton, will discuss the ongoing collaboration between the university library, the university archives, and the Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS) department at California State University, Fullerton to secure their legacies in a time of uncertainty. This talk will provide a working outline for the departmental archiving process that includes initiating difficult conversations, assessing resources needed, and identify pedagogical opportunities within the archiving process.
Camille Charette, California State Polytechnic University, will explore what began as a research consultation with the director of Cal Poly Humboldt University's Women's Resource Center and how it evolved into a series of archival research workshops open to the broader community and grounded in shared authority and the celebration of women's history. This presentation shows how shifting from expert-driven instruction to relationship-centered facilitation can transform archives into spaces for critical information literacy, collective meaning-making, and sustained community partnership.
Dr. Amy Beth, The Lesbian Herstory Archives, will present on The Lesbian Herstory Archives (https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org/. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener">https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org), which has provided collections, preservation, and direct community support for over 50 years. Those involved in Women's and Gender Studies have a great deal to gain from learning about the internships and research initiatives supported by LHA.
Caterina M. Reed, Stony Brook University, will outline how a three-credit undergraduate library course was developed using key concepts from critical information literacy and critical cataloging. This presentation will highlight how feminist pedagogy was integral to the course in ensuring that students were active participants in co-constructing their knowledge while challenging their ideas of neutrality and privilege.
Leah Morin, Michigan State University, will discuss adrienne maree brown's emergent strategy, which is a feminist, afrofuturist philosophy that explores human relationships and responses to change and imagines socially just futures. This presentation will introduce the nine core principles of emergent strategy and use storytelling to share the joy to be found by embracing those principles in library instruction, using examples from the forthcoming edited work, Emergent Strategy in Library Instruction: Stories, Reflections, and Imaginings.
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Maria Barca, MS, MLIS
Lead Instruction Librarian
Assistant Professor
Seton Hall University
She/They
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