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Melissa Villa Nicholas <mvnicholas@uri.edu>Date: Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 1:15 PM
Subject: [REFORMANET] Webinar: An Obligation to Repair: The Library of Congress, The Scourged Back, and Emancipation
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Dear Colleagues,
Please join us for our final webinar in the Information Equity webinar series:
An Obligation to Repair: The Library of Congress, The Scourged Back, and Emancipation
Dr. Tonia Sutherland, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Date & Time May 4, 2023 , 12 EST
https://uri-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BKkB-l-FTt2rkJMY--peOQ#/registration
Tonia Sutherland is an Assistant Professor of Information Studies at UCLA. Sutherland holds a Ph.D. and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in history, performance studies, and cultural studies from Hampshire College. Global
in scope, Sutherland's research focuses on the critical and liberatory in archival, digital, and science and technology studies, emphasizing the often-messy entanglements of memory, community, and technology. Sutherland, an internationally recognized expert in studying Black archival practices, is the author of Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife (University of California Press, 2023) and over two dozen articles and book chapters. In addition to her research and teaching, Sutherland is the Co-Director of the Community Archives Lab at UCLA, Co-Director of AfterLab at the University of Washington's iSchool, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies at NYU.
Voices for Information Equity is a webinar series hosted by the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. This series discusses contemporary conversations or race, gender, sexuality, class, and information equity. Learn more about the Information Equity track.