We're excited to share that submissions are now being accepted for all conference tracks. To encourage more research papers and panel proposals, ALISE welcomes submissions beyond the conference theme and from contributors in all areas of librarianship.
In our realm of the global scholarly discourse, library and information science education has been wrestling with these concerns for our collection humanity: the impacts of technological evolution with artificial intelligence (AI) on the one hand and the impacts of movements towards book bans, censorship, anti-DEI, anti-heritage, anti-queer, and anti-womanhood on the other hand. This balancing of a collective embodied agency begs a few questions for our consideration:
• How does the dichotomy between language technologies and our embodied humanity affect our knowledge-building and sharing? Our pedagogical and professional practices?
• How can we shift to center an accurate depiction of the heritage of Library and Information Science (LIS) synthesized with our familial heritages as a holistic identity construct?
• How can we infuse a LIS identity where technology and experience are synthesized into our pedagogical practices to (re)present LIS authentically?
The ALISE 2025 Annual Conference theme is "Decolonising Pedagogies: Agency, Identity, Practices" This theme infers a profound respect for how we, in LIS education, engage with agency, identity, and practices in our pedagogy. The theme invokes a critical inquiry into our pedagogy as a holistic and authentic expression of each of us as diverse, complex, and divine human beings who research, teach, and practice library and information science. By honoring our best selves, we share that self with our students and community members to inspire them to walk with empathy and care of the human condition as an intricate labyrinth of interdependent identities and heritages essential for knowledge sharing, professional success, and personal happiness.
We're especially excited to share the new creative track! This track welcomes creative works that convey the conference theme in a format other than a
paper, panel, report, or poster. Such works may include a movement/performance, poetry/spoken word, artwork, or media-based expression. The piece must be LIS-based and connective with the conference theme.
Click on this link to learn more about the ALISE 2025 Conference and the call for proposals. We hope you'll consider joining us in Kansas City!
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Amanda Folk
Head, Department of Teaching and Learning
The Ohio State University
She/Her/Hers
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