[ANPPOM-Lista] CFP: Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene: A Colloquium

[Carlos Palombini]

Call for Proposals

Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene: A Colloquium
May 13-14, 2017
New York University
Website: http://litwinbooks.com/laac2017colloq.php

As stewards of a culture's collective knowledge, libraries and archives are
facing the realities of cataclysmic environmental change with a dawning
awareness of its unique implications for their missions and activities.
Some professionals in these fields are focusing new energies on the need
for environmentally sustainable practices in their institutions. Some are
prioritizing the role of libraries and archives in supporting climate
change communication and influencing government policy and public
awareness. Others foresee an inevitable unraveling of systems and ponder
the role of libraries and archives in a world much different from the one
we take for granted. Climate disruption, peak oil, toxic waste,
deforestation, soil salinity and agricultural crisis, depletion of
groundwater and other natural resources, loss of biodiversity, mass
migration, sea level rise, and extreme weather events are all problems that
indirectly threaten to overwhelm civilization's knowledge infrastructures,
and present information institutions with unprecedented challenges.

This colloquium will serve as a space to explore these challenges and
establish directions for future efforts and investigations. We invite
proposals from academics, librarians, archivists, activists, and others.

  *   Some suggested topics and questions:
  *   How can information institutions operate more sustainably?
  *   How can information institutions better serve the needs of policy
discussions and public awareness in the area of climate change and other
threats to the environment?
  *   How can information institutions support skillsets and technologies
that are relevant following systemic unraveling?
  *   What will information work look like without the infrastructures we
take for granted?
  *   How does information literacy instruction intersect with ecoliteracy?
  *   How can information professionals support radical environmental
activism?
  *   What are the implications of climate change for disaster preparedness?
  *   What role do information workers have in addressing issues of
environmental justice?
  *   What are the implications of climate change for preservation
practices?
  *   Should we question the wisdom of preserving access to the
technological cultural legacy that has led to the crisis?
  *   Is there a new responsibility to document, as a mode of bearing
witness, the historical event of society's confrontation with the systemic
threat of climate change, peak oil, and other environmental problems?
  *   Given the ideological foundations of libraries and archives in
Enlightenment thought, and given that Enlightenment civilization may be
leading to its own environmental endpoint, are these ideological
foundations called into question? And with what consequences?

Formats:
Lightning talk (5 minutes)
Paper (20 minutes)
Proposals are due August 1, 2016.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 16, 2016.
Submit your proposal here: http://goo.gl/forms/rz7uN1mBNM


  *   Planning committee:
  *   Casey Davis is Project Manager at the American Archive of Public
Broadcasting at WGBH and co-founder of ProjectARCC: Archivists Responding
to Climate Change<https://projectarcc.org/>.
  *   Madeleine Charney is Sustainability Studies Librarian at UMass
Amherst and co-founder of the Sustainability Round Table of the American
Library Association<http://www.ala.org/sustainrt/home>.
  *   Rory Litwin is a former librarian and the founder of Litwin Books,
LLC<http://litwinbooks.com/> (Colloquium sponsor)

-- 
carlos palombini, ph.d. (dunelm)
professor de musicologia ufmg
professor colaborador ppgm-unirio
www.proibidao.org
ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini <http://goo.gl/KMV98I>
www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2
scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=YLmXN7AAAAAJ
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