{"id":964,"date":"2017-03-08T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/?p=964"},"modified":"2017-03-08T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:32:38","slug":"this-week-at-slis-march-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"This Week at SLIS – March 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring Forum Questions<\/b><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>LISSA will be having a Spring forum on March 22nd<\/span><\/span>, beginning at 5:00pm<\/span><\/span>, located in the Faculty Dining Room (Main College Building). We are now accepting question submissions! Please submit your questions here.\u00a0<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Saturday, March 4th:<\/span>
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DERAIL Forum:<\/u>
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Brought to you by the DERAIL Planning Crew\u00a0<\/span><\/i>
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9:00am – 5:00pm<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0 School of Management Building (SOM) 501, 502, & 513
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The\u00a0Diversity, Equity, Race, Accessibility, and Identity in LIS<\/b>\u00a0(DERAIL) Forum upholds the essential role of combating white supremacy and oppressive power structures in LIS institutions and pedagogy. We seek to create a productive and mindful space to explore the impacts of social justice frameworks in guiding our work as students and practitioners.<\/p>\n

We recognize that our LIS institutions, including our graduate programs, are embedded within racist, ableist and heteropatriarchal power structures and perpetuate these same inequalities. We also recognize that this is not inevitable and that we must amplify our own voices to be heard by administrations and institutions that uncritically support the privileging of white supremacist perspectives in information environments, including but not limited to archives, libraries and museums. We acknowledge that we have vested power as practitioners in upholding or challenging oppressive power structures in our interactions with the public and within our institutions.<\/p>\n

DERAIL stands in solidarity with students in higher education across the country who are organizing to combat oppressive curriculum and treatment. We believe in the radical potential of library and information science to facilitate meaningful discussions of the interlocking roles of race, sexuality, ability, gender and class in the maintenance of oppressive conditions in LIS. Please see here for the\u00a0DERAIL 2017 Schedule of Event.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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DERAIL Unwind:<\/u>
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Brought to you by the DERAIL and ALA-SC (American Library Association – Student Chapter)<\/span><\/i>
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6:00pm – 7:00pm<\/span><\/span>, Lansdowne Pub (9 Lansdowne St, Boston, MA)
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Join ALA-SC for an after-party on the first day of the DERAIL Forum! We’ll be at the Landsdowne Pub — we have reserved our own bar (we’ll be in the function room behind the main stage). ALA-SC will provide the food and space, drinks will be available for individual purchase. Hope you can join us!<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunday, March 5th:<\/span>
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DERAIL UnConference:<\/u>
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Brought to you by the DERAIL Planning Crew<\/span><\/i>
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10:00am – 2:00pm<\/span><\/span>, Kotzen Room
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UnConferences are innovative, safe spaces where community can gather to share ideas and discuss pressing issues or concerns that are on the minds of participants in the moment of the event.\u00a0 Sessions are decided by participants upon at the start of the day\u2019s event. Any participant can propose a session \u2013 do you want to lead a discussion group, get input on a new project, a reflection session, or something else all together? Remember \u2013 its all about you!<\/p><\/div>\n

RSVP is\u00a0encouraged by registering here.\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n
For more information, follow this link to the\u00a0DERAIL 2017 UnConference page<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring Forum Questions LISSA will be having a Spring forum on March 22nd, beginning at 5:00pm, located in the Faculty Dining Room (Main College Building). We are now accepting question submissions! Please submit your questions here.\u00a0 Saturday, March 4th: DERAIL … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}