Planning for SUNYLA Conference on June 12-14 at Buffalo State University continues...
Keynote speaker will be Naila Ansari. She’s deeply involved in the trauma-informed community archiving initiative around the May 14 Tops shooting that involves the public library, the local history museum, and Buffalo State. More broadly, her current research “focuses on the performance of joy through the creative archiving of oral histories, movement histories, live-performance, and film.” She’s also an outgoing performer/speaker and a DEI advocate and library lover (though not a librarian herself). And not to be too bottom-line-driven… her speaker fee is $500. Here’s her website:
https://www.nailaansari.org/about.
The call for proposals went out Jan 12 and are due Mar 8:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOm9dkVrusf-vkIaaB3T-m6-V1VkUbTewjW3ZEqCRmzIZ1Rg/viewformSUNYLA Conference website is getting more content:
https://events.sunyla.org/sunyla24/We continue to finalize plans for food, dorms, rooms, etc. Coming together!
Thanks! Charles
