CALL FOR PAPERS: “Abolitionist Visions and Intersections: Centering Human Relationships and Building Institutional Connections for Social Justice”

We are now accepting speaker and panel proposals for the American Library Association’s Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) “Abolitionist Visions and Intersections: Centering Human Relationships and Building Institutional Connections for Social Justice” on March 19, 2024, via Zoom. Submissions are due February 15, 2024.

This conference places abolitionism as philosophy and practice in conversation with libraries and the broader community services and human resources landscape of which they are a part.

The event is inspired by SRRT’s broader effort to encourage expansive, provocative, cross-disciplinary conversations that center intersectional issues and struggles.

We invite provocative and engaging explorations of the convergences, tensions, and disjunctions between abolitionism and library work as well as the many other areas of action, engagement, and inquiry that abolitionism touches on. We expect that many presentations will discuss the work of libraries and librarians, but we also hope that, in the vein of knowledge justice (i.e., What counts as knowledge? Who defines knowledge and how it is expressed, used, and understood? Whose knowledge is valued, uplifted, and preserved?), we spotlight issues, experiences, and voices that deepen our understanding of how information is of use and put to use in carceral settings, as seen through the lens and in the voices of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people themselves. We will compensate all people with lived experience expertise for their participation in these proceedings.

The following website provides a detailed description of conference scope, call for papers, suggested topics, and link to the speaker/panel submission form: https://www.ala.org/rt/srrt/<wbr />events/abolitionist-visions-<wbr />intersections. Event registration will open mid-February. Please reach out to Rachel Rosekind for more information: [email protected]. And please share within your networks of interest.

CALL FOR PAPERS: “Abolitionist Visions and Intersections: Centering Human Relationships and Building Institutional Connections for Social Justice”

We are now accepting speaker and panel proposals for the American Library Association’s Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) “Abolitionist Visions and Intersections: Centering Human Relationships and Building Institutional Connections for Social Justice” on March 19, 2024, via Zoom. Submissions are due February 15, 2024.

This conference places abolitionism as philosophy and practice in conversation with libraries and the broader community services and human resources landscape of which they are a part.

The event is inspired by SRRT’s broader effort to encourage expansive, provocative, cross-disciplinary conversations that center intersectional issues and struggles.

We invite provocative and engaging explorations of the convergences, tensions, and disjunctions between abolitionism and library work as well as the many other areas of action, engagement, and inquiry that abolitionism touches on. We expect that many presentations will discuss the work of libraries and librarians, but we also hope that, in the vein of knowledge justice (i.e., What counts as knowledge? Who defines knowledge and how it is expressed, used, and understood? Whose knowledge is valued, uplifted, and preserved?), we spotlight issues, experiences, and voices that deepen our understanding of how information is of use and put to use in carceral settings, as seen through the lens and in the voices of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people themselves. We will compensate all people with lived experience expertise for their participation in these proceedings.

The following website provides a detailed description of conference scope, call for papers, suggested topics, and link to the speaker/panel submission form: https://www.ala.org/rt/srrt/<wbr />events/abolitionist-visions-<wbr />intersections. Event registration will open mid-February. Please reach out to Rachel Rosekind for more information: [email protected]. And please share within your networks of interest.