Who else is going to the American Library Association Annual Conference this weekend? We are literally packing our bags right now to head to San Diego!
Please come say hello to us at Booth 656 in The Library Marketplace to learn about teaching with film, using our films and discussion guides for library events, and get free film resources. Like our film-book pairing ideas.
Our Executive Director Jen Fischer and our Lead Instructional Designer Amy Bowers would love to meet you and answer your questions.
We'll also be kicking off the "Now Showing @ ALA Film Program" with a screening of "Youth v Gov" plus a Climate Action Discussion.
June 29, 8:00am-10:00am PT.
The film follows youth activists suing the US government for the right to a safe climate. It’s a great way to engage students around Civics, U.S. Government, Environmental Science and Climate Action.
ICYMI, MIT HASTS ABD Alex Reiss Sorokin presented an excellent CBI Tomash Fellow Lecture, "From Search to Research Technologies 1964-1994," on April 30th. The video of the talk now is available. #ai#datascience#librarians
ROMA VOICES IN HISTORY. A Sourcebook. Volume Editors: Elena Marushiakova
and Vesselin Popov. #Brill#OpenAccess#Book 2021
"This ground-breaking book is an impressively extensive collection of primary historical sources in various languages that reflect the history of the Roma (formerly referred to as ‘Gypsies’ in local languages). The selection of the included materials reflects the authentic voice of the Roma themselves, and presents their visions and the specific goals pursued by the Roma civic emancipation movement. The source materials are published in original and translated in English, and are accompanied by explanatory notes and summarising comments discussing the specific historical realities and their interrelation to the Romani emancipatory movement in Central and Eastern Europe, thus presenting a comprehensive picture of the historical processes."
POST-DIGITAL CULTURES OF THE FAR RIGHT. Ed. by: Maik Fielitz and Nick Thurston (2019) #OpenAccess#Book#DeGruyter
"How does the far right operate today? This volume presents a unique critical survey of the online and offline tactics, symbols and platforms that are strategically remixed to stake national and transnational cultural claims by contemporary far-right groups in Europe and North America. Featuring short, accessible analyses by an international range of expert scholars, policy advisors and activists, the book offers a plurality of answers to practical and theoretical questions about how and why the Internet has been crucial to emboldening extreme nationalisms in these regions and what counter-cultural approaches civil societies should develop in response".
‘AM I LESS BRITISH?’ Racism, belonging, and the children of refugees and immigrants in North London by Doğuş Şimşek (2024) #UCLPress#OpenAccess#Book
"Am I Less British?’ focuses on the children of refugees and immigrants in North London, whose parents migrated from Turkey.
Providing a rich ethnography of the lives of the children, the book studies their sense of identity, belonging and their transnational experiences. It aims to understand how the children position themselves within a range of locations (London, North London and Turkey), where they face class hierarchy, racism and discrimination, and explores how they think about their sense of belonging within the contemporary political context in Britain and Turkey."
IMPERMANENCE. Exploring continuous change across cultures. Edited by Haidy Geismar, Ton Otto, and Cameron David Warner #UCLPress (2022) #OpenAccess#Books
"Nothing lasts forever. This common experience is the source of much anxiety but also hope. The concept of impermanence or continuous change opens up a range of timely questions and discussions that speak to globally shared experiences of transformation and concerns for the future. Impermanence engages with an emergent body of social theory emphasizing flux and transformation, and brings this into a dialogue with other traditions of thought and practice, notably Buddhism that has sustained a long-lasting and sophisticated meditation on impermanence."
"The very attempt to narrativize and moralize fascism translates what is perceived as the object of this moral narrative, the event of fascism as a "lived experience," into representation, which consequently implicates such moral and political representations of fascism in the restaging, stylizing, or aestheticizing of such an event."
"This book brings together prominent scholars in the fields of international cultural heritage law and heritage studies to scrutinise the various branches of international law and governance dealing with heritage destruction from human rights perspectives, both in times of armed conflict as well as in peace."
"Chapters deal with high profile cases from Europe, North Africa, The Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, with a substantial afterword on heritage destruction in Ukraine."