This document is a summary of our most important accomplishments as an organization for 2013 and includes a summary of our public programming for 2014.
Bringing Primary Source Material to Children (21st Century NF Conference)Amie Wright
Presented at the 21st Century Children's Nonfiction Conference June 20-22, 2014 at SUNY New Paltz. All presentations from the 21st Century Nonfiction Conference on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/aedwright/presentations.
Presentations on:
* new trends and opportunities in nonfiction for children
* common core in school and public libraries
* nonfiction comics for kids
* making it to the shelf: getting your nonfiction noticed
* primary sources for kids
George A. Priestley, PhD Ten minute talk at Encuentros/Encounters Race Relati...The_Afrolatino_Project
Prepared by the late Dr. George A. Priestley, founder of the Afrolatin@ Project and Director of Latin American Studies, C.U.N.Y.-Queens College for the “Encuentros-Encounters” dialogue. The first of a series of conversations between African-Americans and Latin Americans in Nashville, Tennessee, to foster stronger communication and eliminate tensions between the two communities. Fisk University, April 19, 2003.
Mobile Banking, MicroFinance and Economic Development in Latin America and th...The_Afrolatino_Project
Presentation given at Bank of New York Mellon for Latino Heritage Month 2013 in collaboration with Bank of NY Mellon and New Horizon Investments/ The Garifuna Coalition
Proyecto Afrolatin@- 2013 Lista de Eventos Notables Para Afrolatin@sThe_Afrolatino_Project
Este documento es una lista de los eventos del ano 2013 que el Proyecto Afrolatin@ considera mas notables para la comunidad Afrolatin@/ Afrodescendiente dentro de la diaspora. Estamos seguro que hay otros eventos, largos y pequenos pero todo importante para seguir luchando para la inclusion Afrolatin@.
The Afrolatin@ Project 2013 List of Notable Events for Afrolatin@'sThe_Afrolatino_Project
This list documents the events of 2013 which the Afrolatin@ Project considers to be the most noteworthy for Afrolatin@s We are sure there were many other events both small and large but all important to continuing the push for inclusion of afrolatin@s
Nevada Library Association Annual Conference NDNP carriegaxiola
Library of Congress & National Endowment for the Humanities project to digitize historic newspapers in America. This presentation shows how you can use the newspapers for scholarly research, genealogy, K-12, and lifelong learning. 100,000 pages are digitized every grant cycle. All papers are hosted by Library of Congress via Chronicling America.
OCR is used so the newspapers are full text searchable.
This presentation was given at the Annual Nevada Library Association conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 14, 2018. The presentation highlights the project Chronicling America and the use for geneologists, historians, scholars, lifetime learners, and K-12. (any views presented do not necessarily represent the views of NEH)
We should be software: Recoding cultural action through networked formations ...maudelfin
Abstract
In recent years, Latin America has witnessed the appearance of various “cultural networks” composed of arts and culture organizations, directly influenced by digital media and networked technologies. These networks have impacted policy spaces while forming alternative circuits for cultural production, consumption and valuation, within their countries and across national boundaries. They can be understood as a reaction to vertical cultural policy-making (generally focused on the promotion of fine arts and archaeological heritage) and widespread institutional opacity and government centralization in the region. Cultural networks advance a plurality of socio-political agendas and broaden the spectrum of collective aspirations surrounding culture and its relationship to social development.
This paper argues that the power of cultural networks relies on a distinct exploitation of the affordances of digital media to generate new and augmented collective narratives, champion a non-hierarchical and distributed ethos, and introduce new modes for cultural labor. It also proposes that they represent an emerging politics of relationality among arts and cultural organizations that takes advantage of a widening gap between mainstream institutional and media cultures and new political cultures characterized by rapid appropriation of distributed technologies and open source ethics. Three case studies — Fora do Eixo, Plataforma Puente and Cultura de Red — are used to describe how these networks function as domains for social action, vehicles for the construction of “futurity” (Appadurai, 2004) and meaning structures that engineer new social relations.
Finally, this paper argues that cultural networks constitute a unique opportunity to study “the becoming topological of culture” as defined by Lury, Parisi and Terranova (2012); the idea that culture is increasingly organized in terms of its capacities for change. For these networks, culture appears as a field of connectedness, of ordering by means of continuity and not as a structure based on essential properties, such as archetypes, values or norms, or regional location (5). Thus, these networks challenge a foundational aspect of contemporary cultural policies: The idea of “national space” as main guarantor and source for political identity, order and control.
Bringing Primary Source Material to Children (21st Century NF Conference)Amie Wright
Presented at the 21st Century Children's Nonfiction Conference June 20-22, 2014 at SUNY New Paltz. All presentations from the 21st Century Nonfiction Conference on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/aedwright/presentations.
Presentations on:
* new trends and opportunities in nonfiction for children
* common core in school and public libraries
* nonfiction comics for kids
* making it to the shelf: getting your nonfiction noticed
* primary sources for kids
George A. Priestley, PhD Ten minute talk at Encuentros/Encounters Race Relati...The_Afrolatino_Project
Prepared by the late Dr. George A. Priestley, founder of the Afrolatin@ Project and Director of Latin American Studies, C.U.N.Y.-Queens College for the “Encuentros-Encounters” dialogue. The first of a series of conversations between African-Americans and Latin Americans in Nashville, Tennessee, to foster stronger communication and eliminate tensions between the two communities. Fisk University, April 19, 2003.
Mobile Banking, MicroFinance and Economic Development in Latin America and th...The_Afrolatino_Project
Presentation given at Bank of New York Mellon for Latino Heritage Month 2013 in collaboration with Bank of NY Mellon and New Horizon Investments/ The Garifuna Coalition
Proyecto Afrolatin@- 2013 Lista de Eventos Notables Para Afrolatin@sThe_Afrolatino_Project
Este documento es una lista de los eventos del ano 2013 que el Proyecto Afrolatin@ considera mas notables para la comunidad Afrolatin@/ Afrodescendiente dentro de la diaspora. Estamos seguro que hay otros eventos, largos y pequenos pero todo importante para seguir luchando para la inclusion Afrolatin@.
The Afrolatin@ Project 2013 List of Notable Events for Afrolatin@'sThe_Afrolatino_Project
This list documents the events of 2013 which the Afrolatin@ Project considers to be the most noteworthy for Afrolatin@s We are sure there were many other events both small and large but all important to continuing the push for inclusion of afrolatin@s
Nevada Library Association Annual Conference NDNP carriegaxiola
Library of Congress & National Endowment for the Humanities project to digitize historic newspapers in America. This presentation shows how you can use the newspapers for scholarly research, genealogy, K-12, and lifelong learning. 100,000 pages are digitized every grant cycle. All papers are hosted by Library of Congress via Chronicling America.
OCR is used so the newspapers are full text searchable.
This presentation was given at the Annual Nevada Library Association conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 14, 2018. The presentation highlights the project Chronicling America and the use for geneologists, historians, scholars, lifetime learners, and K-12. (any views presented do not necessarily represent the views of NEH)
We should be software: Recoding cultural action through networked formations ...maudelfin
Abstract
In recent years, Latin America has witnessed the appearance of various “cultural networks” composed of arts and culture organizations, directly influenced by digital media and networked technologies. These networks have impacted policy spaces while forming alternative circuits for cultural production, consumption and valuation, within their countries and across national boundaries. They can be understood as a reaction to vertical cultural policy-making (generally focused on the promotion of fine arts and archaeological heritage) and widespread institutional opacity and government centralization in the region. Cultural networks advance a plurality of socio-political agendas and broaden the spectrum of collective aspirations surrounding culture and its relationship to social development.
This paper argues that the power of cultural networks relies on a distinct exploitation of the affordances of digital media to generate new and augmented collective narratives, champion a non-hierarchical and distributed ethos, and introduce new modes for cultural labor. It also proposes that they represent an emerging politics of relationality among arts and cultural organizations that takes advantage of a widening gap between mainstream institutional and media cultures and new political cultures characterized by rapid appropriation of distributed technologies and open source ethics. Three case studies — Fora do Eixo, Plataforma Puente and Cultura de Red — are used to describe how these networks function as domains for social action, vehicles for the construction of “futurity” (Appadurai, 2004) and meaning structures that engineer new social relations.
Finally, this paper argues that cultural networks constitute a unique opportunity to study “the becoming topological of culture” as defined by Lury, Parisi and Terranova (2012); the idea that culture is increasingly organized in terms of its capacities for change. For these networks, culture appears as a field of connectedness, of ordering by means of continuity and not as a structure based on essential properties, such as archetypes, values or norms, or regional location (5). Thus, these networks challenge a foundational aspect of contemporary cultural policies: The idea of “national space” as main guarantor and source for political identity, order and control.
Tansi! welcome to INDG 2015. This term I’m opening up some aspects of the course to the public. So feel free to read along with whichever texts you can. I’ll post weekly versions of the course powerpoints, with links, discussion questions and summaries of the materials. Feel free to share your thoughts about (and/or artistic, audio-visual or other responses to) the week’s readings and concepts using the hashtag #INDG2015 on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. If I have the capacity throughout the term, I may also upload some other materials as we go. We’re so excited to have you join us in thinking through these important ideas.
Skillful Digital Activism: Cultivating Media Ecologies for Transformative Soc...Vicki Callahan
“Skillful Digital Activism: Designing Strategies for Transformative Social Change”
This presentation explores the conceptual frameworks and practical strategies employed in social change campaigns that have utilized digital media as a crucial component of their organizing tool kit. Moving beyond the hazards of superficial social media engagement, or the justly maligned “clicktivism,” to transformative and long term impact, I examine a range of case studies that have worked to develop a “horizontal,” rather than top down, rich media ecology, which networks diverse groups, fosters community, and promotes real change. Whether using virtual reality, interactive documentaries, or DIY tools, projects such as Half the Sky, Lunch Love Community, Food Inc, Triangle Fire Archive, Through the Lens Darkly/Digital Diaspora, VozMob, and #BlackLivesMatter are all pioneering digital tools and strategies in the struggle for social justice. While their philosophies and strategies might be different each campaign mark a shift from a broadcast to a participant focused model where advocacy and engagement are connected. This work was presented at Dublin City University on November 10, 2015 and also an earlier version of this was at the Performance, Protest, and Politics Conference at University College Cork in August 2015. These presentations with part of my Fulbright Research award for 2015-2016.
Helen DeMichiel and Patricia Zimmerman, “Documentary as Open Space,” in Brian Winston’s The Documentary Film Book (Palgrave McMillan, 2013)
Sasha Constanza-Chock, Out of the Shadows and Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (MIT Press, 2014)
Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in Networked Culture (NYU Press, 2013)
Deborah Willis (ed.), Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography (The New Press, 1996).
Presentation slides prepared by Birdie MacLennan to accompany a lightening talk given at Annual Awardee conference of the National Digital Newspaper Program at the Library of Congress on September 12, 2013.
The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University was created in 1990, formally recognizing fifty years of informal cooperation between the two universities. The geographic proximity of the campuses—just nine miles apart—greatly encourages and facilitates regular collaboration among faculty and students. The UNC and Duke Consortium has received major funding from the Andrew W. Mellon, Ford, and Tinker Foundations. Since 1991 it has been designated a Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) by the U.S. Department of Education.
This work is dedicated to those who lost their way because they had nowhere to turn, nowhere to go, and to the librarians and the teachers who give them hope.
The core conviction in this presentation is that librarians are catalysts for social change and personal transformation. But first come professional due diligence and careful study to learn about the LGBTQ* communities, their diverse histories, local and global, and their wide-ranging library information needs. The context is then established for developing and enhancing strategies, policies, procedures, and action plans that will support local LGBTQ* communities.
I hope this presentation affords a pathway to change and support. The focus is principally on Alberta and Canada because this context is what I know best.
But there are many commonalities across countries and cultures in what LGBTQ* communities experience and in how librarians and libraries can position themselves as service providers, supporters, and advocates to create an ethno-cultural climate of respect and resilience in society, grounded in an ethos of human rights and social justice.
This version has been greatly expanded from my previous 77 slides to incorporate recent research and professional events.
It is divided into two separate SlideShare files:
1. Library Service and Collection Policies and Strategies for Supporting LGBTQ* Communities
2. Being a More Visible Support for LGBTQ* Communities – What Some Canadian Libraries are Doing to Promote LGBTQ* Services, Inclusivity, and Community Engagement
Part 1 addresses the status of LGBTQ* rights around the world; the LGBTQ* rainbow umbrella; library service collection policies and strategies for supporting LGBTQ* communities; a policy framework; access challenges in meeting LGBTQ* library information needs; and professional resources to support LGBTQ* communities and library users.
The analysis of LGBTQ* access challenges is at the heart of issues that are central to effective library services for LGBTQ* populations: library staff values and service attitudes; materials access; subject access; Internet access and filtering; reference and research services; and library information needs research.
Letter to Colombian Congress re Raizal ethnocide (San Andres) -signed without...The_Afrolatino_Project
A copy of a letter, prepared before the ICJ, Hague Determination, addressed to the Colombian Government, the Colombian Congress and some Human Rights offices
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
Afrolatin@ Project- 2013 Year in Review / Resumen del Ano
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February/febrero 2013: U. of Texas Austin– “Refashioning Blackness: Contesting
Racism in the Afro-Americas”; Presentation-Afrolatin@ Digital Citizenship: Mobile
Telephony, Web 2.0 and Digital Humanities (Presentación-Ciudadanía Digital
Afrolatin@, Telefonia Móvil, Web 2.0 y Humanidades Digitales)
Ministra Luiza Barrios SEPPIR-Brazil
Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé, IDCARAN Colombia
Tomás Fernández Robaina, Biblioteca Nacional José Martí Habana
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April/abril 2013: Release of Spring journal: “Inclusion, Development and Technology”
/ Lanzamiento del Jornal de Primavera: “Inclusión, Desarrollo y Tecnología”
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May/mayo 2013: Organized documentary screening / Documental “Nosotros
Afroperuanos”. Co-sponsored by Arturo Schomburg Democratic Club of East Harlem,
Afropresencia.com, LUNDU, & AfroIncas Productions
Photo #1 (L-R) NYS Assemblyman 68th Dist. Robert Rodriguez, Jr.,
Director Gabriella Watson &
Monica Carrillo Director/Founder LUNDU-Peru;
*Press: Amsterdam News, N.Y. : http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2013/jun/13/notable-afro-brazilian-film-director-gabriela/
• May/mayo 2013: Partner with Amara and launch Afrolatin@ Project Open
Translation Initiative / Iniciativa Traduccion Abierta
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June/junio 2013: 1st Afrolatino Festival of NY/1er Festival Afrolatino de NY. Two
Dinners-for-2 Raffles with La Caye Restaurant & De Porres Dinner Series
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August/September agosto/septiembre 2013: Licensed content for PBS/WNET
documentary (Licenciado contenido para Documental de PBS/WNET):
“Latinoamericanos of New York and NJ”
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Created subtitles of LUNDU-Peru documentary: “AfroPeru” / Creo subtitulos para
Documental de LUNDU-Peru: “AfroPeru”
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September/septiembre 2013: Panelist- “Consortium of Afrolatino Communities”
(Panelista –”Consorcio de Comunidadaes Afrolatinos”). Baltimore City Community
College
September/October septiembre/octubre 2013: “3-Day Afrolatinidad Series for Hispanic
Heritage Month. School supplies collected for Escuela Primaria de Bastimientos in Bocas
del Toro Panama. Co-organized with Que Bajo Records, La Caye Restaurant , Madiba
Restaurant & Yemanja Caribe. Brooklyn, NY
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October/octubre 2013: Bank of NY Mellon Latin America Economic Development Panel.
Presentation: "Mobile Banking, Microfinance and Afrodescendants” (Presentación:
Bancario Móvil, Microfinanza y Afrodescendientes). New York, NY
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November/noviembre 2013: Co-organizer of ThatCamp Caribe 2.0 Digital Humanities
(Un)conference. Habana, Cuba
6. Programming Schedule for 2014/ Horario de Programación para 2014
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February 18, 2014 St. John's School of Law- Symposium: Human Rights,
Afrodescendants and Technology {Simposio-“Derechos Humanos, Afrodescendientes y
Tecnología”), Queens, NY
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February 2014: Documentary Screening/ Presentacion de Documentales -“AfroPeru” (
LUNDU); "Petronia Alvarez” & "Martina Camargo” (C.W.M.)
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April 2014: Moderator –CUNY Queens College Roundtable/Mesa Redonda: “"Abdias
do Nascimento and Candomblé, Santería and Afro-Latino Politics in Brazil and Cuba”.
Queens, NY
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June 2014: Participating in the 1st Afrolatino Festival of New York 2014.
Brooklyn, NY
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August 2014: 100 Years of the Panama Canal /100 Años del Canal de Panamá
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TBD: Community Economic Development Symposium; Tech Salon NYC Conference
