Events Attended

NYU Libraries & Institute for Public Knowledge: Digital Praxis: The Role of Libraries in the Digital Age

Attending a discussion between Siva Vaidhyanathan, the Director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, with Melissa Morrone, the Librarian at Brooklyn Public Library, and Vicky Steeves, Research Data Management and Reproducibility Librarian at NYU Libraries, about the role of libraries in the digital age. The mediator will be Shannon Mattern, the Professor of Anthropology at The New School. The event is part of Think in Public: Libraries in the Life of Cities and Communities, a series about the different roles that libraries can play in the lives of cities, individuals, and culture at-large.

Columbia University: Oral History Research

Attended two workshops pertaining to Oral History; Participatory Oral History and Politics and Trauma in Oral History. The workshops explored how the field of oral history supports research on immigration, migration, ethnicity, gender, politics, government and human rights. The first workshop was taught by Lynn Lewis and explored how to structure a participatory oral history research project, while advocating for social justice and change. Concepts such as authority, collaboration and co-creation were discussed. Lewis examined ideas of power and privilege dynamics in relation to relationships and information collection and analysis. The second workshop was taught by Zoe West and focused on how oppression, conflict and crisis arise within oral history and how these relate to effective and ethical documenting methods. 

SLA: Honored in the Breach: A Conversation about Data Privacy

Attended a panel discussion between Lucia Cedeira-Serantes, Assistant Professor at Queens College,Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Senior Staff Technologist, Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project at American Civil Liberties Union, Cassandra Porter the Director and Senior Privacy Counsel at Cognizant and Bonnie Tijerina, Researcher at the Data & Society Research Institute, led by Matt Johnson, about data privacy relating to vendors, libraries and advocacy.