On-Demand Webcasts: Diversity

2023 Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Symposium
Self-Care, Challenges, Solidarity: Asian American Women Leaders

AANHPI Heritage Symposium May 26, 2023

Join the San José State University School of Information for its symposium in recognition of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

The keynote presenters, Annie Pho and Alanna Aiko Moore, will discuss the barriers and challenges that AAPI women library leaders face, issues within the community and the role of self-care, and how we work towards solidarity in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities, and BIPOC communities at large. 

Webcast Dr. Eric Endlich Luna Nombrano Larsen

Your Voices Webinar: Neurodiversity and College

Join our fourth and final webinar in the Your Voices: Learning, Listening and Sharing series featuring speakers Dr. Eric Endlich and Luna Nombrano Larsen discussing “Neurodiversity and College.”

Colleges are increasingly striving to address concerns around diversity, equity and inclusion, and neurodiversity is an important part of this conversation. This interactive presentation will cover the basics of neurodiversity, how society benefits from neurodiversity, and the impact of neurodiversity on the college experience. Students, staff and faculty members will learn how to be supportive allies.

Webcast Gina Schlesselman-Tarango, MSS, MLIS

Your Voices Webinar: From Lady Bountiful to Librarian Cute: Tracing Race and Gender in LIS

Join our second webinar in the Your Voices: Learning, Listening and Sharing series featuring guest speaker Gina Schlesselman-Tarango.

Abstract: Through a discussion of her “The Legacy of Lady Bountiful: White Women in the Library” (2016) and “How Cute! Race, Gender, and Neutrality in Libraries” (2017), Gina Schlesselman-Tarango will trace some of the political work that is performed at the intersections of whiteness and gender in libraries, demonstrating how that which surfaces in our field is illustrative and often in service of larger racial projects. She will end with reflections on what whiteness studies can offer to LIS and where it might fall short.