The 4th Annual Community As Intellectual Space Symposium Registration is Open!
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CIS2008/
What:
The 4th Annual Community as Intellectual Space Symposium:
“Aesthetics as Resistance: The Act of Community Building”
Hosted by the Community Informatics Initiative, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.
This year promises to be an extraordinary event, exploring notions of the “art” of community building in cultural context: from murals to media, technology to teaching. Join us for an unprecedented celebration of cross-cultural community in the heart of the Paseo Boricua neighborhood of Chicago.
(Continuing professional development units for K-12 educators will be available.)
When: June 13-15, 2008
Where: Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Chicago
Who:
•Dr. Margaret Burroughs (invited), founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History
•Internationally known muralist and artist Pablo Marcano
Other speakers include:
Dr. Carol Lee, Northwestern University,
Dr. Lisa Yun Lee, Director of Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois, Chicago;
Dr. Sarai Lastra, Turabo University, Puerto Rico;
Dr. Antonia Darder and Dr. Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
Dr. Jacqueline Lazu, DePaul University;
Dr. Jose Lopez, Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, and community and government representatives
Activities:
–A unique artist-led mural tour on the nationally known Paseo
–Community Informatics Initiative workshops:
Curating Identity: Newberry Library exhibit created by high school students as curators;
“Do You ‘Squeak’?”: How to use creative technologies with early childhood learners;
Going Teen Green: How to inspire creative urban gardening in the high school;
How to build a community library
•Premier of the third play in a trilogy by noted Puerto Rican author and playwright, Tato Laviera, performed by Pedro Albizu Campos High School students
•June 12, a Pre-Symposium reception is being hosted by the Humboldt Park Branch of the Chicago Public Library featuring Chicago Public Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey (invited) and artists
•And, of course, we will be attending the 30th Anniversary People’s Parade
Want to hear more? Visit our registration website:
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CIS2008/
CONTACT:
Ann P. Bishop, Associate Professor
501 E. Daniel
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
217.244.3299
abishop@uiuc.edu
www.cii.uiuc.edu
Sharon L. Comstock, M.A., M.L.S.,
Ph.D. student
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
scomstoc@uiuc.edu
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