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Rainbow Center Lecture: “House of Cards: Smart Social Advocacy for GLBTQ Community” on April 1st
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
12pm – 1:30pm
Storrs Campus
Rainbow Center, 403 of the Student Union
Admission Fee: Free and open to the public
The Out to Lunch Lecture Series continues the semester with Barry Schreier, as he presents a lecture entitled, “The House of Cards: Smart Social Advocacy for GLBTQ Community.” This presentation will provide a framework for climbing into the mind of those that oppose GLBTQ equality by examining their belief and attitude structure. What we will discover is nothing more than a “house of cards.” Using this framework, this presentation will use ideas from social, clinical, counseling, and group psychology to define best methods for social advocacy work to advance equality for people who are GLBTQ. As this can be difficult work, we want to be smart, effective, and maintain our own sense of well-being in the process.
Barry Schreier is the Director of UConn’s Counseling and Mental Health Services (CMHS) and is a licensed psychologist.
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The keynote speaker for the conference is Leonard Rubenstein– president and former executive director of Physicians for Human Rights. Panels will cover human rights, media, gender, and sustainability, public health and teaching peace.
More information is available on the website at http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/peaceconf/sustainability2.htm
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The 2010 National Diversity in Libraries Conference, “NDLC2010: From Groundwork to Action,” will take place from July 14-16, 2010 in Princeton, NJ.
The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC) is a biennial event that serves as a regional meeting for library staff members to discuss diversity issues, especially issues common to the host region’s culture.
The 2010 NDLC Planning Committee invites you to submit a proposal for presentation at the conference. Proposal submission details are listed below.
SUGGESTED Topics/TRACKS:
Conference presentations are sought in all areas of diversity, including but not limited to, the following:
Workplace: administration and management; recruitment and retention; leadership; continuing education; mentoring; organizational culture; office environment; budgeting; motivation; staff skill development; cross-training; usability
User services
reference; collections; programming; assessment; instructional design; marketing; collaborations; community spaces/learning spaces; outreach; the Library as a Place; customer service; consumerization; usability
Technology
emerging technologies; technology services; social networking; teaching and learning; innovations; online learning; core competencies; Library 2.0; YouTube; digitization; open source; visual media; web-based collaborative software; learning 2.0, second life; widgets/applications/mashups; virtual libraries/scan on demand
Presentation formats:
- Individual presentation
- Poster session
- Panel session
Submission Guidelines:
Proposals which include all of the following will be considered:
- Name and contact information for principal contact (if more than one person will be presenting);
- Complete contact information for all speakers: include name, title, employer or affiliation, email address, telephone/fax numbers;
- Title of proposed program;
- Program theme;
- Program format;
- A brief (100 words or less) description of the program for conference program purposes;
- A detailed description (up to 500 words) for proposal submission review;
- At least three learning outcomes;
- Audiovisual/equipment requirements (if any); and
- Biographical statement of the presenter(s) (up to 50 words per presenter).
Proposal submission deadline: October 2, 2009.
Notifications will be made by early December, 2009.
SELECTION CRITERIA:
The successful proposals will:
- Identify critical diversity issues that will be treated in the program;
- Demonstrate how the audience will be engaged in program;
- Have a high degree of relevance to the projected conference attendees;
- Contain program content that can be re-purposed for continued discussion after the conference;
- Be unique and innovative or raise issues that have not yet been widely examined; and
- Have its foundation in recognized diversity research and/or statistics or presents new research and/or statistics
Submit proposals by email (Word document or PDF attachment) to ndlc2010@Princeton.EDU; please also direct questions about the conference to this address (you will be required to confirm that you are sending a message to this email address). Proposal submission deadline: October 2, 2009.
The NDLC 2010 Planning Committee members are:
Valerie Bell (Ocean County (NJ) Library)
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