Join us for the upcoming DSGS/WCS Joint Section Meeting to be held on Monday, June 12th @ 2 pm (CT) !
Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwod-6vrjgvHdME978-WjX6MojH895EwPxl
Learn more about our presenters and their upcoming presentations:
Eirini Melena Karoutsos is a graduate student at Pratt Institute School of Information earning her MSLIS and an Advanced Certification in Archives. She has worked in the book industry for three years and is currently a graduate assistant at Pratt Manhattan Library. Her research is focused in cataloging, metadata, and understanding how marginalized groups are represented in libraries and archives. Additionally, she recently published the chapbook Nowhere with Derailleur Press.
Eirini will present on “She Will Be Loved: Digital Spaces at the Lesbian Herstory Archive” where she asks how we create connection through digital environments and discusses the crossroads of access, restrictions, and queer digital spaces.
Jordi Padilla-Delgado works as Records Manager at Lloret de Mar Municipal Archive (SAMLM; Catalonia, Spain). He’s also developing some research lines on Sex-Affective & Gender Diversity lost memory at Archival Science & Records Management School, University Autònoma Barcelona (ESAGED-UAB).
Jordi will present on “LGBTQ+ Memory: Power, Community and Intersectionality in Archives” where we will try to approach various aspects and points of interest about the dialectics that are established between institutional archives and community archives while we are looking for the (lost) LGBTQ+ memory in both.
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