[Air-L] Webinar: An Obligation to Repair: The Library of Congress, The Scourged Back, and Emancipation

[Melissa Villa Nicholas]

Dear Colleagues,


Please join us for our final webinar in the Information Equity webinar
series:

*An Obligation to Repair: The Library of Congress, The Scourged Back, and
Emancipation*
<https://uri-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BKkB-l-FTt2rkJMY--peOQ#/registration>


*Dr. Tonia Sutherland, *Graduate School of Education and Information
Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.



*Date & Time May 4, 2023 , 12 EST *


https://uri-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BKkB-l-FTt2rkJMY--peOQ#/registration


Tonia Sutherland is an Assistant Professor of Information Studies at UCLA.
Sutherland holds a Ph.D. and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and
a BA in history, performance studies, and cultural studies from Hampshire
College. Global in scope, Suther­land’s research focuses on the critical
and liberatory in archival, digital, and science and technology studies,
emphasizing the often-messy entanglements of memory, community, and
technology. Sutherland, an internationally recognized expert in studying
Black archival practices, is the author of Resurrecting the Black Body:
Race and the Digital Afterlife (University of California Press, 2023) and
over two dozen articles and book chapters. In addition to her research and
teaching, Sutherland is the Co-Director of the Community Archives Lab at
UCLA, Co-Director of AfterLab at the University of Washington's iSchool,
and a member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Critical Race and
Digital Studies at NYU.

*Voices for Information Equity* is a webinar series hosted by the
University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Library and
Information Studies.
This series discusses contemporary conversations or race, gender,
sexuality, class, and information equity. Learn more about the Information
Equity track
<https://harrington.uri.edu/academics/library-and-information-studies/mlis-curriculum/information-equity-diverse-communities-and-critical-librarianship-track/>
.