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Call for Proposals: ALISE 2018 Gender Issues Special Interest Group

Posted May 18, 2017

Now is the time to submit a presentation proposal for the ALISE 2018 conference, specifically for the Gender Issues section. Building on the conference theme of expanding the LIS education universe, the section is looking for paper that would deal with the following topics (or others that align with both the conference and section):

  • impact of expanding modes of instruction on gender
  • expanding aspects of gender topics in LIS education
  • gender issues in interdisciplinary teaching
  • gender issues in collaborations between academics and practitioners
  • gender issues in LIS educator hiring and RTP

Preference will be given to research-based proposals.

Deadline is June 30. Please send a 200-300 word abstract and contact/affiliation info to [email protected], Lesley Farmer and Kristen Schuster, SIG co-chairs