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CLAGS will host an extraordinary international conference focusing on GLBT Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Special Collections (ALMS) and the archivists, librarians, researchers, artists, activists, and volunteers who work with them. This will be the 2nd ALMS conference since 2006 to explore the construction, use, organization, reflection, and preservation of queer archival material, collections, and research.

Early bird registration ends February 15. A limited number of hotel rooms are available at a discounted rate for conference attendees.

Proud sponsors of ALMS 2008 currently include:

• EBSCO
• Lesbian Herstory Archives
• The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
• Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
• The New York Public Library
• The James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center
• Barnard Center for Research on Women
• Bibiliogay Publications
• Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies at Yale
• Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library
• Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture
• The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College
• Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities
• The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Community Center
• Impact Stories, California - LGBT Oral Histories
• The Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University Library
• Lambda Literary Foundation
• Gerber/Hart Library
• The Institute for Tongzhi Studies
• International Resource Network
• Third World Newsreel

Additional opportunities exist for your organization to sponsor an attendee, to cover conference breakfasts or receptions, or to support travel and housing for keynote and other featured speakers, presenters, and performers. Please contact us at ALMS2008@gmail.com to explore these possibilities.

Archival Knowledges: Practical, Political, and Theoretical Observations on Making Queer History
Susan Stryker
Filmmaker, Writer, GLBT Historical Society activist
Ruth Wynn Woodward
Endowed Professor, Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University, San Francisco

Keeping Current: China’s LGBT Information Networks
Jiang Hui “Bing Lan”
Founder, LGBT Archive
Damien Lu
President, Information Clearinghouse for Chinese Gays & Lesbians (ICCGL), Aibai Culture & Education Center, Beijing, China

Daniel C. Tsang

University of California, Irvine

Memory in Action: Documenting Same-Sex Experience in an African Context
Busi Kheswa & Anthony Manion
Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA), Johannesburg, South Africa

Drag Show Video Vérité & The 82 Club: A Multi-Media Talk
Joe E. Jeffreys
Theater historian, archivist of drag performance & The 82 Club, New York

Opening Reception
Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn

Mid-Conference Reception
National Archive of Lesbian, Gay Bisexual & Transgender History
The LGBT Community Center, Manhattan

Closing Reception
Black Gay & Lesbian Archive, Harlem

Tributes to:
Yolanda Retter
Barbara Gittings
Allan Bérubé

Program Schedule

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Conference registration fees are as follows.

Attendee affiliated with a university or other institution:
	Regular	$150
	Early bird (before Feb. 15)	$100
Unaffiliated attendee:		$50
Per (1) Event:		$10
Student/Low Income:		$20

You can register for the ALMS conference in any of the following ways.

Online:
To register using a secure online credit card payment, go to the CLAGS donation page and select the appropriate "ALMS Registration" option. You will be automatically registered for the conference.

By fax or postal mail:
Print out the registration form and fax or mail it, along with your credit card number or check, to:

Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies
Room 7115
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016

212.817.1567 (fax)

Conference sessions will be held at Graduate Center of the City University of New York, as well as at other co-sponsoring institutions in the New York City area.