ALMS CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Date Time Location Event
Thursday, May 8 4:30 – 7:30 PM Concourse Lobby Conference Registration
6:00 – 9:00 PM 484 14th Street, Brooklyn Opening Reception & Tour
7:30 – 9:30 PM C198 Drag Show Video Vérité: An Archive on Film
· Joe E. Jeffreys, Drag Performance Archivist
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Friday, May 9 8:45 AM Concourse Lobby Conference Registration
9:15 AM Proshansky Auditorium Conference Welcome & Tribute
9:30 – 10:45 AM Proshansky Auditorium 1st Key Note
Keeping Current: China’s LGBT Information Networks
· Bing Lan, LGBT Archive Founder, Aibai Culture &
Education Center, Beijing
· Damien Lu, ICCGL President, Aibai Culture & Education
Center, Beijing
· Daniel C. Tsang, University of California, Irvine
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM C201-2 The Ever-Evolving Gay Archives: Professional Activists & Archivists
· Greg Williams, California State University, Dominiguez Hills/ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archive
· Joy Novak, Center for the Study of Political Graphics,
UCLA PhD Candidate
· Joseph Hawkins, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archive
· Mike Olivera, ONE Project Archivist, moderator
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C204-5 Building Queer Communities, Building Queer Websites: New
Digital Resources from CLAGS
· Sarah Chinn, CLAGS
· Lynley Wheaton, CLAGS, OutHistory.org
· Jonathan Ned Katz, OutHistory.org
· Nomvuyo Nolutshungu,IRN
C197 Archival Absences
· Nicholas Matte, University of Toronto PhD Candidate
· Elisa Norris, Syracuse University PhD Candidate
C198 Flim+Talk
Nirate Kisses
· Barbara Hammer, Filmmaker
LUNCH
12:15 – 1:15 PM GC Cafeteria, 8th Floor Table Talks: Talk Amongst Yourselves
5th Ave & 40th Street Tour NYPL GLBT Manuscripts & Archives
1:30 – 2:45 PM Proshansky Auditorium 2nd Key Note
Memory in Action: Documenting Same-Sex in an African Content
· Busi Kheswa, Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action, Johannesburg
· Anthony Manion, Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action, Johannesburg
3:00 – 4:15 PM C201-2 LC Taxonomy
· Sara Turkovich, University of Pittsburgh JD Candidate
· Pat Lawton, University of Pittsburgh MLIS
· Emily Drabinski, Sarah Lawrence College
C204-5 Small Town, Conservative, and Rural: Documenting More of Queer America
· Brenda Marston, Cornell University Library, moderator
· Keith Reynolds, American Heritage Center
· Santi Thompson, University of South Carolina Library
· Tami Albin, University of Kansas Libraries
· Holly Mercer, University of Kansas Libraries
C203 Professional Histories: the GLBT Task Force & Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center
· Anne L. Moore, University of Massachusetts Amherst Library
· Karen Sundheim, SFPL James C Hormel Gay & Lesbian Archive
C197 A Queer Case for Queer Space
· Walter Butler, UCLA MLIS candidate, moderator
· Andrew Lau, UCLA MLIS candidate
· Janine Liebert, UCLA MLIS candidate
C198 Reclamation: The Politics of Collection Black Queer Culture
· Steven G. Fullwood, Schomburg Center, Black Gay & Lesbian Archive
· Lisa C. Moore, Redbone Press
· Kevin McGruder, CUNY Graduate Center PhD Candidate
4:30 – 5:45 PM C201-2 Queer Material Culture
· Sarah Jacobs, Museum of Sex
· Aaron Stempien, Printermaker/Archivist
· Pat Gozemba, The History Project Boston
· Timothy Scofield, The Velvet Foundation
C204-5 Coming to Terms: LGBTIQ Thesauri, Folksonomies, and Taxonomies
· K.R. Roberto, University of Denver Library
· Ellen Greenblatt, University of Colorado at Denver Auraria Library
· Michael Waldman, Baruch College Library
· Analisa Ornelas, Seattle Public Library
C197 Archiving and the Politics of Identity
· Emily Hobson, University of Southern California PhD Candidate
· Shawnta Smith, CUNY Queens College MLS Candidate/Lesbian Herstory
C198 Film+Talk
Cobbling Together a History of HIV Prevention
· Jean Carlomusto, Filmmaker
6:00 – 7:30 PM The LGBT Community Center, Reception & Tour
208 West 13th Street National Archive of Lesbian, Gay Bisexual & Transgender History
6:00 – 8:00 PM Skylight Room, 9th Fl. IRN Launch Party
8:00 – 9:30 PM Elebash Auditorium The 82 Club: A Multi-media Talk
· Joe E. Jeffreys, Theater Historian/Archivist
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Saturday, May 10 10:15 – 11:30 AM C201-2 Collections Sharing
· Bill Hill, Library for Social & Technological Alternatives
· Sandy Swan, Phil Johnson Historic Archives & Research Library
· Charles Upchurch, Florida State University
C204-5 Less Process/Less Privacy: Implications of Minimal Processing
for GLB Collections
· Jodi Berkowitz, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture
· Laura Micham, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture
· Heather Murray, History, University of Ottawa
· Minnie Bruce Pratt, Writer
C197 Archives as Place
· Allan Kleiman, Old Bridge (N.J.) Public Library
· Kelly Rawson, Syracuse University PhD Candidate
C198 Community-Based Archives: What Now?
· Deb Edel, Lesbian Herstory Archives
· Rich Wandel, National Archive of LGBT History
· Mark Meinke, Rainbow History Project
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM Prohansky Auditorium 3rd Key Note
Archival Knowledges: Practical, Political, and Theoretical Observations
On Making Queer History
· Susan Stryker, GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco & Women’s Studies/
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
1:00 – 2:00 PM LUNCH On Your Own
2:15 – 3:30 PM C201-2 (un)intentional community: queer zines in an institutional context
· Laura Wynholds, University of Wisconsin Madison MLIS Candidate, Queer Zine Archive Project
· Christopher Wilde, Queer Zine Archive Project
· Kelly Shortandqueer, Denver Zine Library
· Jenna Freedman, Barnard College Library
C204-5 Improving User Access to Decentralized LGBTQ Collections: The Yale Experience
· Tom Bolze, Yale University Library
· Mary Caldera, Yale University Library
· Kelly Barrick, Yale University
C197 Archives and Queer Visibility: The Challenge of Representing Sexuality
· Gabriela Redwine, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
· Leslie Reyman, Wilson Processing Project, NYPL
C198 Film+talk
Re-Archive: instituting an imaginary
· Lin+Lam, Filmmakers
3:45 – 5:00 PM C201-2 Oral History How To
· Kelly Anderson, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
· Donna Braquet, University of Tennessee Libraries
· Roger Weaver, University of Tennessee Libraries
· Heather Mitchell, Ohio State University
C204-5 Sex in the Archive
· Jack van der Wel, IHLIA-Homodok
· Marcel Barriault, Library & Archives Canada, Ottawa
C197 Queer Archiving from the Ground Up
· Alana Kumbier, Wellesley College Library
· Christa Orth, Gay & Lesbian Archives of Pacific Northwest
C198 Film+talk
Film Clips the Lesbian Herstory Archives (New York) & Bildweschel Archives (Hamburg)
· Kate Huh, MIX NYC
5:15 – 7:00 PM 515 Malcolm X Blvd Closing Tour & Reception
Harlem, Manhattan Schomburg Center/Black Gay & Lesbian Archive