GLBT ALMS Conference 2008 (original) (raw)

About ALMS 2008
Co-Sponsorship
Presentations
Registration
Housing
Additional Information

CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK GRADUATE CENTER NEW YORK CITY, MAY 8-10, 2008

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.

Co-sponsorship

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

ALMS 2008 still welcomes your organization's co-sponsorship.

Individual conference registration fees will provide some of the money we need, but to make this conference a success we need to boost our conference budget. It's very important to us that money is not an obstacle for attendees, especially activists and lay archivists, who want to attend the conference from all over the world.

Co-sponsorship levels range from 250to250 to 250to1000 and above, and contributions at these levels will be acknowledged with free ads in the conference program. In addition, your organization�s name will appear on all conference-related material, including:

• the conference poster mailed to 4000 people on CLAGS's mailing list
• the CLAGS newsletter mailed to over 4000 people in the US and internationally
• the conference web page
• the conference program
• any related post-conference publications

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.

Your sponsorship will demonstrate your seriousness about creating viable, dynamic glbt archives, histories, and memory. Your contribution will support students, activists, researchers, and others - not only those involved in constructing glbt archives, but also everyone using them. GLBT ALMS 2008 will provide a venue to strengthen academic, activist, community-based, and research networks. We will design the conference to incite dialogue, share findings and methods, and to support the creation and maintenance of resources shaping and reflecting glbt lives, struggles, and social change.

Please fill out and mail or fax the co-sponsorship form or go to the CLAGS donation page to make a contribution, selecting "ALMS 2008 Co-sponsorship" under "Your Support." Thanks for your consideration!

Featured Presentations

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

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 V�rit� & 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 B�rub�

Tentative Schedule

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Registration

Conference registration fees are as follows.

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)

Housing

There are a limited number of rooms available at a group rate at two hotels in NYC. Please contact the hotels to make a reservation.

Hotel Stanford
43 West 32nd Street
New York, NY 10001
212-563-1500
www.hotelstanford.com
$229+tax per night double occupancy (2 twin beds)
2 short blocks from the Grad Center
Use the code "GLBT ALMS" when making reservations.
Reservations must be made by April 8, 2008 or the rooms will be released.

Comfort Inn Manhattan
42 West 35th Street
New York, NY 10001
212-947-0200
contact Tony or Michelle
$229+tax per night double occupancy (1 queen bed)
1/2 a block from the Grad Center
Use the confirmation number 181489 when making reservations. Reservations must be made by April 8, 2008 or the rooms will be released.

Herald Square Hotel

19 W. 31st Street (between 5th Ave. and Broadway)

New York, NY 10011

www.heraldsquarehotel.com

1-800-727-1888

212-643-9208 (fax) 179for1doublebed;179 for 1 double bed; 179for1doublebed;209 for 2 double beds; 199/199/199/209 for a queen room.

Reservations must be made by May 1, 2008, or the rooms will be released.

Use confirmation code "GLBT" when making reservations.

Click here for other hotels near the Graduate Center.

Additional Information

For further details, contact ALMS2008@gmail.com.

Conference organizers: Polly Thistlethwaite, CUNY Graduate Center Library; Amy Beth, School for International Training/Lesbian Herstory Archives; Mary Caldera, Yale University Library; Steven G. Fullwood, Schomburg Center/ Black Gay and Lesbian Archive, Marcia M. Gallo, CUNY Lehman College; Michael Waldman, Baruch College Library

Pending budgetary review, some funds for travel and accommodation may be available for some participants.

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.