Program (printable program)

Room 9205-07 (9th floor)

8:30-9:15 – Breakfast

9:15 – Introduction: Ian Beilin, New York City College of Technology

9:30 – Keynote address: Barbara Fister, Gustavus Adolphus College
Questions & Comments

10:30 – break

10:45 – 12:00 – Morning Panel – Theory

1. Karen Nicholson, University of Guelph: “Not Far Enough: Critical IL as a Situated Practice Within the Neoliberal University

2. Emily Drabinski, Long Island University: “Teaching in Time: Toward a Kairos of Library Instruction”

12:00-1:00 – Lunch

1:00 – 2:15 – Afternoon Panel I: Method

1. Annie Downey, Reed College, “Teaching Critical Information Literacy: Methods and Content”

2. Jessica Critten, University of West Georgia, "Disrupting the Discourse: Ideology and Cultural Studies in the Information Literacy Classroom"

2:15-2:30 – coffee break

2:30 – 4:00 – Afternoon Panel II: Practice

1. Yasmin Sokkar Harker, CUNY School of Law, “Critical Information Literacy: Legal Information and the Non-lawyer”

2. Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh, Georgia State University, “It’s 1955, I’m a Teenager, and I Think I’m Gay: Students Exploring LGBTQ Issues in Information Retrieval and Consumption Across the Decades.”

3. Eamon Tewell, “Using Television in the Classroom to Enable Critical Information Literacy,” Long Island University, Brooklyn