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<p class="MsoNormal">Passing along this information! Sorry for the delayed notice of proposals being due tomorrow, it was just shared with me.
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<p class="MsoNormal">From Tracie D. Hall <o:p></o:p></p>
<h3 style="margin:0in;line-height:27.0pt"><span style="font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#32006E">Black Information Futures Symposium planned<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#585C7B">The Black Information Futures Symposium will take place February 21-23, 2026, at the University of Washington Information School in Seattle, WA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#585C7B">Scholars, artists, writers, activists, designers, technologists, administrators, and policy makers are invited to propose short papers, presentations,
demonstrations, or performances that examine, forecast, inform, alter, or revise notions of Black futurity or the “Black Information Future” which the symposium loosely defines as the ability of Black people to gain equitable analog and digital access to the
information and information technologies needed to achieve and sustain social agency, authorship, educational attainment, economic mobility, environmental responsiveness and stewardship, and collective well-being.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#585C7B">The <a href="https://calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-news/call-for-proposals-black-information-futures-symposium/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#85754D">Call
for Proposals</span></a> is open until Friday, December 5, 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Ericka Brunson-Rochette (she/her/hers)</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Community Engagement Consultant</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">State Library of Oregon</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:ericka.brunson-rochette@slo.oregon.gov"><span style="color:blue">ericka.brunson-rochette@slo.oregon.gov</span></a> | 971-375-5126</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/library/libraries"><span style="color:blue">www.oregon.gov/library/libraries</span></a></span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/library/libraries"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="323" height="43" style="width:3.3666in;height:.45in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01DC650C.33CE4000" alt="Logo for the Library Support & Development Services division at the State Library of Oregon"></span></a><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Work Schedule: Monday-Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Check out my
<a href="https://slo.oregon.gov/CommunityEngagement"><span style="color:blue">LibGuide</span></a>!</span></i></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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