Events

NMLA Spring Symposium

On April 14th at 9:15am MT/12:15pm ET, Local Contexts will be presenting at the New Mexico Library Association’s (NMLA) Spring Symposium, held virtually this year.

This year’s symposium is a one-day online event focusing on intellectual freedom issues in libraries and literature.

Join members of the Local Contexts team for a brief introduction to the Local Contexts initiative and the Local Contexts Hub.

Visit NMLA’s website to complete the free registration in order to attend.

Upcoming Events

Local Contexts Hub Information Session

diciembre 2, 2026
, 22:00 UTC
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Do you have questions about Local Contexts or the Local Contexts Hub? Curious about how you can use the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels and Notices to support Indigenous data sovereignty and cultural authority? Sign-up for a group informational or Hub demonstration session with the Local Contexts team!

Local Contexts Hub Information Session

octubre 14, 2026
, 19:00 UTC
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Do you have questions about Local Contexts or the Local Contexts Hub? Curious about how you can use the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels and Notices to support Indigenous data sovereignty and cultural authority? Sign-up for a group informational or Hub demonstration session with the Local Contexts team!

Hawai‘i Institution/Researcher Network meeting

septiembre 30, 2026
, 21:00 UTC
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The next Hawai‘i Institution/Researcher Network meeting will be held September 30 UTC. For this meeting, we will host a brief presentation orienting the group to Local Contexts Labels and Notices as tools for operationalizing Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov). We will also work in breakout discussions about IDSov principles and terminology and to compile resources, knowledge, …

Climate Week 2026

septiembre 22, 2026 - septiembre 23, 2026
, 22:30 UTC - 00:30 UTC
Event poster. “Living Data, Living Land. More-Than-Human Rights, AI, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Tuesday, September 22, 6:30-8:30 pm. Vanderbilt Hall, Room 218, NYU Law. Speakers: Jane Anderson, Eve Tuck (Unangax̂), Suzanne Greenlaw (Maliseet), Carlos Andrés Baquero-Díaz, Erin Robinson, Neil Davies, Maheata White Davies (Raiatea), Mililani Ganivet (Tahiti).”

Building on last year’s inaugural Living Data, Living Lands, this year’s NYC Climate Week convening will center the question that the Global Indigenous Movement has been addressing for decades: How can Indigenous communities control the AI infrastructure itself? This gathering engages AI, which, left unchecked, could extend extractive logics that absorbs material without attribution, provenance, …