Events
Upcoming Events
NYU Film Screening and Discussion
In partnership with Local Contexts and Center CIRCL, NYU Libraries is excited to present a screening of the short documentary Awasəwehlαwə́lətinα wikəwαmok | They Returned Home, followed by a discussion with Dr. Jordan Kinder, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communications. The film charts the groundbreaking work undertaken by the Penobscot Nation to restore Penobscot …
Cultural Institutions Working Group meeting
The next Cultural Institution Working Group meeting will be held November 17 UTC. For this meeting, we will hear from the group’s Chair, Gwen Saul, and colleagues at the New York State Museum. Their team has engaged in a long term effort to implement Local Contexts Notices, and have launched their use within their collections …
Local Contexts Hub Information Session
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 Virtual Office Closed
The Local Contexts team will be away from our desks December 28-January 1 for a year-end break. If you have any questions during this time, please contact us through our website, and we will get back to you when we return to our desks on January 4, 2027.
TUM Project Week: Data Ethics in Practice
The Technical University of Munich’s Project Weeks create a framework in which students and lecturers work on innovative solutions to current problems across disciplines, curricula, and locations. Local Contexts is thrilled to collaborate with TUM to offer students a chance to engage in a shared space of theoretical and practical technical problem-solving with the goal …
Organic Seed Growers Conference 2027
Save the date! The biannual Organic Seed Growers Conference, hosted by the Organic Seed Alliance, will be held March 24-31, in Asheville, North Carolina, USA, and virtually. This will be the first time this longstanding event is hosted outside of Oregon. There will be a focus on farmer’s rights, intellectual property, seed stories and their …
Past Events
TDWG 2023
Council Founding Member Maui Hudson (Whakatōhea, Ngāruahine, and Te Māhurehure) will be the presenting author for “Recognising Indigenous Provenance in Biodiversity Records,” co-authored by Council Vice Chair Jane Anderson, Riley Taitingfong (CHamoru), Andrew Martinez (Salt River Pima Maricopa), and 2020-2021 ENRICH Global Chair Stephanie Carroll (Ahtna), at the TDWG Annual Conference 2023. TDWG 2023 will …
GLAMhack23
Local Contexts will be presenting a virtual pre-event webinar for GLAMhack23, the Swiss OpenGLAM data hackathon. On September 13 at 18:00 CEST (12 pm EDT), Co-Director Jane Anderson and Outreach Manager Corrie Roe will present an introduction to Local Contexts’ digital labeling system for collections and cultural heritage. GLAMhack annually “brings together cultural institutions, software …
Local Contexts for Researchers
Are you a researcher excited about supporting Indigenous rights in your data and publications? Do you want to know how the Local Contexts Notices help researchers to disclose Indigenous interests? This webinar will focus on how the Notices can be used to create pathways for partnership and collaboration, and support Indigenous cultural authority and data …
Local Contexts Summit
The first Local Contexts Summit will be held on May 10 in Lenapehoking (New York City). The Summit will bring together people from across the Local Contexts community with a focus on Indigenous authority, control, and governance in the archive and sciences. This day-long event will showcase the current and potential use of Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels and Notices, as well as …
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 …
SSILA Annual Meeting
On January 20th at 6pm ET, Local Contexts Community Outreach Manager Felicia Garcia will be presenting at the Society for the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) Annual Meeting, held virtually this year. SSILA meetings allow scholars to present on a wide range of topics centered on any aspect of Indigenous American languages. In this …
Local Contexts initiative and integration plugin for ArchivesSpace
In this webinar, Jane Anderson of New York University and Co-Director of Local Contexts will give an introduction to the Local Contexts initiative and newly launched Local Contexts Hub. Local Contexts is an initiative offering digital strategies for Indigenous communities, institutions, and researchers through the TK (Traditional Knowledge) & BC (Biocultural) Labels and Notices. Local …
Natives in Tech Conference 2022
Local Contexts will be part of the two-day virtual Natives in Tech Conference 2022: Developing Sovereignty in Tech. Join us on Saturday, November 5, at 6:30 pm PT. Programme Lead, Dr. Janette Hamilton-Pearce, and Institution Outreach Manager, Corrie Roe, will share about Local Contexts: Digital infrastructures are not neutral, but carry and perpetrate the biases …
We All Count’s “Talking Data Equity”
On October 28th at noon EDT, join Local Contexts Co-Director Jane Anderson for a free and open webinar in We All Count’s “Talking Data Equity” series! “Talking Data Equity” is a series of weekly drop-in conversations addressing questions with people who are working on operationalizing data equity. Dr. Anderson will share about Local Contexts with …
ATALM’s 2022 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries & Museums
The Local Contexts & ENRICH team are excited to be a part of ATALM’s 2022 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries & Museums, which will be held October 25-27 in Temecula, California. Swipe through to read more about the workshop and sessions: See the complete program, confirm session times, and register on the conference website.
