Events

Local Contexts CIWG x LWG Meeting: UTS Library

A joint Local Contexts Cultural Institution Working Group (CIWG) and Library Working Group (LWG) meeting was held on September 3, 2025.

In this meeting, Kirsten Thorpe (Worimi), Jason De Santolo (Garwwa, Barunggam), Duncan Loxton, and Ryan Stoker (Wiradjuri) shared about Marana Dyargali, a collection of zines exploring Indigenous research ethics and the intersection of protocols and practice that includes a TK Notice. The presenters spoke to the Indigenous research methodologies guiding the collection, their institutional library processes and protocols, and the decision to include a TK Notice on the UTS Library ePress webpage for the collection and within the publication itself. You can read Marana Dyargali on the UTS ePress website, and see our blog post for additional details.

If you are interested in attending future meetings for these groups or others, you can learn more and submit your interest on our Working Groups and Networks page.


The Local Contexts Cultural Institution Working Group (CIWG) brings together group members who work at or with cultural organizations around the world, including museums, libraries, archives, and universities, and who are interested in or using the Local Contexts Notices and Labels. 

The Local Contexts Library Working Group (LWG) connects library staff and scholars to support library-specific discussions and knowledge exchange around Indigenous data sovereignty, cultural authority, and use of the Local Contexts Notices and Labels in library settings.

Upcoming Events

Local Contexts Hub Information Session

December 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

October 14, 2026
, 19:00 UTC
“Information Session.” Text on decorative blue-green background.

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

September 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

September 22, 2026 - September 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, …