SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, LIBRARIES, RESEARCHERS AND HISTORIANS
This workshop is about the role of researchers, activists, historians and librarians in the construction of societal, cultural and informational commons on the road to another Europe. Topics to be taken up (examples): Freedom of information and public libraries in the age of 'the war on terrorism'. Who writes our history? Activist and militant research on social movements.
| När |
2008-09-18 från 14:00 till 17:00 |
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| Var | Rosengårds folkets hus, Festsalen |
| What | Workshop |
| Theme | Democratizing knowledge, culture, education information and mass media |
| Aim | Developing strategies, visions and alternatives |
| Languages | English, Español, Italiano, |
SPEAKERS /LIBRARIANS Stuart Hamilton SPEAKERS /RESEARCH NODE ESF 2008 Hilde C. Stephansen, Anastasia Kavada, Andrea Plöger SPEAKERS /HISTORIANS Tord Björk CHAIRS Mikael Böök, Moses Boudourides, Tord Björk.
This workshop is organized by Librarians for informational commons and another Europe, Bibliotek i Samhälle (BiS), Association Aktivism.info, Transform Italia, Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD), Världsbiblioteket, Spanish Task Force Against Public Lending Fees, Non pago di leggere, Solidaritet utan gränser.
A FLYER about is available at http://openesf.net/projects/movlibreshist/workshop-flyer (use "View
attachments" to retrieve the PDF-file with the flyer).
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Librarians for informational commons and another Europe also arranges the workshop THE LIBRARY STRIKES BACK on Saturday, 20 September 11 am - 14 pm. Venue: Room C 528 (on the fifth floor), Malmö University, Nordenskjöldsgatan 10 (near the Main Railway Station). SPEAKERS include Andrew Cranfield, the director of EBLIDA, Siv Wold-Karlsen (prel.), Arwid Lund (Världsbiblioteket) and Mikael Böök (NIGD).
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Organisations collaborating on this activity
- Librarians for informational commons and another Europe, Finland
- Transform!Italia, Italy
- Association Aktivism.info, Sweden
- BiS. Bibliotek i Samhälle (Libraries in Society), Sweden
- NIGD. Network Institute for Global Democratization, Finland
- Non pago di leggere. Campagna europea contro il prestito al pagamento in biblioteca, Italy
- Världsbiblioteket, Sweden
- Spanish Task Force Against Public Lending Fees, Spain
- Transform! Italia, Italy
- Solidaritet utan gränser,
Participants
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Mikael Böök,
Finland [NIGD ]

