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REFORMA National Conference III
June 20, 2008
REFORMA will host its 3rd National Conference on September 18-21, 2008 in El Paso, Texas. Bridging the Gaps: Juntos @ the Border promises to be an exciting conference!
The Conference starts with various Pre-conferences including Combating health disparities: the role of the librarian, Research into Practice: Latino perception of public libraries and their public-library use, Adelante! Library services for your Latino communities and an Advocacy Institute.
Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts is the Keynote speaker for the Opening session. David Bacon, author of Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants is the Keynote speaker of the Closing Session.
The full conference includes programs about connecting cultures, children of undocumented parents and their right to information, online tools build communities, partnerships for health, Latin@s with s Ph.D.: the future of LIS education and research, crash course in serving Spanish-speakers, bilingual children, services for immigrants, reaching out to teens using alternative media, trends in marketing to Latinos, and much more.
Come to El Paso and enjoy interested tours coordinated specially for the conference: Juarez, El Paso Missions, and El Paso Library.
The conference is open for everyone interested in Latinos and Spanish speakers. There are FIVE Conference Scholarships and a Library School Excellence Award. For more information about how to apply, visit the Preliminary Program section. Deadline is July 7.
Interested to make a contribution? Find out how to become a sponsor here.
This September, all roads lead to El Paso! See you there!
Posted by Loida García-Febo on June 20, 2008 | Comments (0)
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