Thursday, November 4, 2021

30th Anniversary Forum & 31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture | 8 November 2021

 30th Anniversary Forum & 31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture 8 November 2021

Forum: 10:30 am-12:00 pm CT
Lecture: 12:30-2:00 pm CT
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For more information: https://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/30th-anniversary/
Register for FREE here: go.illinois.edu/DistinguishedLecture

30th Anniversary Forum & 31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture | 8 November 2021
Forum: 10:30 am-12:00 pm CT
Lecture: 12:30-2:00 pm CT
[To convert to your local time, use https://www.worldtimebuddy.com]

For more information: https://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/30th-anniversary/ 

This year we have been celebrating the Mortenson Center's 30th anniversary through various activities. We invite you to a virtual forum to celebrate our remarkable center to feature and discuss the ways the Mortenson Center has impacted and will continue to enhance the library and information field, the careers of librarians and the work of library institutions and associations worldwide. 

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PROGRAM - 30th Anniversary Forum & 31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture
•    10:30 am - Welcome
•    10:40 am - Tribute to Mortensons and the Center
•    10:45 am - Past Directors Remarks
•    10:50 am - Transformational Leadership Panel
•    11:20 am - 30 Years and Beyond: Community and Sustainable Development Panel
•    12:00 pm - Celebration and Connections Break
•    12:30-2:00 pm - 31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture on "Engineering Change and the Power of Information: Otherness, Exclusion, Propaganda, Dislocation," with Dr. Agnes Kaposi, Engineer, Educator, Holocaust survivor and Author of "Yellow Star-Red Star" (2020), and conversation with Dr. Valerie J. Matsumoto

31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Agnes Kaposi, Engineer, Educator, Holocaust survivor and Author of "Yellow Star-Red Star" (2020)
8 November 2021; 12:30-2:00 pm CT
A Lecture in celebration of the Mortenson Center's 30th Anniversary: https://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/lectures/ 

ABSTRACT:
Join us for a lecture with Dr. Kaposi, who brings nearly a century of perspective as she tells her life story and the role of information as a source of power/control resulting in otherness, exclusion, propaganda, dislocation, as well as transformation in engineering change. A conversation will follow, moderated by Dr. Valerie Matsumoto, to connect Dr. Kaposi's experiences with those of other marginalized and dislocated groups worldwide, such as Japanese Americans, to identify similarities and differences across time and locations, as we rethink some of the most pressing issues that libraries face in promoting equitable communities in our information-intensive and networked society.      

ABOUT DR. AGNES KAPOSI:
Dr. Agnes Kaposi was born in Hungary in 1932, a year before Hitler came to power. She started school at the outbreak of World War II. Many of her family and friends were murdered in the Holocaust, together with half a million other Hungarian Jews, but a series of miracles and coincidences allowed her to survive. She worked at age 11 as a child labourer in the agricultural and armament camps of Austria and was liberated by a rampaging Soviet Army. She struggled through post-war hardship to re-enter Hungarian society, only to be caught up for a decade in the vice of Stalinism. In 1956, the Hungarian revolution offered the opportunity to escape. Entering Britain as a graduate engineer, she started a family and built a career as a researcher, educator and consultant. She was the third woman to become a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is the author of a recent memoir co-written with historian Laszlo Csosz of University of Budapest, Yellow Star-Red Star (i2i Publications, Manchester). 

ABOUT DR. VALERIE MATSUMOTO:
Valerie J. Matsumoto is a professor in the Department of History and the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA. In addition to her book City Girls: The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950, she is the author of Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982 and co-edited the essay collection Over the Edge: Remapping the American West. She was the first recipient of the Toshio and Doris Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Award, received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, and has twice received the Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring and Teaching from the UCLA Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association. In 2017 she was appointed to the George and Sakaye Aratani Endowed Chair on the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress, and Community.       

CO-SPONSORED BY: Department of Asian American Studies  |  Center for Global Studies through support from the US Department of Education's Title VI NRC Program  |  European Union Center  |  Grainger College of Engineering and the Department of Computer Science  |  Program in Jewish Culture & Society  |  Mortenson Center for International Library Programs  |  School of Information Sciences  |  University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign  |  Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program     

MORE INFORMATION:
Questions? Please email: mortenson@illinois.edu
30th Anniversary: https://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/30th-anniversary/

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Clara Chu
Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor
Mortenson Center, UIUC Library
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