Faculty and doctoral students from Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies will share new research and recent projects at the annual conference for ALISE: The Association for Library and Information Science Education, taking place October 6–8 in Kansas City, Missouri. Our experts are speaking and presenting on a range of topics. See below for a full list. Syracuse University iSchool faculty and students are represented in bold text.

Faculty Presentations

LaVerne Gray
Dismantling Entrenched Citadels in LIS: Critical Autoethnographic “Voices” in Resistance and Survival
10/7, 10:30 am

Renate Chancellor
They Are Like Us: Designing a Human-Centered Public Library Curriculum to Prepare Students for Working with Vulnerable Populations and the Unhoused
10/7, 10:30 am

Beth Patin and Tyler Youngman
Moving Beyond Metaphor
10/7, 1:00 pm

Renate Chancellor and LaVerne Gray
Pirates, Ghosts, and Other Unexplored Spaces: A First Look at the forthcoming collective work Constellation of Insanity
10/7, 2:45 pm

Beth Patin and Tyler Youngman
The Great Unravelling: Unmaking and Remaking Information
10/8, 3:00 pm

LaVerne Gray
Catalysts for Change: The Spectrum Doctoral Fellowship Program Review and Impact
10/7, 4:30 pm

Rachel Ivy Clarke and Tim Furgal
Navigating Barriers: Pathways to Librarianship Year Two in Review
10/7, 6:15 pm

Student Presentations

Sarah Appedu
Graduate Students as Adult Learners: Andragogy and Instructional Design
10/8, 8:30 am

Shannon Crooks
They Are Like Us: Designing a Human-Centered Public Library Curriculum to Prepare Students for Working with Vulnerable Populations and the Unhoused
10/7, 10:30 am

Leah Dudak
Creative Work: If Art Requires Words, Shouldn’t Words Require Art?
10/7, 12:00 pm

Leah Dudak
Creative Work: The Eye in I
10/7, 12:00 pm

Sarah Appedu
Livingness as a Liberatory Framework for Decolonizing LIS Praxis
10/7, 1:00 pm

Jeongbae Choi
‘Realizing’ Information Literacy: A Philosophical Argument
10/8, 1:30 pm

Tyler Youngman
Dissertation Competition: The Monumental Challenges of Pastmaking
10/8, 1:30 pm

Sarah Appedu
Investigating LIS Educator and Practitioner Perspectives of Professional Development: The 2025 ALISE Leadership Development Intern Panel
10/8, 3:00 pm

Leah Dudak
Navigating Barriers: Pathways to Librarianship Year Two in Review
10/7, 6:15 pm