How to Organize Inclusive Conferences: Practical Tips, Templates, and Guidance for Organizing a Conference from a Queer, Feminist, and Social Justice-Oriented Perspective - Couverture souple

Ketchum, Alex D

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 164841527X ISBN 13 : 9781648415272

Editeur : Microcosm Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

Want to make your conference accessible, welcoming, and fun for all attendees? This zine is for you! In its pages, you'll find practical tips, guidance, and templates from experienced conference organizer Dr. Alex D. Ketchum, author of How to Organize Inclusive Events. Whether you're organizing an academic symposium, an activist meeting, or a science fiction or comics con, creating an event where people with economic hardships, disabilities, and childcare responsibilities is key to a successful event. From location to conference website, cost to childcare, and many more accessibility details--you'll be empowered with step-by-step guidance about how to put on a truly inclusive event where all conferees can feel welcome and fully a part of the community.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Alex Ketchum is the Faculty Lecturer at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at McGill University. She received her doctorate from the Department of History at McGill University while focusing on feminist restaurants, cafés, and coffeehouses in the United States and Canada from the 1972-1989. Her work integrates food, environmental, and gender history. She has a MA in History with the Option in Women and Gender Studies also from McGill University and a Honors BA in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Wesleyan University. Ketchum is committed to accessible publishing practices. She is the founder of The Feminist Restaurant Project (thefeministrestaurantproject.com); the co-founder and editor of The Historical Cooking Project (historicalcookingproject.com), a website dedicated to food studies scholarship; the co-founder of Food, Feminism, and Fermentation (foodfeminismfermentation.com); and the author of How to Start a Feminist Restaurant (Portland: Microcosm, 2018). She is currently working on a book about American feminist restaurant and literary culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. She was co-manager of an organic farm from 2008-2012 and has worked on organic farms in Ireland and France. In 2009, she founded Farm House in Middletown, Connecticut, a living community dedicated to food politics work that continues today. For a full list of her publications and projects, please visit alexketchum.ca.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Microcosm Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 164841527X
• ISBN 13: 9781648415272
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 70
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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