2025 CALL FOR PROPOSAL IS NOW OPEN!

ALISE 2025 conference theme:
“Decolonising Pedagogies: Agency, Identity, Practices"

This theme infers a profound respect for how we, in LIS education, engage with agency, identity, and practices in our pedagogy. The theme invokes a critical inquiry into our pedagogy as a holistic and authentic expression of each of us as diverse, complex, and divine human beings who research, teach, and practice library and information science. By honoring our best selves, we share that self with our students and community members to inspire them to walk with empathy and care of the human condition as an intricate labyrinth of interdependent identities and heritages essential for knowledge sharing, professional success, and personal happiness.

Proposal Formats and Topics

We seek to invoke conversations and reflections from everyone in LIS because we LIS faculty, tenure-track, tenured, and adjuncts are educators alongside LIS practitioners on the front lines in universities, schools, archives, galleries, and museums in the public sphere. We welcome papers, presentations, and posters from all LIS faculty and practitioners locally, regionally, and globally who do work in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) to share their research, qualitative and quantitative, equitably, in the forum of the ALISE 2025 conference.

We seek proposals in various formats, such as:

  • Research papers
  • Panels (SIGs and all groupings, including mixed faculty-to-practitioner groups)
  • Practitioner reports
  • Posters
  • NEW! Creative works (including media-based expressions)

Call for Proposal Tracks:

Juried Paper Proposals

ALISE Best Conference Paper Award

All juried paper proposals will be considered for the award. The winner will be honored at ALISE '25 and have the opportunity to be published in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS).
 

 

Juried Panel Proposals

SIG Session Proposals*

*Please note that each SIG may be using a different internal deadline set by their respective SIG conveners. Individuals, groups, or panels interested in having their proposals considered for presentation in a SIG session should contact SIG conveners and submit their proposals to them, based on the theme and guidelines determined by SIG conveners.

ALISE Academy

Creative Works

Works in Progress Posters

ALISE/Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Poster Competition

Timeline Deadlines:

Click here to access the Call for Proposals Timeline.

  • The deadline for the following tracks is March 28, 2025 at 11:59PM PT:
    • Juried Paper
    • Juried Panel
    • SIG
    • ALISE Academy
    • Works in Progress Posters
  • The deadline for the following track is June 6, 2025 at 11:59PM PT:
    • ALISE/Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Poster Competition

How to Submit: Our CFP platform is called EasyChair

First-time users will be required to create an account (separate from your www.alise.org account). Once created, return to the ALISE '25 submission page to log in. Once logged in, select 'Enter as an author'. Select the relevant track for your submission, ensuring you review all requirements prior to completing your submission.

Please Note for SIGs:
Individuals, groups, or panels interested in having their proposals considered for presentation in a SIG session should first contact SIG conveners and submit their proposals to them, based on the theme and guidelines determined by SIG conveners.

ALISE Research Taxonomy

ALISE Conference Proceedings

The copyright of any submission rests with the author(s). As a condition of acceptance, the authors AGREE to release their copyright under a shared license, specifically the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Failure to comply with the proceedings deadlines or to present at the ALISE annual conference will result in removal of the submission from the ALISE Conference Proceedings.

Call for Reviewers

We invite all ALISE Personal Members to help review proposal submissions for the ALISE 2025 Annual Conference. Call for reviewers will open in February 2025.

General Information

Conference Questions
For all logistics, EasyChair, facility, and conference management questions, contact Sara Aldrich, ALISE's meeting planner.

Conference Fee Waiver Policy
All participants in any events of an ALISE Annual Conference must pay the appropriate registration fees.

Presentation at the Annual Conference
Authors whose proposals/papers/posters/panels are accepted for the annual conference are required to register for (fees apply), attend, and present the work at the ALISE annual conference. Failure to do so will result in removal of the papers/posters/panels from the conference schedule, the program, and the proceedings. Should the event be converted to a virtual conference, the same policy applies.

Photo and Video Release

Registration, attendance at, or participation in, ALISE meetings and other activities constitutes an agreement by the registrant to the use and distribution (both now and in the future) of the registrant or attendee’s image or voice in recordings, both live and on-demand, photographs, video, electronic reproductions, and audio of such events and activities by ALISE. ALISE has the right to record content delivered at its annual conference and to utilize the recordings in future content, programs, or materials. Attendee’s registration may include technology that monitors their activities throughout the meeting, such as session attendance and exhibit booths visited.

The theme focuses on decolonization and offers a unique engagement opportunity outside traditional academic settings; it requires additional discussion on the autonomy of Intellectual Property, recognizing Indigenous peoples' rights to preserve and respect their cultures and traditions.

Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the manifestations of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora, oral traditions, literatures, designs, sports and traditional games and visual and performing arts. They also have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their intellectual property over such cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Article 31, 2007.