Talks and Media Requests

Invited Talks

• From book bans to information precarity: How and why to push back on censorship. (2024). College of Communication and Information Research Seminar. Lexington, KY. Audience: local.

• Intellectual freedom in libraries today. (2024). West Lafayette Public Library, Banned Books Week. Audience: regional.

• Book bans and the fight to stop censorship. (2024). Purdue University. Keynote for Banned Books Week. Audience: regional.

• Fanning the flames: Why book bans are on the rise and what we can do about it. (2024). Mississippi University for Women. Banned Books Week Celebration. Audience: regional.

• Intellectual freedom in academic libraries and beyond: Concrete steps we can take to fight censorship. (2024). Association of College & Research Libraries—Maryland and Maryland Library Association. Audience: regional.

• Resisting censorship through and for diversity. (2024). iSchool, University of South Carolina. Keynote for Inclusive Excellence Research Symposium. Audience: regional.

• Library boards and intellectual freedom: How to combat censorship with your library trustees. (2024). Niche Academy. Audience: international.

• Intellectual freedom basics. (2023). Boyle County Public Library Board of Trustees, Kentucky. Audience: local.

• Banning books: What’s going on and what we can do about it. (2023). Banned Books Week. University of Wisconsin-Stout. Audience: regional.

• It’s all connected: Incorporating intellectual freedom across the curriculum. (2023). LIS Pedagogy Chat. Audience: national.

• Limiting access to library materials destroys freedom. (2023). EveryLibrary learning collection. Audience: national. Available at:  https://www.everylibraryinstitute.org/fight_for_the_first_webinar_series. 

• Intellectual freedom basics. (2023). Paris-Bourbon County Public Library, Kentucky. Audience: local.

• The fight against book bans: Perspectives from the field. (2023). Niche Academy. Audience: international.

• Banned books and censorship. (2023). Library 2.0 mini-conference opening panel (panelist). (With Emily J. M. Knox, Lesliediana Jones, Andrea Jamison, Sophia Sotilleo, and Martin Garner). Library 2.0. Audience: international.

• The fight against book bans: Perspectives from the school library. (2023). Moderator for panel based on forthcoming book. (With Kristin Pekoll, Kelly Manfield, and Jamie Gregory). School Library Connection, Bloomsbury ABC-CLIO. Audience: national.

• The new book challenges: Responding to book banning in the 2020s. (2023). Beta Phi Mu induction ceremony, Simmons University, School of Library and Information Science. Audience: national.

• Why Defending Intellectual Freedom in your Library Makes Sense. (2023). Texas Library Association Annual Conference. Audience: regional.

• Intellectual Freedom. (2023). Public Library Institute, Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives. Louisville, KY. Audience: local.

• Making the case for intellectual freedom. (2022). Sirsi Dynix librarian conference: Connections. Audience: international.

• Critical Conversation in LIS (#CCinLIS) Lecture: What’s so critical about intellectual freedom? (With Emily J. M. Knox). (2022). University of South Carolina, School of Information Science. Audience: national.

• Defending intellectual freedom. (2022). Indiana University, Department of Information and Library Science. Audience: local.

• ASLA Banned Books Week Webinar 2022. (2022). Alabama School Library Association. Audience: regional.

• Breaking down intellectual freedom. (With Emily J. M. Knox). (2022). Pierce County (Washington) Library System. Audience: local.

• LGBTQ+ resources in your library. (2022). San Jose State University iSchool Pride Month Symposium. Audience: national.

• Preparing for and handling book challenges. (2022). Illinois Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS). Audience: regional.

• Intellectual freedom questions? We’ve got answers! (With Mary Landrum and King Simpson). (2022). Kentucky Public Library Association. Audience: regional.

• What to do when law enforcement arrives in your library. (With Mike Robinson). (2021). Alaska State Library. Audience: regional.

• LIS publishing panel. (With Denice Adkins and Dietmar Wolfram). (2021). Library Research Roundtable, American Library Association. Audience: national.

• Drag queen storytimes: Library staff experiences and perspectives. (With Sarah Barriage). (2021). University of Kentucky. Audience: local.

• Qualitative interviews: How talking to people results in productive, meaningful research. (2021). University of Wisconsin, Madison. Audience: local.

• Frosty windows, frosty mirrors: Representation, labeling, discoverability, and the chilling effect. (With Loida Garcia-Febo, Rhonda Evans, Amanda Vazquez, Laura Koltutsky, Desmond Wong, and Rae-Anne Montague). (2021). Social Justice and Intellectual Freedom Webinar, American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. Audience: national.

• Combatting information poverty: Today’s ethical challenge. (2021). The Ethics and Social Justice Center, Bellarmine University. Audience: regional.Talk proposal won 2021 [Kentucky] Commonwealth Ethics Lecture competition.

• COVID-19 and academic censorship: A banned books week webinar. (2020). Sage Publishing and Office for Intellectual Freedom. Audience: national.