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<\/a>Frank Salomon, University of Iowa<\/p><\/div>\n
Dr. Frank Salomon<\/strong> is the John V. Murra Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. An ethnographer and ethnohistorian of the Andes, he is the author of Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas:\u00a0 <\/em>The Political Economy of North-Andean Chiefdoms<\/em> (1986); \u00a0The Huarochir\u00ed Manuscript: \u00a0A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion<\/em> (with George L. Urioste, 1991); Los Yumbos, Niguas, y Ts\u00e1tchila o \u201cColorados\u201d durante la colonia Espa\u00f1ola:\u00a0 etnohistoria del Noroccidente de Pichincha, Ecuador <\/em>(1997); The<\/em> Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas \u2013 South America<\/em> (with Stuart B. Schwartz, 1999); The Cord Keepers: \u00a0Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village <\/em>(2004); La revisita de Sisicaya, 1588: \u00a0Huarochir\u00ed veinte a\u00f1os antes de \u201cDioses y hombres\u201d<\/em> (with Jane Feltham and Sue Grisboll, 2010); and The Lettered Mountain:\u00a0 A Peruvian Village\u2019s Way with Writing <\/em>(with Mercedes Ni\u00f1o-Murcia, 2011). A past president of the American Society for Ethnohistory, he has held Guggenheim Foundation, School for Advanced Research (SAR), and National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowships. His current book project is entitled The High Places: Ethnography at an Andean Mountain Altar.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Safiya Umoja Noble, University of California, Los Angeles<\/p><\/div>\n Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. She also holds appointments in the Departments of African American Studies, Gender Studies, and Education. Her research on the design and use of applications on the Internet is situated at the intersection of race, gender, culture, and technology. Her interests include the political economy of the Internet, critical perspectives on Black women\u2019s representation in technology systems, and the role of digital technology in public life.<\/p>\n She serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies<\/em> and is the co-editor of two books: Emotions, Technology and Design<\/em> (with Sharon Y. Tettegah, 2016) and The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online <\/em>(with Brendesha M. Tynes, 2016). She is currently working on a monograph regarding racist and sexist algorithmic bias in search engines such as Google (forthcoming, NYU Press). Her brief introduction to \u201cChallenging the Algorithms of Oppression,\u201d delivered at the 2016 Personal Democracy Forum,\u00a0can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition to addressing the implications of memory for our professional lives and institutions, Salomon and Noble will challenge us to examine our assumptions regarding the relationships between data, communication, and communities. In the process, we hope this closing plenary will provide numerous opportunities for inspiration and reflection.<\/p>\n –Daniel J. Slive In exploring possible plenary themes for the RBMS 2017 Conference devoted to \u201cThe Stories We Tell,\u201d the Conference Program Planning Committee determined that the three interconnected elements of narrative, representation, and memory would be both descriptive and evocative for speakers and attendees. In addition to highlighting the flow of the conference, these themes have also… <\/p>\n<\/a>
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