VALA is pleased to announce our first keynote for the VALA2024.
Tara Brabazon is the Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Cultural Studies at Charles Darwin University, Professor of Cultural Studies at Flinders University, Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), Member of the College of Distinguished Educators, and Director of the Popular Culture Collective. She has worked in ten universities in four countries and most of the states and territories of Australia. Tara has held the leadership roles of Dean, Head of School, Head of Department, Head of Programme and Institutional Research Leader of national assessment exercises.
Tara is currently writing three books, on academic failure, the Claustropolitan University and Claustropop: Popular culture at the end of the world. She is a columnist for the Times Higher Education, produces audiobooks, and runs a successful and popular podcast programme (since 2008). Tara has developed the genre of academic vlogs for higher degree students, through her weekly series.
She will be presenting on her latest work at VALA. “Trumped Literacies: A new model for information and knowledge in claustropolitan times”, which will explore how librarians, educators and information professionals manage the speed of mis/information while enabling debate, diversity and expertise?
VALA2024 has launched!
VALA Libraries Technology & the Future is pleased to announce the dates and location for the 2024 conference.
VALA 2024 Reiterated – Getting IT back to grass roots, will be held Tuesday 9th to Thursday 11th July 2024.
Major sponsor RMIT are providing the venue, located across the road from both the iconic State Library of Victoria and the Melbourne Central shopping precinct and Metro train station. VALA welcomes RMIT as our first sponsor and is excited about exploring the options for the conference in this unique facility.
Other sponsorship opportunities will be released shortly as the Conference Committee works towards making VALA 2024 ReITerated happen. There is always room for more help however, so if you are interested in joining the committee, please email vala@vala.org.au.
In the meantime, continue to watch this space for more VALA 2024 news.
