The Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) at the University of Washington Information School invites proposals for participation in the inaugural Black Information Futures Symposium, to be held on February 21–23, 2026, in Seattle, Washington.
The Black Information Futures Symposium seeks to create an expansive, interdisciplinary space for archivists, librarians, cultural heritage professionals, technologists, scholars, practitioners, artists, and entrepreneurs interested in the historical, theoretical, applied, and speculative dimensions of Black information work. The gathering will foreground practices and ideas that center Black epistemologies, data and digital space, information gathering, memory work, and the wider range of infrastructures necessary for equitable access, creation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge. Participation will be closed to contributors on Saturday evening through Sunday afternoon, and will be open to the public Sunday evening, starting with a keynote session through the symposium’s closing on Monday afternoon. Though this is an in-person, onsite convening, some of the public panels may be streamed online with prior agreement from presenters. Those responding to the call for contributions below may be asked to present on any one of the symposium meeting dates.