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Welcome to the 52nd BETH annual conference on the topic of sustainability in European theological libraries! We are delighted to welcome you to the BETH Conference 2024, nested against the breath-taking backdrop of Sarajevo – a city renowned for its rich history and stunning landscapes, providing an inspiring setting for discussions on sustainability.
We all recognise the growing importance of sustainable development across various areas and believe it is crucial to explore its implications within theological contexts and library settings. The United Nations has established 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the UN 2030 Agenda, which represent a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that everyone, everywhere enjoys freedom, peace, and prosperity. As part of our commitment to fostering sustainable practices and contributing to the global effort towards achieving the SDGs, we believe in the importance of convening to discuss these issues and formulate concrete proposals to progress in the best direction.

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Keynote: Postprint Assemblages, New Extractivism and Disenchantment
Thursday September 19, 2024 9:10am - 10:10am CEST
Gazi Husrev-beg's Library
This talk is going to tackle techno-epistemological configurations of postprint technologies and automation of cognitive labour within the computational-media ecology. Excessive consumption of digital technologies becomes a key driver of the climate crisis, ecological breakdown and ongoing societal instability. On the other side, a set of concepts and practices named “critical information and media literacy”, “digital commons”, and “postdigital research” are (still) not recognized in library and information science discourses. Since the implosion of neo-liberal globalization reveals datafication as a new paradigm of power it is becoming increasingly important to understand how algorithmic systems work and how they are trained to perform in specific situations, while at the same time, they are becoming ever more elusive and embedded in society and everyday life at all levels. Aside from technological nihilism and the technocratic (and anti-democratic) argument that “there is no alternative” (a fallacious idea that the informational environment in which we operate must be optimized through control mechanisms alien to us) librarians could demystify performative invisibility of current hegemony by introducing a critical attitude towards monopolistic hold on our imagination brought by adherence to techno-solutionism and the post-democratic turn normalized by data scientists, IT experts, tech entrepreneurs, designers, marketers etc.
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Prof. Dr. Mario Hibert

Associate Professor, University of Sarajevo
Thursday September 19, 2024 9:10am - 10:10am CEST
Gazi Husrev-beg's Library
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