Tomorrow, May 3, join us for a discussion of Open with adjunct faculty, library students, GC students, and library faculty as the word pertains to labor, the academy, and colonialization. A few spots remain for the event!

Questions of “open” are implicitly tied to deeper issues of access in higher education. The movements towards Open Access publishing and the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) emerged as a dual response to the high costs of academic journals and textbooks, respectively. Publishing materials with an open license allows for them to be redistributed freely, yet it also raises questions about the behind-the-scenes work required to create them.

Keynote speaker Clelia Rodríguez (author of Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression and Pain) will speak broadly about such implications – which kinds of knowledge are contested, and which are silenced and contained? Using a decolonial perspective, Rodríguez considers how we can use the guidance of our ancestors, tap into our own knowings, and the way that “open” challenges existing models of academic hierarchy and authority.

A limited number of public tickets are available on a first-come/first-served basis. We ask that public attendees commit to attending the entire event from 10am-4pm. Please RSVP at https://library.gc.cuny.edu/event/breaking-open-an-open-pedagogy-symposium/.

Breaking Open: An Open Pedagogy Symposium will take place from 10am-4pm in room 9205 at the CUNY Graduate Center, and is made possible by the state funding awarded to CUNY and SUNY towards the support of Open Educational Resources (OER) for fiscal year 2019.

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