With the support of a Doctoral Curriculum Enhancement Grant in Spring 2021, the Open Knowledge team coordinated the following events. Organizers included Prof. Matt Brim, Brian Mercado (Sociology), and Karen Zaino (Urban Education).
Open knowledge intensive
Dr. Sherry Deckman (Urban Education) and Kristen Miller (Sociology) shared their experience teaching and learning in Deconstructing Black Girlhoods, an interdisciplinary course that examined the shifting constructions of Black girlhood(s). They shared the class’s final projects, a series of co-created open educational resources that serve to define and expand the emerging field of Black girlhood studies.
A conversation featuring the Abolition Science Radio team, LaToya Strong, Aderinsola Gilbert, and Atasi Das. Abolition Science Radio envisions a science and math delinked from racial capitalism, imperialism, and oppression – a science and math that serves all people and is openly accessible online. During this interactive event, participants discussed the overlap between abolitionist practice and open pedagogy.
Open pedagogy symposia
Towards an Open Future was a Spring 2020 event featuring a series of lightning talks by faculty and artists in the CUNY community that focused on what presenter Nora Almeida termed the “promises and paradoxes” of open pedagogy. The event is described in a review by Alexis Brewer.
Breaking Open: An Open Pedagogy Symposium was a Spring 2019 event focused on the intersections of pedagogy and scholarly production that emerge around openly accessible, zero-cost materials. Keynote speaker Clelia Rodríguez spoke on the implications of “open” for decolonization efforts.
