AggieOpen Invited Speaker to Explore Digital Kinship, History of Open Access
Join us for this virtual event!
Tuesday, March 4 at 11:00am PST
We are thrilled to host Indigenous Engagement Librarian Jessie Loyer as our 2025 AggieOpen Invited Speaker on Tuesday, March 4!
Held each year during Open Education Week, the UC Davis Library’s AggieOpen Invited Speaker Series addresses important issues in Open Education and allows speakers to share their research with a broader audience.
Loyer’s talk, “The Agreements that Allow Us to Care for Each Other,” will explore the history of Open Access and draw upon histories of caretaking. Learn more and register for this virtual event.
In this time of rising fascism, white supremacy, and dehumanization, practitioners of open pedagogies can ask ourselves: what agreements have shaped the caring impulse behind our work? How do agreements such as treaty-making between Indigenous nations and nation-states inscribe intergenerational caretaking? How can we learn from our predecessors’ choices to build connections that allow us to survive and thrive?
— Jessie Loyer
Loyer will consider these questions alongside participants through her scholarship on Indigenous relationality in digital spaces, Open Education, and digital kinship.
About the AggieOpen Invited Speaker
Jessie Loyer is Cree-Métis and a member of Michel First Nation. She is the Indigenous Engagement Librarian at the University of Alberta in Calgary and a guest on Treaty 7 and Blackfoot territory. Her research looks at Indigenous perspectives on information literacy, supporting language revitalization, and creating ongoing research relationships using a nêhiyaw minâ otipêmisiw concept of kinship.
About the Invited Speaker Series
Each Open Education Week, the AggieOpen team brings distinguished educators together to share their research and work, promoting a more equitable educational experience through the use of openly licensed learning materials.* The AggieOpen program collaborates with departments and programs across the UC Davis campus to feature internal and external speakers for our Open Education Invited Speaker Series.
The program is sponsored by the UC Davis Library as part of our commitment to supporting scholarship in Open Education. For questions, contact us at aggieopen@ucdavis.edu.
*Open Educational Resources (OER) are free and carry legal permission for open use. For more information about openly licensed educational resources and the AggieOpen program can be found on our website.