Open Access Week

Community over Commercialization | October 23 - 29, 2023

Community-led open scholarship advancing the public good

Panel discussion

Oct. 24, 2 - 3:30 p.m. | via Zoom

Advancing Community-Led Open Infrastructure

A candid conversation about approaches to open scholarship: which prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community—and which do not.

Our panel of scholars, representing both local and global perspectives, will engage in a lively conversation about the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems and the costs of entrenching publicly-funded research activities in profit-seeking business models.

Our panelists

Janneke Adema

Dr Janneke Adema (she/her) is a cultural and media theorist working in the fields of (book) publishing and digital culture. She is an Associate Professor in Digital Media at The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (Coventry University). In her research she explores the future of scholarly communications and experimental forms of knowledge production and her monograph Living Books. Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2021) is openly available. You can follow her research on openreflections.wordpress.com.

Élika Ortega Guzmán

Élika Ortega is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on digital literature and media, cultural hybridity, reading practices and interfaces, books, and digital humanities. She is currently writing her first monograph, tentatively titled “Binding Media: Print and Digital Hybrid Literary Manifestations in the American Continent” in which she investigates print-digital works of literature from Argentina to Canada.

Ayesha Khan

Dr. Ayesha Khan is an abolitionist, anarchist, clinical microbiologist/ infectious diseases specialist, organizer, political educator and writer focused on decolonizing medicine, dismantling capitalist systems and building collectivist systems of community care & research. Ayesha's work is part of a global effort to sustain our communities by tackling the socio-political conditions that cause disease, distress or relational issues. Dr. Khan has a Bachelor's degree in Microbiology, Immunology, Molecular Genetics and Global Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles and completed her graduate training at UTHealth and MD Anderson Cancer Center mentored by Dr. Cesar A. Arias. To read Ayesha's writing and keep up with their work: wokescientist.substack.com

Danny Kingsley

Dr Danny Kingsley is an Australian-based thought leader in the international scholarly communication space. She took up the position of Community Manager (Southern Hemisphere) at OAPEN Foundation in August 2023. She has consulted for multiple Australian universities since returning from the UK where she worked as the Deputy Director of Cambridge University Libraries from 2015-2019. Her research as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science has centred on scholarly communication including the academic reward structure, scholarly infrastructure and open access advocacy. She established Open Access Australasia in 2013. She sits on multiple committees, including the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Data in Science and the FORCE11 Board of Directors.

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