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The Agreements that Allow Us to Care for Each Other – Aggie Open Invited Speaker, Jessie Loyer
March 4, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm GMT
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. Our 2025 Invited Speaker, Indigenous Engagement Librarian Jessie Loyer, will explore the history of Open Access and draw upon histories of caretaking in her talk, “The Agreements that Allow Us to Care for Each Other.”
“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?”
Join us during this year’s Open Education Week as Jessie considers these questions alongside participants through her scholarship on Indigenous relationality in digital spaces, Open Education, and digital kinship.
About the Speaker: Jessie 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 examines Indigenous perspectives on information literacy, supports language revitalization, and creates ongoing research relationships using the nêhiyaw minâ otipêmisiw concept of kinship.
