(via the meeting organizers)
Registration is open for the 2025 Critical Pedagogy Symposium. Themed “Decentering the West”, this free online event will take place from Tuesday, June 10, to Thursday, June 12, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM CDT each day.
Now in its third iteration since 2021, CPS seeks to provide space for library workers and information professionals of all kinds to collaborate in critical pedagogical thought and critical practice. We want to build community, and to imagine new ways of doing our work by naming and dismantling oppressive systems and imagining new worlds. In this biennial symposium, our overarching aim is to collaborate in growing creative, generous, and mutually supportive intersectional and anti-oppressive work within Library and Information Science (LIS) so that we hone a sharp language for interrogating and dismantling inequities of all kinds and for doing justice work together.
The 2025 Symposium will examine global barriers and their impact on library and archival pedagogy. This year’s Symposium is inspired by the pedagogies and practices of those thinking about colonialism, imperialism, transnationalism, epistemic injustice, and other frameworks for Decentering the West. With this in mind, we have created three broad tracks through which to consider Decentering the West in our critical pedagogy and practice.
For more information, including the schedule, and to register, please go here. If there are any questions regarding registration, please contact us at criticallibrarysymposium@gmail.com.