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Open Access Week 2025 (external event): The politics of knowledge: who controls the story and who has access to it? Online

The politics of knowledge: who controls the story and who has access to it?

Open Access Week 2025 - External event

The opening event of Open Access Australasia’s OA Week 2025, this session brings together speakers from the North America, Europe, Asia and Australia to explore how government administrations are exerting ownership and control over knowledge, shaping narratives and gatekeeping access. This diverse panel sheds light on the politics shaping knowledge ownership and access in a range of countries, with an emphasis on ways to defend and reclaim our knowledges in the face of these threats.

Host: Anne Lennox, Associate Director, Library Services (Learning, Teaching & Research) RMIT; OAA Executive Committee, Australia.

Facilitator: Dr Danny Kingsley, Director, Library Services (Information) at Deakin University, Australia.

Panellists:

Heather Joseph, Executive Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), USA.
Ksenia Lavrenteva, PhD candidate in Law, University of Exeter, UK.
Dr Encieh Erfani, Researcher, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada.
Professor Sandy O’Sullivan, Department of Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University.

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