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Future Cafés

• We have finished our final café of the spring semester. You can review notes and recordings from past events in the table below. Please suggest a topic for a future event above and look forward to our fall offerings!

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Past topics

Code of Conduct

The Open Scholar Café is a welcoming, supportive, and comfortable space where harassment is not tolerated in any form.

Harassment includes offensive comments related to race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, country of origin, age, disability, physical appearance, body size, religion, veteran status or other protected class status; discriminatory or offensive images; intimidation; stalking; harassing or unwanted recording; sustained disruption of talks; and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants violating the anti-harassment policy will be warned or booted from current and future meetings by the coordinators.

Participants may discuss sensitive, discriminatory, offensive, or triggering topics when they are relevant to the subject of the meetings itself (e.g., a meeting focusing on the silencing of trans* history in institutional repositories, or about microaggressions experienced by people of color in academia), but sensitive content and discussion topics should be made clear to participants prior to the start of the meeting.

Open Scholar Cafés are a place to share information, not only with other participants but also with those who may not be able to attend. Meetings are, by default, considered open and can be written about on social media and talked about outside of the meeting. If you do not want your words to be recorded or for either video or words to be attributed to you, please let participants and the coordinators know at the beginning of the meeting. As a courtesy, always ask prior to creating sound or video recordings of other participants. Please be thoughtful and respectful with your notes, recording, and sharing.

Each monthly meeting may adopt different rules for sharing (e.g., fully recorded recordings posted, de-identified notes with attribution and made with permission) as long as the coordinator informs all participants who join the session about the expectations for sharing before the meeting begins.

The Open Scholar Cafe's icon was inspired by and uses elements of "Cafe" by Hadi on the Noun Project.