City Tech held its 18th Annual Poster Session November 19, 2020 as an online event. Two City Tech librarians shared their research. Kel Karpinski’s poster discussed was entitled “Sailors: The iconography of an all-American homoerotic symbol.” Prof. Karpinski uses images from mid-century physique magazines to explore the tension of sailors being both an object of queer desire as well as part of the U.S. Imperial Project.
Monica Berger’s poster and one-minute lightening talk was based on a forthcoming article in Development and Change, on how open access evolved to disadvantage scholars from the Global South (less developed countries). Specifically, open access based on the author-pays or article processing charge (APC) model results in the exclusion of many researchers. The Latin American principle of bibliodiversity provides a vision for sustainable and self-determined scholarly communication.
Here are this year’s posters from library faculty:
![Sailors: The iconography of an all-American homoerotic symbol, Kel R. Karpinski](https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/library/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Karpinski-1-4000.png)
![Bibliodiversity at the Center: Decolonizing Open Access, Monica Berger](https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/library/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/berger-fall-2020-poster-1024x786.png)