We are introducing the Cátedra Libre: an editorial imprint so that the classes of Universidad Liberté do not stay inside the classroom. It takes each gathering —a talk, a workshop, a diploma-course class— and turns it into a complete, faithful and open text, to be read from start to finish as if you had been there.
There you will find the first edition and the ones to come.
From the gatherings of Universidad Liberté
Universidad Liberté runs several training spaces: the EnClave Libre sessions, the diploma courses, the Laboratorio de Saberes and the workshops. Any of them can become a Cátedra Libre. The gatherings take place at Universidad Liberté; their written version and outreach are published here by Cooperativa Liberté, in the same way we announce the training programs even though the courses live at the university.
It is not a summary nor a chronicle that picks one angle. It is the whole class: it covers every topic, leaving nothing out. Direct quotes go in quotation marks; everything else, in a faithful account of what each person said. The speakers talk, and so do those who step in from the classroom, by name. And at the foot, those who gave the class, with their background.
A class open to the whole community
The Cátedra Libre is meant for the whole community —including people in prison and those who could not join live—. What is thought aloud on a Saturday later becomes written words for anyone who wants to read them.
The first edition is a class on labor reform, «The Labor Modernization Act as the destruction of social gains», given by labor lawyers Cynthia Benzion and Leonardo Elgorriaga in an EnClave Libre from Liberté territory. You can already read it in full.
There you will find the first edition and the ones to come.
