In this workshop, participants will bring a personal research project to assess or map out a citation policy that reflects their commitments and values.

Sara Ahmed tells us that “citations can be feminist bricks: they are the materials through which, from which, we create our dwellings.” Our citation policies “affec[t] the kind of house” in which we spend our intellectual lives (Living a Feminist Life 15). In this workshop, participants begin by reflecting on their various commitments and values before engaging in a discussion of the shared reading. The session concludes with individual and collaborative workshop time targeting feasibility in their designs. Participants assess citations in a recent project to determine the extent to which they have used citations to build the kind of “dwelling” they want to occupy and explore options for further renovating. Alternatively, participants may bring a project they have not yet researched fully in order to map a citation policy for that project.

Qualifiers: This is a workshop especially designed for those in the humanities, social and applied sciences. Before the workshop, we ask that you read an eight-page excerpt (sent to those who register) from Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life.

Presented by April Conway and Laura Clapper, Sweetland Center for Writing Faculty

Registration required. See Links.