(via Jessica Dai, University of Delaware)
Registration is open for the free online presentation “Citational Privilege: Disrupting the Patriarchy and Empowering Students Through Feminist Citation Practices”. Sponsored by the ACRL University Libraries Section’s Professional Development Committee, this webinar will take place on Wednesday, October 8, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM CDT.
Coined by Sara Ahmed in Living a Feminist Life, citational privilege is alive and well in academia. Citation practices have the power to create canons and shift scholarly discourse. They can offer a world of unexplored spaces or shut it down in favor of a well-worn scholarly path. Protected by the patriarchal vanguard who hide behind disciplinary privilege and the unintended consequence of scholarly tradition, current citational practices (and how they are taught) funnel students towards the scholarly path, cutting off all alternatives that could lead to student exploration and creativity. These patriarchal citational practices perpetuate sexism, racism, and heteronormativity, which have long dictated who has access to knowledge, who can make knowledge, and whose knowledge is deemed legitimate.
In this webinar, the presenters will discuss both the feminist theory that grounds feminist citations practices and provide practical discussions of how to incorporate these practices into the classroom and your own scholarship practice.
The presenters are Laura Sheets, Associate Professor and Instruction Services Librarian at Bowling Green State University, and Dr. Rebecca Stanwick, Assistant Teaching Professor and Reference and Instruction Librarian at Bowling Green State University
Please register here. If you can’t make this session but wish to view a recording later, please register anyway so you’ll receive an e-mail that includes a link to the video of the presentation.
Please direct questions and concerns to Matty Johnson (matthewjohnson@usf.edu), Co-Chair of the ACRL ULS Professional Development Committee. A full list of the Committee’s past programs is available on the ULS website.