We are witnessing a critical shift in academia. While research, pedagogy, and academic writing speed forward to contend with and adapt to academic production that is increasingly becoming mediated by Artificial Intelligence (AI), we must grapple yet with the ethical, rhetorical, and scholarly conventions of a rapidly changing time. Central to our academic concerns remains the question of citations. This workshop explores the promises and pitfalls of AI-assisted citation, the politics of such citational practices, and its influence on the decisions we make as we cite. Together we will develop strategies that enable us to cite with intention and integrity in our own writing, while we question the ways in which knowledge is constructed and circulated in our disciplines.
This workshop will predominantly look at the politics of citation, the marginalization of certain forms of knowledge to privilege other hegemonic ways of knowing and the repercussions of these deliberate exclusions in academia when they are re-enforced by Artificial Intelligence. Come prepared with access to some form of AI tool (ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.) to be able to fully participate in the exercises designed for this workshop. This is optional, but advised.
Facilitator: Sneha Roychoudhury, Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication
Location: IKBLC, Level 3, Peña Room
