Understanding Citation Justice: A Panel Discussion with Distinguished Visiting Teaching Scholars
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 10am-12pm
Time: 10am-12pm
Where: Virtually over Zoom
Citation justice is the purposeful choice to include a broad array of authors, including the work of gender-diverse, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, and S2LGBTQIA+ authors, in academic writing and teaching. In this session, Distinguished Visiting Teaching Scholars Lorisia MacLeod and Dr. Ajamu Nangwaya will join us to discuss the concept of citation justice and how faculty, GTAs, staff, and students can engage its strategies.
Lorisia MacLeod
Lorisia MacLeod is a third-generation library worker and a proud member of the James Smith Cree Nation. She currently works for The Alberta Library, a not-for-profit library consortia and also co-teaches with her Dad at the University of Alberta’s School of Library and Information Studies on collection management and Indigenous librarianship. Her areas of interest include leadership and management, particularly in terms of Indigenous representation, respectful citation of Indigenous knowledges, and comics and 3D printing.
Dr. Ajamu Nangwaya
Ajamu Nangwaya, Ph.D., is an independent scholar-activist, organic farmer, writer and co-editor of three books. He was a Cultural and Rastafari Studies lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. Ajamu has taught in Ontario's postsecondary sector for a number of years. His research commitments, journalistic activism, public speaking engagements, and community organizing politics are directed at building the people's capacity to critically read the world and engendering social emancipation.