Cultivating Your Citational Practice Workshop

Cultivating Your Citational Practice Workshop

Workshop
CWAC 156
Add to Calendar 2024-01-22 16:30:00 2024-01-22 16:30:00 Cultivating Your Citational Practice Workshop Cultivating Your Citational Practice: An Introduction to Practical and Ethical Considerations for Images and More Monday January 22 from 4:30–5:50pm CWAC 156 and Zoom Link to register (registration required) Cultivating a Citational Practice: An Introduction to Practical and Ethical Considerations for Images and More will deepen the conversation about how citations and image captions can be a dynamic part of your scholarship through student- and faculty-led discussions. All are welcome to attend, and we especially encourage those who are writing QPs, BA theses, MA theses, dissertations, articles, books, and/or curatorial projects to attend. Claudia Brittenham, Jacobé Huet, and Matthew Kruer will facilitate a discussion about their approaches to citations and captions, and we encourage attendees to bring questions and ideas. This workshop will offer a comprehensive look at practical strategies for preparing citations, image captions, citations and footnotes, and other components, as well as strategies for cultivating your own citational practice, including:  -Ethical considerations for citations, captions, and more -Strategies for cultivating a citational practice and mobilizing captions to play a critical role in your own projects -Practical resources for preparing image captions and citations from a variety of sources, including published sources, original photographs, Wikimedia Commons, digital collections, and more -How captions and citations relate to your personal archiving workflows This is a live, hybrid event that will be recorded for internal sharing only. You are welcome to join synchronously in person & via Zoom, or the VRC can share a recording of the event if you are unable to attend at the time. The workshop is open to all members of the UChicago and Northwestern Art History communities, the UChicago History community, and others. We plan to make this a similar experience across both in-person and remote modalities. If you have database questions you would like the VRC to specifically address, please include them in your registration form or send us an email at visualresources@uchicago.edu. Event Access: Refreshments will be nut-free. Following the guidelines for Captions, Transcripts, and Audio Description in the CDA’s Accessibility for Content Creators, the VRC will use the following accessibility features for this hybrid event: -Including closed captioning generated by automatic speech recognition -Providing access to the slide deck before and after the event -Audibly describing images and processes when appropriate To request any additional accessibility accommodations you need to participate fully in this workshop, such as live captioning or sign language interpretation, please email visualresources@uchicago.edu by Friday, January 12.   CWAC 156 Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
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Cultivating Your Citational Practice: An Introduction to Practical and Ethical Considerations for Images and More
Monday January 22 from 4:30–5:50pm
CWAC 156 and Zoom

Link to register (registration required)

Cultivating a Citational Practice: An Introduction to Practical and Ethical Considerations for Images and More will deepen the conversation about how citations and image captions can be a dynamic part of your scholarship through student- and faculty-led discussions. All are welcome to attend, and we especially encourage those who are writing QPs, BA theses, MA theses, dissertations, articles, books, and/or curatorial projects to attend. Claudia Brittenham, Jacobé Huet, and Matthew Kruer will facilitate a discussion about their approaches to citations and captions, and we encourage attendees to bring questions and ideas.

This workshop will offer a comprehensive look at practical strategies for preparing citations, image captions, citations and footnotes, and other components, as well as strategies for cultivating your own citational practice, including: 

-Ethical considerations for citations, captions, and more
-Strategies for cultivating a citational practice and mobilizing captions to play a critical role in your own projects
-Practical resources for preparing image captions and citations from a variety of sources, including published sources, original photographs, Wikimedia Commons, digital collections, and more
-How captions and citations relate to your personal archiving workflows

This is a live, hybrid event that will be recorded for internal sharing only. You are welcome to join synchronously in person & via Zoom, or the VRC can share a recording of the event if you are unable to attend at the time. The workshop is open to all members of the UChicago and Northwestern Art History communities, the UChicago History community, and others. We plan to make this a similar experience across both in-person and remote modalities. If you have database questions you would like the VRC to specifically address, please include them in your registration form or send us an email at visualresources@uchicago.edu.

Event Access:
Refreshments will be nut-free. Following the guidelines for Captions, Transcripts, and Audio Description in the CDA’s Accessibility for Content Creators, the VRC will use the following accessibility features for this hybrid event:
-Including closed captioning generated by automatic speech recognition
-Providing access to the slide deck before and after the event
-Audibly describing images and processes when appropriate

To request any additional accessibility accommodations you need to participate fully in this workshop, such as live captioning or sign language interpretation, please email visualresources@uchicago.edu by Friday, January 12.