How can we think about revisiting older work that we may have changed our minds about, or grown out of, or for personal or intellectual or ethical reasons regret? How can we address this work thoughtfully and creatively – beyond writing a straightforward rebuttal?

This panel will discuss different approaches to not (just) revising but reconsidering past work. Panelists will share brief stories from their own experience – how age and maturity have changed their beliefs, how writing in different genres and forms can influence not just the approach to but the meaning of a work, how technology may or may not aid memory, and how our feelings can hinder or spur this kind of rethinking. We’ll then offer a series of questions, challenges, and strategies (in the Brian Eno sense) for participants to engage with. Our session will end with time for further questions and conversation.