If you attended a lecture or other type of presentation and took notes that you refer back to in a paper, you should not cite your notes. Instead, cite the presentation itself as the source of the information. For example, the following would be an appropriate way to cite a quotation you wrote down in the course of a virtual conference presentation that you attended live:
In a discussion of the 1987 film Mirch Masala, directed by Ketan Mehta, Komal Nazir argues that “the chili factory functions as a site of transcorporeality.”
Work Cited
Nazir, Komal. “Sensing Spices: Transcorporeal Resistance and Affective Assemblages in Mirch Masala.” MLA Annual Convention, 8 Jan. 2026, online.