Conference Papers and Presentations

Panelist for "Ensuring Accessibility of Information Products and Services," a webinar hosted by the National Information Standards Organization, June 8th, 2022.
Panelist for "The Development, Planning, and Design of UVA’s Main Library" with Alice Raucher, Architect for the University; John Unsworth, Dean of Libraries, University Librarian, Professor of English; William Kinane, Principal, HBRA Architects SCUP Mid-Atlantic Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia March 10, 2022
Panelist for "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Libraries & Publishers Providing Accessible Content,"" Charleston Conference, November 3rd, 2021
"'Scholarly Primitives,' Twenty Years Later" DARIAH-EU Keynote Address, Online, November 10, 2020.
"Why the University of Virginia Chose to Preserve its Card Catalog: A Site-Specific Story," Sustaining Visions and Legacies: The Future of Special Collections Libraries, UCLA, March 7, 2020.
"Overview of UVA's Educational Materials Made Accessible (EMMA) Project" presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, Nashville, TN, October 30 2019.
"HathiTrust And Its Research Center." Platform Strategies 2018, Washington D.C. September 26-27, 2018.
"Tenure in the Digital Humanities: An Early Example." Scholarly Communication Symposium, UNC-Greensboro April 2nd, 2018.
"Ebooks: The Next Big Deal?" eBooks and the Academic Library Market: The Charlotte Initiative Open Conference, March 9, 2017.
"August and Everything After: Charlottesville, Virginia 2017." Presented at the 171st Association Meeting, October 2017, in Washington, DC, .
"Bridging Art and Science: STEAM Education in a Digital World." 4Cast '16, University of Iowa, Iowa City, January 14, 2016. (Also available as a PDF)
"What are the Digital Humanities, and where did they come from?" Digital Scholarship Symposium, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, October 1, 2015.

"Annotation: A Very Brief History." Presented at The Poynter Institute's Annotation Summit, New York Times Building, NYC, May 20, 2015.
"Scholarly Research Infrastructure." Remarks for the closing roundtable at "Scholarly Networks and the Emerging Platforms for Humanities Research and Publication," an international colloquium co-sponsored by The Virtual Humanities Lab and the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University, and DARIAH-Italy. Providence, RI, April 18, 2015.
Panelist, "Big Data and the Digital Humanities," part of "Cultivating Collaboration: Bridging Cultures Through Humanities Research and Innovation," the Fourth US - China Cultural Forum, held at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington DC, April 10, 2015.
Text Mining Workshop, Council on Library an Informaton Resources Summer Seminar for Postdocs, Bryn Mawr College, July 29, 2014.
"A history of computational methods in the humanities, 1851 to the present," Computer Science Department, Brandeis University, November 10, 2014.
The History of Computational Methods in the Humanities. University of Miami, October 23, 2014.
Sanity Check." Summary remarks at the end of day 1 of the Peer Review Meeting at the American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, May 15-16, 2014. Sponsored by the Sloan Foundation.
Re: Pubrarians. Opening keynote at the Library Publishing Forum, Kansas City, MO, March 5, 2014.
"The HathiTrust Research Center: Building Shared Computational Resources to Mine the Largest Digital Library", DPLAFest 2013, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, October 25, 2013.
with Robert McDonald and Beth Sandore Namachchivaya. "The HathiTrust Research Center: Building Shared Computational Resources to Mine the Largest Digital Library", EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, October 16, 2013.
Panelist, "HT-HTRC," at the HathiTrust Research Center Uncamp, Champaign, IL, September 8, 2013.
"Teaching By Audience." dh+CU Symposium on Future Directions , University of Colorado at Boulder, August 22, 2013.

Organizer, Digital Humanities Workshop for Boston-area faculty. MIT, Endicott House, August 17-18, 2013.

"How to Retain the Value of a Liberal Arts Education With the Growing Economic Focus on Technology." A conversation with Brandeis alumnae/i on Reunion Weekend, Waltham, MA, June 8th, 2013.

Digital Humanities: From 1851?". Library & Technology Services Blog, Brandeis University, May 17, 2013.
"The History and Theory of the Cross-Over." Remarks delivered at Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, and the Digital Humanities, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, College Park, MD, April 9-11, 2013.
Organizer and respondent, "DH: The Next Generation." Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, MA, March 15-16, 2013.
Co-led a workshop on grant-writing, with Jason Rhody of the National Endowment for the Humanities, at the MLA workshop, "Getting Started in Digital Humanities," held at Northeastern University on January 3, 2013.
with Tanya E. Clement, Univ. of Texas, Austin; Rachel Donahue, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Kari M. Kraus, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; John A. Walsh, Indiana Univ., Bloomington. ""The Third Degree: Joint Programs in Languages, Literature, and Libraries" Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature and the Discussion Group on Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures.." Modern Language Association. Boston, MA. January 5, 2013.
Unsworth, John with with Beth Sandore Namachchivaya, University of Illinois at Urbana and Robert McDonald, Indiana University. "The HathiTrust Research Center: Opening up the Eleophant for Knowledge Creation." Coalition for Networked Information, Fall 2012. Washington, D.C.. December 10-11, 2012.
Unsworth, John. "To Be Determined: The Impact of Digital Humanities and Arts on University Libraries and IT." Digital Humanities Symposium. Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Friday, Nov. 2, 2012.
Unsworth, John. "21st-Century Scholar and Researcher Services." ARL Fall Forum. Washington, DC. October, 2012.
Unsworth, John. "Digital Humanities and the Role of the Library." Libraries, Labs, and Classrooms: Locating the Digital Humanities. University of Pennsylvania. September 28, 2012.
Unsworth, John. "The Hathi Trust, Google Books, and the Future of Research." BNN Future of the Academy Speaker Series. MIT, Cambridge MA. May 25, 2012.
Unsworth, John. "Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Five Years New Directions for Digital Humanities and . Montreal, Quebec, Canada. April 30-May 1 2012.
Unsworth, John. "Mickey Mouse and TS Eliot: Starving at the Banquet." Orphan Works & Mass Digitization Symposium. Berkeley, California. April 13, 2012.
"Merchants of Light, Depredators and Pioneers," Wisconsin Distinguished Lecture, School of Library and Information Studies, Madison, Wisconsin, November 9, 2011.
"Datta-Mine-ing," presented at the Digital Humanities Symposium, Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies, University of Texas at Austin, May 27, 2011; also at The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Ottowa, Canada, June 14, 2011; and the Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, Toronto, Canada, June 15, 2011.
"Idiosyncrasy at Scale," presented at the 6th annual International Data Curation Conference, Chicago, IL, December 7, 2010.
"Current Developments in Digital Library Management and Research" Shanghai Transportation University Library, Shanghai, China, October 15, 2010.
"Reading at Library Scale: New Methods, Attention Prosthetics, Evidence, and Argument." Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, October 13, 2010.
Closing Remarks at the final session, 90th anniversary conference, School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, October 10, 2010
"Challenges in Educating 21st-Century Information Professionals" presented at the 90th Anniversary conference, School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, October 9, 2010.
Remarks for the opening ceremony presented at the 90th Anniversary conference, School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, October 8, 2010.
"Current Developments in Digital Library Management and Research" Southwest University Library, Chongqing, China, October 7, 2010.
"Reading at Library Scale: New Methods, Attention Prosthetics, Evidence, and Argument." Southwest University, Chongqing, China, October 7, 2010.
"A Brief and Biased History of Digital Humanities," presented as part of a panel on Digital Humanities and Digital Libraries at the annual meeting of the Association of Graduate Schools in Austin, Texas, September 20th, 2010.
"The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations," part of a panel organized by the Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks at DH 2010, King's College, London, July 9, 2010.
"Why are medievalists early adopters of information technology, and what can others learn from them?", plenary address at the MARGOT conference, Barnard College, New York, NY, June 17, 2010
"The State of Digital Humanities," plenary address at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, British Columbia, June 7, 2010
"Doing Digital Humanities and Doing the Humanities Digitally," University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, June 4, 2010.
"Reading at Library Scale: New Methods, Attention Prosthetics, Evidence, and Argument." Cyberinfrastructure Days, Notre Dame University, April 29, 2010.
"Digital Humanities Centers: why do they exist, where did they come from, how have they evolved, and how do they work?" Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, April 6, 2010
"EVIA and sustainability," Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March 27, 2010
Roundtable participant, "Integrating Digital Humanities into the Curriculum," Digital Humanities @ NCSU, Raleigh, NC, March 2, 2010
Roundtable participant, "External Funding for Digital Humanities Projects," Digital Humanities @ NCSU, Raleigh, NC, March 2, 2010
"The State of Digital Humanities, 2010," Digital Humanities @ NCSU, Raleigh, NC, March 1, 2010
Roundtable participant, "Library and IT Support/Resources for Digital Humanities Projects," Digital Humanities @ NCSU, Raleigh, NC, March 1, 2010
Panel participant, "iSchools and the DARPA Network Challenge," iConference 2010, Champaign, IL, February 5, 2010
"Computational Methods in Humanities Research," Cultural Heritage Online, Florence, Italy, December 15, 2009.
"Computational Work with Very Large Text Collections: Google Books, HathiTrust, the Open Content Alliance, and the Future of TEI," Text Encoding Initiative Consortium Annual Members' Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 13, 2009. (Powerpoint, 30MB)
Panelist, "Revitalizing the Illinois Land Grant Mission: Spanning the 19th, 20th & 21st Centuries," presented as part of Lincoln's Unfinished Work: The Morrill Act and the Future of Higher Education," University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, October 24, 2009.
"Ink-Stained Wretches vs. The Google Monster, in Terra Incognita," presented at Rochester University, Rochester, NY, September 17, 2009.
"Mass Digitization: The Revenge of Print?" a workshop presented at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, September 16, 2009.
"Text-Mining and Humanities Research," presented at th Microsoft Faculty Summit, Redmond, WA, July 13, 2009.
"Informatics at the University of Illinois," presented with Charles Linville at Archer Daniels Midland, Research division, July 9, 2009.
Participant, NSF/ACM Summit on the Future of Computational Education, Arlington, VA, June 25-26, 2009.
"Current Developments in Digital Library Management and Research in the USA," delivered at Peking University, Beijing, China, June 17, 2009,
"Challenges and Opportunities: Making Exchange and Collaboration Work," presented at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, June 16, 2009.
"Current Developments in Digital Library Management and Research in the USA," delivered at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, June 15, 2009,
"An Introduction to the University of Illinois and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science," presented at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, June 13, 2009.
"Current Developments in Digital Library Management and Research in the USA," delivered at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, June 12, 2009,
"Tools for Textual Data," presented as part of the Illinois Summer Institute in Humanities Data Curation, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, May 20, 2009.
"Vernacular Computing and the iSchools," the Lazerow Lecture, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, April 24, 2009
"How Not To Read A Million Books," updated. Seminar on the History of the Book. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 5, 2009.

"The Value of Digitization for Libraries and Humanities Scholarship," New Directions in Digital Humanities Scholarship Symposium, Champaign, Illinois, February 26, 2009.
"Clumps and Runners" 3rd Bamboo Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, January 13, 2009.
"How Not To Read A Million Books,", with Tanya Clement, Sara Steger and Kirsten Uszkalo, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 19, 2008.
Humanities Cyberinfrastructure and UNC-Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, September 19, 2008. Links mentioned in the talk
"Bamboo and CyberInfrastructure", Project Bamboo Workshop 1.4, Princeton New Jersey, July 15, 2008.
Master Class on Strategic Considerations in Digital Humanities Projects, Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin, Ireland, July 3, 2008.
"Evidence of Value," panel member, DH2008 conference, June 26, 2008, Oulu, Finland.
"Defining an International Humanities Portal," panel member, DH2008 conference, June 26, 2008, Oulu, Finland.
"The Importance of Digitization to Libraries and to Humanities Scholars," Launch of the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition, British Library, London, May 13, 2008.
Speaker, EXP lecture series, co-sponsored by the Experiential Technologies Center (ETC) and the Center for Research in Engineering, Media, and Performance (REMAP), UCLA, April 11, 2008.
"Cyberinfrastructure and Open Standards, Methods, and Communities," Panel on Open Digital Communities, Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, Dec. 27, 2007.
"Digital Repositories and Publishing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities," Society for Scholarly Publishing, "Opportunities for Publishers in a World of Institutional Repositories," Washington, DC, November 12, 2007.
Chair, Funders panel, Annual Members Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, University of Maryland, College Park, November 2nd.
"University 2.0," Integration of Information Services into University Infrastructures: 7th Frankfurt Scientific Symposium, Universitat Frankfurt am Main, Wed. Oct. 12.
Panel discussion on "The Foundations and Futures of Digital Humanities," InFormation Year conference, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 20, 2007.
"Digital Humanities Centers as Cyberinfrastructure," Plenary Address, Summit meeting for directors of digital humanities centers, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, College Park, MD, April 13, 2007.
"Learning from nora: distributed software development in the humanities," Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 29, 2007.
"New Directions in Humanities Research," Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford, CA, January 18, 2007.
"Sustaining the Humanities and Social Sciences: A discussion of the ACLS report on cyberinfrastructure for humanities and social sciences," EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research Symposium, Carefree, AZ, December 7, 2006. [optimized for Opera browser, 1024x768 projection]
"Digital Humanities: Beyond Representation," University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, November 13, 2006.
"All the King's Horses and All the King's Men Couldn't Do Text-Mining Across the Big Ten," Keynote at the University of Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Chicago, IL, November 5, 2006.
Participant, ACRL Summit on Technology and Change in Academic Libraries, Chicago, IL, November 2, 2006.
"Virtual Reunification of Scattered Archives," part of a symposium on Manuscript Matters, British Library, London, October 20, 2006. (PPT, 10.6MB)
"Information Behaviors." Part of a panel on "Continuity and Change in University Scholarship," in a symposium on The Research Library in the 21st Century, held at the University of Texas at Austin, September 12, 2006.
"Cyberinfrastructure in the U.S.A." Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. July 18, 2006.
"Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign." Nanjing Public Library, Nanjing, China. July 14, 2006.
"Managing the Digital Library: The ECHO Depository Project." Beihang University, Beijing, China. July 12, 2006.
With Bei Yu, "Toward Discovering Potential Data Mining Applications in Literary Criticism," Digital Humanities 2006, The Sorbonne University, July 8, 2006.
Participant, roundtable discussion on "The Fate and Function of Digital Humanities Centers," Digital Humanities 2006, The Sorbonne University, July 7, 2006.
With Xin Xiang, "Connecting Text Mining and Natural Language Processing in a Humanistic Context" Digital Humanities 2006, The Sorbonne University, July 6, 2006.
"Vernacular Computing," presented at the Electronic Publishing Workshop of the American Association of University Presses, New Orleans, June 14, 2006.
"The Value of the Library to a Liberal Arts Education," presented at the Brookens Library, University of Illinois-Springfield, May 23, 2006.
"Institutionalizing Humanities Computing," lecture co-sponsored by the Wilson Center for the Humanities and Arts and the Department of English, University of Georgia, February 24, 2006.
"Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences: A Report on the ACLS Commission," Director's Seminar, NCSA, February 21, 2006.
"New Methods for Humanities Research," presented at Kenyon College, January 31, 2006.
"New Research Methods for the Humanities," The Lyman Award Lecture, National Humanities Center, November 11, 2005.
"Open Access, Open Archives, and Open Source in Higher Education," Natonal Scholarly Communication Forum, Sydney, Australia, September 27, 2005.
"Cyberinfrastructure in the USA," a talk at the Australian Academy of Humanities, Sydney, Australia, September 26, 2005.
""Digital Publication and Scholarly Communication," Digital Library Lecture Series, Case Western Reserve University, September 16, 2005.
Session Chair, "Portals, Tools, and Data," "Emblems in the Twenty-First Century: Materials and Media," The Seventh International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 25, 2005.
"Digital Surrogates for the Printed Book: Problems and Possibilities," Opening Plenary, "Emblems in the Twenty-First Century: Materials and Media," The Seventh International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 25, 2005.
Presentation on ECHO-DEP (the UIUC NDIIPP project) at the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, July 14, 2005.
"Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its Applications in Scholarship & Libraries," part of "Adding Value to Digital Texts: A General Overview," Slavic Digital Text Workshop: Strategies for Humanists & Social Scientists, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 6, 2005.
Panelist, "The Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities: a Roundtable Discussion," Annual Joint Conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities & The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, British Columbia, June 18, 2005.
Panelist, "National Support for Humanities Computing: Different Achievements, Needs, and Prospects," Annual Joint Conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities & The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, British Columbia, June 17, 2005.
Panelist, "A Revolutionary Approach to Humanities Computing?: Tools Development and the D2K Data-Mining Framework," Annual Joint Conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities & The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, British Columbia, June 16, 2005.
Panelist, "Hybrid Cyber-Librarians: The CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists," Annual Joint Conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities & The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, British Columbia, June 17, 2005.
Institute Lecture, Humanities Computing Summer Institute, University of Victoria, British Columbia, June 13, 2005.
"Pubrarians and Liblishers: New Roles for Old Foes," [NB: 37MB Flash file] keynote address at the 2005 annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Boston, MA, June 2, 2005.
"'Combustion of Early Summer'," presented as part of a panel on "The Future of Journals: In Print, On Line, and Elsewhere," at "Humanities Journals: Present and Future," a conference convened by New Literary History at the University of Virginia, April 9, 2005.
"Public Networks, Vernacular Computing," presented as the Wisbey Lecture at King's College London, March 23, 2005.
"The Last Rites of the Humanities," an informal seminar at University College London, Senate House, London, March 22, 2005.
Organizer and Moderator, "Electronic Textual Editing" a session at the opening plenary session of the Society for Textual Scholarship's Thirteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, New York, NY, March 17, 2005.
"Cultural Infrastructure," delivered at the opening plenary session of the Society for Textual Scholarship's Thirteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, New York, NY, March 17, 2005.
Panelist for "The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication: The Role of Digital Repositories," Provost's Seminar on Scholarly Communication, University of Kansas, March 8, 2005.
Presenter at "Session 565: Cyberinfrastructure for Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education," Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC, February 20, 2005.
Moderator, "Origins of a Networked World: From World War II to the Internet," sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 17, 2005.
"The importance of digitization and cyberinfrastructure in the humanities," delivered as the 90th and final seminar in the Kolloquium uber die Anwendung der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung in den Geisteswissenschaften, at the Zentrum fur Daten-verarbeitung at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, February 5, 2005.
"Forms of Attention: Digital Humanities Beyond Representation," delivered at "The Face of Text: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities," the third conference of the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA), McMaster University, November 19-21, 2004. (Video of presentations available at http://iris.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~fot/.)
Keynote Address: "Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences," Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Baltimore, MD, October 25, 2004.
"Collaboration and Community: Changing Roles in the Humanities," delivered (by videoconference) as part of the Fall Colloquium on Open Knowledge and Social Research Networks at the Stanford Humanities Center, October 18, 2004
"What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?", delivered at Texas A&M, as part of the Humanities Informatics lecture series, College Station, TX, September 10, 2004.
"The Crisis of Audience," delivered as part of the SPARC session "Scholarly Communication in the Humanities: Does Open Access Apply?" American Library Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, June 26, 2004.
"Changed Priorities Ahead," delivered as part of the ACRL session "Beyond the MLS: Today's Graduates and Tomorrow's Academic Libraries," American Library Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, June 26, 2004.
"The Value of Digitization for Libraries and Humanities Scholarship," Innodata-Isogen Symposium, Newberry Library, Chicago, May 17, 2004.
"Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences," annual meeting of the Research Libraries Group, Washington, DC, April 26, 2004
"Graduate Education at GSLIS," meeting of the Special Libraries Association, Chicago, IL, April 8, 2004
"Born-Digital Scholarship: Some Examples," Notre Dame Library Professional Development Series, South Bend, IN, March 23, 2004
"Variations on Open Access," Notre Dame Library Professional Development Series, South Bend, IN, March 23, 2004
"Open Archives, Open Access," UIUC Library Colloquium, March 19, 2004 (RealAudio recording)
"Graduate Education at GSLIS," meeting of the Chicago Area Law Librarians, Chicago, IL, March 18, 2004
"Graduate Education at GSLIS," meeting of the Directors of the Illinois Regional Library Systems, Springfield, IL, March 17, 2004
"Open Access, Open Archives, and Open Source in Higher Education," Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, February 12, 2004.
"Humanities and Cyberinfrastructure: Changes in Disciplinary Practice." Coalition for Networked Information, Portland, Oregon, December 9th. Closing plenary panel, with Don Waters and Mark Kornbluh
"Not-so-Modest Proposals: What do we want our system of scholarly communication to look like in 2010?" CIC Summit on Scholarly Communications, Chicago, IL, December 2, 2003.
"Scholarly Tribes and Tribulations." Panelist at the Annual Forum of the Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC, October 17, 2003.
"The Emergence of Digital Scholarship: New Models for Librarians, Scholars and Publishers." Presented at the Digital Libraries Round Table, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan, July 3, 2003.
"The crisis in scholarly publishing." Presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, Philadelphia, PA, May 10, 2003.
"Tool-Time, or 'Haven't We Been Here Already?' Ten Years in Humanities Computing," Delivered as part of "Transforming Disciplines: The Humanities and Computer Science," Saturday, January 18, 2003. Washington, DC.
"Less is More: The Benefits of Low Bandwidth in Virtual Communities," Scholarly Communication on the Internet: A Retrospective Look at H-Net on its Tenth Anniversary, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 3, 2003.
"Electronic Textual Editing and The Text Encoding Initiative," delivered as part of "Electronic Textual Editing I", sponsored by Committee on Scholarly Editions session Concourse B, Hilton, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Saturday December 28, 2002.
Chair, "Electronic Textual Editing II", sponsored by Committee on Scholarly Editions session Concourse B, Hilton, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Saturday December 28, 2002.
"Using Digital Primary Resources to Produce Scholarship in Print," presented as part of Literary Studies in Cyberspace: Texts, Contexts, and Criticism. Concourse G, Hilton. Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Sunday, December 29, 2002.
"The Emergence of Digital Scholarship: New Models for Librarians, Scholars, and Publishers," delivered as part of a The New Scholarship: Scholarship and Libraries in the 21st Century, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, November 9, 2002.
"Cutting a Gordian Knot," delivered as a talk in the Text Studies series at The University of Nebraska, Lincoln Nebraska, November 7, 2002.
Panelist, "The Emergence of Digital Scholarship: New Models for Librarians, Archivists, and Humanists." RBMS Program, American Library Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, June 16, 2002
Presenter, "Session One: New-Model Scholarship and the Creation of Web-Based Documents," part of Preserving Web-Based Documents, a symposium convened by the Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, DC, April 23, 2002
Panelist, "Reinventing Publishing: Digital Libraries," part of Publishing in the 21st Century, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, April 20, 2002
"Humanities and Computing at IATH," delivered with Worthy Martin as the Design and Technology Lecture at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, April 15, 2002
"Using Digital Primary Resources to Produce Scholarship in Print," delivered as part of "The Future of Literary Studies," a conference of the English Department at the University of Virginia, April 5-6, 2002
"Collecting Digital Scholarship in Academic Libraries," delivered at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 5, 2001.
"What do Scholars Need and Expect from Electronic Texts? Lessons Learned at IATH," delivered at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 4, 2001.
"Knowledge Representation as a Core Activity of Humanities Computing," delivered as part of "A Practicable Future For Computing in the Humanities: An International Symposium," University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, July 2-5.
"Publishing originally digital scholarship at the University of Virginia," delivered at the 2001 ACH/ALLC Conference, New York University, June 16th, 2001
"A Master's Degree in Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia," delivered at the 2001 ACH/ALLC Conference, New York University, June 16th, 2001
"Containing Multitudes: Assessing Manuscript Material and Developing a Whitman DTD" (with Alice Rutkowski), delivered at the 2001 ACH/ALLC Conference, New York University, June 13th, 2001
"A Master's Degree in Digital Humanities: Part of the Media Studies Program at the University of Virginia," delivered at the 2001 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, May 25, 2001.
"Reconsidering and revising the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions' Guidelines for Scholarly Editions" part of the panel on "New Directions for Digital Textuality" at the 2001 Conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, April 19, 2001
"Knowledge Representation in Humanities Computing," Lecture I in the eHumanities NEH Lecture Series on Technology & the Humanities, Washington, DC, April 3, 2001.
Panelist, "Librarians, Scholars, and Publishers: Creating Resources for Scholarship," part of "Beyond Business as Usual: Building Partnerships for Fundamental Change," the 2001 Annual Sponsors' Symposium of the Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2001.
"Humanities Informatics: Some Examples," presented at Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA, February 9, 2001.
"Thematic Research Collections: An Emerging Scholarly Genre," delivered as part of a panel on "The Future of the Scholarly Monograph" sponsored by the MLA Bibliography Advisory Committee, at the 2000 MLA convention, Washington, D.C., December 28, 2000
"What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?" Distinguished Speakers Series, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park MD, October 5, 2000
Supporting Digital Scholarship," delivered as part of "New Models of Electronic Publication/Dissemination" at the Building Blocks Workshop of the National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage, Washington, D.C., September 20, 2000.
"The TEI Consortium," panel discussion at Digital Resources in the Humanities 2000, Sheffield, England, Sept. 11, 2000
"Second-Generation Digital Resources in the Humanities," opening plenary address at Digital Resources in the Humanities 2000, Sheffield, England, Sept. 10, 2000.
"Supporting Digital Scholarship," panel discussion at the 2000 annual joint conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, Glasgow, Scotland, July 25, 2000.
Panelist, "Digital Rights Management: Legal Issues, and Ownership of Ideas," The Second Annual Summer Publishing Institute for Professionals, University of Virginia, June 11-16, 2000
Panelist, "Functionality and Accessibility of Digital Content: New Features on the Horizon," presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Scholarly Publishing, June 2, Baltimore, MD
"Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities researchers have in common, and how might our tools reflect this?" part of a symposium on "Humanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice" sponsored by King's College, London, May 13, 2000.
"Information technology, teaching, research, and scholarly publishing," a series of workshops at Texas Christian University, May 4-5, 2000.
"Humanities Adventures in Computerland", an interdisciplinary symposium at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 21-22, 2000
"The Scholar in the Digital Library," the George Ford Lecture, University of Rochester, April 6, 2000
Panelist, "Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media" conference, American Bible Society, New York, NY, February 11, 2000
Panelist for "Teaching and Learning" and "The Academical Village in the Internet Age," e-summit@virginia, November 12-13, Charlottesville, VA.
"Art in Space and Time," part of a panel titled "The nature and consequences of the globalization of technology in the conduct of research" at the National Gallery of Art, sponsored by the Association for Research in Art History, November 6, 1999, Washington, DC.
SGML in Action II: How Publishers are Making SGML Work, a seminar sponsored by the Society for Scholarly Publishing. October 28, 1999, New York City
"The Library as Laboratory," delivered as part of a panel on "The Politics of Scholarly Communication in the New Millennium," program sponsored by the Law and Political Science Section of ACRL, at the annual meeting of the American Library Assocation, New Orleans, LA, June 27, 1999.
"Scholarly Tools and Expectations in a Digital Age", delivered in "Track I: The Role of New Technologies" at the annual meeting of the American Association of University Presses, Austin, Texas, June 21, 1999.
Invited panelist for "Track IV: Journals Strategies: A Revolutionin Progress and a New Model for Scholarly Publishing" at the annual meeting of the American Association of University Presses, Austin, Texas, June 22, 1999.
Instructor, Day 3, University of Virginia Summer Publishing Institute, June 15, 1999.
Association for Computers and the Humanities Panel: "Humanities Computing and the Rise of New Media Studies: Synergy or Disjunction?" with Allen Renear, Adrian Miles, Nancy Kaplan, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, John Lavagnino, at the annual joint convention of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Compouting, Charlottesville, June 12, 1999.
Faculty Seminar on Teaching and Technology, College of William and Mary, March 18, 1999.
"Establishing a Center of Expertise and a Space for Interdisciplinary Interaction: The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia," Text Studies Series, University of Nebraska Library, March 12, 1999.
Chair, "Creation and Use of Electronic Editions," a panel sponsored by the Committee on Scholarly Editions, presented at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 28, 1998
Chair, "Making Text Smarter," a panel sponsored by the Association of Documentary Editors, presented at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 28, 1998
Chair, "Author, Editor, Publisher," a panel sponsored by the Committee on Scholarly Editions, presented at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 29, 1998
"Technology and Teaching in the Humanities", a Faculty Proseminar at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, December 16, 1998
"Web Sites for Classroom Use," a six-part faculty seminar delivered at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, September 17-18, 1998
"Humanities Applications for Information Power Grids," an invited talk at Grids '98: Designing, Building, and Using a National-Scale Grid, July 27-28, 1998, Chicago, IL.
"After the Fall: Structured Data at IATH" (with Daniel Pitti), at the annual joint meeting of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, July 1998, Debrecen, Hungary.
"Scholarly Communication, Scholarly Transmission, Scholarly Publishing: Multilevel Roles in the New(er) Environment," Assocation of American University Presses, Annual Meeting and Workshops, June 25, 1998.
"Humanities Research Computing at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities", Delivered at the Annual Membership Meeting of the Research Libraries Group, British Library, London, Tuesday May 5th, 1998.
"Espen Aarseth's Cybertext," delivered as part of the Graduate Theory Seminar, Department of English, University of Virginia, April 24, 1998
Panelist, "The Humanities and the DLI-2 Challenge: Raising the Bar for Humanities Digital Library Research and Projects," CNI Spring Task Force Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 14, 1998
Workshop on Electronic Publishing, at the Exploring the New Media Conference, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., Friday, April 17, 1998.
"Do Electronic Journals Need Publishers?" Presented as part of "The Refereed Electronic Journal: A New Venue for Scholarship in the Humanities," a special panel of the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research, Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Assocation, Toronto, Canada, Monday, 29 December, 1997
"'The Only Responsible Intellectual is One Who is Wired,'" Jack A. Austin Lecture Series on Teaching, Learning, and Research with Technology, Tufts University, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 17, 1997
"Documenting the reinvention of text: the importance of imperfection, doubt, and failure." Delivered at the Transformations of the Book Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, October 25, 1997
"The Future of Publishing: A Roundtable Looking Toward the 21st Century," Panel Chair. Envisioning the Future (an H-Net Conference), East Lansing, MI, Friday, September 26, 1997
"Creating Digital Resources: the Work of Many Hands," Panel Chair and Organizer. Digital Resources in the Humanities, Oxford University, England, September 14th, 1997
"Creating Electronic Editions," International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, VA, September 6, 1997
"Bringing Journals Into an Online Environment," to be presented at Electronic Publishing 1997 and Beyond, Co-sponsored by the University of Virginia and the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., April 10-12, 1997.
"New Copyright and Database Regulations: USPTO, WIPO, and You." Delivered at University of London and Oxford University, England, February 3 and 4, 1997
"Esoteric vs. Exoteric: Economic Models for Electronic Publishing," Delivered at Electronic Publishing: A Day Conference, University of London, January 31, 1997.
"'The Only Responsible Intellectual is One Who is Wired,'" Convocation Series, Drury College, Springfield MO, November 13, 1996
Plenary Address, CHANT conference, University of Maryland, November 8, 1996
Conference Paper, 150th Anniversary of the Smithsonian, Westminster College, London, October 26, 1996
"Information Economy, Community," Keynote speech, SIGDOC conference, Research Triangle Park, NC, October 20, 1996
"Curricular Change and Choice: Reaching Across the Disciplines and Opening New Avenues of Inquiry with New Technologies", Clinch Valley Community College, Norton, VA, August 23, 1996
Petrou Lecture, "Digital Research in the Humanities: Community, Collaboration, and Intellectual Technologies," University of Maryland, April 24, 1996.
Conference paper, American Association of University Presses, Southeast Regional Meeting, Charlottesville, VA, March 23, 1996
Speaker, CELJ session on editing scholarly journals, presented at the Annual Modern Language Association Convention (Chicago, IL, 27 December 1995).
"Cost Recovery in Networked Electronic Publishing," presented at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the Association of American University Presses, New York, NY, 30 October, 1995.
"Publishing on the World-Wide Web," presented at Exploring The New Media: Migrating Online from Print and CD-ROM: Business and Legal Issues, San Francisco, CA, 28 September 1995.
Speaker, "Electronic Publishing: New Strategies, Roles, and Responsibilities for Information Delivery," Southeast Regional UNC/CAUSE/CNI Conference (UNC-Greensboro, 14 September, 1995).
Speaker and Moderator for "Collaboration Between Humanities Scholars and Computer Professionals," presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Computing in the Humanities/Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing (University of California, Santa Barbara, 12 July, 1995).
"Advanced Scholarly Computing in the Humanities: the University of Virginia Approach," presented at "Cultural Resources in the Electronic Era: Beyond Enthusiasm: Some Critical Perspectives," Tel Aviv University, 5-6 June, 1995.
"Producing Networked Scholarship," presented at Davis Library, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC, April 21, 1995)
"Publishing on the Internet," presented at Exploring The New Media: CD-ROM, Internet/Online, and Copyright Issues (Washington D.C., March 30-April 1, 1995)
"Electronic Scholarship," presented at The Convergence of Science and the Humanities: Internet Technologies and Scholarly Resources (Buffalo NY, March 24, 1995)
"Electronic Scholarship," presented at the Annual Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego, CA, December 1994.
"The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities," presented at Northwestern University, Evanston IL, December, 1994.
"Information Theory, Postmodernism, and Mind Control (or, What LSD, Mass Media, and the Internet Have in Common)," presented at the 1994 Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, New Orleans, LA, November, 1994. See also the handout, LSD, Mind Control, and the Internet: A Chronology
"Not Your Average Fool: The Humanist on the Internet," presented at the National Institutes for Health, October 1994.
"Producing Peer-Reviewed Electronic Journals," presented as part of a panel on "Electronic Scholarly Communications and Libraries" led by Gail McMillan, Virginia Tech at the fifth meeting of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Networked Information, Discovery, and Retrieval SIGNIDR V hosted by Mitre Corp., McClean VA in August 1994.
"The NCSU Virtual Campus," presented at the Annual Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, December, 1993.
"Networked Scholarship: The Effects of Advanced Technology on Research in the Humanities," presented at Harvard University, Cambridge MA, November 1993.
"Editing an Electronic Journal," presented at Harvard University, Loeb Library, May 1993.
"Electronic Journals in the Virtual Library," presented at University of Minnesota, St. Thomas Campus, Minneapolis, MN, March 1993.
Featured Speaker, MCNC video-conference on electronic publishing, January 1993.
"Developing and Managing an Electronic Journal," presented at the American Society for Information Science Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 1992.
"Scholarly Research Publishing on the Electronic Networks," presented at the Association of Research Libraries' workshop on Electronic Publishing, Washington, D.C., April 1992
"Editing an Electronic Journal, presented at the third North Carolina Serials Conference, Durham, N.C., April 1992.
"Problems and Possibilities in the Networked Publication of Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Research, presented at the American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco CA, April 1992
"Patterned Responses to Electronic Publishing," presented with Eyal Amiran at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco CA, December 1991.
"Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Libraries," presented for the Davis Library LAUNC-CH lecture series, UNC-Chapel Hill, December 1991.
"Electronic Publication of Peer-Reviewed Journals," presented at the conference on Using Network Information Services, sponsored by New England Regional Computer Program, Inc., Trinity College, Hartford CT, April 1991.
"Bridging the gap--The migration of scholarly publishing from print to electronic text," presented at the National Net '91 Conference, sponsored by the National Association of Research Libraries, Washington D.C., March 1991.

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