Talks & Media

2025

• Exploring Digital Terror: Using the September 11 Digital Archive for Historical Research — Real-Time History: Engaging with Living Archives and Temporal Multiplicities, Washington, DC, March 2025.

2023

• Interpreting the Web: The Critical Role of Historical Context in Web Archival Research — Le Web: Source et Archive, Lille, France, April 2023.

2022

• The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age — 5th Digital History in Sweden Conference: Abundance in a Digital Age, Lund, Sweden, November 2022.

2021

• Digitized Newspapers as Everyday Interdisciplinarity: The Transformation of Historical Scholarship — NewsEye Conference, Paris, France, March 2021. (Delivered remotely during COVID-19)
• The Transformation of History in the Digital Age — Queen’s University annual Nugent Lecture, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, February 2021. (Delivered remotely during COVID-19; as part of the Nugent Lecture, also delivered two graduate workshops)

2020

• You Shouldn’t Need to be a Web Historian to Use Web Archives — Keynote at WARCNet, Aarhus, Denmark, April 2020. (Delivered remotely during COVID-19)

2019

• Working with Cultural Heritage at Scale: Developing Tools and Platforms to Study the Age of Abundance — Featured talk at LaTeCH-CLfL 2019 (part of NAACL 2019), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2019.

2018

• From Archiving to Analysis: Current Trends and Future Developments in Web Archive Use — Keynote at Archiving the Web?, Hilversum, Netherlands, October 2018.
• Web Archives and History — Keynote at the Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Meeting, Edmonton, AB, June 2018.
• Big Data and History (or “How this Historian Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Data”) — Keynote at SFU Library Love Your Data Week 2018, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, February 2018.

2017

• Learning to Collaborate (or why you should hang out with librarians) — Keynote at Digital Pedagogy Institute 2017, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, August 2017.

2016

• Archives Unleashed: Unlocking Born-Digital Sources through Interdisciplinary Collaboration — Keynote at Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, May 2016.

2015

• Lost in the Infinite Archive? Web Archives for Historical Research Today… and Tomorrow — Keynote at Web Archives 2015: Capture, Curate, Analyze, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, November 2015.