Presentations

Giving talks is a major component of my scholarly practice, enabling me to share my work directly with a range of different audiences and engage with their responses as my projects evolve. This is a non-exhaustive collection of the presentations I've given over the last few years.

2024

"Open Matters," opening keynote, DLF24, Michigan State University, 30 July 2024.
"Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production," keynote, INKE annual meeting, Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship, Université de Montréal, 17 June 2024.
"Open Matters," keynote, SUNY Digital Learning Conference, 19 April 2024.
"Time Management for Mortals," MSU OFASD Leadership Institute, Michigan State University, 19 January 2024.

2023

"Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production," Distinguished Visiting Lecture, University of Tennessee Humanities Center, 6 November 2023.
"Building a More Generous University: Collaboration, Community, Solidarity," keynote, The Future of Humanities Publishing Workshop, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2 November 2023.
"OA Without Tears: Platforms and Workflows for Actually Equitable Open Scholarly Communication," paper in session on Diamond Open Access, OAI13, 8 September 2023.
"We Have Never Been Social: Web 2.0 and What Went Wrong," keynote, Reclaim Open, 6 June 2023.
"What We Could Be: The University After the Crisis," part of "Remaking, Relearning," a dialogue hosted by the Consortium for Trans/disciplinarity, New School, 7 April 2023.
"Leading Generously: The Liberal Arts and Tools for Transformation," paper in session "How the Liberal Arts Works," MLA 2023, 5 January 2023.

2022

"The Humanities, The Commons, and What We Have to Share," inaugural lecture, "Humanities Matters," Montana State University, 29 November 2022.
"Comps!," Writing and Pedagogy Workshop, Department of English, Michigan State University, 11 November 2022.
"Humanities Commons: What We Have to Share," keynote, Making of the Humanities X, 4 November 2022.
"Building a More Generous Institution: Collaboration, Community, Solidarity," Marist College, 26 October 2022.
"Humanities Commons: What We Have to Share," presented on panel entitled, "What Open Means for the Humanities," OASPA annual meeting, 21 September 2022.
"Humanities Commons," Critical Digital Humanities Initiative, University of Toronto, 20 September 2022.
"Engaged Leadership in Disengaged Times," panel, MAPS Leadership Institute, MLA, 27 June 2022
"Digital Platforms and Possibilities," keynote, AMICAL, 14 June 2022.
"DH and the Neoliberal University," German American Studies Association (DGfA) town hall, 1 April 2022.
"Building a More Generous University: Collaboration, Community, Solidarity," public talk, Plymouth State University, 1 April 2022.
"DH@MSU: What We've Done So Far, and Where We Go From Here," presentation as part of my contract renewal process, 2 March 2022.
"Generosity, Collaboration, and the Common Good: Platform as Scholarly Practice," Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences series, Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership (INKE), 24 January 2022.

2021

"No Carrots, No Sticks: Creating a Digital Humanities Consortium on a Shoestring," invited talk, OSU Digital Humanities Working Group, 29 November 2021.
"Generous Thinking and Sustainable Scholarly Communities," invited lecture, Goethe University Frankfurt, 16 November 2021.
"Failures of Leadership: Rethinking the University in the United States," keynote, The Failures of Institutional Knowledge, JFK Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, November 10, 2021.
"Open Education: Infrastructure for the Common Good," keynote, Open Ed, 19 October 2021.
"Higher Education as a Social Good," keynote, APLU Commission on Economic and Community Engagement annual meeting, 14 June 2021.
"Building a More Generous University: Collaboration, Community, Solidarity," keynote, Pace University Institute for Teaching and Learning, 13 May 2021
"Better: Thoughts Toward a More Generous Future," MUSE Meets 2021 keynote, April 27, 2021.
"Collective Action and the Common Good," BTAA BIG Collection convening keynote, 19 April 2021.
"Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University," University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study, 18 February 2021.
"Toward a More Generous University (Even in Hard Times)," public lecture, University of Kansas, 27 January 2021.
“Writing in Public,” paper in session "Opening Publishing to the Public," Modern Language Association annual meeting, 7 January 2021.

2020

“Toward a More Generous University (Even in Hard Times),” keynote, UCSD Student Affairs Professional Development Day, 15 December 2020.
“Working in Public,” UBC Public Humanities Hub and UBC Library, University of British Columbia, 3 November 2020.
“Toward a More Generous University,” keynote, CERADA, Uniarts Helsinki, 14 September 2020.
“Writing in Public,” invited talk, Cal State Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellows, 11 September 2020.
“Collaborative Software Communities: Sustainability, Solidarity, and the Common Good,” keynote, OpenApereo, 15 June 2020.
“Generous Education: Critique, Community, Collaboration,” keynote, AIEA 2020, Washington DC, 17 February 2020.
"Toward a More Generous University," Friday Forum on Neoliberalism and Public Higher Education, Michigan State University, 14 February 2020.
“Working in Public: New Structures for Better Institutions,” keynote, Midwest Association of Language Learning Technology (MWALLT) annual meeting, 8 February 2020.
“Generous Thinking: Argumentation and Collaboration,” NYU Abu Dhabi, 5 February 2020.
“Generous Argument: Critique, Community, Pedagogy,” Modern Language Association annual meeting, 10 January 2020.

2019

"Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University," public lecture, UM Dearborn, 3 December 2019.
"Generous Thinking and the Future of the Liberal Arts," public lecture, Alma College, Alma MI, 20 November 2019.
"Generous Thinking: Toward a More Generous University," public lecture, Indiana University, 14 November 2019.
"Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University," invited lecture, Washington State University, 24 October 2019.
"Working in Public," workshop, Washington State University, 24 October 2019.
"Generous Thinking: Toward a More Generous University,” Society for Utopian Studies, 18 October 2019.
"Digital, Public, Scholarship: Sustainable Infrastructure for the Future of the University," invited talk, Purdue University, 14 October 2019.
"Generous Thinking and External Partnerships," Virginia Tech Research Center, 10 October 2019.
"Generous Thinking and the Future of the University," public lecture, Virginia Tech, 9 October 2019.
"Generous Thinking and Diversity and Inclusion," Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, 8 October 2019.
"Generous Thinking: Working in Public," invited lecture, Wayne State University, 3 October 2019.
"What Matters? Who Counts? Generous Thinking and the Future of the University," keynote, Humanities 20/20, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, 27 September 2019.
"Digital, Public, Scholarship," keynote, University at Buffalo Digital Scholarship Studio and Network launch, 05 September 2019.
"Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University," workshop, Bucknell University Humanities Center, 19-20 August 2019.
“GT: Sustainability, Solidarity, and the Common Good,” keynote, P2L3 meeting, 14 June 2019.
“Generous Thinking: Sustainability, Solidarity, and the Common Good,” keynote, State of the Libraries meeting, Rutgers University, 12 June 2019.
"Generous Thinking: Sustainability, Solidarity, and the Common Good," keynote, MSUIT Strategy Retreat, 3 June 2019.
"Generous Thinking: Argument, Community, Pedagogy," keynote, Student Learning and Success Symposium, Michigan State University, 7 May 2019.
"Generous Thinking: Sustainability, Solidarity, and the Common Good," keynote, CNI Spring Meeting, Denver CO, 8 April 2019.
"Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University," Winter Lecture, Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2 April 2019.

2018

“Generous Thinking: Working in Public,” invited speaker, Public Scholarship lecture series, Trinity College, 5 November 2018.
"Sustainability and Solidarity," keynote, Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence, University of Minnesota, 12 October 2018.
“The Public University and the Public Good”, invited presenter, Humanities and Arts in the Age of Big Data, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 4 October 2018.
“Scholarly Networks: Possibilities for the Digital Beyond DH,” invited presenter, Digital Scholarship Symposium, Marquette University, 27 September 2018.
"What Counts," keynote, Scholarly Communication symposium, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2 April 2018.
"Scholarly Communication," presented in DH865, Spring 2018.

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