Select Lectures and Workshops
“Collecting Oral Histories During COVID-19,” International Conference on Social Determinants of Health Inequality and Health Inequity: Impact of Covid-19; Strategies for the Future, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, February 23-24, 2023, panelist.
“Enhancing Access to Oral History Recordings and Transcripts,” Association of Tribal Libraries, Archives and Museums, International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums, Temecula, CA, October 26, 2022, lecture.
“Oral History Projects: From Concept to Cataloging,” Association of Tribal Libraries, Archives and Museums, International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums, Temecula, CA, October 25, 2022, invited full-day workshop instructor.
“Innovation and Sustainability: Integrating OHMS and Aviary,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, October 20, 2022, panelist.
“OHMS: Introducing the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer, “Getting Started with Oral History,” Virtual Plenary, hosted by LIR HEAnet User Group for Libraries and the Digital Repository of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, May 18, 2022, invited lecture.
“Oral History Master Class,” the Center for the City, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 6, 19, 20, 27. Invited instructor for 16-hour masterclass on oral history. Funded by the Ohio Humanities Council.
“Oral History Transcription in a Tohono O’odham Context,” January 12-13, 2022, Tohono O’odham Community College, Sells, Arizona. Invited instructor for 2-day workshop on transcribing oral history interviews conducted in the Tohono O’odham language. Part of the Doris Duke Native American Oral History Revitalization Project funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Arizona State Museum, part of the University of Arizona, in collaboration with the Tohono O’odham Community College.
“Interacting with the Archive: How to Make a Digital Collection Accessible and Useful,” Sweden, Malmö University, November 2, 2021, invited lecture.
“Finding Meaning: Secondary Analysis in Oral History,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, virtual, October 11–12, 2021, panelist.
“Oral History Timecode Indexing and Annotation: Decisions Behind an Emerging Art,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, virtual, October 11–12, 2021, panelist.
“OHMS, Interoperability, and Linked Data,” The Magic of Metadata and Ticklish Taxonomies for Oral History, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, September 22, 2021, invited panelist.
“Accelerating Innovation: Discovery, Engagement, and Risk,” International Oral History Association, Singapore, virtual, August 25, 2021, invited keynote speaker.
“Emerging Areas and Innovations in the Digital Age,” II International Congress on Digital Humanities, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, virtual, April 16, 2021, invited.
“Digital Oral History as Public History,” University of California, Merced, Department of Global Arts, Media, and Writing Studies, Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group, Merced, CA, virtual, November 19, 2020, invited public lecture.
“Oral History, Digital Technologies & Innovation,” China Oral History Week, Cui Yongyuan Center for Oral History, Communications University, Beijing, China, virtual, November 2, 2020, invited keynote lecture.
“An Update on OHMS and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, virtual, October 21–24, 2020, panelist.
“Automatic Transcription Services and You,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, virtual, October 21–24, 2020, workshop co-instructor.
“Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) and the Doris Duke Foundation Native American Oral History Project,” Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, virtual, August 27, 2020, invited workshop instructor.
“Remote Recording: Best Practices for Oral History,” Oral History Master of Arts One-Day Oral History Training, Columbia University, virtual, May 9, 2020, invited instructor.
“AI AI O[H]: Speech recognition, text analysis, and oral history,” International Association for Sound and Audiovisual Archives, Hilversum, Netherlands, October 1, 2019, lecture
“After the Interview: Workflows for Data Management, Indexing for Access, and Partnering with an Archive,” Oral History in the Liberal Arts Institute, Gambier, OH, July 10–11, 2019, invited lecture.
“Oral History in a Digital World” Oral History Network Ireland, Limerick, Ireland, June 28–29, 2019, invited keynote speaker.
“Introduction to OHMS,” Oral History Network Ireland, Limerick, Ireland, June 28–29, 2019, invited workshop instructor
Oral History, Digital Technologies, and Innovation, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, June 26, 2019, invited lecture.
“Oral History: Recording, Archiving, and Dissemination,” Columbia University Center for Oral History Summer Institute, New York, NY, June 19–21, 2019, invited lecture.
“Surveillance and Truth Telling in an age of Political Repression,” Columbia University Center for Oral History Summer Institute, New York, NY, June 19–21, 2019, invited lecture.
“Oral History Ethics Roundtable,” Columbia University Center for Oral History Summer Institute, New York, NY, June 19–21, 2019, invited lecture.
“Oral History, Artificial Intelligence, and Speech Recognition.” National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia, May 21, 2019, invited lecture.
“Oral History, Digital Technologies, and Innovation,” Monash University and Oral History Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, May 16, 2019, workshop instructor.
“Introducing OHMS,” Willamette University and the Oregon Historical Society, Salem, OR, November 13, 2018, workshop instructor.
“Accelerating Change, Oral History, Innovation and Impact,” Paul F. Lazarsfeld Lecture Series, cosponsored by the Columbia Center for Oral History (CCOH), Oral History Master of Arts Program (OHMA), Columbia University,New York, NY, November 1, 2018, invited lecture.
“Introduction to Bilingual OHMS,” Oral History Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 10–13, 2018, invited workshop instructor.
“Enhancing Access, Enhancing Risk: Archival Challenges of Online Oral History,” Oral History Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 10–13, 2018, panelist.
After the Interview; Analysis, Access, and Archiving, University College of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, September 28–29, 2018, instructor.
“Enhancing Access to Online Oral History,” Newcastle University, Newcastle, England, September 25, 2018, invited lecture.
“The 2010 Earthquake in Haiti: Enhancing Access to Multilingual Oral History” Oral History Society Oral History Network of Ireland, Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 29, 2018, panelist.
“Connecting the Archive to Community: Oral History, Digital Technology, Engagement,” International Oral History Association, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 18, 2018, panelist.
“When the Rubber Hits the Road: Real-World Digital Preservation,” Midwest Archives Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 23, 2018, panelist.
“Doing Digital History,” GC Digital Initiatives Sound Series, the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, New York, March 7, 2018, invited lecture.
“Kentucky Bourbon Tales: Oral History Project, Digital Archive, and Documentary,” GC Digital Initiatives Sound Series, the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, New York, March 7, 2018, invited lecture.
“Are You Ready for that Great Atomic Power?” Oral History, Bluegrass Music and a Museum/Archives Partnership,” Oral History Association, Minneapolis, MN, October 8, 2017, panelist.
“Transcription, Translation, Subtitling and OHMS: Workflows, Tools and Strategies for Access to Multiple Language Oral Histories Online,” International Association for Sound and Audiovisual Archives, Berlin, Germany, September 19, 2017, panelist.
“Oral History and Digital Humanities,” Colby College, Waterville, ME, May 16, 2017, invited lecture.
“Play, Record, Pause: A Reflection on Oral History Online,” Southwestern Oral History Association (SOHA), Tempe, AZ, April 28, 2017, invited keynote speaker.
“Kentucky Bourbon Tales: Distilling the Family Business,” Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Washington, DC, December 7, 2016, Benjamin A. Botkin Folklife Lecture Series, invited.
“Oral History, Now (and Tomorrow),” Oral History Association, Long Beach, FL, October 11–17, 2016, invited plenary speaker.
“Project Design for Digital Video Oral History Projects: Behind the Scenes at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences,” Oral History Association, Long Beach, FL, October 11–17, 2016, panelist, chair.
“If a Tree Falls in the Archive and There is No One There to Hear It,” Conservation Center for Art and Historical Artifacts, Giving Voice: Interpreting and Preserving Oral Histories, Denver, CO, October 5, 2016.
“Accessing Online Oral Histories,” Collections, Collaborations & Connections Symposium: The American Folklife Center at Forty, Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Washington, DC, September 12–13, 2016, invited lecture.
“Oral History: Personal and Public Histories,” Personal Digital Archiving 2016, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 12, 2016, invited keynote speaker.
“Oral History and Technology,” Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region, Hagley Museum & Library, Wilmington, DE, April 14, 2016, invited keynote speaker.
“Play, Record, Pause: How Technology is Changing the Practice and Purpose of Oral History,” University of North Carolina Greensboro, The University Libraries/Library and Information Studies Speaker Series, Greensboro, NC, March 17, 2016, invited lecture.
“Oral History Workshop,” Arizona State University Public History Program, Tempe, AZ, March 7–11, 2016, invited to teach week-long oral history class focusing on collecting, curating and publishing oral history.
“Digital Oral History,” Rice University, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Houston, TX, February 26–27, 2016, invited workshop co-instructor.
“Oral History and Digital Humanities: New Models for Oral History and Pedagogy,” Lehigh University, Mellon Digital Humanities Initiative Workshop, Bethlehem, PA, February 11, 2016, invited lecture.
“Oral History in the Digital Age,” Cui Yongyuan Center for Oral History, Communications University, Beijing, China, December 9, 2015, invited lecture.
“Interdisciplinary Applications of Oral History,” 1st Oral History in China International Conference, Beijing, China, December 13, 2015, invited, keynote lecture.
“Breaking Trail: The Oral History and Digital Humanities Book Project Oral History,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, October 15–16, 2015, panelist.
“Play, Record, Pause: How Technology is Changing the Practice and Purpose of Oral History,” Oral History New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, September 16, 2015, invited lecture.
“Search, Explore, Connect: New Models for Curating Oral History,” National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia, September 15, 2015, invited lecture.
“Play, Record, Pause: How Technology is Changing the Practice and Purpose of Oral History” 19th National Conference, Oral History Australia, Perth, Australia, September 9, 2015, invited keynote lecture.
“Play, Record, Pause: How Technology is Changing the Practice and Purpose of Oral History,” Oral History Society, Oral Histories of Science, Technology and Medicine, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, England, July 10–11, 2015, invited keynote lecture.
“Oral History and Digital Tools: Using OHMS to Index Oral Histories,” Oral History Society, Oral Histories of Science, Technology and Medicine, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, England, July 10–11, 2015, invited workshop instructor.
“Curating Voices: Considerations for Online Oral History,” 9/11 Oral History Symposium, New York City, NY, April 20, 2015, invited keynote lecture.
“Oral History and Public History,” National Council on Public History, Nashville, TN, April 17, 2015, panelist.
“Curating Voices: Oral History Archives in the Digital Age,” University of Ulster, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) Accounts of the Conflict: Digitally Archiving Stories for Peacebuilding, Belfast, Northern Ireland, November 17, 2014, invited keynote lecture.
“OHMS: Enhancing Access to Oral History,” Oral History Association, Madison, WI, October 8–12, 2014, invited workshop instructor.
“Implementing OHMS: A Multi-Institutional Perspective,” Oral History Association, Madison, WI, October 8–12, 2014, chair, panelist.
“An Intricate Waltz: Oral History and Digital Humanities,” Oral History Association, Madison, WI, October 8–12, 2014, panelist.
“Oral History, Archives, and Innovation,” Midwest Archives Conference, Fall Symposium, Champaign–Urbana, September 12–13, 2014, invited keynote lecture, instructor.
“Reflections on Developing and Using “OHMS”: A Free Digital Tool to Enhance Access to Online Oral History,” International Oral History Association, Barcelona, Spain, July 10–12, 2014, panelist.
“Recording Oral History: Best Practices on Any Budget,” Association of Tribal Libraries, Archives and Museums, International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums, Palm Springs, CA, June 9–12, 2014, invited lecture.
“Oral History Metadata Synchronizer: Enhancing Access to Oral History,” Association of Tribal Libraries, Archives and Museums, International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums, Palm Springs, CA, June 9–12, 2014, invited lecture.
“Using OHMS to Index Oral Histories,” WebWise: Baltimore, MD, February 10, 2014, invited lecture.
“Oral History in the Digital Age: Project Reflections, New Directions,” American Folklore Society, Providence, RI, October 16, 2013, panelist.
“50 Shades of Gray: Exploring the Murky Mores of Oral History Deeds of Gift and Release Forms,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, OK, October 9–14, 2013, panelist.
“Re-envisioning ‘Best Practices’: Exploring New Models for Archival Education and Training,”Cultural Heritage Archives Symposium, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, September 27, 2013, invited lecture.
“Crawfish Bottom: Oral History, Folklore, and Public Memory,” Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, September 19, 2013, invited lecture.
“Reading the Digital Babel: Memory and History on the Internet,” University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 30, 2013, invited panelist.
“Community Archives and the Archivists Who Love Them: Teaming Up to Tell the Whole Story,” Society of American Archivists, New Orleans, LA, August 11–17, 2013, panelist.
“Collecting Civil Rights History,” University of South Carolina, Lift Every Voice National Forum, Columbia, SC, May 16–17, 2013, invited lecture.
“Archiving Civil Rights History,” University of South Carolina, Lift Every Voice National Forum, Columbia, SC, May 16–17, 2013, invited lecture.
“What Next for Oral History Online?” StoryCorps, New York, NY, February 15, 2013, invited lecture.
“Enhancing Access to Oral History,” Paul F. Lazarsfeld Lecture Series, cosponsored by the Columbia Center for Oral History (CCOH), Oral History Master of Arts Program (OHMA), and the Digital Humanities Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, February 14, 2013, invited lecture.
“Oral History in the 21st Century,” Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, December 6–7, 2012, invited lecture.
“Search, Explore, Connect: Enhancing Access to Oral History in the Digital Age,” International Conference of the of the Foundation EVZ and Freie Universität Berlin/Shoah Foundation: Preserving Survivors Memories: Digital Testimony Collections about Nazi Persecution History Education and Media, Berlin, Germany, November 20–22, 2012, invited panelist.
“Oral History and the Possibilities of Digital Technology,” Hagley Museum & Library, Talking Business: Oral History of Enterprises, Wilmington, DE, November 2, 2012, invited lecture.
“From Combat to Kentucky Oral History Project: Connecting Veterans to a Campus Community,” Syracuse University, 2012 Veterans Seminar Series, Syracuse, NY, October 2, 2012, invited lecture.
“From Combat to Kentucky Oral History Project: The Role of Oral History in Assisting Student Veteran Transition,” Department of Defense Worldwide Education Symposium, Las Vegas, NV, July 26, 2012, panelist.
“Oral History in the Digital Age: The Archival Perspective,” Society of American Archivists, Oral History Section Meeting, San Diego, CA, August 9, 2012, invited lecture.
“Enhancing Access to Oral History Online” Society of American Archivists,” San Diego, CA, August 11, 2012, panelist.
“OHMS: Enhancing Access to Online Oral History,” Webwise Reprise: Oral History in the Digital Age, Online, June 28, 2012, invited lecture.
“Kentucky Memories: Listening to Stories of History and Folklore,” Columbia University Center for Oral History Summer Institute, New York, NY, June 11–15, 2012, invited lecture.
“Documenting Urban Change,” Symposium on Urbanization in the US and China, Shanghai, China, March 29, 2012, invited panelist.
“Using Oral History to Document Urban Change,” United States Embassy Cultural Affairs Office, Beijing, China, March 26, 2012, invited panelist.
“OHMS: Enhancing Access to Oral History,” WebWise: Baltimore, MD, March 2, 2012, invited panelist.
“Oral History, Digital Technologies, and Emerging Issues,” Artuklu University, Mardin, Turkey, February 14, 2012, invited panelist.
“Oral History: Digital Access and Preservation,” Hollings Center, Higher Education Dialogue: The Future of Oral History in the Middle East and Central Asia, Istanbul, Turkey, February 8–12, 2012, invited lecture.
“Oral History in the Digital Age,” Oral History Association, Denver, CO, October 2011, invited keynote lecture.