Events

See my updates for current events and activities.

Past events and presentations

For a more complete list see 2018 – the making and the talking and 2017 – The making and the talking.

• 20 November 2017 – ‘“The badge of the outsider”: Open access and closed boundaries, invited presentation at Sharing is Caring 2017, Aarhus.

• 23 June 2017 – Workshop, Random acts of meaning: Digital skills for a post-truth world, NLS8.

• 4 May 2017 – Presentation with Professor David Lowe, ‘The Political Language of the 1970s in Australia’, at The 1970s: Australian and Indian Perspectives on a Decade of Transition, Deaking University.

• 20 April 2017 – Public lecture and workshop, University of Wollongong.

• 24 February 2017 – Keynote presentation at HDR Summer School, Deakin University, The practice of play, <https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4696258>

• 13 February 2017 – Digital humanities workshop at ALIAOnline.

• 8 November 2016 – Digital research seminar and workshop at Griffith University.

• 10 November 2016 – Presentation as part of the ‘Access and innovation’ panel at Digital Directions 2016, National Film and Sound Archive, ‘Caring about access’, <https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4229402.v1>.
  Featured on dh+lib (digital humanities and libraries).

• 19 October 2016 – Keynote presentation at Forging Links, Australian Society of Archivists conference, Parramatta, ‘Turning the inside out’, <https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4055013.v2>.

• 8 September 2016 – Invited presentation to Data and libraries: harnessing the possibilities, ALIA URLs seminar, Canberra, ‘Slow data? Small data? Exploring human-sized alternatives in the big data deluge’.

• 26 August 2016 – Keynote presentation at Migrant (R)e-Collections, Lorenz Centre, Leiden, ‘A life reduced to data’.
  Featured as an ‘Editors’ choice’ by Digital Humanities Now.

• 19 August 2016 – Keynote presentation at Working History, Professional Historians’ Association conference, Melbourne, ‘Telling stories with data’.

• 29–31 July 2016 – GovHack Heritage Node, University of Canberra

• 18 July 2016 – Keynote presentation at internal staff conference, State Library of Victoria.

• 15 July 2016 – Invited presentation at DigitalGLAM Symposium, University of Melbourne, ‘Hacking heritage: power and participation in digital cultural collections’.
  Featured on dh+lib (digital humanities and libraries).

• 5 July 2016 – Interview on ABC 936 (Hobart) Evenings about Trove.

• 24 June 2016 – Interview on ABCRN afternoons, ‘The fight to save Trove’

• 22 June 2016 – Paper at DHA2016 Conference in Hobart, ‘Closed Access’

• 3 June 2016 – Invited contributor to the REMIX Sydney panel ‘Blurring the digital and the physical: How can we add new layers to history?’.

• 2 June 2016 – Invited presentation at the Digital Research Methodologies Forum, La Trobe University, ‘The revolution will not be digital’

• 31 May 2016 – Invited presentation on digital research methods to the Deakin Contemporary Histories Research Group.

• 10 May 2016 – Presented two workshops on ‘Digital Tools and Techniques for the Adventurous Historian’, organised by the History Council of South Australia for the SA History Festival 2016, Adelaide.

• 7 March 2016 – Interview on ABCRN Late Night Live, ‘Treasure Trove under threat’

• 6 March 2016 – Contributor to panel discussing the government’s Innovation Agenda, Electronic Visualisation and the Arts Australasia, University of Canberra.

• 1 March 2016 – Interview with ABC 666 (Canberra) Drive about #fundTrove.

• 1 March 2016 – Interview with RTRFM (Perth) on #fundTrove.

• 19 February 2016 – Invited presentation to symposium on Commonwealth Department of Immigration – Then and Now, La Trobe University, ‘Digital perspectives on the archives of immigration’

• 12 February 2016 – Keynote presentation to ANZREG 2016 (Ex Libris Australia and New Zealand Regional User’s Group), Melbourne, ‘Linked Open Data’.

• 10 February 2016 – Invited contributor to the Gale Cengage sponsored Digital Humanities Panel at VALA2016, Melbourne.

• 5 December 2015 – Keynote at History Teachers’ Day, Macquarie University, Sydney, ‘The digital revolution and the practice of history’

• 5 November 2015 – Introduced the closing panel at Recasting the Question: Digital Approaches to Art History, University of Sydney

• 28 October 2015 – Invited workshop at University of Otago, Dunedin, ‘Digital disruptions’

• 21 October 2015 – Invited presentation at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, ‘Towards a manifesto for tactical DH infrastructure’

• 13 October 2015 – Presentation at NDF2015, Wellington, ‘The perfect face’

• 7 September 2015 – Invited presentation to National Scholarly Communications Forum, Canberra, ‘#Borderfarce, building, and a hackers’ reward’

• 13 August 2015 – Invited workshop Griffith University, Brisbane, ‘Trove and beyond’

• 3 July 2015 – Keynote at DH2015 (annual conference of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations), Parramatta ‘Unremembering the forgotten’, http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1536150

• 29 June 2015 – Presentation at the 2015 LODLAM Summit, Sydney, on my LODBook project (video)

• 4 June 2015 – Part of a panel discussing copyright to launch the book Copyfight, State Library of NSW, Sydney

• 15 May 2015 – Presentation at (In)significance, University of Canberra, ‘Significance at scale: Understanding the value of 150 million newspaper articles’

• 15 April 2015 – Invited presentation at ‘Your Library in 2020’, Deakin University, Melbourne

• 10 April 2015 – Presentation at New Factual Storytelling Symposium, University of Canberra, Canberra, ‘Stories for machines, data for humans’

• 30 March 2015 – Invited presentation at 14th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry, Canberra, ‘The many meanings of Trove’

• 13 February 2015 – Joint keynote at EuropeanaTech 2015, Paris (via video), ‘Myths, mega-projects, and making’

• 3 February 2015 – Presentation at ALIA Online, Sydney, ‘Seams & edges: Dreams of aggregation, access and discovery in a broken world’