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.

• "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.
• "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.
• "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.
• “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.
• "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.
• “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.