• "Forms of Attention: Digital Humanities Beyond Representation," delivered at "The Face of Text: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities," the third conference of the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA), McMaster University, November 19-21, 2004. (Video of presentations available at http://iris.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~fot/.)
  • Keynote Address: "Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences," Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Baltimore, MD, October 25, 2004.
  • "Collaboration and Community: Changing Roles in the Humanities," delivered (by videoconference) as part of the Fall Colloquium on Open Knowledge and Social Research Networks at the Stanford Humanities Center, October 18, 2004
  • "What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?", delivered at Texas A&M, as part of the Humanities Informatics lecture series, College Station, TX, September 10, 2004.
  • "The Crisis of Audience," delivered as part of the SPARC session "Scholarly Communication in the Humanities: Does Open Access Apply?" American Library Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, June 26, 2004.
  • "Changed Priorities Ahead," delivered as part of the ACRL session "Beyond the MLS: Today's Graduates and Tomorrow's Academic Libraries," American Library Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, June 26, 2004.
  • "The Value of Digitization for Libraries and Humanities Scholarship," Innodata-Isogen Symposium, Newberry Library, Chicago, May 17, 2004.
  • "Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences," annual meeting of the Research Libraries Group, Washington, DC, April 26, 2004
  • "Graduate Education at GSLIS," meeting of the Special Libraries Association, Chicago, IL, April 8, 2004
  • "Born-Digital Scholarship: Some Examples," Notre Dame Library Professional Development Series, South Bend, IN, March 23, 2004
  • "Variations on Open Access," Notre Dame Library Professional Development Series, South Bend, IN, March 23, 2004
  • "Open Archives, Open Access," UIUC Library Colloquium, March 19, 2004 (RealAudio recording)
  • "Graduate Education at GSLIS," meeting of the Chicago Area Law Librarians, Chicago, IL, March 18, 2004
  • "Graduate Education at GSLIS," meeting of the Directors of the Illinois Regional Library Systems, Springfield, IL, March 17, 2004
  • "Open Access, Open Archives, and Open Source in Higher Education," Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, February 12, 2004.