• "New Research Methods for the Humanities," The Lyman Award Lecture, National Humanities Center, November 11, 2005.
  • "Open Access, Open Archives, and Open Source in Higher Education," Natonal Scholarly Communication Forum, Sydney, Australia, September 27, 2005.
  • "Cyberinfrastructure in the USA," a talk at the Australian Academy of Humanities, Sydney, Australia, September 26, 2005.
  • ""Digital Publication and Scholarly Communication," Digital Library Lecture Series, Case Western Reserve University, September 16, 2005.
  • Session Chair, "Portals, Tools, and Data," "Emblems in the Twenty-First Century: Materials and Media," The Seventh International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 25, 2005.
  • "Digital Surrogates for the Printed Book: Problems and Possibilities," Opening Plenary, "Emblems in the Twenty-First Century: Materials and Media," The Seventh International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 25, 2005.
  • Presentation on ECHO-DEP (the UIUC NDIIPP project) at the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, July 14, 2005.
  • "Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its Applications in Scholarship & Libraries," part of "Adding Value to Digital Texts: A General Overview," Slavic Digital Text Workshop: Strategies for Humanists & Social Scientists, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 6, 2005.
  • Panelist, "The Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities: a Roundtable Discussion," Annual Joint Conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities & The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, British Columbia, June 18, 2005.
  • Panelist, "National Support for Humanities Computing: Different Achievements, Needs, and Prospects," Annual Joint Conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities & The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, British Columbia, June 17, 2005.
  • Panelist, "A Revolutionary Approach to Humanities Computing?: Tools Development and the D2K Data-Mining Framework," Annual Joint Conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities & The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, British Columbia, June 16, 2005.
  • Panelist, "Hybrid Cyber-Librarians: The CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists," Annual Joint Conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities & The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, British Columbia, June 17, 2005.
  • Institute Lecture, Humanities Computing Summer Institute, University of Victoria, British Columbia, June 13, 2005.
  • "Pubrarians and Liblishers: New Roles for Old Foes," [NB: 37MB Flash file] keynote address at the 2005 annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Boston, MA, June 2, 2005.
  • "'Combustion of Early Summer'," presented as part of a panel on "The Future of Journals: In Print, On Line, and Elsewhere," at "Humanities Journals: Present and Future," a conference convened by New Literary History at the University of Virginia, April 9, 2005.
  • "Public Networks, Vernacular Computing," presented as the Wisbey Lecture at King's College London, March 23, 2005.
  • "The Last Rites of the Humanities," an informal seminar at University College London, Senate House, London, March 22, 2005.
  • Organizer and Moderator, "Electronic Textual Editing" a session at the opening plenary session of the Society for Textual Scholarship's Thirteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, New York, NY, March 17, 2005.
  • "Cultural Infrastructure," delivered at the opening plenary session of the Society for Textual Scholarship's Thirteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, New York, NY, March 17, 2005.
  • Panelist for "The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication: The Role of Digital Repositories," Provost's Seminar on Scholarly Communication, University of Kansas, March 8, 2005.
  • Presenter at "Session 565: Cyberinfrastructure for Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education," Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC, February 20, 2005.
  • Moderator, "Origins of a Networked World: From World War II to the Internet," sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 17, 2005.
  • "The importance of digitization and cyberinfrastructure in the humanities," delivered as the 90th and final seminar in the Kolloquium uber die Anwendung der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung in den Geisteswissenschaften, at the Zentrum fur Daten-verarbeitung at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, February 5, 2005.