• "Computational Methods in Humanities Research," Cultural Heritage Online, Florence, Italy, December 15, 2009.
  • "Computational Work with Very Large Text Collections: Google Books, HathiTrust, the Open Content Alliance, and the Future of TEI," Text Encoding Initiative Consortium Annual Members' Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 13, 2009. (Powerpoint, 30MB)
  • Panelist, "Revitalizing the Illinois Land Grant Mission: Spanning the 19th, 20th & 21st Centuries," presented as part of Lincoln's Unfinished Work: The Morrill Act and the Future of Higher Education," University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, October 24, 2009.
  • "Ink-Stained Wretches vs. The Google Monster, in Terra Incognita," presented at Rochester University, Rochester, NY, September 17, 2009.
  • "Mass Digitization: The Revenge of Print?" a workshop presented at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, September 16, 2009.
  • "Text-Mining and Humanities Research," presented at th Microsoft Faculty Summit, Redmond, WA, July 13, 2009.
  • "Informatics at the University of Illinois," presented with Charles Linville at Archer Daniels Midland, Research division, July 9, 2009.
  • Participant, NSF/ACM Summit on the Future of Computational Education, Arlington, VA, June 25-26, 2009.
  • "Current Developments in Digital Library Management and Research in the USA," delivered at Peking University, Beijing, China, June 17, 2009,
  • "Challenges and Opportunities: Making Exchange and Collaboration Work," presented at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, June 16, 2009.
  • "Current Developments in Digital Library Management and Research in the USA," delivered at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, June 15, 2009,
  • "An Introduction to the University of Illinois and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science," presented at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, June 13, 2009.
  • "Current Developments in Digital Library Management and Research in the USA," delivered at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, June 12, 2009,
  • "Tools for Textual Data," presented as part of the Illinois Summer Institute in Humanities Data Curation, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, May 20, 2009.
  • "Vernacular Computing and the iSchools," the Lazerow Lecture, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, April 24, 2009
  • "How Not To Read A Million Books," updated. Seminar on the History of the Book. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 5, 2009.
  • "The Value of Digitization for Libraries and Humanities Scholarship," New Directions in Digital Humanities Scholarship Symposium, Champaign, Illinois, February 26, 2009.
  • "Clumps and Runners" 3rd Bamboo Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, January 13, 2009.