Unsworth, John with with Beth Sandore Namachchivaya, University of Illinois at Urbana and Robert McDonald, Indiana University. "The HathiTrust Research Center: Opening up the Eleophant for Knowledge Creation." Coalition for Networked Information, Fall 2012. Washington, D.C.. December 10-11, 2012.

Unsworth, John. "To Be Determined: The Impact of Digital Humanities and Arts on University Libraries and IT." Digital Humanities Symposium. Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Friday, Nov. 2, 2012.

Unsworth, John. "21st-Century Scholar and Researcher Services." ARL Fall Forum. Washington, DC. October, 2012.

Unsworth, John. "Digital Humanities and the Role of the Library." Libraries, Labs, and Classrooms: Locating the Digital Humanities. University of Pennsylvania. September 28, 2012.

Unsworth, John. "The Hathi Trust, Google Books, and the Future of Research." BNN Future of the Academy Speaker Series. MIT, Cambridge MA. May 25, 2012.

Unsworth, John. "Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Five Years New Directions for Digital Humanities and . Montreal, Quebec, Canada. April 30-May 1 2012.

Unsworth, John. "Mickey Mouse and TS Eliot: Starving at the Banquet." Orphan Works & Mass Digitization Symposium. Berkeley, California. April 13, 2012.