"Do Electronic Journals Need Publishers?" Presented as part of "The Refereed Electronic Journal: A New Venue for Scholarship in the Humanities," a special panel of the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research, Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Assocation, Toronto, Canada, Monday, 29 December, 1997

"'The Only Responsible Intellectual is One Who is Wired,'" Jack A. Austin Lecture Series on Teaching, Learning, and Research with Technology, Tufts University, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 17, 1997

"Documenting the reinvention of text: the importance of imperfection, doubt, and failure." Delivered at the Transformations of the Book Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, October 25, 1997

"The Future of Publishing: A Roundtable Looking Toward the 21st Century," Panel Chair. Envisioning the Future (an H-Net Conference), East Lansing, MI, Friday, September 26, 1997

"Creating Digital Resources: the Work of Many Hands," Panel Chair and Organizer. Digital Resources in the Humanities, Oxford University, England, September 14th, 1997

"Creating Electronic Editions," International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, VA, September 6, 1997

"Bringing Journals Into an Online Environment," to be presented at Electronic Publishing 1997 and Beyond, Co-sponsored by the University of Virginia and the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., April 10-12, 1997.

"New Copyright and Database Regulations: USPTO, WIPO, and You." Delivered at University of London and Oxford University, England, February 3 and 4, 1997

"Esoteric vs. Exoteric: Economic Models for Electronic Publishing," Delivered at Electronic Publishing: A Day Conference, University of London, January 31, 1997.