See below for a list of my talks and speaking engagements over the years. This is not a complete list. I enjoy engaging with an audience or just having a discussion.
I have also done many institutional presentations at Umeå University and elsewhere. During my tenure at HUMlab I presented the institution, digital humanities and related matters hundreds of times. I take genuine delight in talking about the institution I represent and about the work carried our by colleagues and collaborators. Visiting delegations at HUMlab included international delegations from all over the world, the Board of the Wallenberg Foundation, several government ministers, the county governor, the Swedish Research Council (including the chair), Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (a major humanities-social sciences funding agency), the Swedish King and Queen, regional boards, CEOs of large companies, groups from Parliament and EU delegations. Such presentations are not included in the list below.
2022
[147]
Changing Infrastructures, Changing Worlds: The Academy as a Case Study
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies
March 31, 2022
2020
[146]
Shifting Frames: Towards Humane Infrastructures
Keynote
Knowledge Infrastructures and Digital Governance. History, challenges, practices
OPERAS, University of Luxembourg
September 7-8, 2020
2019
[145]
Invited concluding session – reflections and extended conversation
From Text to Data – New Ways of Reading
[Video] [Program]
International conference
The National Library of Sweden
February 7-8, 2019
[144]
Unframing Infrastructure: The Story of Research Infrastructure in and through the Humanities
Invited lecture
New Horizons: Confronting the Digital Turn in the Humanities
The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
University of Luxembourg
March 6, 2019
2018
[143]
The Value of Arts and Humanities Research Institutes to Universities
Invited panel discussion
Trinity College Dublin
April 10, 2018
[142]
Radikala humanistiska infrastrukturer [Radical humanistic infrastructures]
Workshop on data driven research/library labs
National Library of Sweden
April 12, 2018
[141]
Om digitaliseringen av högskolan [On the digitization of higher education]
Seminar in the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen). Participants included the Minister of Education and Research
May 2, 2018
[140]
Radicalized Infrastructures
Invited presentation and keynote round table participation
“Searching Questions”, Cambridge Digital Humanities Symposium
University of Cambridge
July 11, 2018
[139]
Human/istic Infrastructures
The Information Studies Colloquium
UC Los Angeles
Nov 15, 2018
2017
[138]
Infrastructures for a Reimagined Humanities
Digital Culture Speaker Series [web page]
Arizona State University
February 2, 2017
[137]
Humanistic Infrastructure
UCLA DH Infrastructure Symposium [program and abstract]
Keynote [refs]
UC Los Angeles
February 23, 2017
[136]
Humanistic Infrastructure: Models and Futures
Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
April 6, 2017
[135]
UCHRI Digital Platform
Organized by the UC Humanities Research Institute
Invited participant and design&interface session lead
UC Irvine
April 21, 2017
[134]
Critical Digital Humanities
Invited roundtable participant
Critical Digital Humanities Conference
University of Westminster, London
May 22, 2017
[133]
Humanistic Infrastructure
Conference presentation
Critical Digital Humanities
University of Westminster, London
May 23, 2017
[132]
Critiquing, Imagining and Making Academic Infrastructure
Panel Presentation (Panel: Re-Configured Knowledge Institutions)
New Infrastructures of Knowledge
The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
Stockholm
June 19, 2017
[131]
Critiquing, Imagining and Designing Infrastructure in and through the Humanities
UC Irvine Informatics Department Seminars [pdf] [stream]
UC Irvine
October 20, 2017
[130]
Roundtable discussion on infrastructure
Invited speaker/participation with Shannon Mattern
Part of a network meeting for a group of graduate students as part of a UCHRI initiative across the UC universities
UCLA
November 3, 2017
[129]
Why should the Humanities Care about Infrastructure
Inaugural lecture in the new Digital Humanities Center
San Diego State University
November 9, 2017
[128]
Challenging Infrastructural Regimes/Framing Humanistic Infrastructure
Chapman University
San Diego State University
November 30, 2017
[127]
Exploring the Active and Interventionist Humanities
Medea Lecture, K3
Malmö University
December 7, 2017
[126]
Humanities Labs
Örebro University
December 11, 2017
2016
[125]
Can there be a Nordic Digital Humanities?
First Conference for the Nordic Digital Humanities [program]
Keynote lecture [refs] [stream]
Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries
University of Oslo
March 16, 2016
[124]
Centers of Excellence in the Integrative Humanities
Workshop on integrative environments
Invited panel presentation
Supported by the Swedish Research Council
Royal Institute of Technology
March 17, 2016
[123]
Intellectual Middleware
Opening seminar for the Digital Humanities Academy Programme [program]
Keynote lecture [refs]
Academy of Finland
Turku
March 22, 2016
[122]
Architecture, Collaboration and Knowledge Production
“The Humanities Laboratory: Discussions of New Campus Models”
Invited talk [abstract]
National Endowment for Humanities, Washington DC
July 11, 2016
[121]
Digital Humanities as Curated and Collaborative Place: Ideas, Infrastructures and Intersections
Heldig kick-off symposium
Invited main talk
University of Helsinki
October 5, 2016
[120]
Digital Humanities as Humanistic Infrastructure
Humanities Lecture Series/HATII Research Seminars
University of Glasgow
October 26, 2016
[119]
Digital Humanities as Intellectual and Intersectional Infrastructure
Keynote lecture
Digital Humanities Day 2016 [program]
University of Groningen
October 28, 2016
2015
[118]
Who Disrupts Whom? The Digital Humanities as a Contact Zone
University of California at Irvine
UCI Humanities Commons [abstract]
February 23, 2015
[117]
Roundtable: Genres of Scholarly Knowledge and Production
Beyond the Digital Humanities: FInal Network Event [program]
Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDiMAH)
University of London
May 5, 2015
[116]
Inside-Outside-In Between
Professional Training in the Arts and Humanities Course
Ph.D. student program
Uppsala University
May 8, 2015
[115]
Visualizing Big Data: Inside and Outside the Single Screen [stream]
Reconsidering Humanity: Big Data, the Scientific Method, and the Images of Humans [program]
University of Gothenburg
Keynote presentation
June 26, 2015
[114]
From Lab to Lounge: Liminal Spaces for Learning
The Graduate Center, City University New York [web]
October 29, 2015
[113]
Presentation Culture and Infrastructure
University of London, School of Advanced Studies
“Being (digital) humans”
Being Human Festival
November 17, 2015
[112]
Space, Knowledge Production and the Digital Humanities
The Humanities Lab
University of Sussex
November 19, 2015
2014
[111]
Digital Experiments
Inauguration of Umeå as the Cultural Capital of Europe
January 31, 2014
[110]
From Libraries to Labs: Spaces of Media Access, Making, and Learning
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference 2014, Seattle
Workshop participant (workshop leader: Shannon Mattern) [description]
March 23, 2014
[109]
Plats, kunskap och (digital) infrastruktur (Place, knowledge and (digital) infrastructure)
The Nobel Museum/Foundation, Stockholm
Invited talk
April 3, 2014
[109]
The Story of a Humanities Lab: Connecting Ideas, People and Infrastructure
Linköping University, Visualization Center C [abstract]
May 5, 2014
[108]
Gränsobjekt [Boundary Objects]
Seminar in the Umeå University seminar series on interactive environments
Umeå University
October 2, 2014
[107]
Om etableringen av digital humaniora som område: Det eviga sökandet efter en plats?
[About the Establishment of Digital Humanities as a Field: The never-ending search for a place?]
Forskningens dynamik, symposium organized by the Young Academy of Sweden
Invited talk and panel participant [program]
At the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
October 15, 2014
[106}
The Emerging Humanities
Culture, Brain, Learning
Conference presentation
Wallenberg Network Initiative
Lund University
November 20, 2014
[105]
Presentation Software as Occasions for Speech
With Erica Robles-Anderson
Conference: Genres of Scholarly Knowledge Production
Umeå University
December 11, 2014
2013
[104]
Digital Humanities through HUMlab
Presentation of HUMlab
British Library
March 11, 2013
[103}
The Humanistiscope: Exploring the Situatedness of Humanities Cyberinfrastructure
Exploring Humanities Cyberinfrastructure Symposium April 30-May 1 [program]
Invited guest speaker (and panel participant)
University of Madison at Madison
May 1, 2013
[102]
Big Digital Humanities
Transcriptions talk [web]
University of California at Santa Barbara
November 26, 2013
[101]
Text och interaktiva miljöer: Universitetet som uttryck
[Text and interactive environments: The University as Expression]
Professorial talk
The Annual University Festivities
Umeå Universities
October 19, 2013
2012
[100]
The Digital Humanities – a Game Changer? [stream]
DIGHUMLAB Launch [program]
Aarhus University, Denmark
With participation by Danish minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education among others
September 10, 2012
[99]
The Situatedness of (Humanities) Infrastructure
Keynote presentation
Media Places Symposium, Umeå University
December 6, 2012
2011
[98]
Creative Industries Clusters
Presentation with Roger Stighäll, North Kingdom (and panel participation)
Grand Days [invitation]
Grand Hotel, Stockholm
January 25, 2011
[97]
Designing the Digital Humanities
City University New York
Feb 23, 2011
[96]
From Optical Fiber to Conceptual Cyberinfrastructure
University of California Santa Barbara
March 9, 2011
[95]
The Digital Humanities as a Trading Zone
Lecture by invitation
Australian Academy of The Humanities and Australian National University, Canberra
March 22, 2011
[94]
The Evolution of Digital Humanities as a Field
CRASSH, University of Cambridge [abstract]
October 12, 2011
2009
[93]
HUMlab: Meeting Place as Conceptual Cyberinfrastructure
King’s College London
April 3, 2009
[92]
From Optical Fibre to Conceptual Cyberinfrastructure
Conference Rum för lärande, Umeå University
June 11, 2009
[91]
From Optical Fibre to Conceptual Cyberinfrastructure: A Vision for the Digital Humanities
University of California Los Angeles
Nov 10, 2009
[90]
The Landscape of Digital Humanities
University of California Santa Barbara
Nov 12, 2009
2008
[89]
Implementing the Digital Humanities
University of Southern California
March 21, 2008
[88]
HUMlab som idé
Lund University
May 14, 2008
[87]
Language Learning in a Digital World: From Language Laboratory to Parkour Performance
Plenary lecture, EUROCALL 2008 Conference, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
September 6, 2008
[86]
From Humanities Computing to Digital Humanities
I-School, University of Toronto
November 4, 2008
[85]
The Landscape of Digital Humanities
University of Alberta, Edmonton
November 6, 2008
2007
[84]
Umeå – ett internationellt centrum för digital kultur
(Umeå – an international center for digital culture)
At “Kultur, upplevelser och IT”, Grand Hotel, Stockholm
January 30, 2007
[83]
Högskolan 2.0 – perspektiv på webb 2.0 och digital deltagarkultur
National Science Foundation/forska.se Conference on university dissemination, Stockholm
March 13, 2007
[82]
Digitala kulturer – från snack till bloggopera
(Digital cultures – from talk to blog operas)
Kulturnatta: HIT! – Humaniora & IT, Umeå stadsbibliotek
May 18, 2007
[81]
Co-creating Content: Participatory Culture, Web 2.0 and Digital Mashups
NordI&D. The 13th Nordic Conference on Information and Documentation, Stockholm University
June 19, 2007
[80]
Virtuella världar från hype till högskola
NUAS Informatörskonferens: Identitet, kultur och relationer. Stockholm
September 11, 2007
[79]
From floor tiles to blog opera. Days of the Media Labs
PICNIC and MediaGuild. Amsterdam
September 26, 2007
[78]
Innovation and order to the table: HUMlab, QVIZ and a Virtual Worlds Timeline
Keynote. Intelligent Access to Digital Heritage. Organized by Ministry of Culture, Estonia
October 18, 2007
[77]
Från humaniora till informationsteknik: studiomiljöer, nya ämnen och humaniora.se.
National professional development day for university librarians in the humanities, [From the humanities to information technology: studio environments, new disciplines and humaniora.se].
October 26, 2007
[76]
Stepping up and back: Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities
RMIT, Melbourne. Sponsored by The Design Institute, the MCD Studio and the School of Applied Communication
November 22, 2007
2006
[75]
Att vidga textbegreppet
BOF-dagen. Umeå folkets hus. MediaCenter i Västerbottens Län [expanding our notion of text]
January 18, 2006
[74]
HUMlab
Invited panel presentation: Worldwide Cyber-Human Sciences at NSF sponsored Expanding Cyber-Communities Workshop at the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), University of California at Irvine
April 21, 2006
[73]
Ihopkopplade kanaler: kommunikativa mönster på den nya webben (2.0)
FUMS conference on an expanded notion of text. Uppsala University. [Intertwined channels: communicative practices on Web 2.0]
May 9, 2006
[72]
Bringing cyberinfrastructures together: Studio spaces, multiplex visualization and creative interaction
Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences: A Summer Institute. University of California at San Diego
July 27, 2006
[71]
Stepping Up: Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Interaction in Digital Environments Workshop, Umeå University
August 21, 2006
[70]
Är e-post redan på väg ut?
KLIV, Klarspråk i Västernorrland, Härnösand
September 26, 2006
[69]
Panel discussion: The Methodology of Innovation
Innovation Day at the Media Guild, Amsterdam
September 27, 2006
[68]
42 sekunder, 4 megapixlar och -31 grader: mellan humaniora och informationsteknik
Södertörns högskola
October 4, 2006
[67]
IT – utmaning och möjlighet för humaniora
Uppsala Learning Lab, Uppsala University. [IT – challenges and possibilities for the Humanities)]
October 18, 2006
[66]
Bortom penna och papper: Opto, grid och displayteknik för humaniora
SUNET Trefpunkt 15. Umeå University. [Beyond pen and paper: Opto, grid and display technology for the Humanities]
October 19, 2006
[66]
Borderlands: Ideas, Infrastructures and Implementations in Digital Humanities
Brown University
November 29, 2006
[65]
Visualizing the (Digital) Humanities
McMaster University
December 1, 2006
2005
[64]
The Humanities and information technology
Technological Texture Conference, Umeå University
January 17, 2005
[63]
From text to first person shooters: Iconic and symbolic representation in virtual environments
Cornell University
February 28, 2005
[62]
Intertwined Spaces: student empowerment in virtual worlds
The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia
March 3, 2005
[61]
Att studera digital kultur
[Studying digital culture] Lärare på vetenskaplig grund – kvalificerad kompetensutveckling för gymnasielärare. Östra gymnasiet, Umeå
October 31, 2005
[60]
Transposing the Humanities, Information Technology and Ourselves: Mapping Contemporary Modalities
University of California Humanities Research Insitute, University of California Irvine
November 3, 2005
2004
[59]
Inte bara platt text! Om virtuella världar, streamad media, cybertexter och bloggar i språkutbildningen
Seminar at Lund University
May 7, 2004
[58]
Humaniora och informationsteknik: från saccosäckar till virtuella världar
[The Humanities and information technology: From beanbags to virtual worlds]. Seminar at Center of User Oriented Design (CID) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm
June 9, 2004
[57]
Kommunikation i virtuella världar
[Communication in virtual environments]. Seminar at the Centre for Speech Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm
June 10, 2004
[56]
Iconic and symbolic representation in virtual worlds
Paper delivered at ALLC2004, Gothenburg
June 14, 2004
[55]
Talking back: Virtual worlds, corpora and blogs in language education
Berkeley Language Center, University of California Berkeley
October 5, 2004
[55]
Virtual Learning Spaces: beyond the shallow, real and disembodied
Presentation at The Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning (SCIL), Stanford University
October 6, 2004
[54]
Living at the intersection of the Humanities and Information Technology
HvA/Waag Society, Amsterdam
November 30, 2004
[53]
Dispelling the Myth of the Real in Educational Technology
TeleLearning Research Group, Open University
December 1, 2004
[52]
The Humanities and Information Technology: New disciplines or a new University?
Seminar at Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College, London
December 2, 2004
[51]
Humaniora och informationsteknik
[The Humanities and Information Technology]. Seminar at the Department of Informatics, Umeå University
December 8, 2004
[50]
Möten och mobiltelefoner
[Meetings and Information Technology]
Lecture for all of the Umeå University administration (I was the “secret guest”)
December 23, 2004
2003
[49]
HUMlab
The conceptual grounding of HUMlab and overview of the field
Digitala dimensioner conference
Uppsala University
January 15, 2003
[48]
Symbolic and Iconic Mapping in Virtual Environments
Paper at the international Dynamic Maps Workshop in HUMlab
September 17, 2003
[47]
Från penna till sms – teknik, kropp och språk
[From pens to text messages – technology, body and language]. Prize lecture, Kungliga Skytteanska Samfamfundets pris.
November 7, 2003
[46]
Interdisciplinary design work
Media Design program. Pasadena Art Center College of Design, USA
November 17, 2003
[45]
Interdisciplinary media design
Creative Industries. Queenland University of Technology, Australia
December 3, 2003
2002
[44]
Kulturlaboratoriet: att simulera, samarbeta och utforska
Seminar at CITU, Lund University. [The cultural laboratory: simulating, cooperating and exploring].
March 27, 2002
[43]
Presentation at Information Arts, San Francisco State University
April 2, 2002
[42]
Constructivist learning and interdisciplinarity in virtual environments
Seminar at Melbourne University, Australia
April 20, 2002
[41]
Virtual worlds as arenas for constructivist learning
Seminar at Monash University, Australia
April 21, 2002
[40}
Nya arenor för lärande: Virtuella monster, kollaborativt kunskapsbyggande och motiverande medier
Presentation at Umeå Forum 2002. [New arenas for learning: virtual monsters, collaborative knowledge building and motivating media].
June 17, 2002
[39]
Workshop on representation for Nordisk musikpedagogisk utbildning. Piteå.
October 3, 2002
[38]
Mötet mellan humaniora, kultur, konst och ny informationsteknik: HUMlab som idé och erfarenhet
Seminar at Department of humanistic informatics, University of Bergen
October 23, 2002
[37]
Student creativity in virtual space: building, experiencing and learning
Seminar at Oxford University, Learning Technology Group, England
November 25, 2002
[36]
Creating virtual arenas for language learning: shared graphical spaces, student creativity and co-evolution
Seminar at Open University, England
November 26, 2002
2001
[35]
ICT applications in higher education – abandoning paper for virtual weddings
The IATEFL conference 2001. Brighton, England.
April 18, 2001
[34]
Det humanistiska perspektivet: cyborger, virtuella världar och datorspel
Umeå Forum 2001
April 25, 2001
[33]
Virtuella miljöer, underhållsteknologi och nya arenor för akademiskt arbete
Seminar at CITU, Lund University
May 9, 2001
[32]
Teknik i språkutbildningens tjänst: Interkulturella möten, simulering,
hypertextuppsatser, datorspel, virtuella världar, film på nätet, korpusar, onlineprov, datorstödd uttalsträningen och lite mer ändå
Språklärardagarna, Umeå University. Patrik Svensson and Pat Shrimpton.
October 31, 2001
[31]
Virtualisering av språk och digitalt berättande
[Virtualization of language and digital story telling]
Seminar at the Department of Culture and Media, Umeå University
November 19, 2001
[30]
Humanities and Information Technology
Shreveport
November 27, 2001
[29]
Humanities and Information Technology
Actlab, University of Texas at Austin
November 30, 2001
[28]
Var finns nyvärdena? En resa bland virtuella platser, visuellt kunskapsbyggande och datorstödda simuleringar
Lecture at the national symposium on information technology and language learning organized by HUMlab and Lärostudion at Stockholm University
December 7, 2001
2000
[27]
Korpusar i språkundervisning
[Corpora in language teaching]. Umeå University. In-service training for school teachers.
February 7, 2000
[26]
Nya arenor för akademiskt arbete
[New arenas for academic work]. Umeå University, Dept. of Literature and Scandinavian languages.
February 11, 2000
[25]
Grammaticalization of partitive constructions
Seminar at Uppsala University, Dept. of English
March 2, 2000
[24]
Nya medier och möjligheter i akademisk språkundervisning; Vill vi vara virtuella?
[New media and possibilities in academic language teaching: Do we want to be virtual?]. Uppsala University
March 3, 2000
[23]
Reflektioner kring datorunderstödda presentationer
[On computer-enhanced presentations]. Presentation for Edit, Umeå University
March 7, 2000
[22]
Akademisk språkundervisning och IT: Vill vi vara virtuella?
[Academic language teaching: Do we want to be virtual?]. Seminar at Gothenburg University, Dept. of English.
March 28, 2000
[21]
Den webbunderstödda kursen – erfarenheter, koncept och funderingar [Web-enhanced courses – experiences, concepts and thoughts]. HUMlab/CUT seminar.
April 4, 2000
1999
[20]
Från automat till arena: undervisning i virtuella miljöer
[From automat to arena: teaching in virtual environments]. Paper presented together with P-O Ågren at the University Pedagogics Conference, Umeå University
February 19, 1999
[19]
Crossing the threshold: erfarenheter från en språkinstitution
[Crossing the threshold: experiences from a language department]. Paper presented together with Pat Shrimpton at the University Pedagogics Conference, Umeå University
February 19, 1999
[18]
IT på en språkinstitution
[IT at a language department]. Seminar at Luleå University
March 10, 1999
[17]
IT i språkundervisningen
[IT in language teaching]. Paper presented at the national LMS conference (teachers of modern languages).
March 20, 1999
[16]
IT på en språkinstitution
[IT at a language department]. Seminar arranged by Centrum för utbildningsteknik.
April 20, 1999
[15]
Virtuella bröllop – undervisningsprojekt i engelska baserat på den interaktiva miljön Active Worlds
[Virtual weddings – an educational project for English studies based on the interactive environment Active Worlds]. Presentation at IT-forum in Skellefteå.
April 23, 1999
[15]
Panel debate organized by the Humanities faculty
A new generation in the Humanities. Umeå University
April 27, 1999
[14]
Crossing the threshold
Paper presented at the Ämneskonferens in Karlstad (national conference for university language teachers) together with Pat Shrimpton.
May 6, 1999
[13]
The place of corpus studies in cognitive linguistics
Departmental seminar. Umeå University
May 14, 1999
[12]
The place of corpus studies in cognitive linguistics
Paper presented at the ICAME conference, Freiburg, Germany
May 27, 1999
[11]
Information technology in the Humanities.
At the Centrum för studier av IT ur ett humanvetenskapligt perspektiv, Borås.
June 3, 1999
[10]
IT i den akademiska språkundervisningen: Från drillövningar till virtuella miljöer
[IT in academic language teaching: From fill-in exercises to virtual environments]. Lund University
October 14, 1999
[9]
Corpus Methodology
Departmental seminar. Umeå University
October 21, 1999
[8]
Grammaticalization of Partitive Constructions
Seminar at Luleå University
October 27, 1999
[7]
Corpus Methodology
Paper presented at KORFU 1999 at Växjö University.
November 12, 1999
[6]
Breaking the barriers through virtual reality: applications of entertainment technology in the academic field of language learning
Together with Pat Shrimpton. Seminar arranged by CUT.
November 16, 1999
[5]
Using Desktop Virtual Reality as an extension of language studies at university level
Presentation at Hamilton College, New York
November 23, 1999
[4]
Virtual reality in language teaching
Presentation at Swarm Corp., Santa Fe
November 27, 2019
[3]
Virtual weddings: linguistics and literature
Presentation at Cartah, University of Washington, Seattle
December 8, 1999
[2]
Virtual Weddings
Presentation at University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
December 9, 1999
[1]
Introducing IT at a language department
Presentation at University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
December 10, 1999