Conference papers


  • 2025. Julianne Nyhan, Non-verbal and paralinguistic expressions in an academic community oral history: a multimodal digital oral history analysis. 23rd International Oral History Association Conference in Kraków, Poland,16th to 19th September.

  • 2025. Till Grallert, Torsten Hiltmann, Andrew Flinn, Min-Woo Lee, Ian Marino, and Ian Milligan. The global state of digital history: Establishing data culture(s) in uncertain times.ADHO Digital Humanities 2025 14 – 18 July 2025, Lisbon, Portugal

  • 2025. Flinn, Andrew and Nyhan. Julianne Possibilities / impossibilities for shared authority in the digital oral history paradigm? Presented at: European Social Science History Conference 2025, Leiden, Netherlands https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201115/

  • 2025. Zhang, Jiajie; Schmidt, Frieda; Vlachidis, Andreas; Humbel, Marco; Nyhan, Julianne; Flinn, Andrew; Prishchepova, Valentina; Varfolomeyev, Aleksey and Elleringmann. Towards a Network of Recollection in Oral Histories. Presented at The 2025 Connected Past Conference. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209234/

  • 2025. Humbel, Marco; Zhang, Jiajie; Prishchepova, Valentina; Varfolomeyev, Aleksey; Nyhan, Julianne and Vlachidis, Andreas. Leveraging mailing list archives for digital history research: A case study on mining the Humanist discussion group. Presented at: Festival of Digital Research, Innovation & Scholarship, London, UK. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10211319/

  • 2025. Nyhan, Julianne and Flinn, Andrew. On the born-digital turn in oral history: recharting and reimagining the cultural circuit? Presented at: DigiCAM25: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory Conference, London, UK https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10207146/

  • 2025. Andrew Flinn and Julianne Nyhan, Possibilities / impossibilities for shared authority in the digital oral history paradigm? European Social Science History Conference. Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201115

  • 2024. Andrew Flinn and Julianne Nyhan, Exploring uncertainty and laughter in oral histories – multimodal digital oral history approaches. 2024 IFPH World Conference of Public History. Belval, University of Luxembourg.

  • 2024. Gerben Zaagsma, Andrew Flinn, Julianne Nyhan, Edgar Lejeune, Kajsa Weber. Histories of Digital History: An Integral Part of the History of the Humanities? The Making of the Humanities XI, Lund 2024.

  • 2024. Metilli, Danielle, Hughes, Alicia, Vlachidis, Andreas. Nyhan, Julianne. Digital Humanities Conference 2024, Washington.

  • 2024. Marco Humbel, Nina Pearlman, JD Hill, Andrew Flinn and Julianne Nyhan, Julianne. Towards International Perspectives on Collection Data Infrastructure Development. Digital Humanities Conference 2024, Washington. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13761079

  • 2023 Terraciano, A., Nyhan, J., and Flinn, A. Participation and Inclusion with Digital National Collections: Co-Designing the Sloane Lab. Performing Cultural Heritage in the Digital Present: DRHA Conference 2023, Università di Torino, Italy. DOI: 10.13135/2389-6086/10178

  • 2023. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird (University of Portsmouth, UK), Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada), Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt, Germany and UCL, UK), John Bradley (King’s College London, UK), Ariana Ciula (King’s College London, UK), Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow, UK), 2023. On Making in the Digital Humanities: The scholarship of digital humanities development in honour of John Bradley. DH2023, July 10-14 Graz, Austria. http://10.0.20.161/zenodo.7961822

  • 2023. Marco Humbel (UCL, UK), Foteini Valeonti (UCL, UK), Daniele Metilli (UCL, UK), Jawad Sadek (UCL, UK), Alda Terracciano (UCL, UK), Victoria Pickering (Natural History Museum, UK), Alicia Hughes (British Museum, UK), Andreas Vlachidis (UCL, UK), Nina Pearlman (UCL, UK), Andrew Flinn (UCL, UK) , Mark Carine (Natural History Museum, UK), Kim Sloan (British Museum, UK), Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt, Germany and UCL, UK). Looking back to build future shared collections: reports from the Sloane Lab. DH2023, July 10-14 Graz, Austria. https://zenodo.org/record/8210808

  • 2023. Tessa Gengnagel, Sarah Lang, Nora Probst, Anja Gerber, Sarah-Mai Dang, Tinghui Duan, Till Grallert, Jana Keck, Julianne Nyhan “‪Open DH? Mapping Blind Spots.” DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture. 9. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2023), Trier, Luxemburg, 13.03.2023-17.03.2023. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7715329

  • September 2022. Metilli, D., Vlachidis, A., Humbel, M., Pickering, V., Carine, M., Sloan, K., Nyhan, J. Towards a network analysis of Hans Sloane’s collection: A preliminary study. 6th European Conference on Social Networks 12-16 September 2022. University of Greenwich, London, UK. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10156173

  • September 2022. McGillivray, B., Ames, S., Alex, B., Armstrong, G., Beavan, D., Ciula, A., Colavizza, G., Cummings, J., De Roure, D., Farquhar, A., Hengchen, S., Hughes, L., Lang, A., Loxley, J., Goudarouli, E., Nanni, F., Nini, A., Nyhan, J., Osborne, N., Poibeau, T., Ridge, M., Ranade, S., Smithies, J., Terras, M., Vlachidis, A., Willcox, P. Inviting the Humanities to The Data Science Table: Reflections from the Alan Turing Institute. Digital Humanities Congress 2022. University of Sheffield, UK.

2022. Nyhan, Julianne, Andreas Vlachidis, Andrew Flinn, Nina Pearlman, Mark Carine, and Jeremy Hill. “First Report – Sloane Lab: Looking Back to Build Future Shared Collections.” Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7152458

  • September 2022. Leem, D., Nyhan, J., Bikakis, A. Sir Han Slone’s Information Architecture: From TEI to CSV for Data Analysis. Digital Humanities Congress 2022, University of Sheffield, UK.

  • July 2022. Nyhan, J., Vlachidis, A., Flinn, A., Pearlman, N., Humbel, M., Metilli, D., Sadek, J., Valeonti, F., Carine, M., Pickering, V., Terracciano, A. Interrogating collections’ contested and challenging past through the SLOANE (GLAM) LAB. Universeum 2022, Belgium. 

  • July 2022. Pearlman N., Nyhan J., Sieber, M. A. Curating equality: A case study for applying predictive technologies to art collections. Universeum 2022, Belgium 


  • 2020. Flinn, A., Nyhan, J., Fife, K. (2020) Digging Where You Stand? Critical approaches to participatory and activist heritage work – Digital Digging: social movements and activist archiving in documenting injustice. ACHS 2020 FUTURES – Association of Critical Heritage Studies 5th Biennial Conference, UK.

  • 2020. Beals, M.H., Bell, E., Nyhan, J. Hauswedell, T. “Exalting the Cult of Gentlemanly Amateurism”: Improving Computational Analysis with Humanities Narrative-Building Methodologies (long presentation). Digital Humanities 2020. Ottawa, Canada. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201173

  • 2019. Humbel, M., Nyhan, J. The Application of HTR to Early-modern Museum Collections: a Case Study of Sir Hans Sloane’s Miscellanies Catalogue. Digital Humanities 2019. University of Utrecht, Netherlands. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10072160

  • 2019. Priewe, M., Cordell, R., Beals, M. H., Russell, G. I., Nyhan, J., Priani, S.E, Salmi, H., Smith, D., Verheul, J., Terras, M. Oceanic Exchanges: Transnational Textual Migration and ViralcCulture. Digital Humanities 2019. University of Utrecht Netherlands.

  • 2019. Ortolja-Baird, A., Nyhan, J. Digitally recovering absent voices in the British Museum. Connected life 2019: Data and Disorder. Oxford Internet Institute and LSE, UK.

  • 2018. Nyhan J., Ortolja-Baird A., Pickering A., Sloan K., Fleming, M. Extramural Digital Humanities: Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogues of his collections. EADH 2018. Ireland.

  • 2018. Gao, J., Duke-Williams, O., Mahony S., Nyhan, J. What do we write about in the Digital Humanities? A Comparative Study of Chinese and English publications. Digital Humanities Congress. Sheffield, UK. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10052735

  • 2018. Gao, J., Nyhan, J., Duke-Williams, O., Mahony, S. Visualising the Digital Humanities Community: A comparison Study between citation network and social network. Digital Humanities 2018. Mexico. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10051991


  • 2017. Nyhan, J. The social history of Digital Humanities: an oral history perspective. The Making of the Humanities VI conference. Oxford.

  • 2017. Nyhan, J., Terras, M. Uncovering ‘hidden’ contributions to the history of Digital Humanities: the Index Thomisticus’ female keypunch operators. Digital Humanities 2017. Montréal, Canada. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10052279

  • 2017. Gao, J., Duke-Williams, O., Mahony, S., Ramdarshan Bold, M., Nyhan, J. The Intellectual Structure of Digital Humanities: An Author Co-Citation Analysis. Digital Humanities 2017. Montréal, Canada. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10052270

  • 2015. Nyhan, J., Warholm Haugen, M. Digital Humanities and the academic library: a natural partnership?. UH-bibliotekkonferansen. Bergen, Norway.

  • 2014. Nyhan, J. The role of labels and metaphors in investigating interconnections between the Digital Humanities and the Humanities. The making of the Humanities IV. Rome, Italy. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1452669

  • 2014. Mahony S., Nyhan J., Tiedau, U. Digital Humanities pedagogy: integrative learning and new ways of thinking about studying the Humanities. Digital Humanities Congress. Sheffield, UK. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1472816

  • 2014. Flinn, A., Nyhan, J.  Whose project is this? Whose stories do we tell? Participatory frameworks for community-based oral history projects. Annual Conference of the Oral History Society “Community Voices: Oral History on the Ground”. UK. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201172

  • 2014. Nyhan, J., Flinn A. Oral History, audio-visual materials and Digital Humanities: a new ‘grand challenge’? ‘Sound and (Moving) Image in Focus pre-Conference Workshop. Digital Humanities conference. Switzerland. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201170


  • 2013. Nyhan, J. Uncovering the “hidden histories” of computing in the Humanities 1949 – 1980: findings and reflections on the pilot project. Digital Humanities conference. Nebraska, USA.

  • 2013 Nyhan, J., Duke-Williams O. Joint and multi-authored publication patterns in the Digital Humanities. Digital Humanities conference. Nebraska, USA.

  • 2012. Nyhan, J., Welsh, A.  Uncovering the “hidden histories” of computing in the Humanities 1949 – 1980: an overview of our key findings. Digital Humanities Congress 2012. Publisher URL.


  • 2011. Warwick, C., Mahony, S., Nyhan, J., Ross, C., Terras, M., Tiedau, U., Welsh, A. UCLDH: Big Tent Digital Humanities in practice. Digital Humanities conference. (pp.387-389). https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1335136

  • 2011. Welsh, A., Nyhan, J. Finding feminist information in a ‘gender-neutral’ information environment. Feminism and Teaching Symposium, University of Nottingham, UK.

  • 2010. Blackshields, D., Cronin, J., Nyhan, J. Integrative learning and technoculture: what’s at stake? National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL). Ireland.

  • 2010. Rockwell, G., Ruecker, S., Organisciak, P., Meredith-Lobay, M., Ranaweera, K., Nyhan, J. What do we say about ourselves? An analysis of the Day of DH 2009 data, SDH/SEMI. Concordia, Montreal, Canada.

  • 2010. Nyhan, J. Tool making, technological determinism and the role of memory: absolute alphabetical organisation in medieval glossaries. Arbeitsgespräch zur historischen Lexikographie, Bullay, Germany.

  • 2009. Schlitz, S. A., Nyhan, J. TEI-EJ: a quarterly publication of the TEI Education SIG to appear on the TEI website. TEI Members Meeting 2009, University of Michigan, USA. (poster presentation)

  • 2008. Nyhan, J. ‘E-portfolios and the dimensions of understanding’. In International perspectives in teaching and learning in Higher Education: NAIRTL Conference proceedings November 2007, ed. Norma Ryan. NAIRTL: University College Cork (ISBN 978-0-9556109-4-3)

  • 2007. Nyhan, J. Emerging electronic research infrastructures for Irish lexicography. Tionól symposium. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland.

  • 2007. Nyhan, J. Digital futures in Irish studies, panel with Susan Schreibman and Deirdre Wildy. Susan Schreibman Chair. IASIL, University College Dublin, Ireland.

  • 2007. Nyhan, J. E-portfolios and the Dimensions of Understanding. International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference. University College Cork, Ireland. (poster presentation)

  • 2006. Nyhan, J. Establishing the relative sophistication of the ordering systems used in the major glossaries of medieval Irish. Tionól symposium. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland.

  • 2006. Nyhan, J. The digital Dinneen project: further avenues for CELT. Digital Humanities Conference. Paris-Sorbonne, France.

  • 2006. Nyhan, J. The problem of date and context: migrating an Irish language dictionary from hard copy to digital format. Third international conference of Historical Lexicography and Lexicology. Leiden University.

  • 2005. Nyhan, J. [with Toner, G.] Enhancing scholarship through linking electronic resources. Digital Resources for the Humanities. Lancaster University, UK.

  • 2004. Nyhan, J. Linking Dictionaries and Texts: New Avenues for CELT. Digital Image, Digital Text colloquium. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland.

  • 2004. Nyhan, J. [with Flynn, P.], Ending the Tyranny of the Lemma. The 16th Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Göteborg University, Sweden.

  • 2004. Nyhan, J. [with Griffin, C.] Transcending textual borders? Electronic edition as artefact. the Book as Artefact Conference, Marsh’s Library Dublin, Ireland.

  • 2003. Nyhan, J, [with Griffin, C.] Digitising an Unedited Middle English Lunary from British Library Egerton MS 827. Borderlines 7. University College Cork, Ireland.

  • 2002. Nyhan, J. Digitising the Dictionary of the Irish Language. Borderlines 6. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.