Talks & Media


Featured Lectures

22 May 2025 . Julianne Nyhan, “Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection,” Susan Hockey Lecture in Digital Humanities, UCL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXfFOXyViKs

31 March 2023. Julianne Nyhan, “Examining the Digital Humanities as a site and ‘peoplescape’ of collecting and collections,” UCL Inaugural Professorial Lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmrH46OB_UI


Keynotes and Invited Lectures

09 July 2025. Julianne Nyhan, “Mixed-methods Digital Oral History: Reflections on Limits, Horizons and Emerging Findings”. Offenes Forschungskolloquium Digital History. Humboldt Universiteaet zu Berlin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtdz6MQP6fI

21 May 2024. Julianne Nyhan, Contesting, remaking and reimagining absence among and with digital methods: a 3-project based examination Max Planck Institut fuer Wissenschaft Geschichte. https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/contesting-remaking-and-reimagining-absence-among-and-digital-methods-3-project-based-0

April 2024. Julianne Nyhan, “Towards a multimodal oral history: prospects and dangers for oral history in the digital age,” Korean Oral History Association 15th Anniversary Symposium, Seoul, South Korea.

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November 2023. Julianne Nyhan, “Towards a Digital Hermeneutic Proving Ground? Multimodal Oral History: Prospects and Limits,” Digital Hermeneutics II: Sources, Analysis, Interpretation, Annotation, Curation, FernUniversität in Hagen. [Keynote]

July 2023. Julianne Nyhan, “Oral History in the Digital Age,” International Summer School “Oral History Meets European Studies. Sources, Tools and Methods in the Digital Age,” Maison Schuman, University of Luxembourg. [Keynote]

April 2023. Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Cultural Heritage in Context: On the Sloane Lab and the ‘collections as data’ turn,” Workshop zum Thema “Schnittstelle Mediävistik” im Rahmen des DFG-„Netzwerk Offenes Mittelalter“ zu Linked Open Data (LOD)-Verfahren. [Keynote]

November 2022. Julianne Nyhan, “Mind the Gap: Data Absence, data silence and data bias,” Der Schöne-Vortrag 2022, TU Berlin in Kooperation mit der Richard-Schöne-Gesellschaft für Museumsgeschichte e.V. [Keynote]

July 2022. Julianne Nyhan, “Thinking through the place of absence in the grand challenges of the Digital Humanities and Humanities Data Science,” Digital Humanities Summer School at Oxford – DHOxSS2022, Keble College Oxford. [Keynote]

January 2020. Julianne Nyhan, “Where does the history of the Digital Humanities fit in the longer history of the Humanities? Reflections on the historiography of the ‘old’ in the work of Fr Roberto Busa S.J.,” The Inevitable Turn: Challenges and Perspectives in Humanities Computing, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. [Keynote lecture]

September 2019. Julianne Nyhan, “Critical Reflections on Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogues of his collections. Collecting and Collections: Digital lives and after lives,” The Royal Society, UK. [Keynote lecture]

2017. Julianne Nyhan, “What are the longer-term origins of the asymmetrical power structures that shape so much of the practice of Digital Humanities?” ITUG-Jahrestagung, Technischen Universität Darmstadt. [Keynote]

2015. Julianne Nyhan, “Knowledge organisation systems and Digital Humanities: looking back in order to look forward,” ISKO Knowledge organization systems and digital humanities, Strasbourg, France. [Keynote]

2015. Julianne Nyhan, “New paths through the histories of Digital Humanities: uncovering hidden contributions to Busa’s Index Thomisticus,” International Symposium of Information Science, University of Zadar, Croatia. [Keynote]

2013. Julianne Nyhan, “What can modern-day Digital Humanities learn from studying its past? Some recommendations and suggestions,” CIDE.16: Dispositifs numériques : contenus, interactivité et visualisation, France. [Keynote]

2013. Julianne Nyhan, “Through memories and times: reflections on reflecting on the histories of computing in the Humanities,” Humanities Unbound, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. [Keynote]

2013. Julianne Nyhan, “Text, Image and Sound: where we are and where we are not in Digital Humanities,” Future Digital Conference, Open University, UK. [Keynote]


Conference Presentations

July 2023. Julianne Nyhan, “New Sources for the History of the Humanities: Exploring oral history sources,” History of the Humanities: Stories, Sources, and Challenges Summer School, Huizinga Institute, Leiden University.

June 2023 . Andrew Flinn (UCL) with Doug Boyd (University of Kentucky), Charlie Morgan (NLS Archivist) and Julianne Nyhan, “Democratising access? The interface of new technologies and archived life stories,” The Life Story in Oral History Practice: A Two-Day International Symposium, British Library, St Pancras, London

12 April 2023. Julianne Nyhan, “The Sloane Lab: looking back to build future shared collections” as a microcosm of some current challenges and opportunities of collections as data research, AMC Colloquia, Maastricht University.

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October 2022 . Julianne Nyhan, Colloquium in Digital Cultural Heritage, Universität zu Köln.

October 2022 . Digital Humanities and devalued labour: where to next? 60 Minutes of DH, Centre for Digital Humanities, Uppsala University.

2022 . Julianne Nyhan, “New Perspectives on Sloane,” The Society for the History of Collections, British Museum, London.

December 2021 . Julianne Nyhan, “Loss, absence and contestation in Digital Humanities,” Digital Humanities Seminar, University of Cambridge.

December 2019 . Julianne Nyhan, Invited Lecture to “New Horizons in Digital Humanities,” C²DH, Luxembourg.

September 2019 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Scholarship and the role of the research library,” RLUK Research Libraries UK, London.

June 2019 . Julianne Nyhan, “Hidden contribution to the deep histories of digital humanities tools,” Digital Humanities 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands.

January 2019 . Julianne Nyhan, “IHR Digital History ethics panel presentation,” Institute of Historical Research, London.

2018 . T. Hauswedell, J. Nyhan, M. Beales, “Oceanic Exchanges: Tracing Global Information Networks Historical Newspaper Repositories,” EADH 2018, Ireland.

2018 . Julianne Nyhan, “Oceanic Exchanges, research across large-scale digital newspaper collections,” Digital Humanities 2018, Mexico City.

2018 . Plenary Roundtable: C. Schöch, J. Nyhan, A. Ciula, J. van Zundert, “Data in Digital Humanities,” EADH 2018, Ireland.

2018 . Julianne Nyhan, “What can the Humanities do for digital technologies?” thinkBIG Workshop on the Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor.

2018 . Julianne Nyhan, “Voices heard, voices silenced: on hidden contributions to the emergence of Digital Humanities c.1954-67,” British Society for the History of Mathematics meeting, History of Computing beyond the computer, Oxford University, UK.

2018 . K. Sloane, J. Nyhan, A. Ortolja-Baird, V. Pickering, “Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s Catalogues of his collections,” Presentation to the Board of Trustees, British Museum.

2017 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Humanities approaches to the formation and transformation of knowledge: a critical analysis,” Birmingham University, UK.

2017 . Julianne Nyhan, “’Techies’ versus scholars: Roberto Busa’s Index Thomisticus project and its role in the establishment of the iniquitous power structures of Digital Humanities,” Digital Humanities at Siberian Federal University Conference, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

2017 . K. Sloan, J. Nyhan, V. Pickering, “Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s Catalogues of His Collections. Animating the archive: Enlightenment lives and letters,” Research Workshop, Centre for Enlightenment Studies at King’s & Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies.

2015 . Julianne Nyhan, “Archives and Digital Humanities: new pathways, new kinships?” Archive and Education conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

2015 . Julianne Nyhan, “An introduction to the Histories of Digital Humanities,” University of Babeș-Bolyai / Transylvanian Digital Humanities Centre, Romania.

2015 . Julianne Nyhan, “Collaboration and Digital Humanities: two studies and a plea. Technospaces. Persistence – Practices – Procedures – Power,” University of Darmstadt, Germany.

2015 . Julianne Nyhan, “Were Humanists and Digital Humanities always so very different? An investigation of the earliest contributions to Humanist,” Department of Digital Humanities public seminar series, King’s College London, UK.

2015 . Julianne Nyhan, Invited panel member, “TALK ART/TALK SOCIETY. Merging technology and historical research: What are the future archives like?” The Finnish Institute in London, UK.

2015 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Humanities: origins and future directions,” Invited research seminar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Collaboration and Digital Humanities: on the past, present and future,” Transforming Digital Methods conference, University of Exeter.

2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “About the book as data,” The Post Digital Scholar, Lüneburg, Germany.

2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Community Archives in the UK: an overview,” International conference on Community Archives: models of cooperation with the state, Poland.

2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Humanities. Knowledge Machines: the potential of the digital,” Symposium on alternative practices in Humanities research, University of Kent, UK.

2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Humanities, Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity,” Pushing the boundaries: Early Career research and interdisciplinarity, British Academy event for Early Career researchers, Open University, UK.

2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “The application of facial analysis techniques to the research of ancient seals: some preliminary considerations,” Digitization in the Round workshop, Ashmolean Museum / Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK.

2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Uncovering the socio-cultural contexts of the emergence of Digital Humanities and their enduring significance,” Conference on cultural heritage research and innovation, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany.

2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Fr Roberto Busa: founder of Digital Humanities?” University of Trier Digital Humanities seminar, Germany.

2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Humanities: an introduction,” DARIAH-GR opening workshop, Academy of Athens, Greece.

2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “On the Digital Humanities and the necessity of thinking historically,” Opening event Forschungsverbund MWW, Berlin, Germany.

2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Memory, narrative and disciplinary identity: an investigation,” Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy.

2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Analyse, sort, classify and mark up: text encoding and its debt to historical dictionaries and word lists,” Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford, UK.

2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Arts and Humanities research data: a few idiosyncrasies,” DigitalHSS Lunchtime Seminar: Managing Humanities Research Data, University of Edinburgh, UK.

2013 . Julianne Nyhan, “A researcher’s view on Arts and Humanities data management/sharing (with a focus on infrastructure needs and wants),” RDMF10: Research data management in the Arts and Humanities, St Anne’s College, Oxford, UK.

2012 . Julianne Nyhan, “Research Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities” [round table discussion and presentation], Leipzig University, European Summer School of Culture and Technology evening lecture, Germany.

2012 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Humanities: histories or memories and what in between?” Leipzig University, European Summer School of Culture and Technology, Germany.

2012 . Julianne Nyhan, “Contributions towards a history of computing in the Humanities,” University College Cork, School of Historical Sciences Seminar Series, Rep. of Ireland.

2012 . Julianne Nyhan, “What is oral history and what role can it play in the history of Digital Humanities?” Universität Trier, Digital Humanities Seminar Series, Germany.

2011 . Julianne Nyhan, A. Welsh, “Hidden Histories: Computing and the Humanities c.1949-1980,” London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, School of Advanced Studies, Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK.

2009 . Julianne Nyhan, “Teaching and Learning TEI: an introduction to TEI-EJ,” TEI Praxis Symposium, Cologne Centre for e-Humanities, Germany.

2009 . Julianne Nyhan [with O. Schmidt], “TextGrid tools and concepts: present and future,” Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web, University of Birmingham, UK.

2008 . Julianne Nyhan, “The advantages and disadvantages of the application of XML to medieval inflected languages: a case study of electronic resources for medieval Irish, Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics (LULCL) II,” European Academy, Bolzano, South Tyrol, northern Italy.

2008 . Julianne Nyhan, “Encoding Old Irish glossaries with TEI P5,” Old Irish Glossary Symposium, Cambridge University, UK.

2008 . Julianne Nyhan, “This history, context and organisation of the European Reference Index for the Humanities,” Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal.

2007 . Julianne Nyhan, “Electronic lexicography: medieval and modern,” Trinity College Dublin, Seminar in Medieval History, Rep. of Ireland.


Online Seminars and Events

TU Darmstadt Oberseminar lecture series 2026

About: The seminar explores the methodological and theoretical state of the art of digital humanities, digital heritage, digital history, digital oral history and critical AI. In 2026, we will critically interrogate ongoing efforts to “resist” AI from a wide range of disciplinary, social, cultural and technical perspectives. Speakers have been invited to present recent research from the standpoint of resistance and defence, including indiviudal and community-led counter-AI strategies, system vulnerabilities, epistemic (in)justice and responses to algorithmic harm. In this way, the seminar series should appeal to digital (oral) historians, digital humanities and interdisciplinary scholars of the history of information, memory, and knowledge systems, as well as researchers interested in critical perspectives on AI, its social implications, and its impact on cultural and institutional practices.

Programm and Video Recordings:

21 April 2026: Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, CA) “What would it take to trust AI?”


28 April 2026: Can Şimşek (Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, DE) “AI Resistance and Regulation”


5 May 2026: Subhashish Panigrahi (OpenSpeaks) “Oral history is knowledge: lessons from low-resourced language documentation”


12 May 2026: Jian Xiao (Zhejiang University, CN) “Power, resistance and Inequalities: Why synthesizing critical perspectives is essential to AI research”


19 May 2026: Johannes Dietmann (TU Darmstadt, DE) “From Local Heritage to National Model: The Digital Transformation of Burg Alzenau and Beyond”


26 May 2026: Bruce Schneier (Harvard Kennedy School, and the Munk School at the University of Toronto, CA) “AI and Trust”


9 June 2026: Cindarella Petz (DH Lab, Leibniz-Institute of European History Mainz, DE) “Augmented historical research in the age of AI”


23 June 2026: Iran Mansouri & David Bailey (University of Birmingham, UK) “How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century: overcoming the inevitability narrative”


30 June 2026: Sarah Jan (TU Darmstadt, DE) “Layered Indexing of MeDoraH Oral History Interviews: Taxonomical, Thematic and Stance-Based Access”


7 July 2026: Gabriel Menotti Miglio Pinto Gonring (Queen’s University, CA) “AI Models, Museums, and Other Epistemic Infrastructures”


Interviews, Podcasts and Media

Youtube videos

2020 . Julianne Nyhan, “Interview with new UCLDH Director: Dr Julianne Nyhan,” UCL Department of Information Studies / Digital Humanities Blog. https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dh/2020/09/25/interview-with-new-ucldh-director-dr-julianne-nyhan/