Please note that I am fully booked until mid-2023. I’m happy to consider requests to speak in the second half of 2023.

• November 2022. Nyhan, J. “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]

• October 2022. Nyhan, J. Colloquim in Digital Cultural Heritage. Universität zu Köln, Germany
• October 2022 Digital Humanities and devalued labour: where to next? 60 Minutes of DH, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG), Germany

• July 2022. Nyhan, J. “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 (11 July 2022 – 15 July 2022). Keble College Oxford. [Keynote]

• 2022. Nyhan, J. “New Perspectives on Sloane”. The Society for the History of Collections , UK. 

• December 2021. Nyhan, J. “Loss, absence and contestation in Digital Humanities through the lens of the collection of Hans Sloane (1660-1753)“. Digitality/Digital Culture(s) interdisciplinary seminar series, Universität Bern. Switzerland. 

• January 2020. Nyhan, J. “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“, 15th-17th January 2020, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy [Keynote lecture].

• December 2019. Nyhan, J.  Invited Lecture to “New Horizons: Confronting the Digital Turn in the Humanities seminar series” at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg.

• September 2019. Nyhan, J. “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]

• September 2019. Nyhan, J. “Digital Scholarship and the role of the research library: International Collaboration in an Academic Context. Provider, partner, pioneer: digital scholarship and the role of the research library: An international symposium“. Research Libraries UK. British Library, UK.

• June 2019. Nyhan, J. “Hidden contribution to the deep histories of digital humanities tools“. University of South Florida Digital Humanities Symposium, USA.

• January 2019. Nyhan, J. “IHR Digital History ethics panel presentation“. Institute of Historical Research, London, UK.

• 2018. Hauswedell, T., Nyhan, J., Beales M. “Oceanic Exchanges: Tracing Global Information Networks in Historical Newspaper Repositories, 1840-1914“. British Library, UK.

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• 2018. Nyhan, J. “Oceanic Exchanges, research across large-scale digital newspaper collections“. STM: the Global Voice of Scholarly Publishing. UK.

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

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

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• 2018. Nyhan, J. “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.

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

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

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• 2017. Nyhan, J. “What are the longer-term origins of the asymmetrical power structures that shape so much of the practice of Digital Humanities?” ITUG-Jahrestagung, Technischen Universitaet Darmstadt (Keynote). 

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• 2017. Nyhan, J.  ”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.

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• 2017. Sloan, K, Nyhan, J., Pickering, V. “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.

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

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• 2015. Nyhan, J.  “Knowledge organisation systems and Digital Humanities: looking back in order to look forward“. ISKO Knowledge organization systems and digital humanities. Strasbourg, France. (Keynote)

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• 2015. Nyhan, J. “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).

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• 2015. Nyhan, J. “An introduction to the Histories of Digital Humanities“. University of Babes-Bolyaiy / Transylvanian Digital Humanities Centre, Romania.

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

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• 2015. Nyhan J. “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. 

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

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

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

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• 2014. Nyhan, J. “About the book as data“. The Post Digital Scholar. Lueneburg, Germany. 

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

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

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

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• 2014. Nyhan, J. “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.

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• 2014. Nyhan, J. “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.

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

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

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

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

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• 2014. Nyhan, J. “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.

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

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• 2013. Nyhan, J. “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)

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• 2013. Nyhan, J. “Through memories and times: reflections on reflecting on the histories of computing in the Humanities“. Humanities Unbound, University of Lausanne. Switzerland. (Keynote) 

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• 2013. Nyhan, J. “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

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• 2013. Nyhan, J. “Text, Image and Sound: where we are and where we are not in Digital Humanities. Future Digital Conference“. Open University. UK. (Keynote)   

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

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

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

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

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• 2011. Nyhan, J., Welsh, A. “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.

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

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

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• 2008. Nyhan, J. “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.

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

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• 2008. Nyhan, J. “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.

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