Speaking Events
Upcoming: I will be speaking about the Southeastern Native American Collections Project at the 2011 American Folklore Society Meetings in Bloomington, IN and the Open Folklore Project at the 2011 American Anthropological Association Meetings in Montreal. Details to follow.
Selected Past Presentations, Lectures, and Speaking Events
October 14, 2010
“Open Folklore“
American Folklore Society Annual Meeting
Nashville, Tennessee
My presentation at the 2010 AFS meeting focused on introducing the Open Folklore project. I made a YouTube version of the presentation soon after the meeting.
May 14, 2010
“Innovation and Open Access in Scholarly Journal Publishing.”
AcademiX 2010: Learning in an Open Access World
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, USA
[Note: My talk is now freely accessible via Apple's iTunes U]
Abstract: Drawing upon wider lessons learned while editing a toll access journal published by a scholarly society and later establishing an open access journal published in partnership with a research university library, I will describe a range of motivations underpinning the movement for building an open access scholarly communication system. Beyond characterizing the many “whys” of the open access movement, I will offer a picture of where open access journal publishing (as distinct from open access repository use) is now and where it appears to be going. Themes include the opening up of legacy journal content, the circumstances of scholarly societies as publishers, the role of libraries as publishers, author’s rights questions, tenure and promotion issues, and the impact of open access publishing for students, communities of concern, and for the careers of individual scholars.
May 12, 2010
“Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Values: Choosing our Future.”
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
March 18, 2010
“Transformation of Heritage and Property in Museums”
Institut für Kulturanthropologie/Europäische Ethnologie und
Interdisziplinäre Forschergruppe zu Cultural Property
Universitäten Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
