French Literature • Digital Humanities • Literary, Intellectual, & Book History
Invited Talks
Invited participant, “Effets d’optique textuelle à grande echelle: Les champs du réemplois”. Colloque de Cerisy: “Des humanités numériques littéraires?”, Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle, June 2017.
Invited speaker (with Robert Morrissey), “Digitizing Raynal”. Digitizing Enlightenment II, Radboud University, Netherlands, June 2017.
Invited speaker, “Péguy et l’écriture de la gloire”. Conference: “La Gloire littéraire”, Université Paris-Sorbonne, University of Chicago Center in Paris, Institut d’études avancées, Paris, June 2017.
Invited speaker, “Early Modern Text Technologies: Identifying Commonplace Practices in ECCO”. Digital Humanities Abu Dhabi – DHAD, New York University Abu Dhabi, April 2017.
Invited speaker (with Robert Morrissey), “Navigating the Sea of Information”. Paris Harper Lecture, University of Chicago Paris, March 2017.
“Discours critique, discours philosophique, discours disciplinaire: L’Encyclopédie entre le Dictionnaire historique et critique de Bayle et l’Encyclopédie méthodique de Panckoucke”, with Robert Morrissey. Colloque: “Les phénomènes énonciatifs dans le discours encyclopédique : approche linguistique, littéraire et philosophique”, Université de Neuchâtel, November 2016.
“Early Modern Information Overload: Making Sense of Big Data in the Humanities”. Distinguished Lecture Series in Digital Humanities, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, January 2016.
“Le devoir de tout lire”, with Robert Morrissey. Conference: Vers une littérature mondiale à l’heure du numérique, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France, October 2015.
“Commonplaces and Cultural Transmission: Literary ‘Translation’ in the 18th Century”. Conference: Vers une littérature mondiale à l’heure du numérique, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France, Octboer 2015.
“Émilie du Châtelet, une encyclopédiste inconnue”. Émilie Du Châtelet: Philosopher & Encyclopédist, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, May 2015.
“From Literary Corpus to Literary Culture: Sequence Alignment as a Method for Exploring 18th-Century Commonplace Practices”. Symposium: Beyond Authorship, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, June 2014.
“Distant Readings: Data Mining Approaches to the French Enlightenment”. Digital Humanities Research Group, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia, May 2014.
“How to Not Read and Why: The Promises and Perils of Literary Scholarship at Scale”. Humanities Research Centre Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, May 2014.
“Numériser la collection Baudouin: PhiloLogic et l’expérience ARTFL”, with Robert Morrissey, Mark Olsen, and Tim Allen. Conference: La Loi en Révolution 1789-1795: Fonder l’ordre et établir la norme. Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France, September 2013.
“Untangling the Social Network of the Eighteenth Century: Epistolary Intertextuality in the Age of Enlightenment”. Early Modern French Seminar, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, May 2013.
“Exploring Enlightenment: Text Mining the 18th-Century Republic of Letters”. UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London, London, UK, April 2013. (html)
“Qu’est-ce que c’est que les Questions sur l’Encyclopédie de Voltaire? Leur lien avec l’Encyclopédie“, with Nicholas Cronk. Colloquium: L’édition électronique de l’Encyclopédie : nouveaux accès, nouveaux usages, nouvelles recherches. Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France, April 2013.
“The Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters: From Encyclopédie to Electronic Enlightenment“. Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment Workshop, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, February 2013.
“Exploring Enlightenment: Text Mining and Intertextuality in the 18th-century Republic of Letters”. Digital Humanities Lab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2012.
“Exploring the Eighteenth-Century Digital Archive”. President’s Seminar, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, October 2012.
“Prendre le tournant numérique: l’expérience de l’ARTFL”, with Robert Morrissey. Medicine, Literature, and the Web. World Knowledge Dialogue Workshop, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, October 2012.
“‘Que ce ne soit point un labyrinthe tourtueux:’ L’édition numérique de l’Encyclopédie“. Congrès de l’Association des franco-romanistes allemands (AFRA). Atelier: Révolution des médias, évolution des études de lettres? Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, September 2012.
“Electronic Enlightenment: The Challenges of Online Correspondence Collections”, with Nicholas Cronk. Colloquium: Online Editions: Problems and New Perspectives. Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland, May 2012.
“Text Mining Electronic Enlightenment: Influence and Intertextuality in the 18th-century Republic of Letters”. Seminar: Cultures of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, May 2012. (slides) (podcast)
“Quelques sources de l’Encyclopédie revues à la lumière de nouvelles techniques informatiques”, with Robert Morrissey. Séminaire: La Manufacture Encyclopédique, Société Diderot, Paris, France, May 2012.
“Networks and Communities in 18th-century Correspondence Collections”. Digital Communities: Pro-Vice Chancellor’s Workshop on the Digital Humanities. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, December 2011.
“Electronic Enlightenment?” Books Beyond Boundaries: A Symposium at Trinity College, Cambridge. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, November 2011.
“Using PhiloLogic to Re-Edit and Analyze Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie“. Center for Disciplinary Innovation Colloquium: Disciplines and Technologies. Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 2011.
“Beyond Word Search: Navigating the Digital Encyclopédie”. Conference: Translating the Encyclopédie in the Global 18th Century. New York University, New York, NY, March 2011.
“New Approaches to the Digital Encyclopédie”. Colloquium on the Digital Encyclopédie. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, April 2010.
“Le Triomphe de l’histoire littéraire et l’Affaire Dreyfus”. Seminar: Vie intellectuelle et vie littéraire en France 1900-1930. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 2009.
“Charles Péguy and the Politics of Modern Intellectualism”. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Modern France, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, May 2009.
“Sources of Enlightenment: Digital Intertextuality and the Encyclopédie“. Colloquium: Encyclopedias and Encyclopedisms. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 2009.
“Data Mining the Digital Encyclopédie”, with Robert Voyer. Colloquium: Knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment: Producing the Encyclopédie. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, May 2007.