Select community lectures, conference panels, and appearances for various press outlets. My goal is to educate the public on special projects in an exciting and accessible manner. Some of these presentations were to educate researchers on how to use new research methodologies and sources. Conference panels and papers were researched with and presented to colleagues in the field.
Community Lectures
Busting Myths: A Conversation about Archiving the Swedish-American Experience. Invited Panel. Virtual, 2021
Using Swedish-American Newspapers for Genealogy Research. Invited Lecture. Minneapolis, MN, 2019
Quad Cities Swedish Immigrant Collections: Love Letters. Rock Island, IL, 2018
Swedish American Newspapers: Digitization Project & Research Opportunities. Eau Claire, WI, 2017
Using Digital Swedish American Newspapers. Invited Lecture. Salt Lake City, UT, 2016
Land, Letters, & Loss: Swedish Immigration to Iowa. Invited Lecture. Des Moines, IA, 2015
Digital Public Library of America. Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA, 2015
Highlights from the Swenson Center’s Collections: Unique Stories, Photographs, and Artifacts. Invited Lecture. Rock Island, IL, 2015
Digital Projects at Libraries in Sweden. Eau Claire, WI, 2015
Jumping into the Digital Humanities. With Samantha Crisp. Rock Island, IL, 2014
Best Practices in Digital Preservation. Invited Lecture. Moline, IL, 2014
Preserving your Family Heirlooms. Community Course. Davenport, IA, 2014
Preserving your Family Photographs and Documents. Invited Lecture. Rock Island, IL, 2013
Conference Participation
Swedish American Identities and Collections. SASS, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2022
Exploring Swedish-American Borderlands: Digital Humanities & History Collections. ASTRA, virtual, 2020
The Art of Reprocessing. MARAC, Morgantown, WV, 2019
Unlikely Teammates: Innovative & Creative Collaborations for Archives and Special Collections. MAC, Detroit, MI, 2019
One More Hat: Communication & Marketing for Archivists. Poster. MAC, Chicago, IL, 2018
Immigration Archival Collections: Difference, Transnationality, Relevance. SAA, Portland, OR, 2017
Rethinking the Archives’ Digital Presence. Poster. MAC, Lexington, KY, 2015
The Swedish Immigrant in the Upper Mississippi Valley from 1840. Clinton, IA, 2015
Current Research from the Field. MPMA, Aspen, CO, 2014
Digital and Physical Humanities. Information Fluency Conference, Rock Island, IL, 2014
Press
Preserving Swedish culture through art Interview with Kayla Palliser, Augustana Observer, 2021
To keep history from being lost, Augustana Historical Society digitizing the printed word
Interview with Shawn Loging, WHBF Local 4 News, 2019
50 States of Preservation: The Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois Interview with Joel Wurl, NEH.gov, 2017
Immigration on the Prairie
Interview with Fran Riley, Fran's Features on KWQC Channel 6 News, 2016
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