“Oral literacy, Western literate tradition and libraries:  (mis)representations of First Nations’ knowledge, cultures and literacies,”  5th Annual Wanapitei Colloquium, Temagami, Ontario, August, 2000.

“Opportunities and challenges of electronic information: Canadian government documents and online journal publishing,” a talk given (by invitation) at the Research and the Information Age roundtable (with Professors Heather Menzies and Jean Manore), Trent University, February, 2001.

“CAHI 101 Library Research Workshop,” Trent University, 16-17 January, 2002.

"An Aboriginal intermediary and print culture: Charles A. Cooke (Thawennensere) and Indian Affairs in Canada, 1893-1926," a paper given (by invitation) at the Symposium on Book & Print Culture, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Manitoba, 2 June, 2004.

"An Aboriginal intermediary and the written word: Charles A. Cooke (Thawennensere) and Indian Affairs in Canada, 1893-1926," Twelfth annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), Lyon, France, Ecole Normale Supérieure – Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 22 July, 2004.

“’With interests of philology and ethnology’: Charles A. Cooke (Thawennensere) and Indian Affairs in Canada, 1893-1926,” 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 30 October, 2004.

Comments delivered on the occasion of the McNally-Robinson Booksellers' book launch for Paper Talk: a history of libraries, print culture, and Aboriginal peoples in Canada before 1960, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 10 February, 2005.

“A Short history of Aboriginal libraries in Canada,” Part Two of Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future of Aboriginal Resources (with David Smith), (by invitation) at the Annual Conference of the Saskatchewan Library Association, Saskatoon, 23 April, 2005.

"Putting the Talk on Paper: Aboriginal peoples and the History of the Book in Canada," a talk given (by invitation) to the Native-Newcomer Discussion Group, University of Saskatchewan, 20 October, 2005.

 “’I Have Lots of Books to Convince You’: Andrew Paull, Aboriginal political performance, and the politics of literacy,” a paper delivered (by invitation) at ‘Canada on Display: celebrating the teaching of History at Trent,’ Catherine Parr Traill College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, 14 April, 2007.

“’Chief Teller of Tales’: John Buchan, a.k.a Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada (1935-1940): views on the Commonwealth and the place of Aboriginal peoples,” a paper delivered (by invitation) at the Third Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Studies, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, England, 21 May, 2007.

“Writing and Speaking: Aboriginal Canadians performing on the page in the early twentieth century,” a paper delivered at ‘Open the Book, Open the Mind,’ SHARP Annual Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, 11 July, 2007.

“Playing Canadian: the birth, near-death, and renaissance of popular Canadian music, 1950-present,” a lecture given (by invitation) to CT 325-Canadian Pop Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University (Brantford Campus), 14 November, 2007.

“A War of Wor(l)ds: Aboriginal Canadian writing in the early twentieth century,” a paper delivered at the 3rd International Unconventional Meeting of Young Canadianists, North University of Baia Mare, Romania, 18 April, 2008.

"Are We Managing?: Canadian society in the 'information age,'" a paper delivered at MANAGING DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL COHESION: THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE,  The 5th International Conference of Central European Canadianists (CEACS), Sofia, Bulgaria, 17 October, 2009.

”To Put the Talk Upon Paper: Literacy, Libraries, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada,” a paper delivered (by invitation) at the “Documentation and Communication in Aboriginal/Indigenous Communities” panel,  THRIVING ON DIVERSITY - INFORMATION IN A PLURALISTIC WORLD, 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Vancouver, BC, 8 November, 2009.

“Assimilation, Integration, Accommodation: three approaches to Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada,” a lecture delivered (by invitation) at the Embassy of Canada-Bucharest to Romanian parliamentarians and NGO representatives working with Roma populations, Embassy of Canada, Bucharest, Romania, 24 February, 2010.

 “’Killing the Indian in the Child:’ the experience of Aboriginal people in Canadian residential schools,” comments delivered (by invitation) on the occasion of the “Strategic Steps for Improving Roma Children’s Access to Education” announcement by Romani CRISS (Roma Center for Social Intervention and Studies), Vasile Alecsandri School, Baia Mare, Romania, 9 March, 2010.

 “Romanian-Canadian Relations: where we’ve been, where we’re going.” Lectures delivered at various universities with Canadian Studies programmes in Romania. Lecture tour funded by a Canadian Leadership Program Grant from DFAIT and the Embassy of Canada-Bucharest, February-April, 2010.

“Transcultural? A brief history of Native-Newcomer relations in Canada,” a paper delivered (by invitation) at the 4^th International Unconventional Meeting of Young Canadianists, North University of Baia Mare, Romania, 8 April, 2010.

"Transculturalism and Native Studies in Canada," a lecture delivered (by invitation) at the 5th International Summer School, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 7 July, 2010.

"Canada: diversiity and complexity," a lecture delivered (by invitation) to Masters-level students in the Department of Geography and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Matej Bel, Banská Bystrica, 27 September, 2010.