Conference papers and presentations

• Artificial intelligence and the future(s) of archival theory and practice [invited public presentation], Konarski Lecture, Politechnika Warszawska, Warsaw, Poland, October 2024.
• Archives, records, and information [invited presentation], Ciclo de Seminários: Rethinking the Archive(s) / Repensar o(s) Arquivo(s), Lisbon, Portugal, March 2024 [Webcast available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbgpEqK9nes and at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhVvvwNlPTQ].
• Reflections on histories of records [invited online presentation], Archival History Section of the Society of American Archivists, February 2024.
• Conceptualizing archives in an era of artificial intelligence [invited keynote presentation], 5th Xornadas da Fundación Olga Gallego, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, November 2023 [Webcast available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DW5zAkjEIo].
• Beyond institutions: exploring boundaries and intersections between archival science and library and information studies [invited keynote presentation], Bobcatsss Conference, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway, January 2023.
• Archival appraisal in the digital era: cultivating a new professional agenda [invited presentation], Norsk Arkivråd, Oslo, Norway, January 2023.
• Bridging the gap between then and now? Some lessons from archival history [invited keynote presentation], 9th Conference of the International Council on Archives, Rome, Italy, September 2022.
• Writing (uncanonical) archival histories: challenges and opportunities [online keynote presentation], 10th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives, virtual conference hosted by the National Archives of the United Kingdom, July 2022.
• How did records management begin? [invited online presentation], Information and Records Management Society, London, March 2022.
• Transforming archival appraisal in the age of digital innovation [invited online presentation], XXIX Seminario del Sistema Nacional de Archivos, Archivo General de la Nación, Bogota, Colombia, November 2021 [Webcast (in Spanish translation; with PowerPoint slides in English) available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZzrhq0dZLY].
• (with Laura Millar and David Fricker), Why records matter: a dialogue on trust, information, and evidence in the digital age [plenary online presentation], Empowering Knowledge Societies: International Council on Archives Virtual Conference, October 2021.
• Record-making and record-keeping in early societies [invited online reading], Archival Technologies Lab, City University of New York, USA, September 2021.
• (with Valencia Johnson and Laura Millar), As a matter of fact: convincing the world that archives matter [invited online presentation], Society of American Archivists, March 2021 [Webcast available at https://www.pathlms.com/saa/events/2430/video_presentations/194937].
• 'A record is whatever I say it is': why study concepts of record?, Archival Education and Research Institute, Liverpool, England, July 2019.
• Representation and the future of appraisal in the digital realm [invited keynote presentation], Conference of the International Council on Archives Section on University and Research Institution Archives, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, July 2019.
• What can we learn from studying the origins of archives?, Association of Canadian Archivists 44th Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2019.
• Records, archives and social interaction [invited presentation], University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, April 2019.
• Records: what we decide to create or what we choose to manage?, IRFD Network Conference, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark, January 2019.
• Capturing falsehoods? A records management perspective [invited presentation], Post-Truth Archives Workshop, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, October 2017.
• Challenging ideas about appraisal and selection: shaping our professional agenda for the digital world, Annual Conference of the Archives and Records Association of the United Kingdom and Ireland, Manchester, England, August 2017.
• Can we keep everything? Disrupting ideas about appraisal and selection, Association of Canadian Archivists 42nd Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, June 2017.
• (with James Lowry), Relationships between records and data and maintaining reliable digital information [invited presentation], Workshop on the Challenges of Managing Digital Information for Measuring Sustainable Development Goals, Senate House, University of London, April 2017.
• (with Elizabeth Shepherd), Managing Records fourteen years on [invited keynote presentation], Annual Conference of the Information and Records Management Society, Brighton, England, May 2016.
• Trust and context in the world of digital archives [invited presentation], Norsk Arkivråd, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway, November 2015.
• Records and information: continuing the discussion, Records Continuum Research Group, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, September 2015.
• Archives and records at the edge of the information society [invited keynote presentation], 30th National Conference of the Australian Society of Archivists, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, August 2015 [Webcast available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW1qzu-BS9U].
• Posner's Archives in the Ancient World revisited: a new look at some old records [keynote presentation], 7th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2015.
• Providing access to information in the domain of records management [invited presentation], VII Encontro de Arquivos Científicos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2015.
• Records and archives in the age of information [invited public presentation], Jenkinson Lecture, University College London, March 2015.
• Constructing digital orders: evolving priorities for responding creatively to user needs and technological change, Annual Conference of the Archives and Records Association of the United Kingdom and Ireland, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, August 2014.
• (with Kenneth Thibodeau and Victoria Lemieux), Boundaries, record aggregations and contextual relationships: meeting needs of different user communities in the archives of the future, Association of Canadian Archivists 39th Annual Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June 2014.
• Processing and describing archives in the digital era: challenges and opportunities, Conference of the International Council on Archives Section on University and Research Institution Archives, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, June 2013.
• Archival description in the era of digital abundance [invited keynote presentation], 6th Norske Arkivmøte, Ålesund, Norway, April 2013.
• Trust in cyberspace [invited public presentation], Exploratory Workshop, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, September 2012.
• Archival arrangement and original order: are they outmoded in the digital age? [invited presentation], XVII Congresso Brasileiro de Arquivologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2012.
• Educating archivists and records managers in the UK: a historical perspective [invited presentation], Arkivakademiets 20-årsjubileum, Oslo, Norway, May 2012.
• Records classification, archival arrangement and the third order of order [invited presentation], Norsk Arkivråd, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway, May 2012.
• Archival arrangement: multiple orderings of the record, Association of Canadian Archivists 36th Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2011.
• Rethinking ideas about the record [invited presentation], Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA, December 2010.
• Speech act theory and concepts of the record [invited public presentation], SLAIS Colloquium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, November 2010 [Webcast available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhQMa3H6XEM].
• Telling the difference: perceptions of uniqueness and identity in archives [invited presentation], XVI Congresso Brasileiro de Arquivologia, São Paulo, Brazil, August 2010 [Revised version of text available at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/geoffrey-yeo/tellingdifference.pdf].
• Questions of identity? Significant properties and boundary objects, FARMER/NAET Conference on Archives, Records and Identities, Oxford, England, July 2010.
• (with Victoria Lemieux and Heather MacNeil), Toppling giants? Can visual analytics replace traditional approaches to archival description?, Association of Canadian Archivists 35th Annual Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 2010.
• (with Victoria Lemieux), Envisioning archival description, 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving, Geneva, Switzerland, April 2010.
• Educating for the digital domain: some issues for archival educators, contributed to panel session at the 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving, Geneva, Switzerland, April 2010 [Full text available at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/geoffrey-yeo/digitaldomain.pdf].
• Describing archives in their totality? Thoughts on the construction of the finding aid in the age of Web 2.0, Archives 2.0 Conference, Manchester, England, March 2009.
• The role of the archivist in document management and records management [invited presentation], Congreso de Archivos Municipales Españoles, Lugo, Spain, November 2008.
• New approaches to archival description [invited presentation], Welsh Libraries, Museums and Archives Conference, Llandrindod Wells, Wales, May 2008 [PowerPoint slides available at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/geoffrey-yeo/description.pdf].
• Records and representations, Conference on the Philosophy of the Archive, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2008 [Full text available at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/geoffrey-yeo/representations.pdf].
• (with Erica Ander), Student expectations of the UK job market in archives and records management, King's College London, February 2008.
• Where lies the fonds? Custodial history and the description of personal records, 3rd International Conference on the History of Records and Archives, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, September 2007.
• Users, information technology and standardised description in a non-standardised world, ARMREN workshop, University College London, June 2007 [PowerPoint slides available at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/geoffrey-yeo/standardised.pdf].

Text last updated on 14 March 2025.