"Colonising the Educational Gaze: Deaf Institutions and Indigenous Schools at Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition, 1893." Canadian History of Education Association, Kitchener-Waterloo, ON, October 30, 2016.
"Storytelling in Canadian History." Historians Teaching History Conference, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, May 28, 2016.
“Historical Thinking for Social Studies” (with Carolee Pollock, MacEwan University) Central Alberta Teachers’ Convention Association (CATCA), Red Deer College, AB, February 19, 2016.
“Les défis de l’enseignement de l’histoire de l’immigration (au Québec).” [A deliberately subversive title to fit a panel, as the presentation was about situating all non-Indigenous history as the “history of immigration” and teaching Canadian history accordingly] Association québécoise pour l’enseignement en univers social (AQÉUS), Gatineau, QC. October 23, 2015.
"Information Fluency in the Teaching of History". Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, June 18, 2014.
“Information Literacy in the Teaching of History” with (Paul Boultbee, Librarian, Red Deer College). Mount Royal University Symposium on Teaching and Learning, Banff, AB, Nov. 10, 2012.
“Information Literacy: Case Studies and Practice” (panel presentation). Canadian Library Association Conference, Edmonton, AB, June 2010.
“L'éducation des sourds dans l'histoire: des leçons du passé qui informent l'avenir?” International Rehabilitation Conference, Institut Raymond-Dewar, Montréal, QC, June 2009.
“Approaching Minorities: A Few Lessons from History”. Presentation at the “Best Practice: Diversity in Health Care” Nursing Conference, Red Deer College, Oct. 2008.
“National Identities on Display: Québec’s Deaf Schools at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893,” Canadian Catholic Historical Association, 75th Annual Congress, Vancouver, BC, June 2008.
“Des diverses lectures de l’histoire sourde au Québec.” Congres of the Association Canadienne-française pour l’Avancement des Sciences (ACFAS), Trois-Rivières, QC, May 2007.
“De quelques représentations de la surdité au Québec et ailleurs, XVIIIe-XXe siècles” Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française (IHAF), Montréal, QC, Oct. 2003.
“Les sourds entre protestants et catholiques : l’intersection des discours.” Société canadienne d’histoire de l’Église catholique, Trois-Rivières, QC, Sept. 2002.
“L’autre visage du bilinguisme à Montréal : LSQ et ASL. Émergence des communautés sourdes au début du XXe siècle.” IHAF, Trois-Rivières, QC, Oct. 1999.
“Protestantisme et catholicisme dans l’éducation des sourds à Montréal, 1850-1950.” SCHEC, Sherbrooke, QC, Oct. 1999.
“Les Clercs de Saint-Viateur et l’Institution des Sourds-Muets, 1848-1930: entre l’utopie de l’intégration sociale des sourds et la création d’une sous-culture.” Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises, Trois-Rivières, QC, 1996.
“Les muets entendront et les sourds parleront; et Dieu sera glorifié. Les Clercs de Saint-Viateur et l'Institution catholique des sourds-muets de Montréal, 1848-1929.” IHAF, Ottawa, ON, Oct. 1995.
“Institutions économiques et survie ethnique : L'Union Saint-Joseph et les Franco-Ontariens, 1863-1913.” Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, 1995
"Teaching the History of Health and Healing." Calgary History of Medicine Society, University of Calgary, September 2019.
"Unions and Exclusions: Solidarity Put to the Test". Alberta Union of Provincial Employees' "Introduction to Workers' History" workshop. Red Deer, AB. December 5, 2017.
"How Do we Teach History? Thoughts on Standard Histories, Reconciliation and Colonialism" Central Alberta Historical Society, Red Deer, AB, March 15, 2017.
“Deaf Experiences in Québec: Models of Difference”. Peikoff Chair of Deafness Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Jan. 2008.
"L’histoire des sourds à Montréal: autres regards” Centre de communication adaptée, Montréal, QC, May 2003.
“L’éducation des garçons sourds à Montréal” Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, Montréal, QC, March 2000.
“Booming: Consumer Culture and the Suburban Vision” (“Canada since 1867”) McGill University, Montréal, QC, 1999 and 2001.
“The Medicalisation of Modern Life” (“Health and the Healer in the Western World”), McGill University, 1998 and 1999.
“L’institution des Sourds-Muets, 1848-1930” Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, May 1999.