Ferris, Shawna, Amy Lebovitch, and Danielle Allard. 2020. “Sex Work Researchers vs/and REBs: Negotiating (With) Rules and ‘Rulers’ in Sex Work Research,” Law and Society Association Annual Conference. Virtual Conference. 28 May.
Ferris, Shawna, Danielle Allard, Micheline Hughes and Amy Lebovitch. 2019. “Best Practices and Developing Methodologies for Community-based Activist Research: Preliminary Findings from the Sex Work Activist Histories Project.” Annual conference of Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes (WGSRF). University of British Columbia. 4 June.
Allard, Danielle, Shawna Ferris, Sarah Story, Amanda Linden, Christine Bone, Claudyne Chevrier, and Micheline Hughes. 2017. “Disrupting Sex Work Subjectivities: Rewriting Prostitution Subject Headings. Association of Canadian Archivists. 8 June.
Lebovitch, Amy, and Shawna Ferris. 2017. “Combatting systemic stigma: The displacement and disempowerment of sex workers in academic research.” Cost Action PROSPOL Conference on ‘Displacing Sex for Sale.’” Aalborg University. Copenhagen, Denmark. 31 March.
Allard, Danielle, Shawna Ferris, and Greg Bak. 2016. “The Meaning of Tags: Tagging Folksonomies in the Digital Archives and Marginalized Communities (DAMC) Project.” ‘Futur proche’: Archives and Innovation. Association of Canadian Archivists. Montreal, Quebec. 3 June 2016.
Ferris, Shawna, Danielle Allard, Kiera Ladner, and Micheline Hughes. 2016. “Learning Lessons: Implementing Indigenist and Feminist Anti-oppressive Methodologies in DAMC Community Talks/Consultations.” 13th Prato CIRN (Community Informatics Research Network) Conference. Monash Centre. Prato, Italy. 3 November.
Allard, Danielle, Shawna Ferris, and Greg Bak. 2015. “The Tag is the Record: Creating and Deploying Tagging Folksonomies in DAMC.” 12th Prato CIRN (Community Informatics Research Network) Conference. Monash Centre. Prato, Italy. 9-11 November.
Lebovitch, Amy, and Shawna Ferris. 2015. “How can we avoid elitism and exclusion? Examining collaborative approaches to prostitution policy design.” International Conference on Public Policy. Milan, Italy. 3 July 2015.
Lebovitch, Amy, and Shawna Ferris. 2015. “’Certain Truths Still Emerge’: Examining elitism and exclusion in sex work-related anti-violence initiatives.” Troubling Prostitution: exploring intersections of sex, intimacy and labour. Vienna, Austria. 17 April.
Ladner, Kiera, and Shawna Ferris. 2015. “Running the DAMC: Examining theoretical and methodological developments over the first three years of the Digital Archives and Marginalized Communities Project.” 12th Prato CIRN (Community Informatics Research Network) Conference. Monash Centre. Prato, Italy. 9 November.
Lebovitch, Amy, and Shawna Ferris. 2015. “Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Sex Work/ers in the Courts and in Research.” Hands Off! Stop Violence Against Sex Workers. Partner Meeting. Cape Town, South Africa. 6 October.
Allard, Danielle, Shawna Ferris, Greg Bak, and Kiera Ladner. 2014. “Supporting autonomy: lessons from the Digital Archives and Marginalized Communities (DAMC) project.” 11th Prato CIRN (Community Informatics Research Network) Conference. Monash Centre. Prato, Italy. 15 October. Ferris, Shawna, and Danielle Allard. 2014. “The Digital Archives and Marginalized Communities Project: Building Anti-violence Archives.” iConference 2014. Humboldt University. Berlin, Germany. 6 March.
Allard, Danielle. and Shawna Ferris. (2014, June). Community-led participatory archiving. Presented at the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) conference, Victoria, BC, June 28, 2014.
Allard, Danielle, Shawna Ferris. (2014, March). The Digital Archives Project: Working with marginalized communities to build anti-violence archives. Presented at the iConference, Berlin.
Allard, Danielle, Shawna Ferris. (2013, June). Anti-violence and marginalized communities: Knowledge creation and community empowerment through digital archives. Presented at the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) conference, Winnipeg, MB.
Ferris, S., Allard, D., & Wreggit, C. (2012, May). The Sex Work Database. Presented at the Canadian Women Studies Association (CWS) annual conference, Waterloo, ON.
Allard, D. & Ferris, S. (2012, January). The Sex Work Database: Lessons learned from the margin. Presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) annual conference and exhibition, Dallas, TX.