Recent talks and conference presentations
(2010, forthcoming) plenary speaker at The Visual Culture Studies Conference I, organised by SUNY, Stony Brook; University of the Arts, London; New York University and University of Westminster, London and held at University of Westminster, May 27-29.
(2010) invited speaker, 'The Free, Libre, Open University', Networks and Enclaves: Open Access and Work in the 21st Century University conference, presented by the UCI Humanities Center in conjunction with HumaniTech, with support from the University of California Humanities Research Institute and Coventry University, UK, and held at the University of California, Irvine, US, February 11-12.
(2010) keynote speaker - 3 lectures: 'The Missing Community', 'Deleuze's "Postscript on the Societies of Control"', and 'Media Gifts' - at the ‘Dispositifs’ colloquium, 17, Institute of Critical Studies, Mexico City, Mexico, January 11-16. Included 'premiere' of 'Deleuze's "Postscript on the Societies of Control"'.
(2009) invited speaker, 'Open Access, Open Books, Open Humanities', 4.ª CONFERÊNCIA SOBRE O ACESSO LIVRE AO CONHECIMENTO, University of Minho – Braga, Portugal, November 26-27. (Blogged at Ideas Underground.)
(2009) invited speaker at School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, November 4.
(2009) plenary speaker, '"Follow the Money": The Political Economy of Open Access Publishing in the Humanities', 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing held by The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association and the DOAJ/Lund University Libraries, Lund, Sweden, September 14-16.
(2009) invited panellist at a workshop on new models in Open Access book publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, in conjunction with the 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP), Lund, Sweden, September 16.
(2009) keynote speaker, ‘Where forth now? What are the future possibilities, potentialities and suggestions for the world, nature, society, and humanity’ conference, TreeHouse Gallery, Regents Park, London, September 5.
(2009) keynote speaker at ‘Solids States, Liquid Objects: Discourses of Mediation’ international symposium, Monash University, Australia, August 19.
(2009) invited speaker at Art Forum, Tasmanian School of Art – Hobart, University of Tasmania, August 14.
(2009) invited speaker at the School of Visual and Performing Arts special event, Academy of the Arts – Launceston, University of Tasmania, August 11.
(2009) co-organiser of, and presenter at, a day-long series of sessions from the Open Humanities Press on open access monograph publishing, Second International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, Vancouver, Canada, July 8-10.
(2009) plenary speaker at the new media seminar accompanying the Kurye International Video Festival, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2-12.
(2009) keynote speaker at the on-line conference, 'Vocaciones contemporáneas del editor', with high-level editors organized by 17, Institute of Critical Studies, Mexico City, Mexico, May.
(2009) invited speaker, ‘Free, Libre, Open Media’, presented as part of the ‘Generation Net: Arts and Culture in the 21st Century’ guest speakers series, Nottingham University, April 23.
(2009) invited speaker, ‘New Media Theory 3G’, Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster, February 25.
(2008) invited speaker, ‘Pirate Philosophy (Version 3.0): Open Access, Open Editing, Open Content, Open Media’, Research Centre for Digital Material Culture, University of Sussex, November 19. (Blogged at Films Studies for Free)
(2008) invited speaker, ‘Pirate Philosophy (Version 3.0): Open Access, Open Editing, Open Content, Open Media’, University of Durham, October 29.
(2008) invited speaker at Council on Library and Information Resource Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources synchronized seminar, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, US.
(2008) invited moderator at the ‘Sensual Technologies’ symposium, organised by Brunel University’s School of Arts and held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, June 27.
(2008) ‘On Peace and Conflict in the Middle East’, ACS Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference, The University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, July 3-7.
(2008) invited speaker at a symposium ‘Cultural Studies Now', University of Heidelberg, Germany, May 6.
(2008) invited speaker, ‘Liquid Theory’, University of California Santa Barbara, US, April 4.
(2008) invited speaker, 'Liquid Theory', University of California Irvine, US, April 3.
(2008) invited speaker, ‘Ten Questions for Cultural Studies Today’, University of California Los Angeles, US, April 2.
(2008) keynote speaker, ‘Cultural Studies and the Art of Making Trouble’, Troublemakers/Making Trouble: Strategies of Creative and Critical Engagement From Within the Academy conference, University of Greenwich, February 22.
(2007) invited speaker, 'The Intellectual', Whitechapel Salon, a series of debates at The Whitechapel Gallery, London.
(2007) invited speaker, 'The Impact of the Humanities: or, What's Next for Open Access', Berlin 5 Open Access conference, Padua, Italy, September 19-21, organised by the Max Planck Institute and the University of Padua.
(2007) ‘Hyper-Cultural Studies’, Cultural Studies Now conference, University of East London, July 19-22.
(2007) keynote speaker at the Second International Conference in Communication and Media Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus.
(2007) invited speaker, 'WikiNation', Istanbul Technical University, Bilgi, Istanbul, Turkey.
(2007) invited speaker, 'The Politics of Memory and the Archive', at the Memory, Technicity and Time' symposium, University of East London.
(2007) invited speaker, 'Post-politics', at the Do We Live in a Post World? conference, University of Lower Silesia, Poland.
(2007) 'The Singularity of New Media', Remediating Literature conference, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
(2007) invited to present on the CSeARCH open access archive project at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brussels, Belgium.
(2006) invited plenary speaker, 'The Future of the University in the Age of Digital Reproduction', at the Panic and Paranoia conference, Australian National University, Canberra School of Art, Australia.
(2006) invited speaker, 'Ethics and New Media', Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia.
(2006) invited speaker, 'New Cultural Studies', University of Western Sydney, Australia.
(2006) speaker in Westminster University's English Colloquia series on 'Unpacking the Library: Literatures and their Archives'.
(2006) invited speaker alongside, among others, Prof. Douglas Kellner and Prof. Mark Poster at the Media, Body, Imagination conference series held at the University of California, Irvine, US, and the Free University, Berlin, Germany, in March and Sept.
(2005) 'The Future of the Humanities in a Virtual World: or, How to Build an Ethical Institution', Rhetoric, Ethics, Politics, University of Ghent, Belgium.
(2005) 'New Cultural Studies', invited respondent to Professor Lawrence Grossberg's 'Caught in the Crossfire: Cultural Studies, Kids, and American Modernity', Goldsmiths College, University of London.
(2004) 'X-treme Cultural Studies', Crossroads in Cultural Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US.
(2004) 'IT, Again', Virtual Materialities, International Association for Philosophy and Literature conference, Syracuse University, US.
(2004) invited speaker, 'Cultural Theory in the Age of Digital Reproduction', Research seminar at the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University.
(2004) invited speaker, 'Hypercyberdemocracy', The Information Society, Post-Modern Virtualities and Cyberdemocracy: Critical Engagements with Professor Mark Poster, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, UK.
(2003) invited speaker, 'The Cultural Studies e-Archive Project: A Deconstructive Pragmatics of the Institution?', American Comparative Literature Association conference, San Marcos University, San Diego, US.
(2003) 'Prosthetics: Technology and the Human', Prosthetics and the Human, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
(2002) 'The Politics and Ethics of Electronic Archiving', The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, University of Edinburgh.