Keynote and plenary lectures
(2012) The (Re)Making and Undoing of Peace/Conflict: Third International Conference in Communication and Media Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus, April 11-13.
(2011) Repository Fringe 2011, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, August 3-4.
(2011) Transformations, International Postgraduate Conference, Cardiff University, July 7-8. (Introduction to keynote speaker from Paul Bowman available at Academia.edu.)
(2010) The Visual Culture Studies Conference I, organised by New York University; University of the Arts, London; and University of Westminster, London; and held at University of Westminster, May 27-29.
(2010) 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) '"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) ‘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) ‘Solid States, Liquid Objects: Discourses of Mediation’ international symposium, Monash University, Australia, August 19.
(2009) plenary speaker at the new media seminar accompanying the Kurye International Video Festival, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2-12.
(2009) 'Vocaciones contemporáneas del editor', 17, Institute of Critical Studies, Mexico City, Mexico, May.
(2008) ‘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) Second International Conference in Communication and Media Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus, May 2-4.
(2006) '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, August 30.
Invited lectures and talks
(2011) 'Materialities of Text: Between the Codex and the Net', online conference hosted by 'Archiving Cultures', Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, October.
(2011) Vectors-CTS Summer Institute on Digital Approaches to American Studies, University of Southern California, August 9-11.
(2011) 'On Liquid, Living Books', The Unbound Book conference, Amsterdam Central Library and the Royal Library in Den Haag, May 19-21 (organised by the Electronic Publishing and Interactive Media department at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, in cooperation with Book and Digital Studies at the University of Leiden and the Institute of Network Cultures). (Blogged at The Unbound Book.)
(2011) School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, March 3.
(2011) 'Towards a New Political Economy: Open Humanities Press and the Open Access Monograph', OAPEN 2011: The First OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Conference, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, February 24 – 25. (Results of the conference are available here.)
(2010) 'White Noise', Data Landscapes: Workshop 2, AHRC network event in conjunction with the British Antarctic Survey, University of Westminster, December 15.
(2010) 'Radical Open Access in the Humanities: or, Will the Future Editors of Žižek Have to Publish His Tweets?', for Open Access Week (Oct. 18-22) and as part of the Research Without Borders speaker series, Scholarly Communication Program, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University, New York, October 18.
(2010) invited key participant, Robots and Avatars Lunch Debate 1: Artificial Intelligence, co-produced by body>data>space and NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), June 28, NESTA, London.
(2010) 'Who Owns Research?', A Workshop for Postdoctoral Researchers, CRASSH (The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), University of Cambridge, June 3. (Reviewed at Open Reflections.)
(2010) 'The Virtual University', Work in Progress Seminars, CRASSH (The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), University of Cambridge, May 10.
(2010) '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. (Blogged at Virtualpolitik.)
(2009) '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) School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, November 4.
(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) Art Forum, Tasmanian School of Art – Hobart, University of Tasmania, August 14.
(2009) 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 session from the Open Humanities Press on open access monograph publishing, Second International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, Vancouver, Canada, July 8-10.
(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) ‘New Media Theory 3G’, Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster, February 25.
(2008) ‘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) ‘Pirate Philosophy (Version 3.0): Open Access, Open Editing, Open Content, Open Media’, University of Durham, October 29.
(2008) 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, September 24.
(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) ‘Cultural Studies Now' symposium, University of Heidelberg, Germany, May 6.
(2008) ‘Liquid Theory’, University of California Santa Barbara, US, April 4.
(2008) 'Liquid Theory', University of California Irvine, US, April 3.
(2008) ‘Ten Questions for Cultural Studies Today’, University of California Los Angeles, US, April 2.
(2007) 'The Intellectual', Whitechapel Salon, a series of debates at The Whitechapel Gallery, London, November 29.
(2007) '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) 'WikiNation', Istanbul Technical University, Bilgi, Istanbul, Turkey, April 30.
(2007) 'The Politics of Memory and the Archive', at the Memory, Technicity and Time' symposium, University of East London, April 18.
(2007) 'Post-politics', at the Do We Live in a Post World? conference, University of Lower Silesia, Poland, March 17.
(2007) invited to present on the CSeARCH open access archive project at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, February 13.
(2006) 'New Cultural Studies', University of Western Sydney, Australia, August 27.
(2006) 'Ethics and New Media', Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia, August 21.
(2006) Westminster University's English Colloquia series on 'Unpacking the Library: Literatures and their Archives', June 10.
(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, March 27-29, and the Free University, Berlin, Germany, in September 14-16.
(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) 'Cultural Theory in the Age of Digital Reproduction', Research seminar at the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, April 28.
(2004) 'Hypercyberdemocracy', The Information Society, Post-Modern Virtualities and Cyberdemocracy: Critical Engagements with Professor Mark Poster, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, UK, July 3-4.
(2003) 'The Cultural Studies e-Archive Project: A Deconstructive Pragmatics of the Institution?', American Comparative Literature Association conference, San Marcos University, San Diego, US, April 4-6.
Conference lectures and talks
(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.
(2007) 'The Singularity of New Media', Remediating Literature conference, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, July 4-6.
(2005) 'The Future of the Humanities in a Virtual World: or, How to Build an Ethical Institution', Rhetoric, Ethics, Politics, University of Ghent, Belgium, April 21-23.
(2004) 'X-treme Cultural Studies', Crossroads in Cultural Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US, June 25-28.
(2004) 'IT, Again', Virtual Materialities, International Association for Philosophy and Literature conference, Syracuse University, US, May 19-25.
(2003) 'Prosthetics: Technology and the Human', Prosthetics and the Human, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, March 9.
(2002) 'The Politics and Ethics of Electronic Archiving', The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, University of Edinburgh, March 20-23.