Media Appearances
December 20, 2020 — The Spark Guide to Civilization: Attention, CBC Spark
January 21, 2021 — Everything at once: How the pandemic plays havoc with our sense of time, CBC Ideas
August 29, 2022 — The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism, Theorizing the Web Podcast
Invited Talks
November 25, 2022 — Forthcoming Talk, Political Science Department, University of Alberta
October 16, 2022 — AI Anarchies Opening Lecture for the Autumn School, Akademie Der Künste, Berlin
August 13, 2022 — Re-Understanding Media Symposium Panelist at Fonderie Darling, Montreal
February 8, 2021 — “Towards A Feminist Medium is the Message”, University of California, San Diego Science Studies Colloquium
January 26, 2021 — “A Broken Machine Workshop”, ADA-DADA Residency at SAVAC, Toronto
November 18, 2020 — Lecture Series on Data Practices, University of Siegen
November 9, 2020 — “A Feminist Medium is the Message in Three Parts”, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
March 5, 2020 — New York University, Reading McLuhan Symposium
Feb 11, 2020 — “A Broken Machine Workshop”, Virtual Grounds, Centre for Social Innovation Regents Park, Toronto
December 13, 2019 — Lecture at MOCA, Toronto
November 15, 2019 — Keynote Tuning Speculation Conference, Toronto
June 8, 2019 — Humboldt University, Berlin Keynote for Atlas of the Anthropocene
May 15, 2019 — “Feminist Techno Determinism: A Workshop” for the Digital Democracies Conference, SFU
May 9, 2019 — Keynote for Living a Digital Life: Objects, Environments, Power, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 29, 2019 — “A Feminism for the Broken Machine” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Jan 11, 2019 — InSync Seminar at Oslo Centre for Advanced Study
September 25, 2018 — Public Lecture for Institute of Anxiety at the Goethe Institute, Prague
October 11-13, 2018 — AOIR Plenary Panel, Montreal
April 19, 2018 — “Justice” Dictionary of Now, HKW, Berlin
April 6, 2018 — “A Mommy’s Basement Theory of Media” University of Waterloo
February 12, 2018 — Control Societies Speaker Series, University of Pennsylvania-Annenberg, Philadelphia
November 30-December 2, 2017 — 1948 Technosphere Unbound, Haus der Kulturen der Welt: HKW, Berlin
October 12-13, 2017 — Keynote for Re-Fig 2017 Conference, Edmonton
September 21, 2017 — “Exit and the Mechanical Mom” Paul Attallah Lecture, Carleton University, Ottawa
August 10, 2017 — “In the Meantime No Exit”, Planetary Futures Summer Institute with Milieux Research Lab, Concordia, Montreal
March 23, 2017 — “Exit Media” Media Studies Speaker Series at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
September 16-18, 2016 — “A Moving Inventory of Exits” Blackwood Gallery Mississauga
March 11-12, 2016 — “Hardwired Temporalities” McGill University, Montreal
November 16, 2015 — “Ambivalent Exits” Ambivalence Symposium, USC Annenberg
November 6, 2015 — “Exit Strategies: Between Exodus and the Politics of Care” Keynote Feminism Here and Now Conference, UNC-Chapel Hill
May 15, 2015 — “Of Taxis and TaskRabbits: Speed Traps and the Labour of Care” Societies of Speed Workshop, London School of Economics
November 22, 2014 — “Creativity, Feminism, Serendipity” My Creativity Sweatshop 2.0, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam
October 7, 2014 — Book Talk for In the Meantime at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
September 22, 2014 — “How to Do Time: A Temporal Politics” The 2014 Social Thought Lecture, Pennsylvania State University
June 9, 2014 — “Plugging Into the Hive Mind: Collaboration and Privacy in the Digital Age” North Carolina Governor’s School East
May 12, 2014 — Durham County, North Carolina Public Library Humanities Series In the Meantime Book Talk
April 30-May 1, 2014 — Alice Kaplan Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Northwestern University, “Hot off the Press” Event for In the Meantime
April 24-26, 2014 — “Rethinking Globalization and Questions of Scale,” North Carolina State University, “The Wait of the World: A Critical Temporality.”
April 19, 2014 — Bluestockings Bookstore, Reading for in The Meantime, New York City
April 18, 2014 — “E-Wasting Time in an Economy of Useless Pursuits” Social Media/Psychosocial Wellbeing Symposium, Rutgers University
April 10, 2014 — Book Talk for In the Meantime at the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication Colloquium
March 21-22, 2014 — “The Inhabitants of Time” ASPECT Conference, Virginia-Tech University, Keynote Speaker
February 28, 2014 — The Regulator Bookshop Durham, NC, Book Talk for In the Meantime
September 21-22, 2013 — Institute for Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University “Time and Globalization Working Group”
February 8, 2013 — “Time, Precarity and the Nights of Occupy” Geography Symposium, UNC-Chapel Hill
April 27, 2012 — “Because the Night Belongs to Lovers: Occupy in the Time of Precarity” Intersections: Occupations, York University Keynote Speaker
September 25, 2009 — “Materializing Communication and Rhetoric: Technologies, Infrastructures, and Flows,” North Carolina State University, “It Changes Space and Time! Introducing Power-Chronography: A new theory for the times.”
October 28, 2008 — “The Slow Life: The Politics of Sustainable Time” NC Energy Symposium Energy and Social Innovation Panelist
November 16, 2007 — “Taxis as Media” University of Chicago Mass Culture Working Group
December 14, 2006 — “Slow Lifers@home in a world of Speed” North Carolina State University Department of Communication Colloquium
Conferences
December 16 2016 “Sexodus and Refusal: The problem with male disposability” Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Sydney Australia
October 14 2016 The Powered Up Medium (organizer and chair), The Toronto School Conference, Toronto
Respondent: Future Imaginaries and the Temporality of the Immediate, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Paris, 2012
Presenter: The Remote Assistant: Laboring in the Temporal Order, National Communication Association, New Orleans, 2011
Presenter: Recalibration at the Corporation: Dharma at the Desk, National Communication Association, San Francisco, 2010
Presenter: Jet Lagged Bodies and the Labor of Being in Time and Panel Chair: Mediating Affective LaborNational Communication Association, San Diego, November 21-24, 2008
Presenter: Mobile Interrogations of Brown: Taxi Cab Conjunctures Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Kingston, Jamaica July 2-9, 2008
Roundtable Participant Women and Access November 15-18, 2007 National Communication Association, Chicago
Roundtable Participant on Reconstructing the Popular November 15-18, 2007 National Communication Association, Chicago
Presenter: Medium, Messages, and the Taxi: Enacting a Public on the Road November 16-19, 2006 National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas
Roundtable Participant: Technologies of Transport and Communication, October 26-29, 2006 Flow Conference in Television: Television and Media Studies Conference, Austin, Texas
Presenter: Communication and Time: Citing Irreconcilable Differences and their Biopolitical FutureInternational Communications Association, Dresden, Germany, June 20-23, 2006
Presenter: Strategies of Slowness: Between a Communicative Ideal and a Productive Body International Communications Association, Dresden, Germany, June 20-23, 2006
Presenter: The Best Western: Dirty Pretty Things in the Terminal International Communication Association, New York City May 26-30, 2005
Presenter: Slowly Crashing Fast: A Political Intervention in the Stories of Speed The Dromocratic Condition: Contemporary Cultures of Acceleration, University of Newcastle, England March 12-13,2005
Presenter: The Rhythm of the Political in the Space of Speed, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign June 25-28, 2004
Presenter: The ‘Non-Place” and the Everyday: Moving Beyond the Theoretical Spectacle Intersections: Bridging Boundaries in Contemporary Thought in Communication and Culture, Ryerson University, Toronto March 13-14, 2003