Speaking

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

October 24, 2023 — Invited Lecture “Towards a Feminist Refusal” University of Washington, Faculty of Library and Information 

October 26, 2023 — Invited Salon “Mechanical Mom” University of Washington, Faculty of Library and Information 

September 28, 2023 — Keynote Weizenbaum Institute 100 Years, Deutsches Haus, NYU 

September 21, 2023  Concordia University, DIGS Lab Opening Lecture, Concordia Montreal

September 22, 2023  Salon for Re-Understanding Media, Concordia University Montreal

June 22, 2023  Keynote for Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism, Calgary

April 8, 2023 — Feminism, Technology and Canadian Cultural Studies, Aoyama Guikin University and the University of Tokyo, Tokyo

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

January 25, 2018 — La Nuit Des Idées, French Embassy of Canada/Hart House at Art Museum, University of Toronto

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

January 31, 2017 — “Exit and the Extensions of Man Transmediale” The Marshall McLuhan Lecture at the Canadian Embassy, Berlin

September 16-18, 2016 — “A Moving Inventory of Exits” Blackwood Gallery Mississauga

June 3-4, 2016 — “Do Not Enter, This is not an Exit: Sexodus and the Gig Economy” Digital Bauhaus Summit, Weimar Germany

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 28-30, 2014 — Keynote Speaker, Temporal Design Workshop at the University of Edinburgh School of Art and Department of Informatics

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

February 25, 2014 — WUNC THE STATE OF THINGS Radio Interview, Do Taxi Drivers Experience Time Differently Than Business Travelers? Or Yoga Instructors?

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

“No No, Alexa, Let me Do that” Artificial Unintelligence Panel at SLSA Out of Mind Conference, Toronto, November 2018

“The Powered Up Medium” Media Philosophy Division, International Communication Association, San Diego, May 24-29, 2017

Presenter: Sexodus and Refusal: The problem with male disposability, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Sydney, Australia, December 16, 2016

Organizer and Chair: The Powered Up Medium, The Toronto School Conference, Toronto, October 14, 2016

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