I regularly give talks on my research and run speculative workshops. If you’d like to invite me to run a workshop or give a talk, please don’t hesitate to contact me. And if you’re in the area, join me at one of my upcoming events!

Recent Events

Talks

Where Did That #Snapstory and #Instastory Go? The Role of YouTube as a Cultural Archive of Ephemeral Social Interactions; in collaboration with A. Matamoros Fernández. 19 June 2019. The Web That Was, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

“Ethics Apply, Even Online”: The Uneasy Genre of the Government Social Media Policy. May 2019. Annual meeting of the International Communication Association. Washington DC, USA.

Notes on humor studies and the situatedness of linguistic anthropological tools. (Keynote commentator.) Semiotic Sensitivities Symposium. 27 April 2019. MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Creating Twitter in Arabic: An Untold Story of Liberation, Exploitation, and Localization. 16 April 2019. Olin College, MA, USA.

Workshops

Historians of the Future: A Speculative Workshop. 18 June 2019, The Web That Was, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; with A. Matamoros Fernández.

Scents, Futures, Technologies. 30 April 2019. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; with M. Battles.

Scents of the Future Sensorium. 24 April 2019, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA; with M. Battles.

Radically Rethinking the World Through Sci-Fi Workshop. 24 March 2019, RadicalxChange, Detroit, MI, USA; with P. de Filippi.

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Workshops

My speculative workshops help people imagine and explore possibilities across scales. They’re grounded in my training in anthropology and the study of science, technology, and society (STS). Consequently, my speculative techniques underscore the importance of lived experience, relationship, and community. I structure workshops to highlight plurality of perspectives and facilitate collaboration. They can be adapted to specific themes, communities, time frames, and desired outputs.