Since 2014, I have delivered keynote addresses in Prague, Oslo, Florence, Bergen (Norway), Aarhus (Denmark), Belem (Brazil), Boulder (Colorado, USA), Copenhagen, Helsinki, Lisbon and Milan, and have also given invited talks and conference papers in Montreal, Barcelona, Lund, Santiago (Chile), Stockholm, Utrecht and Warsaw.

Future talks include Berlin, 20 November 2018, as part of the ‘Making Sense of the Digital Society’ lecture series at Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG); Seoul, late November 2018, at Yonsei University; and Norwich (UK), keynote to ‘Understanding the Social in the Digital Age’, 8 January 2019, at UEA (University of East Anglia).

Some of the talks I have given in the past years:

  • ‘Can Data Be Decolonized? Data Relations and the Emerging Social Order of Capitalism’ (with Ulises Mejias), paper presented at AoIR, Montreal, October 2018.

  • ‘Capabilities Theory and the Transforming Communication Field: Capabilities for What?’, keynote to preconference on the capabilities approach and justice, ICA, Prague, May 2018.

  • ‘Social Order in the Age of Big Data: Exploring the Knowledge Problem and the Freedom Problem’, keynote [by skype] to ‘Social Media and Social Order’ conference, Oslo University, November 2017.

  • ‘Building From Elsewhere: Platformization and the Continuing Struggle for Social Change’, keynote to Florence Summer School on Media in Political Participation and Mobilization’, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, June 2017.

  • ‘The Mediated Construction of Reality: From Berger and Luckmann to Norbert Elias’, opening keynote to biennial conference of Norwegian Media Researchers Association, University of Bergen, October 2016.

  • ‘The Social Construction of Reality – Really!’, keynote (by Skype) to SIMC Conference, Pune, India, October 2016.

  • ‘The Social Construction of Reality – Really!’, keynote to Kappa Phi first International Conference, Banja Luka, Bosnia Herzegovina, June 2016.

  • ‘The Mediated Construction of Reality: from Berger and Luckmann to Norbert Elias’, Biannual Conference of Norwegian Media Researchers Association: Towards Future Media Landscapes, keynote, University of Bergen, October 2016.

  • The Mediated Construction of Reality: Remembering Elias, University of Amsterdam, May 2016.

  • ‘The Expanding Domain of Political Contention: A Triple Challenge’, keynote to the Democratic Public Sphere conference, Aarhus University, Denmark. November 2015.

  • ECREA Conference on Political Agency in the Digital Age (Communication and Democracy section), Copenhagen Business School, October 2015,  (see slides here)

  • The Social Ontology of Digital Data & Digital Technology Conference (organised by University of Warwick), The Shard, London, July 2015.

  • Cultures in Disarray (Culture, Media and Creative Industries Postgraduate Conference 2015), King's College London, June 2015.

  • Workshop on Intervening Media, RMIT Europe, Barcelona, June 2015 (see slides here)

  • Seminar with Wendy Brown, LSE (see script here), London, June 2015.