Upcoming Conferences
Previous Conferences
International Studies Association
April 6-9, 2021
“The Political Implications of Cyberspace: Understanding the Interactions of Online and Offline Worlds from Dial-up to NBN,” 12/8, 11:00AM-12:30PM
“Fiction as Method: Using Melville, Mieville, and Medieval Welsh Tales to Reconceptualize The Interactions of Online and Offline Worlds,” 12/11, 9:00-10:30AM
OCIS
December 7-11, 2020
Canberra, Australia
“Digital Weavers: Hashtags, Memes, and Bots in the Work of Michel Serres and William Gibson,” 10/24, 11:00-12:30pm (BST), online
Millennium 2020
October 22-24, 2020
London/Online
International Studies Association
March 25-29, 2020
Honolulu, HI
“Understanding the Form and Consequences of Algorithmic Agency Through William Gibson’s The Peripheral,” 3/27, 4:15-6:00pm, Sea Pearl 2, Mid-Pacific Center, Hilton Hawaiian Village
“What’s in a face? Examining historical trends through the faces of a mass media publication.” Poster Session, 7/24
Co-authored with Ana Jofre, Vincent Berardi, Aisha Cornejo, Carl Bennett, and Michael Reale
Association for Computers and the Humanities
July 23-26, 2019
Pittsburgh, PA
“Nonhuman Aunties: Understanding the Agency of Algorithms through William Gibson’s The Peripheral.” 4/19, 1:15-3:00pm
Western Political Science Association
April 18-20, 2019
San Diego, CA
Workshop Panel Participant, "Political Theory and the Temple of Code: Media Archaeology
and Algorithmic Agency."
Panel: Interpreting New Technologies; Saturday (10/20), 9:00 - 10:30am, VCAM 102
Association for Political Theory
October 18-20, 2018
Bryn Mawr and Haverford, PA
Roundtable Participant, “Social Media
Bots, Trolls, and Cyborgs Round Table: Implications for Research”
Association of Internet Researchers
October 10-13, 2018
Montreal, Canada
"High Speed Trading Algorithms and Human Manipulations: Agency and Accountability in Complex Financial Markets"
Speed Conference
Cornell Tech
September 28-29, 2018
New York City, NY
Invited Participant, Popular Culture Matters! Exploring the Links between Popular Culture and World Politics, 4/3, all day.
"Political Theory and the Temple of Code: Media Archaeology and Algorithmic Agency," 4/4 8:15-10:00 am.
"Algorithmic Agency: Understanding the Impact of Algorithms through William Gibson's The Peripheral," 4/4 1:45-3:30 pm.
International Studies Association
April 4-6, 2018
San Francisco, CA
"Digital Nonhuman Actors: Hashtags, Memes, and Bots in the work of Michel Serres and William Gibson," 11/24, 10:00-11:30 am.
Popular Culture and World Politics, 10
November 23-25, 2017
Newcastle, UK
"Hashtags as Weavers: Complexity, Attention, and Spacetimes," 11/4, 10:45 am - 12:30 pm.
International Studies Association, Northeast Region
November 3-4, 2017
Providence, RI
"Ghost in the Machine: Algorithms as Political Agents," Time and Date TBA
Western Political Science Association
April 13-15, 2017
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Participant, "Understanding Science Diplomacy and its Global Challenge: Mediating the Social and the Natural," 2/22 8:15-10:00 am.
"Algorithmic Agency: Twitter-bots, Attention, and Politics," Paper, 2/24 8:15-10:00 am.
International Studies Association
58th Annual Convention
February 22-25, 2017
Baltimore, MD
My paper:
“High Speed Trading Algorithms and Human Manipulations—Agency and Accountability in Complex Financial Markets,” 10/17, 2:00-3:30 pm.
Association of Internet Researchers
Internet Rules!
October 5-8, 2016
Berlin, Germany
My paper:
“The Political Life of Twitter-Bots: Campaigns, Conversations, and Comedy,” 9/2, 12:00-1:30 pm
American Political Science Association
112th Annual Meeting
September 1-4, 2016
Philadelphia, PA
My Activity:
“Memes and Hashtags—Visualizing Politics through Humor on Social Media,” Roundtable Presentation, 3/25, 10:00-11:45 am
Western Political Science Association
March 24-26, 2016
San Diego, CA
My Papers and Activities:
"High Speed Trading Algorithms and Human Manipulations--Agency and Accountability in Complex Financial Markets," 3/16, 10:30 am-12:30 pm
"Algorithms as Actors: Aesthetic Subjects and Aunties in William Gibson's The Peripheral," 3/19, 8:15-10:00 am
Chair, "Interfacing the International: Games, Crowds, and the New Politics of Participation," 3/19, 4:00-5:45 pm
International Studies Association
57th Annual Convention
March 16-19, 2016
Atlanta, GA
My Paper:
"Hashtags as Weavers: #BlackLivesMatter, Attention, and Spacetimes in the work of Michel Serres and William Gibson."
Popular Culture and World Politics 8.0
November 20-21, 2015
London, UK
My Paper:
"Internet Memes and Complexity Theory: I can haz your attenshun plz?"
Association for Political Theory
Annual Meeting
October 22-24, 2015
Boulder, CO
My Papers:
"Why does the caged aglorithm sing?"
"Popular Culture and Language: #BlackLivesMatter"
European International Studies Association
9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations
September 23-26, 2015
Giardini-Naxos, Sicily, Italy
International Studies Association
56th Annual Convention
February 18-21, 2015
New Orleans, Louisiana
My Papers and Activities:
Working Group: "Worldviews in Science, Technology, and Art in International Relations" (by invitation only), 2/17, 9:00am-5:00pm
"Internet Memes and Visibility: I Can Haz Your Attention Plz?," 2/21, 1:45-3:30pm
Popular Culture and World Politics 7.0
November 21-22, 2014
Ottawa, CA
My Papers:
"William Gibson's Footage:Fetish:Forum as Precursor: Twitter, Facebook, and the Role of Online Communities"
American Political Science Association
110th Annual Meeting
August 28-31, 2014
Washington, DC
My Papers:
“Post-Arab Spring Countries and the Harlem Shake: Internet Memes and the Authoritarian Responses They Provoke”
International Studies Association
55th Annual Convention
March 26-29, 2014
Sheraton Centre Toronto
Western Political Science Association
"The Power of Information"
April 17-19, 2014
Sheraton Seattle Hotel
My Paper:
"Signals in the Noise?: Hashtags and Memes on Twitter," 4/17, 1:15-3:00pm
International Congress on Medieval Studies
49th International Congress
May 8-11, 2014
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
My Paper:
"The Mound and the Fountain: The Role of Human/Nonhuman Assemblages in Medieval Welsh Stories," 5/10, 10:00am, Session 367, Schneider 1350