Talks and Events
2024
"A Feel for the Organism: A Design Sociology Approach to Biodesigners,"
William Patterson University, Wayne, NY
April 11, 2024
2019
“Fashion, Anxiety and Society Series: Labor,”
Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY
October 24, 2019
“Research Review Talks,”
London College of Fashion, London, England
April 12, 2019
“Annual Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture,”
York University, Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture and the Department of Communication Studies, Toronto, Canada
March 2019
2018
“Making Sense of Data Together: Self-Tracking and Biohacking in the Age of Mediatization”
with Gina Neff
International Communication Association Conference 2018, Prague
May 23, 2018
“Possible Futures of Embodied Biotech” with Kristin Miller
Theorizing the Web, New York, NY
April 27-28, 2108
“Is Biology our Destiny? Wearable Bio-Tech, Fashion and Gender”
College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Panelist
March 23, 2018
2017
Fashion+Social+Media Symposium
University of Southern California, LA
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Invited Speaker
April 6, 2017
“Influencers, Micro-celebrities, and Fame Aspirants: Producing and Consuming Identity in the Social Media” International Communication Association,
San Diego,CA
Panelist
May 25-28, 2017
Cultural Mediators in the Digital Age
King’s College, London
Panelist
September 4, 2017
2016
Lecture, Drexel University Graduate Seminar Series, Philadelphia, PA
February 26th, 2016
Lecture and Book signing,
92nd Street Y, NYC
March 11, 2016
Lecture and Book Signing
Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC
April 12, 2016
Seminar and Workshop in Research and Pedagogy in Fashion Studies and Material Culture
CUNY Graduate Center, @CUNYFashion, NYC
April 14, 2016
Lecture, University of Washington Colloquium Series
UW, Seattle, WA
May 11, 2016
“From Geek to Chic: Wearable Technology and The Woman Question”
“Cultural Work in the Social Media Age: Lessons from the Insta-Glam”
Association of Internet Researchers, Internet Rules!
Berlin, Germany
October 6, 2016
2015
Keynote Speaker, #Kimposium: An Interdisciplinary Symposium about All Things Kardashian; “On the Importance of Being Kardashian: Glamour Labor in the Age of the Blink,”
Brunel University, London, UK
November 2015
“Wearable Tech and Fashion: Who is Woman 2.0?”
Society for the Social Studies of Science, Denver, CO
November 2015
“Wearable Technology, Gender, and Urban Space,”
CUNY Fashion Studies conference: Global Fashion Capitals, New York, NY
October 2015
“Wearable Technology and Gender”
LIM College of Fashion conference: Fashion Now and Then, New York, NY
October 2015
“Wearable Tech, Women, and Urban Space,”
Invited panelist, Global Fashion Capitols conference
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
October 2015
“Wearable Tech and Woman 2.0”
American Sociological Association Media Sociology Pre-Conference, Chicago, IL
August 2015
“Going With the Flow: Critically Engaging Fashion, Media, and Affect”
International Communication Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico
May 2015
“Wearing Our Hearts on Our Sleeves: Wearable Technology and Gender”
Theorizing the Web, New York, NY
April 2015
Speaker, Fiber Science and Apparel Design Research Seminar Series
School of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
April 2015
Discussant, MLD Fashion Symposium
BMCC/CUNY, New York, NY
April 2015
“Wearable Technology, Embodiment, Gender, and the Future of Digital Human Interface,” Digital Sociology Mini Conference,
Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, New York, NY
February 2015
Critic, Author Meets Critics, for Amanda Czerniawski’s Fashioning Fat
Eastern Sociological Society, New York, NY
February 2015