Talks

After Democracy and Affective Publics keynote, EUMEPLAT conference on Are media platforms making or breaking European identity? EU HORIZON 2020 funded, Prague, May 2022.

After Democracy keynote and plenary conversation for Media and Publics conference, Roskilde University Denmark, Copenhagen, April 2022.

After Democracy endowed lecture, University of Helsinki Institute for the Social Sciences and the Humanities, November 30, 2021.

2021 Radical XChange global conference keynote conversation After Democracy and Affective Publics with organization on president Matt Prewitt, November 2021.

Center for the Global Humanities, University of New England, endowed lecture on After Democracy, October 2021.

Keynote on After Democracy, Affective Publics and Populism, for AFTER THE SUMMER OF MIGRATION

2021 Highway Africa Summit Conference, invited keynote on After Democracy, June 23, 2021,

Fudan University Shanghai, College of Communication, invited retrospective keynote and interview on body of work, May 22, 2021.

Global Politics in the Age of Computational Propaganda, invited keynote address on Affective Publics After Democracy, Istanbul Bilgi University, May 6, 2021.

Northwestern University, College of Communication, invited talk on After Democracy, April 15, 2021.


University of Texas at Austin, College of Communication, invited talk on After Democracy, April 13, 2021.

Winter 2021 CJMD Spotlight, A Conversation with Zizi Papacharissi on After Democracy, endowed lecture series, University of Washington Department of Communication, April 2, 2021.

Harvard University, Department of Sociology, endowed lecture series on After Democracy, March 23, 2021.

Foo (Friends of Tim O’ Reilly) Social Sciences Camp, Speaker, Panel Organizer, February 2021, Menlo Park, California (virtual). Organized by O’ Reilly Media, the Sloan Foundation, Facebook, and Sage Publishing, and hosted at Facebook Headquarters.

Centre for Digital Social Research, Department of Sociology, Umeå University, Sweden. Endowed talk on Affective Publics and COVID19: Solidarity and Distance. January 28, 2021.

New Public Festival, organized by Civic Signals (Eli Pariser), invited participant, January 2021, virtual.


Democracy Paradox podcast feature on After Democracy, recorded January 19, 2021.

Zizi Papacharissi on After Democracy, Affective Publics and the Networked Self, an interview/conversation with Mark Deuze on deuzevlog.

Common Bond Society by artist Larisa Blazic, organized by UP Projects, Somerset House, London, UK. Lead performance in performative piece constructed by artist, titled This is Public Space.

Northwestern University – Doha campus, Featured talk on “Academic Research During a Pandemic: Writing, Publishing, Evaluation.” August, 2020.

University of Oxford, Citizenship in a Networked Age, plenary conversation on After Democracy (via zoom and recorded as podcast, COVID 19). June, 2020.

University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities in the University of Cambridge (CRASSH), plenary address, Affective Publics and Covid19, June 12, 2020.

What is Information, plenary address, Affective Publics and Covid19, May 1, 2020, University of Oregon (virtually delivered, COVID19)

Foo (Friends of Tim O’ Reilly) Social Sciences Camp, Speaker, Panel Organizer, February 2020, Menlo Park, California. Organized by O’ Reilly Media, the Sloan Foundation, Facebook, and Sage Publishing, and hosted at Facebook Headquarters.

2019 Cowperthwaite Scholar Lecture and Lifetime Achievement Award, Kent State University, September 19, 2019.

Social Science and Research Council (SSRC) invitation only workshop on “Race, Gender, & Toxicity Online.” Keynote address. University of Texas at Austin, April 23, 2019

Dialog 2.0 Social Media and Social Movements, keynote address, North Carolina State University, Durham, NC, March 29, 2019.

University of California-Berkeley, invited speaker on Affective Publics, March 14, 2019.

Trump and the Media invited talk, Center for Media Risk, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, February 14. 2019.


Foo (Friends of Tim O’ Reilly) Social Sciences Camp, Speaker, Panel Organizer, February 2019, Menlo Park, California. Organized by O’ Reilly Media, Facebook, and Sage, and hosted at Facebook Headquarters.


Technische Universität Dresden, Invectivity: Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement conference, Keynote Speaker, November 14-16, 2018, Dresden.


University of Chicago, Computational Social Sciences, Invited talk on Affective Publics, October 18, 2018.


University of Texas at Austin, Moody College of Communication, Wayne Danielson Award Winner, talk on Technology as Architecture, October 11, 2018.


University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, Keynote Speaker, Internet, Policy & Politics (IPP) conference titled Long Live Democracy? September 20-21, 2018.


Festival of Telling Stories, Higher School of Economics, Keynote Speaker, April 23-26, 2018, Moscow.


Aarhus University, Keynote Speaker, Cultures of participation: Arts, digital media & politics Conference, 18-20 April 2018, Aarhus.


St. Petersburg University, Keynote Speaker, Emotions vs. Rationality in Mediated Discussion Conference, April 17-19, 2018, St. Petersburg.


Foo (Friends of Tim O’ Reilly) Social Sciences Camp, Speaker, Panel Organizer, February 2-4, Menlo Park, California. Organized by O’ Reilly Media, Facebook, and Sage, and hosted at Facebook Headquarters.


Tencent Technology Summit, Keynote Speaker, Affective Publics, November 7, Beijing, China


George Mason University, Fall 2017 Colloquium Speaker, Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies PhD program, Affective Publics, September 28, 2017


Northern Illinois University, Fall 2017 Honorary Speaker, Affective Publics, September 22, 2017


University of Missouri, Fall 2017 Honorary Speaker, Affective Publics, News Storytelling and Twitter, September 7 , 2017


Royal Academy of the Arts, Amsterdam, Keynote on Affective Publics, June 30, 2017


Freie Universitat, Berlin, Keynote on Affect - Media - Power, Affektenmedienmacht Conference, June 29, 2017


University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication, Elihu Katz Colloquia on Communication and Media Studies. Affective Publics , Sentiment, and News Storytelling.

September 2016


Affective Publics and Social Movements, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Conference Keynote

May 2016


Marquette University, Nieman Lecture. Affective Publics and Soft Structures of Storytelling,

March, 2016


University of Washington, Seattle. 2016 Scheidel Lecture, Affective Publics: News Storytelling, Sentiment, and Twitter, March 2016


Facebook Headquarters, Menlo Park. Affective Publics and Affective Architectures, February, 2016


Affect Theory Conference, invited keynote on Affective Publics, Millersville University, October 15-17, 2015.


University of Amsterdam, invited lecture on Affective Publics, September 2015.


iCS symposium on ‘Protest Participation in Variable Communication Ecologies: Meanings, Modalities and Implications,’ Keynote, University of Sassari, Sardinia, June 2015.


International Communication Association Opening Plenary Panel, invited speaker, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 21, 2015.


University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication, Affective Publics, invited talk, March 2015.


Ben Gurion University, Keynote, Reporting the Middle East in the Digital Age, Israel, May 2014.


University of Wisconsin-Madison, invited lecture on Affective Publics, September 2014.


Kings College, invited speaker, Contested Spaces conference, sponsored jointly by King’s College and eBay, London, UK, April 2013.


Cornell University, Culture Digitally Lecture on Affective Publics, April 2013.


University of Wisconsin-Madison, invited lecture on Affective Publics, March 2013.


Keynote, on Affective Publics, for the International Conference on New Media and the Public Sphere, No 8-9.


Copenhagen Business School, Social Media for Social Purposes conference, Keynote on Affective News and Networked Publics, November 13-14, 2012.


Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Plenary Speaker, University of Salford, October 2012.


Apple, North Michigan Avenue store, invited talk during Social Media Week, on A Networked Self, Chicago, September 2012.


IIT Institute of Design In the Loop series, talk on Affective News and Networked Publics: The Rhythms of News Storytelling on #egypt, Chicago, September 2012.


Microsoft Research, New England Research and Development Center, invited talk on Affective News and Networked Publics: The Rhythms of News Storytelling on #egypt, August 2012.


IAMCR, Durban, w/Sharon Meraz, on Broadcasting and Listening Practices on #egypt


Northwestern University - Media, Technology and Society seminar series, on Affective News and and Networked Publics: Rhythms of Storytelling on #Egypt. May 31.


Cultural Production in the Digital Age Workshop, NSF sponsored project on culture::digitally, Cornell/Temple University


University of Texas at Austin, School of Journalism, invited talk on Affective News and Networked Publics: Rhythms of Storytelling on #Egypt.


Drexel University, Philadelphia, talk on Affective News and Networked Publics.


City University, School of Social Sciences, Sociology, London, talk on Rhythms of News Storytelling on #egypt


AoIR 11, Seattle, presenting Without You I’m Nothing: Performances of the Self on Twitter.


JOURNALISM/INTERACTIVE conference, University of Maryland, organizing committee member, presenter, moderator.


WAPOR 2011, Amsterdam, presenting The Rhythms of News Storytelling on Twitter: Coverage of the January 25th Egyptian uprising on Twitter.


IAMCR 2011, presenting Liquid Citizenship, now chapter in A Private Sphere, Istanbul.


Jena Graduate School

"Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change" (GSBC)

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany, invited speaker on A Networked Self.


International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften), Digital Publics Conference, invited speaker on A Private Sphere: Civic Engagement in Contemporary Democracies, Vienna, Austria, May 2011.


IADIS International Conference e-Society 2011, keynote speaker on A Networked Self: Identity, Community and Culture on Social Network Sites, Avila, Spain, March 2011.


Cultural Production in the Digital Age Workshop, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.


Infoscape Social Media Lecture Series, invited speaker on Private Sphere: Civic Engagement in Contemporary Democracies. Ryerson University, Toronto, February 2011.


Savannah College of Art and Design, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, invited speaker A Networked Self: Identity Performance and Sociability on Social Network Sites, Savannah, Atlanta and Hong Kong campuses, January 2011.


Marshall McLuhan Lecture Series: Information Technologies and Social Orders - A Networked Self: Emerging Sociabilities on Social Network Sites, hosted by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, National Communication Association, San Francisco, 2010.


Also presenting at the National Communication Association Convention.


Michigan State University Social Media Research Seminar, invited speaker on A Networked Self: Identity Performances and Convergent Sociabilities on Social Network Sites, East Lansing, Michigan, October 2010.


Also presenting at the Association of Internet Researchers - AoIR Sweden.


The Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute (CPERI),

invited speaker on A Networked Self: Identity Performances and Convergent Sociabilities on Social Network Sites, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 2010.


Hong Kong University, invited speaker on social uses of the internet, for The Internet Turning 40: The Never-ending Novelty of New Media Research? conference


Singapore, International Communication Association Conference and pre-conference on Cultural Research and Political Theory


National Innovation Conference, hosted by the Greek America Foundation, invited speaker on Innovation and Networks, Chicago, June 2010 - VIdeo material via Vimeo.

Penn State University, College of Communications, to deliver the Prockrass Memorial Lecture on Emerging Sociabilities and Social Network Sites.


Thessaloniki, Greece, University of Makedonia, Department of Continuing Education, Sociology and Political Communication. Invited lecture on Social Media, Social People


Indiana University, Department of Telecommunications, invited talk on A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age.

Thessaloniki, Greece. Alumne Association of US Universities, Northern Greece, invited public lecture on Social Media, Social People, Elektra Palace, December 2009.


Chicago, Columbia College. Cultural Studies Program Colloquium Series. Invited lecture on The Virtual Geographies of Social Networks.

Athens, Greece. Institute for Audiovisual Studies, American Embassy in Greece and National and Kapodistrian University/Dept. of Communication and Media Studies, invited speaker on Online Social Networks,

conference on New Media Technologies, October 2009, Athens.