Invited Lectures and Conference Papers
Harvard Conference on AI & Democracy
(Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Science, Technology & Science)
Opening Keynote: Artificial Intimacy: What Are People For?
Cambridge, MA November 30, 2023
Wisdom 2.0 Artificial Intelligence Summit
Artificial Intimacy
San Francisco, CA October 2023
Camp Sandbox (conference)
Artificial Intimacy
Point Reyes, CA October 2023
Aspen Ideas Festival 2021
What Does It Mean for Empathy to be ‘The Fuel of Democracy’?
Aspen, CO July 1, 2021
Harvard Hillel
Technology, Empathy, and Ethics
Cambridge, MA Spring 2021 [via Zoom]
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Empathy and Our Future (with Eric Liu)
Cambridge, MA March 10, 2021 [via Zoom]
Aspen Institute, Spain
Not Alone Together but Together Alone – the paradoxes of screen time today
Madrid June 4, 2020
Leading Jewish Minds @ Home
MIT Hillel
Not Alone Together but Together Alone – the complexities of screen time today
Cambridge, MA June 4, 2020
Chanel, International
Roundtable on Identity and Brands
Keynote
New York, NY March 2020
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Opening Program
Keynote: Rethinking Friction in Digital Culture
Cambridge, MA February 28, 2020
Hewlett Packard Conference on Thinking about the Future
Keynote: Not Alone Together But Together Alone
Palo Alto, CA February 2020
Aspen Institute on Artificial Intimacy
Keynote
Santa Barbara, CA January 2020
The Hitchcock Lectures
University of California, Berkeley
The Assault on Empathy: The promise of artificial intimacy
The Assault on Empathy: The promise of a friction-free life
Berkeley, CA February 2019
Connecticut Forum
Panelist: Big Tech: What is the Future We’re Building?
Hartford, CT November 2018
The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Empathy Machines
Newton Centre, MA November 2017
2017 National Principals Conference
Jointly presented by National Associations of Elementary and Secondary School Principals
Keynote: The Role of Technology in the Classroom: A Contested Terrain
Philadelphia, PA July 2017
Aspen Ideas Festival
What Technology Makes Us Forget About Life
Aspen, CO June 2017
Literary Orator at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
Harvard University Commencement
How Technology Makes Us Forget What We Know About Life
Cambridge, MA May 2017
University of Southern California
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
The Assault on Empathy: the Need for Conversation
Los Angeles, California April 2017
Hofstra University
Reclaiming Conversation
Hempstead, NY February 2017
University of Arizona
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
School of Information
Reclaiming Conversation
Tucson, AZ February 2017
Conference of Chief Justices
Reclaiming Conversation
Scottsdale, AZ January 2017
The Council of Independent Colleges
President’s Institute
Reclaiming Conversation in the Academy
Orlando, FL January 2017
Providence Athenaeum
Reclaiming Conversation
Providence, RI December 2016
Visiting Lectureship Yale University Humanities Program
Reclaiming Conversation in the Humanities
New Haven, CT December 2016
Lexington Public Library
Cary Lecture Series
Reclaiming Conversation
Lexington, MA November 2016
Chicago Humanities Festival
Reclaiming Conversation
Chicago, IL November 2016
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Annual Conference
Reclaiming Conversation
San Diego, CA October 2016
Hawaii Association of Independent Schools
Annual Conference
Reclaiming Conversation
Honolulu, HI October 2016
8th Annual Boston Book Festival
Having Presence and Being Present: A Conversation with Amy Cuddy and Sherry Turkle
Hosted by Robin Young
Boston, MA October 2016
Central Square Theater
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Cambridge, MA September 2016
Provincetown Public Library
Necessary Conversations in Education (with David Denby)
Provincetown, MA August 2016
New York Public Theater
After-performance Talkback on “Privacy”
New York, NY July 2016
New York Public Theater
Seminar to the Cast of “Privacy” by James Graham and Josie Rourke
(Turkle included in play as character)
New York, NY June 2016
“Empathy, Intimacy, and Technology in a Boarding School Environment”
A symposium hosted by St. Paul’s School
Guest faculty member
Concord, NH June 2016
City Arts & Lectures
Talk to Me: Conversation in the Digital Age
In conversation with Jacob Ward
San Francisco, CA June 2016
Personal Democracy Forum
The Presumptions of Virtual Reality as an Empathy Machine
New York, NY June 2016
Boston College
Excellence in Teaching Day
Rethinking Conversation in Higher Education
Chestnut Hill, MA May 2016
University of Cambridge
21st Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Reclaiming Conversation: Our New Silent Spring in a Digital Age
Cambridge, ENGLAND May 2016
University of Cambridge
Tribute to John Forrester
Cambridge, ENGLAND May 2016
UCLA
Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Los Angeles, CA April 2016
Princeton University
Clifford Geertz Commemorative Lecture
Reclaiming Conversation, Boredom, and Anxiety: The Virtuous Circles of Digital Culture
Princeton, NJ March 2016
Cambridge Forum
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Cambridge, MA February 2016
Fundraiser with David Denby: “Conversation in Politics and the Classroom”
Brooklyn Friends School
Brooklyn, NY February 2016
Union College
Founders’ Day Convocation
Keynote: Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Schenectady, NY February 2016
Harvard/MIT seminar on Medical Anthropology
Fieldwork in the subjective side of science
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA December 2015
Columbia University
Keynote: Reclaiming Conversation
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
New York, NY November 2015
Institute for Public Knowledge
Reclaiming Conversation, A Dialogue
(with Marita Sturken and Erik Klinenberg, filmed by C-Span Book Forum)
New York, NY November 2015
The Nobel Dialogues
How Will the Digital Age Change Me?
Gottendam, SWEDEN November 2015
7th Peter Drucker Global Forum (on “Claiming our Humanity”)
Humans First – Technology Second (panelist)
Vienna, AUSTRIA November 2015
Harvard University
Reclaiming Conversation in the Social Sciences
Committee on Degrees in Social Studies
Cambridge, MA November 2015
Microsoft Research Group
Computers and Privacy
Seattle, WA October 2015
Common Sense Media
Childhood and Privacy
San Francisco, CA October 2015
Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Cambridge, MA October 2015
American Society of Association Executives
Reclaiming Conversation in the Workplace
Detroit, MI August 2015
International Psychoanalytic Association, 49th Congress
What’s Lost in Screen Relations: Reclaiming Conversation for Consulting Rooms and Living Rooms
Boston, MA July 2015
Martha’s Vinyard Summer Institute
Keynote: Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Martha’s Vineyard, MA July 2015
The Aspen Ideas Festival
Fellow and Keynote: The Robotic Moment
Aspen, CO July 2015
2015 Callahan Distinguished Lecture
The Flight from Conversation: How technology is shaping our relationships
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH April 2015
2015 Lobene Lecture
The Power of Conversation: Preserving human connection in a digital world
St. John Fischer College
Rochester, NY March 2015
Wisdom 2.0 Conference
Keynote: Deep Connections: The power of face-to-face talk in digital culture
San Francisco, CA February 2015
World Economic Forum
I Share Therefore I Am
Davos, SWITZERLAND January 2015
American Psychoanalytic Association Special Symposium
Keynote: Left to Our Devices: The impact of digital conversations
New York, NY January 2015
Provost’s Discovery Themes Lecture
The Power of Conversation: Preserving human connection in a digital world
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH November 2014
The Conversation at 40: Privacy and Technology, Mr. Coppola and the Courts
“The Socio-Political Context: What Do We Expect When We Expect Privacy Today?”
University of California Hastings College of Law
San Francisco, CA November 2014
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Induction Ceremony
(Inductee, Class III Speaker)
A Flight from Conversation
Cambridge, MA October 2014
Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2014
Guest Speaker
Orlando, FL October 2014
The New School for Social Research
The Flight from Conversation
New York, NY April 2014
New England Association of Schools and Colleges
Annual Meeting
Keynote: Educational Challenges in the Age of Online Education
Springfield, MA December 2013
Harvard University
STS Circle, Kennedy School
Representing the Dystopian and the Utopian: How the internet leads us to forget what we know about life
Cambridge, MA November 2013
The Springfield Forum
Alone Together: The Flight from Conversation
Springfield, MA November 2013
MIT Hillel’s Leading Jewish Minds @ MIT…on the Road
Alone Together: Technology and our Flight from Conversation
San Francisco, CA & Los Angeles, CA March 2013
American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAAS 2013 Annual Meeting
Plenary Address
The Robotic Moment: What Do We Forget When We Talk to Machines?
Boston, MA February 2013
Wisdom 2.0 Conference
Featured Speaker: The Questions We Are Not Asking: Communication, Wisdom and True Connection in the Digital Age
San Francisco, CA February 2013
Newport Beach Public Library Foundation
Martin W. Witte Distinguished Speakers Lecture Series
Alone Together and the Flight from Conversation
Newport Beach, FL February 2013
Spence School
The Fifth Annual Head’s Forum
Education and the Flight from Conversation
New York, NY February 2013
TIGER 21
Annual Conference
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Palm Beach, FL February 2013
Charlotte Country Day School
Parent Speaker Series
Alone Together and the Flight from Conversation
Charlotte, NC January 2013
Council of the Chief Judges of the State Courts of Appeal
33rd Annual Conference
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Houston, TX November 2012
THINK Conference
The Social Network: Why are Robots Becoming Human and Men Machines?
Goa, India October 2012
Carnegie Corporation of New York
TIME Summit on Higher Education
Panel: “Changing Landscapes: From the Digital Classroom to the Global Campus”
New York, NY October 2012
Association of Financial Professionals (AFP)
Annual Conference
Keynote: New Relationships in a World of Constant Connection
Miami, FL October 2012
Carlton College
Convocation Speech: Necessary Conversations: Technology as an Evocative Object
Northfield, MN October 2012
International Symposium on Digital Ethics
Keynote: What are the Ethically Imperative Questions in Digital Culture?
Chicago, IL October 2012
New York Public Library
Authors’ Evening
Social Media and Social Consequences: A Dialogue with Steven Johnson
New York, NY October 2012
Partners HealthCare
Partner’s Connected Health Symposium
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Boston, MA October 2012
Metschools
Our Education City Conference
Keynote: Necessary Conversations in Educational Culture
New York, NY October 2012
World Business Forum
“Inspiring Ideas”
World Business Forum: The Impact of Relentless Communication
New York, NY October 2012
The Wellfleet Conference
Featured Speaker, The Fate of Conversation
Wellfleet, MA September 2012
Business Innovation Factory Summit
Three Stories about Reclaiming Conversation
Providence, RI September 2012
Virginia Military Institute
Convocation Speech: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Lexington, VA September 2012
ESOMAR (World Association for Market Social and Opinion Research)
Annual Congress: “Accelerating Excellence”
Opening Keynote: Online Identities: The Person in the Machine
Atlanta, GA September 2012
Congregation Shirat HaYam
Summer Speakers Program
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Nantucket, MA August 2012
Chautauqua Institution
Amphitheater Lecture Series
Featured Speaker, Digital Identity
Chautauqua, NY July 2012
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
Annual Summit
The Social Web: Relationships in the Digital Age
Washington, DC July 2012
Council of Graduate Deans
Summer Workshop
Social Networking and Technology: Opportunities and Risks
Boston, MA July 2012
Aspen Institute
Forum for the Future of Higher Education
Social Media in Higher Education
Aspen, CO June 2012
The Q Conference
Alone Together
Washington, DC April 2012
Lexington Community Education Program
Author’s Event
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Lexington, MA April 2012
Western Illinois University
University Address
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Moline, IL April 2012
CISE Distinguished Lecture Series
National Science Foundation
Alone Together: Technology as the Architect of Our Intimacies
Washington, DC April 2012
Museum of Fine Arts (in collaboration with Boston Institute of Psychotherapy)
Symposium: Are Social Networks Really Social?
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Boston, MA April 2012
The Boston Athenaeum
Author’s Series
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Boston, MA April 2012
Arizona State University
Emerge: A Conference on How Artists and Scientists Redesign the Future
Keynote: Evocative Objects
Phoenix, AZ March 2012
SAP Global Marketing
CEO Event: The Business Value of Virtual Environments
Panelist: The Digital Brain
Miami, FL March 2012
TED Conference 2012 (Technology, Engineering, Design)
Mainstage
Connected, but Alone?
Long Beach, CA March 2012
Harvard University
Department of Mental Health
University Health Services Grand Rounds
Digital Life and the Developing Adolescent
Cambridge, MA February 2012
Mount Auburn Hospital
Thursday Morning Talks
Alone Together: Intimacy and Solitude in the Digital Age
Cambridge, MA February 2012
Rutgers University
Department of Sociology Colloquium
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
New Brunswick, NJ February 2012
College of the Holy Cross
Campus Wide Address, sponsored by the Center for Teaching
Alone Together: The New Intimacies, Solitudes, and Ethical Dilemmas of Our Digital Age
Worcester, MA February 2012
Calvin College
January Lecture Series
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Grand Rapids, MI January 2012
University of California at Irvine
CIO Roundtable, Center for Digital Transformation
The Paul Merage School of Business
Life on the Net: Effects on the Workforce, Innovation and Collaboration
Irvine, CA December 2011
University of California at Irvine
Center for Research in Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO)
Distinguished Speaker Series
Technology as the Architect of our Intimacies
Irvine, CA November 2011
High Point University
Faculty Cultural Enrichment Series: Our On-line Lives
Campus Wide Address: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Greensboro, NC November 2011
Texas Lutheran University
Krost Symposium
Keynote: The Effects of Technology on the Self
Seguin, TX November 2011
Aurora University
Celebrating Arts & Ideas Series
Alone Together: Objects as the Architects of Our Intimacies
Chicago, IL November 2011
Society on Learning and the Brain
Conference: Preparing Minds for the 21st Century
Keynote: Alone Together: A Meditation on the Future of Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
Boston, MA November 2011
Chicago Humanities Festival
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Chicago, IL November 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Hillel
Leading Jewish Minds @ MIT
Alone Together: Technology as the Architect of our Intimacies
Cambridge, MA November 2011
Sarah Lawrence College
Alone Together: Cyberspace/Cybersolitudes
Bronxville, NY October 2011
Princeton Club
Alone Together: Cyberspace/Cybersolitudes
New York, NY October 2011
Boston Book Festival 2011
Panelist: Alone Together: Anti-Social Networks?
Boston, MA October 2011
The Erikson Institute for Education and Research of the Austen Riggs Center
Fall Conference on Remembering, Retweeting and Working Through
Keynote: Alone Together: Social Media, Cyberintimacies and Cybersolitudes
Stockbridge, MA October 2011
FreedomLab
Masterclass: Alone Together
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 2011
Nexus Institute
Masterclass: Alone Together
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 2011
Choate Rosemary Hall
Alone Together
Wallingford, CT September 2011
Berkeley Center for New Media
Technology as the Architect of our Intimacies
Berkeley, CA September 2011
Berkeley Art Museum
Comments on and A Conversation with the artist Desirée Holman
Berkeley, CA September 2011
Images & Voices of Hope World Summit
Keynote: Mind-Full Media
Haines Falls, NY September 2011
The Economist
Human Potential Summit: The Ideas Economy
Panelist: “The New Office: Virtualisation and Life in the Cloud”
New York, NY September 2011
Hampshire College
Freshman Convocation: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Amherst, MA September 2011
Aspen Institute
Aspen Ideas Festival
Session: Growing Up Tethered
Aspen, CO July 2011
Aspen Institute
Aspen Ideas Festival
Panelist: Knowledge Exchange: It’s a Social, Social World. Now What?
Panelist: Connectivity and Its Discontents: Opportunities and Anxieties
Aspen, CO July 2011
London School of Economics
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
London, England June 2011
The British Library
Panelist: The Age of Enlightenment: Are We Too Intertwined with Technology?
London, England June 2011
Royal Society of Arts
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
London, England June 2011
Expo Gastao
Alone Together: The New Intimacies and Solitudes of the Digital Age
Joinville, Brazil June 2011
Milken Institute Global Conference on Shaping the Future
Panelist: The Attention Deficit Society: What technology is doing to our brains
Los Angeles, CA May 2011
Yale Law School
Technology and Ethics Study Group
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
New Haven, CT April 2011
Salem Athenaeum
The Adams Lecture
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Salem, MA April 2011
Harvard University
The Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
Alone Together: A Meditation on the Future of Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
Cambridge, MA April 2011
University Professional & Continuing Education Association
96th Annual Conference: Doing What Matters – New Knowledge and Strategies
Keynote: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Toronto, Canada April 2011
Psychotherapy Networker
Symposium 2011
Keynote: Cyber Intimacy and Cyber Solitude
Washington, DC March 2011
Georgia Institute of Technology
GVU Center
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Atlanta, GA March 2011
Williams College
Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences
The Richmond Lecture: Alone Together: New Intimacies and Solitudes in the Digital Age
Williamstown, MA March 2011
Harvard University
Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Cambridge, MA March 2011
Washington College
C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Chestertown, MD February 2011
Dartmouth College
The Digital Humanities Lecture Series
with the Leslie Center for the Humanities & Computer Science at Dartmouth
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Hanover, NH February 2011
TEDxUIUC 2011
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“New Frontiers”
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Urbana, IL February 2011
North Carolina State University
Engineering, Policy, and Society Seminar Series
Keynote: Computing and Communications Technologies: The Work/Life Connection
Raleigh, NC November 2010
William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology
“Where the Wired Things Are: Children and Technology in Therapy”
Keynote Address
New York, NY October 2010
Harvard University
Social Studies 50th Anniversary Celebration
“Social Studies and the Social Sciences”
Cambridge, MA September 2010
Scratch @ MIT (conference)
Keynote Address
Cambridge, MA August 2010
Campus Technology 2010 (conference)
Keynote: Technology as the Architect of Self: Implications for Higher Education
Boston, MA July 2010
Harvard Extension School
The 2010 Lowell Lecture
The Tethered Life: Technology Reinvents Intimacy and Solitude
Cambridge, MA May 2010
Washington Center for Psychoanalysis
New Directions Conference in Psychoanalytic Thinking (Being a Therapist in the 21st Century)
Technology and New Emotional States
Washington, DC May 2010
Tufts University
Snyder Presidential Lecture
Cyberintimacies/Cybersolitudes
Medford, MA April 2010
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Dynamic Media Institute’s Media Tech Tonic Lecture Series
Evocative Objects and the Making of Art
Boston, MA April 2010
Brown University
Fourth Annual Seaman Family Lecture and Teaching Forum
Tethered Teens
Providence, RI March 2010
Harvard Extension School
Centennial Celebration
“No More Teachers? No More Books? Higher Education in the Networked Age”
Cambridge, MA November 2009
Harvard University
Kennedy School – Conference on the Future of Journalism
The Future of Journalism in a Digital Age
Cambridge, MA October 2009
Harvard University
Kennedy School – meeting on “How to Make Money in News”
What Sensibility do Digital Natives Bring to the News?
Cambridge, MA October 2009
Association of American Museum Directors
Keynote Address: Evocative Objects and the Museum Experience
Philadelphia, PA April 2009
Harvard University
Kennedy School Program on Science, Technology, and Society
Science and Democracy Lecture Series
Connected Publics: Power and Politics in a Networked Age (panel discussion)
Cambridge, MA March 2009
Boston Neuropsychoanalysis Group
Grand Rounds
New Connectivities/New Identities
Brookline, MA February 2009
The Microsoft Corporation
Presentation to Microsoft Research on Growing Up Connnected
Seattle, WA December 2008
The Intel Corporation
Conference on “New Research Directions”
Cyberintimacies/Cybersolitudes
Portland, OR November 2008
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Annual Meeting
Cyberintimacies/Cybersolitudes
(Session on Adolescence in Cyberspace: Identity, Intimacy, and the Internet)
Chicago, IL October 2008
TTI/Vanguard – “Generation Techs”
Plenary Presentation, The Vanguard Group Annual Meeting
New Technologies Across the Life Cycle
Rome, Italy July 2008
MIT Museum
Soap Box Creativity and Innovation Series (part of the Cambridge Science Festival)
The Robotic Moment and the American Heart: What can we make of our reactions to relational, sociable robotics?
Cambridge, MA April 2008
Harvard University
Barker Center for the Humanities
Seminar on Science and the Humanities (“Between Two Cultures”)
Cyberintimacies/Cybersolitudes
Cambridge, MA April 2008
University of Pennsylvania
Department of the History and Sociology of Science
New inner history narratives for science studies
Philadelphia, PA April 2008
Harvard University
Nieman Foundation for Journalism
Keynote address: Cyberintimacy/Cybersolitude: New narratives in the history of technology
Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism: Storytelling in Many Voices, Many Media
Boston, MA March 2008
The Intel Corporation
Seminar: Nurturant Technologies
Portland, OR February 2008
Oxford University
Conference on Artificial Companions in Society
Keynote address: Cyberintimacies/Cybersolitudes
Oxford Internet Institute
Oxford, England October 2007
University of Oregon
David and Tracey Kohen Lectureship
“Cyberintimacies”
Eugene, OR October 2007
MIT Museum
Transrobotism (Of Human-Robot Bonds)
Panelist
Cambridge, MA April 2007
American Museum of Natural History
Art/Sci Collision: Of Human-Robot Bondage
Discussion Moderator
New York, NY April 2007
The 2007 Marshall McLuhan Lecture
New York University/Consulate General of Canada
Cyberintimacies/Cybersolitudes
New York, NY March 2007
List Gallery
Curatorial Lecture: Troubles that Try the Tethered Soul
Cambridge, MA December 2006
Stanford University
Institute for the Humanities
Cyberintimacies
Stanford, CA November 2006
Stanford University
Program in Science, Technology, and Society
New Complicities for Companionship: A Nascent Robotics Culture
Stanford, CA November 2006
American Sociological Association
101st Annual Meeting
Transgressing the Human and Non-human Boundary
The Complexities of CyberCompanionship: When Nurturance is the “Killer App”
Montreal, Canada August 2006
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Human Implications of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
A Nascent Robotics Culture: New Complicities for Companionship
Boston, MA July 2006
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference
Artificial Intelligence: The Next 50 Years
Artificial Intelligence at 50: From Building Intelligence to Nurturing Sociabilities
Hanover, NH July 2006
2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Humanitarian Robotics
A Sociable Robot to Encourage Social Interaction Among the Elderly
Orlando, FL May 2006
Eastern Sociological Society
2006 Annual Meeting
Cyber Places in Our Lives
Tethered: Cyberplaces Always on/Always on You
Boston, MA February 2006
ArtSpace
Can We Fall in Love with a Machine?
Love and Authenticity: After We Love Our Machines, What Next?
Boston, MA February 2006
AAAI Symposium, November 2005
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Caring Machines: AI in Eldercare
Relational Artifacts and the Elderly
Washington, DC (Crystal City, Arlington, VA)
ICCS/Cog-Sci Workshop
Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science
Relational Artifacts, Children, and Elders: The Complexities of CyberCompanions
Stresa, Italy July 2005
Society for Personality and Social Psychology 6th Annual Meeting
Other Minds? How People Perceive Non-Human Agents
Relational Artifacts and Life-Practice Sociabilities: What ‘Counts’ as Alive Enough to Matter?
New Orleans, LA January 2005
Humanoids 2004
Encounters with Kismet and Cog: Children’s Relationship with Humanoid Robots
Los Angeles, CA November 2004
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Teens on Screens: Development and the Technology of Play
Adolescents in Cyberspace (And Other Places in Digital Culture)
Washington, DC October 2004
Milken Institute
Global Conference: Prospering in a Changing World
The Long View: Imagining the Future
Los Angeles, CA April 2004
American Psychoanalytic Association
92nd Annual Meeting
Whither Psychoanalysis in Digital Culture?
Boston, MA June 2003
Yale University
Institute for Social and Policy Studies
Ethics and Technology Working Research Group
Robots, Virtual Worlds, and the Evolution of Social Sensibilities
New Haven, CT May 2003
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
Program on Science, Technology and Society
Science and Society Colloquium Series
Mediated Citizenship: Representation in a Digital Age
Cambridge, MA February 2003
Camden Technology Conference
POP!Tech 2002: Artificial Worlds
How Artificial Worlds Are Leading Us to Redefine Ourselves
Camden, Maine October 2002
Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Harvard-Ross Seminar on Globalization and Education
Globalization and New Ways of Knowing
Cambridge, MA October 2002
Sigmund Freud Museum
30th Anniversary Freud Lecture
Psychoanalytic Culture and Computer Culture
Vienna, Austria May 2002
World Economic Forum
Identity in a Global World
Science: A Source of Security of Vulnerability?
New York, NY February 2002
Institute for Advanced Study
School of Social Science
Lecture series on Information Technology, New Media and the Social Sciences
Intimate Machines: Human Identity and “Affective” Computing
Princeton, NJ March 2001
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Toys of Tomorrow: Thinking Outside of the Toybox Symposium
How Gender and Licensing Concerns Affect How Toys Are Designed
Cambridge, MA May 2000