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Invited Speaker, “Imaginação política e as formas de organização de mobilização contemporâneas” (Political Imagination and Organizational Forms of Contemporary Mobilization), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 4, 2014.
Invited Speaker, “Estado e desigualdades,” (State and Inequalities), 38th Annual Meeting of the Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais, Caxambu, Brazil, October. 27-31, 2014.
Invited Speaker, “Toward a Forward-Oriented Global Sociology,” Senior Fellows Seminar, Yale University, October 9, 2014.
Invited Speaker, Integrative Session, “Transforming Struggles: Organizational Modes, Mobilization Outcomes, and Occupy Wall Street,” XVIII World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 13-19, 2014.
Chair, Plenary Session on “Overcoming Inequalities,” XVIII World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 13-19, 2014.
Keynote Speaker, “iTopian Inquiries: New Media and Transnational Movements,”, 4th International Studies Conference “Critical Perspectives on Technology and Information in an International Context,” DePaul University, Chicago, April 24, 2014.
“Democratizing Futures: Radical Imaginaries, Police Repression, and Public Engagement of the Occupy Wall Street Movement,” Invited Speaker, Works on “Reclaiming Democracy and Social Justice: From the Arab Spring to Occupy to …”, University of Windsor, Canada, May 17-19, 2013.
“Social Change, Mediated Activism, and Spectacularized Technologies,” Panel Chair and Discussant, Symposium on “Neoliberalism 2.0”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 12-13, 2013.
“Beyond the Crisis: Sociology Facing New Forms of Risk, Uncertainty and Precarity,” Chair and Discussant, International Conference, Bilbao (Spain), March 12-13, 2013.
“Linking Social Struggles across Multiples Arenas and Spatial Scales”, Invited Speaker, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, March 6, 2013.
“Social Movements Research,” Invited Lecture, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, March 5, 2013.
“Democratizing Futures: Radical Imaginaries, Police Repression, and Public Engagements of the Occupy Wall Street Movement,” paper presented, Joint Session with Research Committee on Social Movements, Collective Action, and Social Change (RC48), Forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, August 1-4, 2012.
“Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization: Comparing Counter-Hegemonic Projects,” Co-Chair of Joint Session with Research Committee on Economy and Society (RC02), Buenos Aires, August 1-4, 2012 (with William Carroll, University of British Columbia).
“Futures, Values, and Sociological Theory,” Co-Chair of Session, Buenos Aires, August 1-4, 2012 (with Elisa Reis, UFRJ, Brazil).
“Globalization, Futures of Management, and Resistance Movements,” Chair of Joint Session with Research Committee on Social Transformation and Sociology of Development (RC09), Buenos Aires, August 1-4, 2012.
“Reappearance of the Purged: Artistic Interventions in the Politics of Memory,” paper presented, The Arts of Memory: The Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Memory Conference, New York City, April 26-27, 2012.
“Reclaiming Democracy: From Arab Insurgencies to Occupy Wall Street,” Invited Speaker, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, March 21, 2012.
“Redistribuição, reconhecimento e autonomia no desenvolvimento contencioso” [“Recognition, Redistribution and Autonomy in Contentious Development”], Invited Plenary Speaker, Brazilian Sociological Society Bi-Annual Meeting, Curitiba, Brazil, July 26-30, 2011.
“Alienation and Contention,” paper presented, International Sociological Association Joint Conference of Research Committees on Alienation (RC36) and Social Movements (RC48), Curitiba, Brazil, July 24-25, 2011.
“Development Innovation Outcomes and Global Imaginaries,” paper presented, Global Studies Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 18-20, 2011.
“Movilización transnacional y zapatismo internacional” [“Transnational Mobilization and International Zapatismo”], Invited Speaker, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, June 2011.
“Conexiones de Chiapas: Actores, escalas y medios en la movilización zapatista transnacional” [Chiapas Connections: Actors, Scales, and Media in the Transnational Zapatista Mobilization”], Invited Speaker, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)-Sede México, Mexico City, June 2011.
“Future Moves and the Trenches of Development,” Invited Plenary Speaker, Integrative Session on “Sociological Challenges to Development, Inequality, Recognition and Environmental Degradation in the Global South” in collaboration with the Brazilian Sociological Society, the South African Sociological Association, the Indian Sociological Society, Research Committee on Futures Research and Research Committee on Regional and Urban Development, XVII World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association (ISA), Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11-17, 2010.
“Debating Futures: Global Trends, Alternative Visions, and Public Discourse,” Invited Speaker, Common Plenary Session, 1st ISA Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 5-8, 2008.
“Globalization 2.0: New Media Trends and Their Social Implications,” paper presented, Session on New Trends in Globalization, 1st ISA Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 5-8, 2008.
“Values, Power, and the Modes of Structured Interaction in the Social Shaping of the New Global Publics,” Regular Paper Session “Thinking Beyond Borders, 78th Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), February 21-24, 2008.
“Media, Power and Mobilization,” Invited Speaker, UIUC Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies speakers series, January 24, 2008.
“World Society, Social Movements, and New Media,” Invited Speaker, 25th Anniversary of the World Society Foundation, University of Zurich, Switzerland, October 25-28, 2007.
“South-North Alliance Building and the Resistance against the Neoliberal Mode of Globalization,” paper presented at the XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montreal, Canada, September. 5-8, 2007.
“The Role of the Internet in Transnational Mobilization,” paper presented at the 102th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), New York City, August 11-14, 2007.
“The Role of Old and New Media in Movement Mobilizations,” invited session presider, 102th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), New York City, August 11-14, 2007.
“Movilização transnacional, novas mídias e as restructuraçãos do público” (Transnational Mobilization, New Media, and the Restructuring of the Public,” Invited Speaker, Pontifica Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 14, 2007.
“Internet e movilização transnacional” (The Internet and Transnational Mobilization), Invited Speaker, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, June 12, 2007.
“Globalisierte Wissenstrukturen und Schliessungsprozesse” (Globalized Knowledge Structures and Clusion Processes), Invited Speaker, Pan-American Conference on “Biographies, Migration, und Mobility in Science and Research Worldwide,“ São Paulo, Brazil, June 7-10, 2007.
“New Technologies/Knowledge I+II,” Session Chair, Eight Annual Transnational Sociology Workshop, UIUC, April 15, 2007.
“Identity, Media, and Contentious Politics: Cross-Cultural Linkages,” Invited Speaker, Panel on Theorizing Indigenous Media, Co-Sponsored by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UIUC, April 9, 2007.
“Investigaciones sociológicas sobre la acción colectiva, imaginación social y la construcción de realidad” (Sociological Research on Collective Action, the Social Imaginary, and the Construction of Reality), Invited Speaker, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Mexico City, March 22, 2007.
“Global Multiculturalism, Flexible Accumulation,” Discussant, Transnational Sociology Seminar, UIUC, September 22, 2006.
“The Role of the Internet in Transnational Mobilization,” paper presented at RC48 Session on New Means of Protest and Mobilization in the Era of Internet, XVI World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association (ISA), Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006.
Chair/Co-chair of multiple sessions, XVI World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association (ISA), Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006, including “Public Sociology and the Future of Social Existence in a Globalizing World” (Special Session), “The Future and Sociological Theory” (Joint Session with RC16 Sociological Theory), “Futures of Science and Technology” (Joint Session with RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology), “The Futures of the New Mediascapes I+II (two Joint Sessions with RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture), “Globalization or Empire?” (Author Meets Critics Session), “Alternative Visions of World Society: Global Economic Elites and Civil Society” (Joint Session with RC02 Economy and Society).
“Sound Politics: Cultural Expressions of Transnational Mobilization,” paper presented at the XXVI Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.
“Postmodern Music in Latin America,” appointed Session Chair, at the XVI Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.
2005
“From Rancheras to Punk Rock: Music, Discontent, and Mobilization,” paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Philadelphia, August 14-17, 2005.
“Art, Emotions, and Morality in Movement Mobilization,” Presider, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section Roundtable, 100th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Philadelphia, August 14-17, 2005.
“News and the Net,” Presider, Communication and Information Section Roundtable, 100th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Philadelphia, August 14-17, 2005.
“Transnational Networks and Mobilization,” Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, Feb. 15, 2005.
“Media and Mobilization Across Borders,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Jan. 31, 2005.
“Mexico’s Media Policy from Salinas to Fox,” paper presented at the XXV Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Las Vegas, October 6-10, 2004.
“Transnational Networks and the New Media,” presentation as invited speaker at the Center of Excellence (COE), University of Osaka, Japan, September 28, 2004.
“Values and the Conditions of Global Communication,” paper presented at the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Futures Research Conference on Values, Culture, and the Futures of Society, Kyoto, Japan, September 24-26, 2004.
“From State-led Import Substitution Industrialization to Neoliberal Deregulation: The Case of the New Information and Communication Technologies in Mexico,” paper presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), San Francisco, August 14-17, 2004.
“Structured Modes of Interplay and the Modeling of Digital Futures,” presentation as invited speaker, International Sociological Association Research Council Conference on Conflict, Competition, Cooperation: Contemporary Sociological Theory and Research in the XXI Century, Ottawa, Canada, May 28-30, 2004.
“The New Information and Communication Technologies in Latin America,” presentation as invited speaker, Socialist Scholars Conference, New York: Cooper Union, March 13, 2004.
“Diffusion Patterns and Regulatory Stakes in the Shaping of the New Information and Communication Technologies,” paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) Annual Meeting, New York, February 19-22, 2004.
“Shaping New Media: Global and Peripheral Perspectives,” invited speaker, New School University, New York, December 2, 2003.
“Transfigurationen medialer Verständigungsverhältnisse und die Auseindandersetzung um den Modus der Globalisierung: Skizzen der Neuen Mediensoziologie,” invited speaker, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, April 15, 2003.
“Medienkompetenz aus der Sicht den Neuen Mediensoziologie,” invited speaker, Symposium on Media Competence, Jena, Germany, April 11, 2003.
“Shaping New Media Technologies: Global and Peripheral Perspectives,” invited speaker at Arizona State University, March 14, 2003.
“Shaping New Media in Latin America: Insights from the Mexican Case,” invited speaker at New York University, February 28, 2003.
“Changing Media, Changing Movements: Transnational Perspectives,” invited speaker at Texas A& M University, College Station, TX, January 15, 2003.
“Zur Räumlichkeit sozialer Bewegungen” [The Spatiality of Social Movements], paper presented at the 31th Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie [German Sociological Association] in Leipzig, Germany, October 7-11, 2002.
“The Social Shaping of Information and Communication Technologies in Center and Periphery,” paper presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Chicago, Illinois, August 16-19, 2002.
“Social Movement Research and the Sociology of Futures,” paper presented at the XV World Congress of the International Sociological Association (ISA) in Brisbane, Australia, July 7-13, 2002.
“Values and Moral Concerns,” invited session presider and discussant at the XV World Congress of the International Sociological Association (ISA) in Brisbane, Australia, July 7-13, 2002.
“Web Research in International Perspective,” invited speaker to the 2nd Webshop on Internet Research at the University of Maryland at College Park, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, June 14, 2002.
“Transnational and Crosscultural Mobilization through the Internet: Distant Issue Email Lists, Web Pages and their Impact,” paper presented at the Social Science Research Council Seminar on Information Technology, International Security, and Global Cooperation, Columbia University, New York, June 12, 2002.
“Schaffen die Neuen Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien ein Global Village? – Medienso-ziologische Bemerkungen zum Wandel von Kommunikationsräumen” [“Do New Information- and Communication Technologies Create a Global Village? Media Sociological Observations on the Transformation of Communicative Spaces”], paper presented at the VI. Conference of the Fachgruppe Computervermittelte Kommunikation (CvK) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK), Jenseits von Raum und Ort: Enträumlichung und Mobilität in einer vernetzten Welt, Leipzig, Germany, November 2-3, 2001.
“Shaping Mexican Telecommunication,” paper presented at the XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Session on Infocommunication Technology, Policy Making, and Social Inequality, Washington, D.C., September 6-8, 2001.
“Some Future Directions of Internet Research,” presentation at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Professional Workshop on Internet Research, Anaheim, California, August 18-21, 2001.
“Linking Frames or Changing Codes? Media Interfaces in Social Movement Communication,” paper presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Regular Session on Qualitative Methodology, Anaheim, California, August 18-21, 2001.
“Changing Mediascapes in Center and Periphery,“ paper presented at the 35th World Congress, International Institute of Sociology (IIS), “The Moral Fabric in Contemporary Society,” Cracow, Poland, July, 11-16, 2001.
“Die differentielle Verbreitung des Internet und politische Regulierungsstrategien in Lateinamerika” [Differential Internet Diffusion and Policy Making in Latin America], paper presented at the Media Studies Colloquium, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, May 11, 2001.
“Towards a Political Anthropology of (Post-)Modern Society: An Assessment of Michel Foucault’s History of Governmentality,” paper presented at the Session on “European Social Theory,” 71st Conference of the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), Philadelphia, PA, March 1-4, 2001.
“Culture and Globalization,” invited Session Presider and Discussant, 71st Conference of the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), Philadelphia, PA, March 1-4, 2001.
“Political Violence, Human Rights, and Military Strategy,” paper presented at the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee on Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution (RC 01) Interim Conference “The Armed Forces on the Treshold of the New Millennium,” Strausberg, Germany, October 13-15, 2000.
“‘Gute Gesellschaft’ ohne Anerkennung und Teilnahme? Alternative Entwicklungsvorstellungen in Zentrum und Peripherie” [“‘Good Society’ without Recognition and Participation? Alternative Visions of Development in Center and Periphery”], paper presented at the 30th Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie [German Sociological Association], Cologne, Germany, 9/26-29, 2000.
“The Dynamics of Political Violence and Transnational Discourses,” paper presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Washington, D.C., August 12-16, 2000.
“Struggling for Recognition: Ties and Contention in Multiple Arenas,” paper presented at the XXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Miami, 3/16-18, 2000.
