Talks
Here is a list of my public talks. If you would like to book me as a speaker, please contact me.
- December 2024, discussant at screening of 'Bank Job' documentary, From coins to code: The social consequences of new forms of money, SOAS, London.
- December 2024, 'Digital currencies and games: Gambling, crypto, and game making', Value, trust, and power in new forms of money: communities and the state, SOAS, London.
- December 2024, 'Worker inquiry and class composition', Labour, Mobilization, and the Politics of Work, A Doctoral Schools specialist course at Ghent University, Belgium.
- November 2024, ‘Artificial intelligence and work: the problem of managerial control from call centres to platforms’, CREW seminar, University of Greenwich.
- November 2024, ‘The legacy of Harry Braverman in worker centred and directed research’, Historical Materialism London.
- November 2024, ‘Notes from Below: Worker Centre Issue 22 Launch’, Historical Materialism London.
- October 2024, 'How Did We Get Here? A Look Back at the Games Industry Experience with Unionization', Changing the Industry Online Summit, CWA and IGDA.
- October 2024, 'Game Worker Organising in Britain', Game Worker Organizing: Regional Case Studies II, CRIMT conference Montreal.
- October 2024, Game Worker Organizing Summit, CRIMT conference Montreal.
- October 2024, 'Game Worker Solidarity: Mapping Collective Action in the Games Industry', Department of Digital Humanities, KCL.
- October 2024, 'Andor Analysed', Speakers Corner, Brighton.
- October 2024, 'On the Composition of Capital', SLD-F Refresher Course, Delhi and online.
- September 2024, 'Game Worker Solidarity: mapping collective action in the games industry', keynote, International Conference of Labour and Social History, Linz, Austria.
- September 2024, London Launch of the World After Amazon, Pelican House, London.
- September 2024, Workers For Energy For All Launch Rally, online.
- August 2024, 'The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: An Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy', Platform Politics and Policy Seminar, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin.
- August 2024, LSFRC x Red Futures: The Seep Reading Group + Andor Analysed Launch, London.
- July 2024, 'Workers' Inquiry', three sessions hosted by the UTAW branch of CWU, London and online.
- June 2024, 'The Strike Wave in Britain: Understanding How Industrial Action is Changing Today', discussant, LERA 76th Annual Meeting | ILERA 20th World Congress | FMCS 2024 National Labor-Management Conference, New York.
- June 2024, 'Game Worker Solidarity: Mapping Collective Action, Activism, and Organising in the Videogames Industry', with Austin Kelmore, Labor Activism and Collective Voice in the Video Game Industry: Diverse Contexts and New Perspectives, LERA 76th Annual Meeting | ILERA 20th World Congress | FMCS 2024 National Labor-Management Conference, New York.
- June 2024, 'Workers education and workers led research', 3rd LabourTransfer School, Buggerru, Sardinia.
- June 2024, 'Videogames e Luta de classes', Correspondencia: o Futuro em Jogo, São Paulo.
- June 2024, 'Troublemaking', book launch, with Lydia Hughes, University of Oxford UCU, Oxford.
- May 2024, 'Game Worker Solidarity', 9th International Congress of Art, Science and Technology (CIACT) and Digital Arts Digital Arts Seminar (SAD), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
- May 2024, 'Sociology: Ethics and Technology', Summer school, Fordham University, New York.
- May 2024, The Workers' Committee by JT Murphy, Strikemap Book Launch & Social, Newport.
- May 2024, 'The Work of Play: Gamification from above and below', Gamification and Wellbeing Seminar Day, University of Reading.
- April 2o24, 'The Challenge in Europe: the UK', Employment Status and Social Rights of Platform Workers: Asian and European Perspectives, Royal Holloway.
- April 2024, 'Public workers around the world on strike', Labor Notes, Chicago.
- March 2024, 'Organise Now: Understanding trade union renewal today' Sociology and Politics Seminar Series, Sheffield Hallam.
- March 2024, 'Troublemaking', BUIRA Seminar: At Work and in the Union, with Lydia Hughes and Gregor Gall, University of Westminster, London.
- February 2024, 'The Fight Against Platform Capitalism', Keynote, Resistance and alternatives to platform capitalism, the Centre for the Study of Media, Technology, and Internationalization (CEMTI) and the Doctoral School Social Sciences, University Paris 8, Paris, France.
- February 2024, Enquête militante, Grève et Composition de classe au Royaume-Uni, with Lydia Hughes, Librairie Michèle Firk, Montreuil, France.
- February 2024, AI and the Future of Finance & Work, Panel, Fordham University, London.
- January 2024, 'Trade Union 101', Day School: Palestine, Internationalism, and the Left, London.