Lectures and Conference Papers_

  • ‘Surveillance Narratives – articulating issues of representation for the 21st century’. Paper at the conference Twenty First Century European Literature: Mapping New Trends, St. Andrews, 15-17 September 2010.

 

  • ‘Archives of Surveillance and the Aesthetics of Attention’. Paper at the British Comparative Literature Association ‘Archive’ Conference, Canterbury, 5-8 July 2010.

 

  • ‘Honey, I am Home! Changing Conceptions of Home in a Surveillance Society’. Paper with Henriette Steiner (ETH Zürich) at the conference A Global Surveillance Society?, London, 13-15 April 2010.

 

  • 'Attention! Technology and Automaticity in Signs of the City'. Paper at the conference Digital Art and Culture in teh Age of Pervasive Computing, Copenhagen, 12-14 November, 2008.

 

  • 'Surveying the City: Urban Signs between Attention and Automaticity'. Paper at the Conference Signs of the European City, Berlin, 17-18 October, 2008.

 

  • 'At leve med overload: Informationshåndtering mellem automatisme og opmærksomhed'. Paper at  Work-in-Progress Seminar, Copenhagen, 26 September 2008.

 

  • 'Surveillance Narratives: From Lack to Overload'. Paper at the conference Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction, Oxford, 1-3 July 2008.

 

  • 'Narrative and Temporal Negotiations: Digital Information Structures in Literary Fiction'. Paper at the conference Figurations of Knowledge, 5th Biannual European Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Berlin, 2-7 June 2008.

 

  • 'Narrative Negotiations: Literary Ficion in an Information Age'. Participant at a roundtable on technology and collage/montage at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, New York, 22-24 May 2008.

 

  • 'Negotiating Narrativity - Digital Information Structures in Reinhard Jirgl's Abtrünnig'. Paper at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, San Francisco, 19-22 March 2008.

 

  • 'Narrative Negotiations: Information Technology as Symbolic Form'. Paper at the conference Erlebnis and Erfahrung: Aesthetics of Pervasiveness, Copenhagen, 6-7 November 2007.

 

  • ‘Fictional Cities in a Digital Age: BerlinTokyo’. Paper at the City Seminar at the Centre for Research, Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge, 8 May 2007.

 

  • ‘Fiction in Digital Age: Time, Space, Plot’. Paper at the Modern German Studies Graduate Seminar - 4th International Summer Symposium 2007: Space & Time in Literature, Media, and the Arts, Oxford, 27 April 2007.

 

  • ‘Fiction in a Digital Age: Grass, Hettche, Jirgl’. This lecture was presented as the Sylvia Naish Research Student Lecture 2007 on 22 February. The opportunity to give this lecture was awarded in a competition by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London.

 

  • ‘Representing Cityness - Online Art and Urban Metaphors’. Paper at the conference Arts in Society, Edinburgh, 15-18 August 2006.

 

  • ‘From inside the chandelier – Interdisciplinarity as worldview’. My paper was part of the round table discussion ‘Seven Types of Interdisciplinarity’ at the conference The Future of Interdisciplinarity, Cambridge, 10 December 2005.

 

  • ‘Once upon a time there was a database: Narrative and Database from a cognitive point of view’. Paper at the conference Refresh! First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Banff, Canada, 28 September 2005 - 1 October 2005.

 

  • ‘The Novel as Database: The computer as imaginative and representational medium in Thomas Hettche’s novel Nox’. Paper at the conference NorLit 2005: Literature, Technology, Imagination’, Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 August 2005.

 

  • Invited speaker: ‘Der var engang en computer – fortælleformer og subjektivitet i netkunsten’ [‘Once upon a time there was a computer – narration and subjectivity in netart’] at the symposium: At tænke på tværs [Thinking across boundaries], University of Copenhagen, 8 April 2005.

 

  • ‘Cybercitizen: Urban identity in net art’. Paper at the conference Imagining the City, Cambridge, 30 July - 1 August 2004.