Presentation and Invited Lectures:

2023
• “Do Metrics Matter? Metrics Reform and Metrics Abolitionism,” School of Education, University of Bristol, November 14, 2023.
• “Humanities Research and the Crisis of Knowledge,” University of Bonn, June 27, 2023.
• “What do various publics want from criticism?,” Functions of Criticism, University of Cambridge, May 19, 2023.
• “Criticism and Knowledge: Four Futures for Literary and Cultural Study,” UC Santa Barbara (online), May 17, 2023.
• “The University’s Four Futures; or, the Real Humanities Crisis and its Cures,” What are Universities For?, University of Regina, May 5, 2023.
• “Three Plans for Academic Freedom: A Conversation with Julia Schleck on Dirty Knowledge,” Humanities at the Edge, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 20, 2023.
• “Criticism and Knowledge in the Context of ChatGPT,” Faculty Colloquium, University of Washington-Seattle, April 19, 2023.
• “Is College Worth It?” Katz Undergraduate Scholars Seminar, University of Washington-Seattle, April 19, 2023.
• “The End of a Global Model: Prospects for North American Higher Education, 2020-2050,” Katz Memorial Lecture, University of Washington-Seattle, April 18, 2023.
• “Psychological Dimensions of Authoritarian Democracy,” Political Affect Study Day, ISRF London, March 31, 2023.
• “Metrics that Matter,” Metrics to What End?, University of Florida, March 24, 2023.
• “’Responsibilities of Intellectuals’ Includes Building Their Professional Infrastructure,” Harvard University, March 10-11, 2023. 
• “Working Conditions with Christopher Newfield & Anna Kornbluh” (50th Episode #MLA2023 Special),” with Anna Kornbluh & Matt Seybold, American Vandal podcast January 4, 2023.

2021
•“Four Futures for Higher Ed,” The UniTopia Process, Academic College, May 26, 2021. 
• “Introduction to What is Humanities Knowledge?” ISRF-RCH Workshop, The Humanities in the Digital University, May 10, 2021.
• “A Duel of Two Revolutions in the Digital University,” ISRF-RCH Workshop, The Humanities in the Digital University, May 10, 2021.
• “Four Futures for Higher Education,” Oregon AAUP, May 1, 2021.
• “Deconstructing Neoliberalism in Higher Education,” SAGE Social Science Space, April 21, 2021.
• “Does Post-Democracy Need Universities?” Yale University, April 16, 2021.
•“Rebudgeting the University” Webinar, A New Deal for Higher Education, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), April 14, 2021. 
• “The Post-Pandemic University: It All Depends on Faculty Governance,” Clemson University Humanities Hub, March 25, 2021. 
• “What was The Great Mistake? An Overview,” School for Advanced Studies, University of Tyuman, March 19, 2021.
• “The 66 Dollar Fix: How to Get ‘Quality, Affordable’ Education” Progressive Democrats of California, February 20, 2021.
• “Post-Covid Universities: Doing Something Good with Disaster,” Keynote Speaker, Annual Mardi Gras Conference, Louisiana State University, February 11, 2021.
• “Response to Michael Uebel’s Architectures of Affect,” St Johns Seminar, University of Oxford, February 1, 2021.
• “Do Contemporary Societies Need Universities? Notes on Higher Education After the Knowledge Economy,” Webinar, Centre for Global Higher Education, January 29, 2021.
• “University Learning: Anything Special?: Hawkswood Seminar,” University of Cambridge, January 21, 2021.

2020
• “Agency Troubles,” Leading Change Institute, Miami University of Ohio, December 14, 2020.
• “Clark Kerr’s Utopian Variation,” launch of Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s, December 10, 2020.
• “UCPB’s Effects: Past & Future,” lecture to University Committee for Planning and Budget, University of California Office of the President, December 8, 2020.
• “Raymond Williams’s Structure of Feeling,” St Johns Seminar, University of Oxford, December 5, 2020.
• “Metrics in the Humanities,” International Center for the Study of Research, Elsevier, London, December 2, 2020. 
• “When Did Tenured Faculty Give Up on Governance?: Notes Towards a Self-Governed University,” AAUP – University of Virginia, December 2, 2020. 
• “University Fundraising as an Arm of Finance Capital,” English Department, Vanderbilt University, October 14, 2020.
• “Student Debt Cancellation and the cost of college in the United States,” Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, August 19, 2020.
• “The Budget Context for the COLA Strike,” UC Systemwide COLA Coalition, August 7, 2020.
• “Rebuilding Higher Education,” Closing Plenary, American Association of University Professors Summer Institute, August 4, 2020.
• “Public Universities in a Chaotic Year,” Future Trends Forum with Bryan Alexander, July 9, 2020.
•”Refusing Austerity in Higher Education: A How-To Webinar,” School of Social Sciences, UC Irvine, May 22, 2020.

2019
• “Riding the Free College Proposals,” Keynote address, IHE NOW, Baltimore, MD, July 11, 2019.
• “The Next Generation Public University: A Tale of Two Realisms, University of Denver, May 25, 2019.
• “The Trouble with Numerical Culture,” UC Santa Barbara, May 16, 2019.
• “Introduction to Disquantified Conference,” UC Santa Barbara, May 16, 2019.
• “The Humanities Reframed,” Wayne State University, Detroit, MI April 12, 2019.
• “The Next Generation Public University: A Tale of Two Realisms,” keynote address, Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) fifth annual Conference, New Britain, CT April 5, 2019.
• “The Great Mistake: Thoughts Two Years Later,” History Dept, UCSB, March 7, 2019.
• “Is College Worth the Debt?” Rutgers University, March 6, 2019 (via Zoom).
• “What Do Universities Do? Bringing College and Society Back Together,” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 28, 2019.
• “Teaching Creative Capabilities Outside the University,” Macalester College, St Paul, February 23, 2019.
• “Humanities Solving Other People’s Problems,” Macalester College, St Paul, February 22, 2019
• “Bringing Critical University Studies to the Liberal Arts,” Macalester College, St Paul, February 22, 2019.
• “What the Humanities are For: Two Responses to Vulnerability,” Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, February 7, 2019.
• “The University’s Non-Monetary Social Contract,” American Historical Association, Chicago, January 6, 2019.
• “Academic Freedom Beyond Free Speech,” Modern Languages Association, Chicago, January 5, 2019.
• “Language and the Limits of the Numerical,” Presidential panel, Modern Languages Association, Chicago, January 4, 2019.

2018
• “From Selectivity to General Quality,” Association for the Study of Higher Education Convention, Tampa, FL, November 17, 2018.
• “How to Undo the Great Mistake,” Ohio AAUP, November 10, 2018 (via Skype).
• “Eva Cherniavsky’s Neocitizenship: Political Culture After Democracy,” American Studies Association Convention, November 8, 2018.
• “The University and Platform Capitalism, American Studies Association Convention, Atlanta, November 8, 2018.
• “Can We Fix The Great Mistake? Universities in 2050,” Louisiana State University, October 26, 2018.
• “Can We Fix The Great Mistake? Universities in 2050,” University of Louisiana, Lafayette, October 25, 2018.
• “Can We Fix the Great Mistake? Universities in 2050,” Gilbert Lecture, Southern Methodist University, September 27, 2018
• “Weak Humanities,” On Being Vulnerable Conference, Bringham Young University, Provo, Utah, September 21, 2018.
• “Using Faulty Metrics: A Proposal for Self-Denial,” Measurement and Power Conference, University of Cambridge, July 18, 2018.
• “The Purposes and Provisioning of Higher Education: Tracing, Contrasting and Reconciling Humanities and Economic Perspectives,” chapter presentation, Limits of the Numerical Workshop, University of Cambridge, July 17, 2018.
• “The Role of the Numerical in the Decline of Expertise,” chapter presentation, Limits of the Numerical Workshop, University of Cambridge, July 16, 2018.
• “Must a Metric be Junk to be Used? Or, How (Not) to Embrace Info Monopolies,” Radical Open Access Conference, Coventry University, June 27, 2018.
• “Do Professors Want to be Citizens?” Academic Citizenship Conference, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, June 20, 2018.
• “Genealogy of Critical University Studies,” CRASSH, University of Cambridge, June 19, 2018.
• “Current U. S. Themes in Critical University Studies,” CRASSH, University of Cambridge, June 18, 2018.
• “Selectivity Metrics,” Limits of the Numerical Workshop, UC Humanities Research Institute, June 7, 2018.
• “Introduction to Metrics.edu book project,” Limits of the Numerical Workshop, UC Humanities Research Institute, June 7, 2018.
• “Reclaiming the University (For Something Else),” San Francisco State University, May 4, 2018.
• “Can the Humanities Support Democracy? Notes On A Pre-Contemporary Mainstream,” Glascock Humanities Center, Texas A&M University, March 29, 2018.
• “What Kind of Universities do English Majors Need?” English Department, California State University Channel Islands, March 7, 2018.
• “Practical Governance: Towards a Full Partnership,” A conversation with Chancellor Kent Syverud, Syracuse University, March 1, 2018.
• “Decolonizing Graduate Education,” Seminar talk, Cornell University, February 27, 2018.
• “What Kind of Universities Does the U.S. Need?” Dean’s Distinguished Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, February 13, 2018.
• “Should You Still get a PhD in the Humanities?” Luncheon talk, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, February 13, 2018.
• “How to Fix the Great Mistake,” University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, February 12, 2018.
• “Why Reclaim the Master Plan?” American Association of University Professors West Coast Conference, February 10, 2018.
• “Race and Critical University Studies,” University of Washington-Seattle, January 26, 2018.
• “Practical Governance: An Epistemological Crisis,” University of Washington-Seattle, January 26, 2018.
• “Reviving Faculty Governance,” University of Washington-Bothell, January 25, 2018.

2017
• “What Happened to Solar Innovation?” University of Bonn, Germany, November 28, 2017.
• “Impacts of Metrics on Humanities Scholarship,” American Studies Association Convention, November 11, 2017
• “Do Universities Support Racial Integration”? Presidential Panel, American Studies Association Convention, November 9, 2017.
• “What Do Universities Do? A Path Out of the Continuing Crisis,” Kansas State University, November 2, 2017
• “University of Michigan 2117: The Post-Privatization Public Flagship?” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 23, 2017.
• “Public Universities: A Path Out of the Continuing Crisis,” University of Nevada, Reno, October 19, 2017.
• “What’s Next for Faculty Governance?” University of Nevada, Reno, October 19, 2017.
• “What Do Universities Do? Lessons from the Era of Privatization,” The Graduate Center, City University of New York, October 6, 2017.
• “Can Graduate Students Influence the University Business Model?” The Graduate Center, City University of New York, October 6, 2017.
• “The Work of the Humanities on Fawlty Metrics,” UK English Association, University of Newcastle, July 6, 2017.
• “The Value of College: Literary and Economic Perspectives,” University of Chicago, June 26, 2017.
• “Don’t Blame Populism: The Cultural Psychology and Technology of Trump’s Victory,” University of Bonn, Germany, June 13, 2017.
• “Reinhabiting the University,” University of Westminster, London, June 6, 2017
• “The Humanities Today—Defining the Problems,” ADE-ADFL Seminar, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, June 1, 2017.
• “Where Do We Go From Here”? Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, May 24, 2017.
• “The Traffic in Women in Pinter’s Homecoming,” Bogacizi University, Istanbul, May 4, 2017.
• “The Real Betrayal of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal” Bogacizi University, Istanbul, May 2, 2017.
• “Avoiding The Great Mistake in Danish Higher Ed Policy,” Danish Royal Academy Meeting with Secretary of Research and Higher Education, Copenhagen, March 16, 2017.
• “Innovative Teaching and the Public Good,” Centre for Teaching Innovation, University of Westminster, London, March 13, 2017.
• “The Great Mistake: Public Universities in the Trump Administration,” History Department, UCLA, February 22, 2017.
• “A Faculty Overview of the UC Budget: Notes on Faculty Address to Boards of Trustees,” University of Hawaii, Manoa, February 15, 2017.
• “Writing The Great Mistake: Questions of Tone, Content, Mode of Address,” University of Hawaii, Manoa, February 15, 2017.
• “Governance, Academic Freedom, and Student Rights in the Trump Administration: Notes towards a Public Good University,” University of Hawaii, Manoa, February 15, 2017.
• Faculty Roles in University Budgeting, University of Hawaii Arts and Sciences Senate Executive Committee, University of Hawaii, Manoa, February 14, 2017.
• “Have We Wrecked Public Universities? If So, How Do We Fix Them?” Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Chair Lecture, University of Hawaii, Manoa, February 13, 2017.
• “The Great Mistake: Public Universities in the Trump Administration,” University of Illinois, February 7, 2017.
• “Senates and Unions in Faculty Strategy,” UC Santa Cruz, February 3, 2017.
• “The Great Mistake: How Can We Fix Public Universities”? UC Santa Cruz, February 2, 2017.
• “What is the University’s Great Mistake?” Sociology Department, UC Berkeley, February 1, 2017.
•”The Future of the Public University,” The Berkeley Faculty Association, UC Berkeley, February 1, 2017.
• “The Great Mistake: Public Universities in the Trump Administration,” Public Dialogue with Provost Carol Christ, UC Berkeley, February 1, 2017.
• “The Great Mistake: Public Universities in the Trump Administration,” George Mason University, January 26, 2017.
• “The Public Good University: Some Historical Questions,” University of Michigan, January 24, 2017.
• “How Can Literary and Cultural Study Respond to Faculty Performance Management?” Modern Languages Association, Philadelphia, January 7, 2017.
• “Introduction: Climates of Fear,” Modern Languages Association, Philadelphia, January 7, 2017.
• “Affect and Academic Management,” Modern Languages Association, Philadelphia, January 6, 2017.
•“Introduction: Combat Management,” Modern Languages Association, Philadelphia, January 6, 2017.

2016
• “The Great Mistake: Public Universities in the Trump Administration,” Washington State University, December 5-6, 2016.
• “De-familiarizing American Higher Education,” American Studies Association Convention, Denver, CO, November 20, 2016.
• “The Future of Graduate Studies in American Studies,” American Studies Association Convention, Denver, CO, November 18, 2016.
• “The Great Mistake,” Presidential Keynote, Association for the Study of Higher Education, Columbus, OH, November 10, 2016.
• “Using Research to Inform Policy and the Public Good,” Association for the Study of Higher Education, Columbus, OH, November 9, 2016.
• “The Great Mistake: Rebuilding the Public University,” Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, November 8, 2016.
• “The Great Mistake: Markets and Higher Education,” Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, IL, November 5, 2016.
• “The Great Mistake: Rebuilding the Public University,” Washington State University, November 3, 2016.
• “Why Don’t Universities Support Racial Equality?” James E. McLeod Lecture on Higher Education,” Washington University, October 25, 2016.
• “Must Metrics Serve the Audit Society? Addressing Marketization in Open Access Publishing and Humanities Analytics,” International Science and Technology Indicators Conference, Ingenio (CSIC-UPV), Valencia, Spain, September 16, 2016.
• “International Dimensions of the University Business,” Utopian Universities Colloquium, University of York, UK, September 12, 2016.
• “Why University Experimentation Requires Free Tuition,” Knowledge Futures Symposium, University of Capetown, South Africa, August 18 2016.
• “Facing the Public University Decline Cycle,” Knowledge Futures Symposium, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), Johannesburg, South Africa, August 16, 2016.
• “Effects of Quantification on Student Learning,” Limits of the Numerical Workshop, University of Cambridge, July 19, 2016.
• “Is the United States Post-Democratic? Mobilizing Economic and Racial Grievances in the 2016 Campaign,” University of Bonn Consulate Series on the 2016 US Election, July 12, 2016.
• “Rebundling the University,” University Futures, Copenhagen, June 14, 2016.
• “Market-Driven or Open-Ended Education?,” University Futures, Copenhagen, June 14, 2016.
• “The Great Mistake: How Private-Sector Models Wreck Public Universities, and How to Stop It,” University of Nevada at Reno, May 2-3, 2016.
• “The Return of Creativity: Literary Theory v. Innovation Theory,” Humanities Center, Miami University, Oxford, OH, April 27-28, 2016.
• “Comments on Critical University Studies, Miami University, Oxford, OH, April 27-28, 2016.
•Seminar on Multi-disciplinary University Redesign, University of Texas at Austin, April 21, 2016.
• “The Great Mistake: How Private-Sector Models Wreck Public Universities, and How to Stop It,” University of Texas at Austin, April 20, 2016.
• “The Great Mistake: How Private-Sector Models Wreck Universities,” Syracuse University, March 31, 2016.
• “The Great Mistake: How Private-Sector Models Wreck Public Universities, and How to Stop It,” Executive Vice-Chancellor’s Lecture Series, University of California at Davis, February 8, 2016.
• “The Great Mistake: How Private-Sector Models Wreck Public Universities, and How to Stop It,” Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research, University of Wyoming, Laramie, February 2-3, 2016.
• “From Unmaking to Reimagining Universities in the Neoliberal/Digital Conjuncture: A microseminar with Chris Newfield,” Simpson Center for the Humanities,” University of Washington-Seattle, January 25-26, 2016.
• “Students in the Corporate University: Seminar,” University of Washington-Seattle, January 26, 2016.
• “The Great Mistake: How Private-Sector Models Damage Public Universities, and How to Stop It,” University of Washington-Seattle, January 25, 2016.
• “Finance Capital and the University: Introduction,” MLA Convention, Austin TX, January 10, 2016
• “Where are the Humanities in Research Funding: Introduction,” MLA Convention, Austin TX, January 9, 2016.
• “The University’s Recovery Cycle,” MLA Subconference, Austin TX, January 7, 2016.

2015
• “The Limits of the Numerical: Metrics and the Humanities in Higher Education,” University of Cambridge, December 14, 2015.
• “Comments on Universities and Think Tanks in the European Union,” University of Oslo, UNIKE Workshop, December 2, 2015.
• “Budgeting Co-op Universities,” Social Science Center, Lincoln, England, November 20, 2015.
• “Metrics Mania in Higher Education: What Should Faculty Do?” University of Kent, England, November 19, 2015.
• “What Comes After the Neoliberal University? Escalating Conflicts Over Higher Education,” American University of Beirut, November 12, 2015.
• “What Was Faculty Governance? How Can it Be Rebuilt?” University of Lincoln, England, October 19, 2015.
• “The Ethics of Graduate Education in the 21st Century Academy,” American Studies Association, Toronto, October 9, 2015.
• “Critical University Studies & Social Justice: A Reconstruction,” American Studies Association, Toronto, October 9, 2015.
• “The Student Experience of Online Education: Interviews in a California Community College,” Learning with MOOCs II, Teachers College, Columbia University, October 3, 2015.
• “Methodological Issues in the Humanities,” Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, October 2, 2015.
• “What is Literary knowledge of Economy?” Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, October 1, 2015.
• “Group Dynamics in Research Teams: Commentary on UNIKE,” Education Faculty, University of Porto, Portugal, July 1, 2015.
• “American Studies in Europe Today,” American Consulate, Hamburg, Germany, June 3, 2015.
• “Theory and Education in American Studies,” JFK Institute, Free University of Berlin, June 2, 2015.
• “Recent Developments in Innovation Theory,” Legislative Committee on Industry, Legislature for Rheinland-Wesphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany, June 1, 2015.
• “New Roles for Academia? The American University and the Knowledge Economy,” Knowledge Landscapes of North America conference, University of Bonn, May 28, 2015.
• “Neoliberalism and Education,” Neoliberalism + Biopolitics Conference, UC Berkeley, February 28, 2015.
• “The Price of Privatization: Some Effects of a Failed Strategy,” University of Oregon, February 27, 2015.
• “What Happened to Solar Innovation,” Energy Challenges in the Developing World, UC Santa Barbara, February 20, 2015.
• “Ed-Tech After the MOOC Bubble: Some Implications for Student-Centered Learning,” Universities in the Knowledge Economy, University of Auckland, New Zealand, February 12, 2015.
• “Alternative Ways of Thinking the University,” Universities in the Knowledge Economy, University of Auckland, New Zealand, February 11, 2015.
• “The Meaning of ‘Public’ in Public University,” MLA Subconference, Vancouver, BC, January 9, 2015.
• “Reforming the English Major—Again.” Critical University Studies Panel, Modern Languages Association, Vancouver, January 8 2015.

2014
• “What Has Happened to Solar Innovation”? Democratizing Governance Conference, UC Santa Barbara, November 15, 2014.
• “What was faculty governance? How can it be rebuilt?” University of Toronto, November 11, 2014.
• “Metrics Mania in Higher Education: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Treatments,” John P. McGovern MD Award Lecture in the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, October 23, 2014.
• “Free Speech and a Free UC,” The Operation of the Machine: UC Then and Now, UC Berkeley October, 2014.
• “The New Normal: What Does it Mean to Work at UC Today? UC Berkeley, October 2014.
• “What the Humanities are For—And Why We Should Stop Defending Them,” School for Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, July 2014.
• “The Future of Public Universities,” London School of Economics, June 2014.
• “The Price of Privatisation,” London School of Economics, June 2014.
• “The Humanities in Research Education,” UCLA Dean’s Forum on the Humanities, UC Los Angeles, May 2014.
• “Mend It, Don’t End It: California’s Master Plan for Higher Education,” UC Santa Barbara, May 2014.
• “What are the Humanities For—in the 21st Century?” Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa, April 2014.
• “Remarks to the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry,” University of Iowa, April 2014.
• “Remarks to the Humanities Advisory Committee,” University of Iowa, April 2014.
• “The Humanities as a Public Good,” Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2014.
• “The Humanities in the Post-Capitalist University” Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 2014.
• “Could We Build an Autonomous University?” Mellon Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2014.
• “Enough with the Defense! Why We Should Stop ‘Making the Case for the Humanities,’ and What We Should Do Instead,” Glasscock Center, Texas A&M University, March 2014.
• “Innovation Theory in the Humanities: Liberal Arts as Practical Arts,” Brigham Young University, Utah, March 2014.
•“Thinking Aloud: Christopher Newfield,” BYU Humanities Center Annual Symposium, Brigham Young University, Utah, March 21, 2014. 
• “When America Flunked Democracy: Urban-Mystery Origins of Political Gridlock,”American Mysteries Conference, UC Santa Barbara, February 2014.
• “Can the Professoriat Speak?” University of Southern California, February 2014.
•“Notes on Online Education After MOOCs,” School of Education, UC Santa Barbara, February 2014.
• “What are Universities For?” Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Santa Barbara, February 2014.
• “Humanities Unbound,” TORCH Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, England, January 2014.
• “Moving Humanities Accounting Beyond Explicit Costs,” MLA Convention, Chicago, January 2014.
• “Building the Bootleg University,” MLA Subconference, Chicago, January 2014.

2013
• “Elements of a Post-Capitalist University,” SOAS Law School, London, November 2013.
• “Elements of a Post-Capitalist University,” Historical Materialism Conference, London, November 2013.
• “Can Humanities and Social Science Faculty Collaborate? Notes from a 5-Year NSF Grant,” Universities in the Knowledge Economy, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2013.
• ‘MOOCs as an instrument of global democracy?’ Universities in the Knowledge Economy, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2013.
• “How Not to Fix Our Public Universities: An Overview of the American Case,” EPOKE Seminar Lecture, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2013.
• “How Will MOOCs Affect US Universities’ International Strategy?” National University of Singapore, July 2013.
• “The Return of Creativity: Literary vs. Innovation Theory,” Grinnell College, April 2013.
• “The Future of the Public University: Saved by the Humanities Edition,” Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes Annual Meeting, University of Kansas, April 2013.
• “MOOC-fest at the Science-Mart: What the Third Wave of Online Education Means for Cultural Study,” Cambridge University, April 2013.
• “The Reach of Online Education,” Learning Mode Conference, University of California at Berkeley, March 2013.
• “The Destruction of Creativity? Literary vs. Innovation Theory,” Pratt Institute, March 2013.
• “21st Century English Departments: Notes on the Liberal and Practical Arts,” Pace University, February 2013.
• “It’s Not a STEM World After All: Notes on the Liberal and Practical Arts,” College Arts and Humanities Institute, Indiana University, February 2013.

2012
• “After the Devolution: Rebuilding Public Universities,” University of Texas, Austin, December 2012.
• “The Impact of the Elections on Public Universities,” UCLA, November 2012.
• “The Elections Will Not Save Us: The Paradigm Shift that Could,” UC Santa Barbara, October 2012.
• “It’s Not a STEM World After All: Notes on the Liberal and Practical Arts,” Michigan Technological University, October 2012.
• “Rebuilding the Public University: From the Innovation Economy to Craft Society,” Michigan Technological University, October 2012.
• “The Permanence of the Public University Budget Crisis: Some Changes Since 2009,” UC Berkeley, September 2012.
• “Out of Frame: Past and Present Visions of the UC’s City of Intellect,” UC Berkeley, Sept 2012.
• “American Studies and Knowledge Ecologies,” University of Bonn, Germany, September 2012.
• “The Future University” Arts Center Inaugural, University of Umea, Sweden, May 2012.
• “Does Innovation Theory Need the Humanities? HUMLab, University of Umea, Sweden, May 2012.
• “Does Innovation Theory Need Cultural Study?” University of Freiburg, May 2012.
• “Does Cultural Study Need Innovation Theory?” JFK Institute, Free University of Berlin, April 2012.
• “Academic Senate Budget Overview Then and Now: Is There Progress since 2007? UC Santa Barbara, March 2012.
• “The Technological University We Need,” UC Irvine, March 2012.
• “Current Humanities Research on Cultural Knowledge Production: Four Responses,” USC, Los Angeles, March 2012.
• “After the Devolution: Reinventing the Humanities for the Future University,” USC, Los Angeles, March 2012.
• “The Future of the Public University in the Age of Privatization,” Rutgers University, February 2012.
• “Seminar on Unmaking the Public University: Theoretical Considerations for the Future,” Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, February 2012.
• “The Fate of the Humanities in the Public University,” University of Maine, February 2012.
• “The Future of the University of California in the Age of Privatization,” UC Irvine, February 2012.
• “The Future of the University of California in the Age of Privatization,” UC Riverside, January 2012.

2011
• “Rebuilding the Public University: From the Innovation Economy to Craft Society,” McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, November 2011.
• “Solar Innovation: The Case of Germany,” American Anthropological Association, Montréal, Québec, November 2011.
• “Solar Innovation: The Case of Germany,” SNET, Tempe, Arizona, November 2011.
• “Craft Practice in the Academy: Seminar on Sennett and Rancière,” Reed College, October 2011.
• “Ruin and Rebirth in the American University: How to Reverse Decline,” Reed College, October 2011
• “How to Put Educational Quality on the Agenda,” Portland State University, October 2011.
• “Ruin and Rebirth in the American University: How to Reverse Decline,” Portland State University, October 2011.
• “The Innovation Conspiracy: Ruin and Rebirth in the American University,” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, October 2011.
• “Obama and the Effects of Conservative Affect,” American Studies Association, Baltimore October 2011.
• “Budget Cuts and Graduate Labor,” American Studies Association, Baltimore October 2011.
• “Unfunding the Humanities: The Case for Seccession,” Cambridge University, July 2011.
• “California’s Over: the Fall and Rise of the Public Sector Origins of the Golden State,” 6th International Conference In Interpretive Policy Analysis, University of Cardiff, UK, June 2011.
• “Budget Attacks on Public Higher Education,” Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, May 2011.
• “Open Source Nano for the ‘Developing’ World? INRA, Ivry-sur-Seine, May 2011.
• “Why are they Whacking Higher Ed?: Some Lessons from the US,” Goldsmiths College, University of London, March 2011.
• “The View from 2020: How Universities Came Back,” MLA Convention, Los Angeles, January 2011.
• “The View from 2020: How Universities Came Back,” MLA Counterconference, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, January 2011.
• “Blogging and Academic Activism,” MLA Convention, Los Angeles, January 2011.

2010
• “The Decline of the Anti-Common: an English Professor Among Nanotechnologists,” Duke University, November 2010.
• “The Endless Squeeze on Higher Ed: How it is Working, What They Want,” American Studies Association Convention Presidential Plenary, San Antonio, November 2010.
• “The Rise and Fall of Global English? The Impact of Immersion Programs on American Languages,” American Studies Association of Turkey, Alanya, November 2010.
• “America’s Wrongful Modernity: Hawthorne on Puritan Psychology,” Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, November 2010.
• “Introduction: The Crisis of the Public University and the Future of the Humanities,” University of California at Berkeley, October 2010.
• “Is Nanotechnology Changing Technology Transfer?” S.NET Conference, Darmstadt, Germany, October 2010.
• “Nanotechnology, Quantum Dots, and Open Source,” Nanorama, Lorient, France, September 2010.
• Can the US National Innovation System Work for Low- and Medium-Income Countries”? INRA, Ivry-sur-Seine, June 2010.
• “Some Psychological Implications of Obama’s First Year as President,” University of Freiburg, June 2010.
• “Quelques mauvaises idées budgétaires américaines qui attendent leur application universitaire en Europe: pourquoi les éviter?” Université de Toulouse-Mirail, May 2010.
•“The End of the Public University and the Beginning of the Next,” University of California at Santa Barbara, May 2010
• “Innovation Troubles: Could a Better Public Narrative Help Solar Energy?” Center for Nanotechnology in Society, UC Santa Barbara, May 2010.
• “The End of the Public University and the Beginning of the Next,” Robert Eliot Memorial Lecture, Literature Department, UC San Diego, May 2010.
• “Redefining the Public Mission University,” University of Washington-Seattle, May 2010.
• “The End of the American University: What Comes Next?, New Universities Keynote, University of Washington-Boethell, May 2010.
• “The End of the American University: What Comes Next?” American Studies Program, UC Davis, May 2010.
• “Restoring the Public University,” Department Chairs’ First Annual John Gemello Academic Leadership Symposium, San Francisco State University, May 2010.
• “Unmaking the Public University Two Years Later,” Vampire Slayers Project, San Francisco State University, May 2010.
• “The End of the American University: What Comes Next?,” Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, UCLA, May 2010.
• “Is the West Facing an Innovation Crisis”? States of Innovation, Université de Lyon 3 & ENS-Lyon, April 2010.
• “What Happened to Solar?: A Case Study in Innovation Failure,” States of Innovation, Université de Lyon 3 & ENS-Lyon, April 2010.
• “What’s Left of Obama’s Presidency?” Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, February 2010

2009
• “Academic Crisis: What Should Graduate Students Do?,” Modern Languages Association, December 2009 (in absentia).
• “The End of the American Funding Model: What Comes Next,” FOREDUC, University of Paris – X, Nanterre, December 2009.
• “Remarks on Art-Sci Innovation and Jim Gimzewski,” Institute Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées, Marseille, November 2009.
• “Structure and Silence of the Cognotariat,” Meeting on the Perils and Opportunities of the Internationalisation of Higher Education, Université de Lausanne, September 2009.
• “Premonitions of Deliverance: The University and Global Change,” Conference on the Global University, La Sapienza, Roma, June 2009.
• “What is Open Innovation at the Nanoscale,” CNRS Meeting on Nanotechnology and Global Development, Ivry-sur-Seine, June 2009.
• “Collaboration at the Nanoscale,” Presentation to National Science Foundation site team, Center for Nanotechnology and Society, UC Santa Barbara, May 2009.
• “Collaboration at the Nanoscale: Does it Accelerate Innovation?,” UC Santa Barbara, January 2009.
• “The Obama Administration and the Knowledge Economy,” University of Paris 10 – Nanterre, January 2009.

2008
• “Ending the Budget Wars: Funding the Humanities during a Crisis in Higher Education,” Modern Languages Association, San Francisco, December 2008.
• “Studying Innovation Networks: Internet is Better as Form than Function,” Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées, Marseille, France, November 2008.
• “Accelerating the Crisis: The American University Abroad,” American Studies Association Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2008.
• “Inside the UC Budget Bureaucracy: An Adventure in Critical Ethnography,” Center for Critical Ethnography, University of California at Irvine, October 2008.
• “Can Industry Funding Save Research: Comparing the United States and France,” “Université de l’Automne” de Sauvons la Recherche, Conseil régional de Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, October 2008.
• “DARPA’s Impact on Photovoltaic Research,” Conference on Tracking the Hidden Developmental State, Institute for International Studies, UC Berkeley, June 2008.
• “Quantum Dots and 3G Photovoltaics: Research of the Innovation Group,” NSF Site Visit, Center for Nanotechnology and Society, UC Santa Barbara, May 2008.
• “The Problem with Privatization,” Philosophy Department, University of North Texas, April 2008.
• “The Budget Wars on the 1960s,” Humanities Center, University of California, Irvine, April 2008.
• “Budgetary Trends at the University of California” (Problems for Basic Research), Meeting of the Council of Chancellors, the University of California, March 2008.
• “The University at the Crossroads: A U.S. Social Crisis,” Université de Paris X – Nanterre, February 2008.

2007
• “Privatization and Pleasure,” Modern Languages Association, December 2007 (via panel colleague).
• “The Squeeze Doctrine: Origins of a US Culture of Force,” Central European University, Budapest, December 2007.
• “Race and the American Social Model,” Centre d’Etudes Politiques, Université de Paris VIII – Saint-Denis, December 2007.
• “Activism and Anti-Privatization,” American Studies Association, October 2007 (via panel colleague).
• Quantum Dots and Intellectual Property: Research of the Innovation Group, National Advisory Board Review Center for Nanotechnology and Society, UC Santa Barbara, April 2007.
• Quantum Dots and Intellectual Property: Research of the Innovation Group, Center for Nanotechnology and Society, UC Santa Barbara, March 2007.
• “The Impact of Race on the History of Technology,” History Department, Drexel University, March 2007.
• “The Corruption of Academic Knowledge Production,” Literature Department, Duke University, January 2007.

2006
• “The Corporation and Culture,” American Studies Association, Oakland, California, October 2006.
• “American Business Culture and Sustainable Global Development,” Institut de l’études européens, Université de Paris – VIII, May 2006.
• “Intellectual Property and the Creative Process,” Atlanta Science and Technology Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2006.
• “Creativity and US Business Culture,” Institut de l’études européens, Université de Paris – VIII, May 2006.
• “A Game the West Can Win? Innovation, the University, and the High-Tech Economy,” Institut de l’études européens, Université de Paris – VIII, May 2006.
• “Where’s My Flying Car?” Center for Nanotechnology in Society, UC Santa Barbara, May 2006.
• “Tocqueville’s Analysis of American Business Culture,” Institut de l’études européens, Université de Paris – VIII, April 2006.
• “American Business and the Culture of Force in U.S. Foreign Policy,” Institut de l’études européens, Université de Paris – VIII, April 2006.
• “Work in America: Moguls, Temp Slaves and Immigrants,” Institut de l’études européens, Université de Paris – VIII, April 2006.
• “Governance and Creativity in Nanoscale Research,” Tomorrow’s People Conference, Said Business School, University of Oxford, March 2006.
• “What is American Business Culture?,” Institut de l’études européens, Université de Paris – VIII, March 2006.
• “Middle-Class Roots of the Culture of Force,” Middle Eastern Studies Center, New York University, February, 2006.
• “The University in an Age of Commercial Research: Where will the Bologna Process Take Europe’s Universities?,” Instituts für Nordamerikastudien, Albert-Ludwig Universität, Freiburg, Berlin, Germany, January 2006.
• “Why Do the Culture Wars Continue, and What Do They Mean?,” des John F. Kennedy-Instituts für Nordamerikastudien der Freien Universität Berlin, Germany, January 2006.

2005
• “Cultural Origins of the American Culture of Force,” Colloque Cultures impériales; perspectives transatlantiques sur les empires, Université de Paris X-Nanterre, November 2005.
• “Interdisciplinarity in an International Context,” American Studies Association Convention, Washington, DC, November 2005.
• “What is Cultural Studies Today?” North Carolina A&T, Greensboro, NC, June 2005.
• “Business Studies and the Liberal Arts,” North Carolina A&T, Greensboro, NC, June 2005.
• “The Culture of Force in US Foreign Policy,” Law and Society Association National Convention, Las Vegas , NV, June 2005.
• “The Humanities in the Age of Technology Transfer,” Cloning Cultures Conference, UC Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, CA, May 2005.
• “The Place of the Humanities in the ‘Corporate University, ’” American Association of Colleges and Universities National Convention, San Francisco, CA, January 2005.

2004
• “Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy,” Goldsmiths College, University of London, December 2004.
• “Revolution and Administration,” American Studies Association Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2004.
• “Shame in the University,” Public Feelings Panel, American Studies Association Convention, Atlanta Georgia, November 2004.
• “The Humanities in the Age of Technology Transfer,” University of Bonn, Germany, June 2004.

2003
• “Cultural Conflicts in US-EU Foreign Policy,” Université de Paris VIII, December 2003.
• “The Cultural Roots of US Foreign Policy,” American Studies Association, Hartford, Connecticut, November 2003.
• “Diversity in the Age of Pseudointegration,” Dartmouth College, June 2003.
• “Diversity in the Age of Pseudointegration,” University of California, Santa Cruz, May 2003.
• “Literature in the New Economy,” University of Washington, Seattle, March 2003.

2002
• “Diversity in the Age of Pseudointegration,” Modern Languages Association, New York, December 2002.
• “Old Before its Time: The Problem of the Post-60s Generation,” Modern Languages Association, New York, December 2002.
• “Economy and Affect: A Response,” American Studies Association, Houston, November 2002.
• “Technology Transfer from the “Other Side” of Campus,” UC Office of the President, Patent Coordinator’s Meeting, Oakland, November 2002.
• “Does Diversity Have a Theory?” Theories of American Culture, Free University Berlin, May 2002.

2001
• “The University Sources of the New Economy,” Modern Languages Association, New Orleans, December 2001.
• “The Fate of Affect in Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance,” Modern Languages Association, New Orleans, December 2001.
• “The University Sources of the New Economy,” American Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 2001.
• “Social Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions,” Copenhagen Business School, May 2001.
• “Innovation and Finance in the DotCom Start-Up,” Copenhagen Business School, May 2001.
• “The Role of Innovation in the DotCom Start-Up,” Copenhagen Business School, May 2001.
• “Business Studies and Cultural Studies,” Copenhagen Business School, May 2001.
• “Acquisitions and the Impact on Innovation,” Copenhagen Business School, May 2001.
• “Five Models of Mergers and Acquisitions in Recent Research,” Copenhagen Business School, May 2001.
• “Diversity Management: The Case of Jonah Creighton,” Copenhagen Business School, May 2001.
• “Creativity in a Non-Dotcom: The Limits of the New Economy,” Social Sciences Research Council conference on the New Economy, Emory University, April 2001.

2000
• “Neoliberalism or Neohumanism,” American Studies Association, Detroit, MI October 2000.
• “Charlie Schwartz v. UC Finance,” California Studies Association, San Diego, February 2000.

1999
• “Indigenous Capitalism in a Global Age,” American Studies Association, Montréal, October 1999.
• “Capital in the Cubicles: Notes on a Culture War,” Business Culture conference keynote address, San Jose State University, April 1999.
• “Emerson’s Individualism and the ‘New Economy,’” University of Michigan Business School, April 1999.
• “Is There a ‘Consensus’ Multiculturalism?” Indiana University, April 1999.

1998
• “Global Diversity and Corporate Culture,” American Studies Association, Seattle, November 1998.
• “Private Prisons in the Global Order,” Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison-Industrial Complex, UC Berkeley, September 1998.
• “The American Humanities in a Corporate Society,” University of Chicago, May 1998.
• “The Concept of Business Revolution,” University of Michigan Business School, April 1998.
• “The Cultures of American Finance,” Duke University, February 1998.

1997
• “American Studies and Corporate Trainers,” American Studies Association, Washington D.C. October 1997.
• “The Professor-Managers,” Public Intellectuals and the Future of Graduate Education, University of Chicago, June 1997.
• “Whiteness and Meritocracy,” Lecture Series on “Whiteness,” University of Kentucky, April 1997.

1996
• “Business Culture and the Erosion of Markets,” Modern Languages Association Convention, Washington, D.C., December 1996.
• “Emerson These Days,” The Greenfield Code, KCTV, Santa Barbara, December 12, 1996.
• “After Political Correctness: The Humanities and Society in the 1990s,” keynote address, American Studies Association of Turkey Seminar, Izmir, November 1996.
• “From Multiculturalism to Diversity Management,” American Studies Association of Turkey Seminar, Izmir, November 1996.
• “The New Self: Emerson’s and Ours,” Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, November 1996.
• “The Future of American Studies,” Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, November 1996.
• “Corporate Culture Wars,” UCSB Community Relations Symposium, October 1996.
• “The New Self: Emerson’s and Ours,” USIS lecture, UCSB, July 1996.
• “Six American Nations: Puritan to Multi-national America,” USIA lecture, UCSB July 1996.
• “American Culture and Corporate Culture,” two day symposium leader, San Diego State University, January, 1996.

1995
• “Race and Meritocracy,” UC San Diego, October 1995.
• “Multiculturalism and Affirmative Action,” German-American Symposium, UC Humanities Research Institute, August 1995.
• “Liberal Racism and the Attack on Affirmative Action,” UC San Diego, April 1995.

1994
• “The Genesis of Liberal Racism,” Modern Languages Association Convention, San Diego, December 1994.
• “Corporate Pleasures for a Corporate Planet,” American Studies Association Convention, Nashville, October 1994.
• “Cultural Studies, Budget Studies,” Conference on “Knowledges: Production, Distribution, Revision,” University of Minnesota, April 1994.

1993
• “The Public Humanities,” Institute on Culture, Carnegie Mellon University, June 1993.
• “Practical Culture: The Crisis of the Liberal Arts in the Poetry of James Thomson,” Presidential Inaugural, Reed College, Portland, OR, March 1993.
• “Post-Humanism and Post-Humanities,” Sociology Colloquium, UCSB March 1993.

1992
• “Lesbian and Gay Studies and Social Theory,” Modern Language Association Convention, New York, December 1992.
•”Capital Read Derrida,” Response to Judith Butler’s “Bodies that Matter,” USC Center for the Study of Women and Men, March 13, 1992.
• “Race and `PC’ in the University,” in a series Six Views of Political Correctness, Channel 21, Santa Barbara, CA February, 1992.

1991
• “Introduction: Ignore the Pressure,” Modern Languages Association Convention, San Francisco, California, December 1991.
• “The Status of Politics in Literature and Sociology,” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 1991.
• “New Ethnicities: Race without Politics,” Institute on Culture, University of Oregon, June 1991.

1990
• “Collectivity: Pragmatism and Popularity,” Modern Languages Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, December 1990.
• “Physical Relations: Male Bonding and Domesticity,” American Studies Association Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1990.
• “Neopragmatism’s Domestic Fictions,” Western Humanities Conference, Berkeley, California, October 1990.

1989
• “‘Disgusting Fictions’: Penny Pornography and the Antebellum Urban Masses,” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington D.C., December 28, 1989.
• “‘Disgusting Fictions’: Penny Pornography and the Antebellum Urban Masses,” American Studies Association Convention, Washington D.C., November 4, 1989.
• “The Politics of Male Suffering: Ambivalence as Domination in the American Renaissance,” meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, May 4, 1989.
• “The Masses in James’s The American Scene,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Wilmington Delaware, March 30, 1989.
• “Autonomous and Corporate Subjectivity in Emerson’s `Prospects,"” University of California, Santa Barbara, January 20, 1989.

1988
• “Frederic Remington’s Permanent Revolution,” Houston Museum of Fine Arts, November 12, 1988.
• “Hawthorne, Patriarchal Consensus, and Social Class,” Texas American Studies Association, Wichita Falls, Texas, November 20, 1988.
• “Male Power, Male Pathos: The Death of Dimmesdale,” South Central Modern Languages Association convention, October 23, 1988.
• “The Politics of Male Suffering,” Cultural Studies Symposium, Rice University, February 12, 1988.

1987
• “Romance and Failure in James’s American Scene,” Northeastern Modern Language Association convention, April 3, 1987.
• “Collectives and Natural Law in Emerson’s ‘Worship,"” Rice University, Houston Texas, January 1987.
• “Collectives and Natural Law in Emerson’s ‘Worship,"” University of Oregon, Eugene Oregon, January 1987.
• “Collectives and Natural Law in Emerson’s ‘Worship,"” American University, Washington D.C., January 1987.

1986
• “Troping and Positing in Paul de Man’s Reading of Nietzsche,” “Fin de Siècle Readings: The Twentieth Century in Our Time,” Cornell University, September 26, 1986.
• “‘Nobody Drops His Domino’: Emerson on Other People,” Emerson Symposium, Cornell University, June 30, 1986.
• “Stephen Whicher and the Romanticism of Recent Emerson Commentary,” Emerson Symposium, Cornell University, June 15, 1986.