Talks

Forthcoming

 

2026. ‘AI in and beyond Work in the UK: Contesting New Forms of Exploitation and Surveillance’, Law, Development and Technology Learning Circle, University of Warwick, 29 October.

2026. 'When work drives us mad: Workers’ organising and support infrastructures on occupational psychosocial harms, 1970s-1990s', Panel on 'Marxist Madness: Materialist Theories of Mental Distress', Historical Materialism Conference, London, 5-8 November.

2026. 'Solidarity, Equivalence, and the Limits of Self-Organised Reproduction: Some Reflections on Urban Infrastructures of Care', Hellenic Geographical Society Conference, Athens, 27-28 November 2026.

 

Past

2026. 'Infrastructures of Care, Coercion and Destruction: AI and Mental Health', Workshop: 'Social Reproduction and Artificial Intelligence: Labour, Power, and Inequality in the Digital Age', SOAS, University of London, 24 June

2026. 'Palantir & Data Integration in the UK Public Sector and the National Health Service', European Trade Union Institute panel: 'Is Palantir Governing Your Workplace? intermediaries, lock-in and data infrastructures', Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) Conference, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, May 22.

2026. 'AI and Labour Conditions in the UK: Expropriation, casualisation, monitoring, predicting, intervening and policing in and out of work', Critical AI Network Virtual Assembly, Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths, University of London, 28 May.

2025. ‘AI at work and AI-related deregulation in the UK’, European Trade Union Institute, Trade Union-Related institutes Conference, Copenhagen, 7 October.

2025. ‘Neurotechnologies of Attention and the Subsumption of Labour under Expanded Circuits of Valorisation’. Disrupting Technology Conference, Business School, University of Leeds.

2025. ‘Fascist “Race Realism” and the Epistemic Politics of “Ancestry” and “Environment” in Contemporary Genomics’, Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, 6 November.

2025. ‘The Struggle for Attention Must Be the Radicalisation of Distraction’. ‘The Crisis of Experience in the in the Age of Algorithmic Attention’ Stream, London Conference in Critical Thought, Birkbeck, University of London.

2025. ‘AI, neuroscience and the human as object of algorithmic fantasy’, Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, 8 November.

2025. Workshop talk on ‘Infrastructures of Disalienation’, Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany, 28 January.

2024. ‘Technologies of Real Subsumption? Labour, Biology and AI’. Historical Materialism Conference. SOAS, London, 9 November.

2024. ‘Race and IQ Redux? Biopolitics, Biological Truth and “Ancestry” Research in Social Genomics’ 5th International Data Power Conference: Situating Data Practices Beyond Data Universalism, Bangalore IIIT-B, India and the University of Graz, Austria, 4–6 September.

2024. ‘Neuro-Metrics of Attention in Education and Logics of Brain Capital’, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST/4S) Conference, University of Amsterdam, 16-19 July.

2024. ‘European Belonging through Self-orientalisation? Sociohistorical Narratives and the (Geo)Politics of Identity and Race in Greece.’ Worlding from South East Europe, Remaking International Relations. BISA South East Europe Working Group. 24 October.

2023. ‘The Question of Ancestry in Educational Genomics: Race and IQ Redux?’ 4S Conference, Honolulu, 8 November.

2023. ‘Attention as Value and Object of Knowledge: Current Neurotechnologies for Attention in Education (and Not Only)’ STS Italia, University of Bologna, 30 June.

2022. ‘On “Keepsakes”: Science, Technology and Post-Capitalism Today’. Mattin Residency, Café Oto, London, 19 May.

2021. with Callard, F. ‘Mapping Mental Health in the UK University Sector’, Human Geography Research Group Meeting, University of Glasgow, 11 February.

2021. ‘The Rise of Digital and Analytics Approaches to Student Mental Health in the UK’. Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh, 9 December.

2021. ‘Revisiting Biopolicing under COVID. Managing health from epidemic to pandemic’. Roundtable Series: Modern Greek Studies and Beyond: Local Cases, Global Debates, The Oxford Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford, 21 January.

2021. ‘Combining Network Analysis with Discourse and Policy Analysis’. York Cross-disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis. University of York, 28 April..

2020. ‘Mapping Mental Health in the UK University Sector’, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST/4S) Conference, Online, 21 August.

2019. Book presentation of Surplus Citizens, School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of York, 22 November.

2019. ‘Identity and Its Questioning: Social Struggle, Self-Critique and Group Psychic Processes’. European Sociological Association conference, Manchester, 20–23 August.

2018. ‘The “Colonisation of the Imagination” and Irredentism as a Racial Project in Greece’. Historical Materialism Conference. SOAS, London, 9 November.

2017. ‘Trump and Memes’. Them! The visual cultures of ‘othering’ in post-referendum UK and post-general-election USA. Visual Arts Department, Middlesex University, 13 January.

2017. ‘The Psychic Borders of Popular Nationalism’. Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research, Lebanon, 11 March.

2017. ‘The “Borders” of Trauma and Abjection from European Nationalisms to Alt-Right Memes’. Department of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, 13 March.

2017. ‘On Fetishism, Postcoloniality and the National Resistance to Debt’ at the ‘Parliament of Bodies’ with Nadia Bou Ali, Ray Brassier and Paul B. Preciado. Documenta 14, Kassel, Germany, 5 September.

2017. ‘Abjection as an Intersectional Conceptual Tool’. British Sociological Association Conference, Manchester, 4 April.

2016. ‘Crisis Racism and Sexism and the Psychoanalytic Concept of Abjection’, Historical Materialism Conference. SOAS, London, 13 November.

2015. ‘The Crisis of the Nation-State, Surplus Population Management, and Abjection’. The Body of the Governed: The Biopolitics of Race and Gender in Theory and Political Practice. Workshop. Department of Politics, University of Kent, Canterbury, 6 December.

2015. ‘Gender, Care and Legal Reason in Capitalism through Gilligan and Pashukanis’. Two Days of Feminist Discussions. Workshop. MayDay Rooms, London, May 15.

2014. ‘A Response to Ray Brassier’s Wandering Abstraction’, What Is to Be Done Under Real Subsumption? Workshop/debate with Ray Brassier, Marina Vishmidt and Rob Lucas. Bulegoa z/b, Bilbao, Spain, 28 November.

2014. ‘A Conversation on Self-Management and Self-Organisation’ [In Greek], 6th Documentary Film Festival, Yfanet Social Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece, 18 January.

2013. ‘Self-Management and Economic Collapse in Greece’. Money in the State of Crisis. The Example of Greece. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany, 27 January.

2013. ‘Repressive Crisis Management, Nationalism and Surplus Populations in Greece’, Historical Materialism Conference. SOAS, London, 7–10 November.

2013. ‘Crisis and Today’s Fascisms and Anti-Fascisms: The Case of Greece’, South East Doctoral Training Centre Conference: Power Revisited: Crisis and Opportunities. Royal Holloway, University of London, 20 March.

2013. ‘Considering “Semi-Peripheral” Capitalist Temporality’. Centre for Critical Thought Seminar, University of Kent, Canterbury, 10 December.

2011. ‘The Illegitimacy of Demands’, Historical Materialism Conference. SOAS, London, 10-13 November.