Recent Talks

“The Moment of the Rage Room.” International Communication Association. May 2021 (online).

“Old Scholarship, New Life.” Fishbowl panel at the Association of Internet Researchers. Dublin, October 2020. Co-presenting with Nancy Baym, Zoë Glatt, Rachel Bergmann, and Anette Markham.

Proxies: the cultural work of standing in.” Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, DK. January 31, 2020.

“Bugs: Viral Thinking in the Early Internet.” The Web That Was: Archives, Traces, Reflections. The University of Amsterdam, June 18–21, 2019. Co-presenting with Cait McKinney.

“Bugs: Rethinking the History of Computing.” International Communication Association. Washington, DC, May 24–29, 2019. Co-presenting with Cait McKinney.

“Infrastructures and Their Temporalities.” Research dialogue series at the LSE. Co-panelist with Julia Velkova. January 17, 2019.

“The History of Computing.” Co-panelist with Jennifer Light and Devin Kennedy. Modern Sciences Working Group. Harvard History of Science Program, November 29, 2017.

“Embedded Dangers: The History of the Year 2000 Problem.” SIGCIS Conference. Philadelphia, October 29, 2017.

Infrastructural Interdependence at the End of the Millennium.” Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). Boston, August 30–Sept 2, 2017. Co-presented, co-organized, and co-chaired panel on “Crisis Infrastructures and the Politics of Interdependence” with Cait McKinney.

“Clipped, Cropped, Scanned: The Lena image and The Making of a Test Medium,” part of Knowledge, Storage, and the History of Compression, conference at Harvard University. May 3, 2017.

“Media prophylaxis: the politics of preventing technological harm.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, March 22–26, 2017.

“Embedded Dangers: Revisiting the Year 2000 Problem and the Politics of Technological Repair,” Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. March 7, 2017. Video available at:

https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2017/03/Mulvin

 “Embedded Dangers: The History of the Year 2000 Problem and The Politics of Technological repair.” Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Berlin, Germany. October 5–8, 2016. 

“The Y2K Bug and the Politics of Technological Repair.” Part of the symposium Hardwired Temporalities: Technology and the Patterning of Time. Montreal, March 11–12, 2016.