Nick Seaver

Anthropologist, Tufts University



Here, you can find a list of recent invited talks, keynotes, conference presentations, media appearances, and so on. Older links are, unfortunately, likely to be dead.
        If you’d like to interview me or invite me to speak at your event, please do reach out.



May 23, 2025—I zoomed in to a workshop at Oxford on “When Technologies Become Traps,” presenting some work on the media theory of mouse jigglers.
April 25, 2025—I participated in the Shady Subjects workshop at Cornell, presenting some work in progress on online discourse about the ethics of using mouse jigglers.
April 11, 2025—At the Northeastern School of Law, I participated in a workshop on “The Battle for Our Attention: Empirical, Philosophical, and Legal Questions.”
March 6, 2025—I presented on algorithmic interpretability in the Cornell Music Department Colloquium series.
December 17, 2024—At Goethe University in Frankfurt, I presented some research on mouse jigglers at “After Surveillance.”
November 20, 2024—I participated in a roundtable on cyborg anthropology at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Tampa.
November 15, 2024—I presented work on driver monitoring systems and the technical construction of attentiveness at the Agency and Attention workshop at the Royal Danish Academy of Science & Letters.
November 13, 2024—At the Center for Tracking and Society at the University of Copenhagen, I spoke about mouse jigglers.
November 5, 2024—At the University of Bergen, Norway, I gave a talk about attention simulation devices.