Nick Seaver

Anthropologist, Tufts University



Here, you can find a list of recent activities, lectures, 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.

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April 28, 2024—I gave the keynote lecture at Amherst College, for the Five College Ethnomusicology Certificate Celebration, which is a wonderful event for graduating ethnomusicology students to present their work.
April 22, 2024—For the University of Cambridge’s master’s program in AI Ethics & Society, I gave a guest lecture.
March 22, 2024—Alongside fellow guests Kyle Booten, Nan Z. Da, and Eric Drott, I was invited by Ritwik Banerji to present in the Machine as Human/Human as Machine Symposium at Iowa State University.
March 8, 2024—I gave the keynote lecture at the Music+Data Symposium at UCLA.
February 23, 2024—At the Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute, I gave a talk about my work on music recommender systems.
February 21, 2024—For The Lantern, an undergraduate STS club at Tufts, I presented from my book on music recommendation.
February 5, 2024—I spoke in the UC San Diego Science Studies Colloquium about care and control in algorithmic systems.
January 15, 2024—I was invited to give the annual Digital Anthropology Lecture at University College London.
December 6, 2023—Alongside Maria Eriksson and Fred Turner, I was a keynote speaker at Culture en Régime Numérique, a conference in Paris hosted by the French Ministry of Culture, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, and the Centre Georges Pompidou.