This is a work in progress! I am sure some are missing. And the formatting is ugly!
Several of my keynotes talks and other lectures have been posted online by the hosting institutions and organizations. If you know the online whereabouts of any of the following not currently linked to, please let me know!
4/19/2023 Economic moralities: Value Claims on the Future University of St. Andrews. With Kate Zaloom (virtual).
3/14/2023 Why Cash Matters for CBDC Design. Public First, Crane Currency, Malta, March 14, 2023.
3/10/2023 Why Banknote Design Matters More Than Ever…for CBDC. Vaduz Roundtable, Liechtenstein, March 10, 2023.
5/3/2022 Cash in an Age of Uncertainty. Global Currency Forum, Barcelona, May 3, 2022.
4/7/2022 Crypto at a Crossroads? Central Bank Digital Currencies and the Infrastructural Politics of Money. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, April 7, 2022 (virtual)
2/14/2022 What I learned teaching CS students the anthropology of blockchain. National Science Foundation, February 14, 2022 (virtual).
2/9/2022 Central Bank Digital Currencies in Asia: A Regional Perspective. Digital Transactions in Asia IV. Singapore. February 9, 2022 (virtual).
12/2/2021 Sovereigns, Cooperatives, Publics: Central Bank Digital Currencies as a Debate over Intermediation. King’s College, Cambridge, December 2, 2021 (virtual).
10/13/2021 What’s a Central Bank Digital Currency and Why Do They Matter (Even If They Never Exist)? CIESAS Occidente, Guadalajara, October 13, 2021. https://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/events/2021/2021-10-13-central-bank-digital-currency.php (virtual)
9/17/2021 World Hegemony and Monetary Orders. New School for Social Research Sawyer Seminar, September 17, 2021 (virtual).
11/9/2020 The Covid-19 Experiment: Money. Paris, Sciences Po 2020 (virtual).
10/22/2020 Financial Legacies: Slavery and the History of Banking. In conversation with Bill Maurer, Peter Hudson, and Mehrsa Baradaran. Moderated by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Discussion facilitated by Tonya Bradford and Mrinalini Tankha. 1619 Project, October 22, 2020 (virtual).
9/29/2020 The Economy and Life in Pandemic Times: A Dialogue on a Painful Opportunity for Thinking. With Luigi Doria. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kPtRZ8dDOroRDUup4AvhtueEPjA6Dk95/view September 29, 2020. Ca’Foscari University of Venice (virtual).
12/18/2019 Money Technologies and Political Idioms. December 18, 2020. Future of Money, Bocconi University, Milan, December 18, 2019.
| 9/10/2019 | Keynote | Cash in the Age of Payment Diversity | International Currency Conference / Deutsche Bundesbank, Munich, Germany |
| 9/6/2019 | Keynote | Citizens, Consumers, Robots | Vaduz Roundtable, Liechtenstein |
| 4/5/2019 | Invited lecture | The racial capitalism of blockchain: Between human-computer florishing and computational slavery? | Tulane University, Department of Anthropology |
| 2/8/2019 | Invited lecture | The racial capitalism of blockchain: Between human-computer florishing and computational slavery? | University of Helsinki, Department of Anthropology |
| 10/24/2018 | Invited lecture | The Anthropology of Money: Using Systems of Dominance to Explain the Origin of “Specie” | National Academies of Sciences, Medicine and Engineering, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive and Sensory Sciences, invited lecture |
| 10/22/2018 | Invited lecture | That Touch of Money: The Cashless Past, Some Cashless Futures, and the Public Good | University of Virginia, Cyber Innovation and Society Distinguished Lecture |
| 9/5/2018 | Invited lecture | The anthropology of accounting, money and payment, from cuneiform to cryptocurrencies | Chapman University, Economic Science Institute Brown Bag Series |
| 5/13/2018 | Invited lecture | Beyond the Cryptocurrency Bubble: Accounting for Blockchain in the Post-Crisis Global Economy | UC Santa Cruz, Center for Analytical Finance |
| 3/16/2018 | Keynote | Mind your Ps and 2s: Provocations for payments 10 years after M-Pesa | University of Washington, Digital Financial Services Workshop, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering |
| 3/7/2018 | Invited lecture | Money immaterial: The cashless past, a cashless future, and the public good | University of Notre Dame, Snite Museum of Art |
| 11/27/2017 | Invited lecture | Logical visions: blockchains, supply chains, and anthropological claims in the Anthropocene | Duke University, Department of Anthropology |
| 9/15/2017 | Invited lecture | The Africa Stack: Why the payments road to China and India runs through Africa | Fudan University, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan, China |
| 8/30/2017 | Keynote | Still Dazzled After All These Years: Seeing Past the Anthropocene | University of Manchester, 12th Annual International Ethnography Symposium, Manchester Business School |
| 6/8/2017 | Keynote | Tokens, Honor, Tribute, Tithe: Rank and Recognition in the Making of Money | Warwick University, Tokens: Culture, Connections, Communities; Classics and Ancient History Department |
| 5/29/2017 | Keynote | Demonetization and Dematerialization: Reconsidering the Gift of Money | Chaire Singleton, Le lien social au regard de la circulation des biens, des personnes et des capitaux, Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium |
| 04/22/17 | Invited conference presentation | Livable… Money | Being Material: A symposium hosted by the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST), April 21-22, 2017 |
| 04/22/17 | Invited conference presentation | 2017 CAST Symposium BEING MATERIAL: LIVABLE Panel Discussion | Being Material: A symposium hosted by the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST), April 21-22, 2017 |
| 4/19/2017 | Keynote | The Problems of Cash and the Perils of Cashlessness: Researching Mobile Money and Payment Infrastructure after M-Pesa | “Mobile Money, Financial Inclusion, and Development in Africa” hosted by Cornell’s Institute for African Development (IAD) in collaboration with the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD), April 19, 21, and 22 |
| 12/7/2016 | Invited lecture | Lessons for Fintech from the Anthropology of Money | Behavioral Sciences and Investor Education Conference, Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro |
| 3/15/2016 | Invited lecture | “How Would You Like To Pay? Or, An Anthropologist Rides the Payment Rails” | Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK |
| 3/14/2016 | invited lecture | “Law After Bitcoin” | Ethnography of New Money Symposium, Alliance Manchester Business School, Univ of Manchester, UK |
| 12/12/2015 | Invited lecture | “Law After Bitcoin” | “Law After Bitcoin” |
| 12/10/15 | Keynote | Blockchains are a Diamond’s Best Friend: From Cadastral Maps to Distributed Ledgers | Contested Property Claims Conference, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark |
| 09/26/15 | Keynote | Money as Ledger and Law, or Blockchains are a Diamond’s Best Friend | FUTUR€$ – Prospective Money and Money’s Prospects, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 03/04/15 | invited confence presentation | Money, Payment, Law: Blockchain Trajectories | Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain, NYUSteinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
| 09/11/14 | invited conference presentation | Zelizer for the Bitcoin Moment | Money Talks Symposium in Honor of Viviana Zelizer, Yale University |
| 08/21/14 | Keynote | Is there a public interest in payment? Bitcoin and beyond | Money in the Making of World Society Conference, University of Pretoria, South Africa |
| 03/22/14 | Keynote | Closed Loops and Private Gateways: Money, Technology and the Public Interest in Payment | MoneyLab, Institute of Network Cultures, Univ of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 03/13/14 | Keynote | Auditing Tax Research: Compliance, Infrastructure, History | The Fiscal State and Social Citizenship II: Theorizing tax avoidance from socio-cultural perspectives, Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, Vadstena, Sweden |
| 10/17/13 | Keynote | Cashlessness, Ancient and Modern | International Workshop on the Archaeology of Money, Universitat Tubingen, Germany, Tubingen, Germany |
| 08/09/13 | Invited discussant | Sociology of Market Microstructure Workshop, Social Relations in Financial Exchanges (Panel) | New York Stock Exchange, New York, NY. AUDIO RECORDING |
| 06/20/13 | Keynote | Counting loops and rows: Knitting formulas, fates and infrastructures for finance | Understanding the knitting: New methods for investigating the interactions for low and high finance, Centre for Research on Economic and Cultural Change, Open University, UK |
| 05/15/13 | Keynote | Payment, composition and the comparative project in anthropology | Nouvelles technologies, alterites et pratiques ethnographiques en contextes mondialises, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
| 03/27/13 | invited lecture | The Awkward History of Payments | Department of Anthropology, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand |
| 03/26/13 | public lecture | Anthropology in Industry: plural practice in plural worlds of money | University of Auckland, New Zealand. (Public Lecture Series). |
| 03/20/13 | invited lecture | What we talk about when we talk about ‘alternative’ economies: From Islamic banking to local currencies | Business Society and Law Seminar Series, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia |
| 02/01/13 | William S. Wyse Visiting Professorship Lecture | Cashlessness, Ancient and Modern Anthropology | Cambridge University, UK |
| 12/13/12 | Keynote | Operationalizing Value / Value as Operation: Money and ‘Big Data’ at the End of Cash | Finanza, Moneda y Distribución de Riqueza, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 12/13/11 | Invited debate | Anthropology in the Middle of Things, A conversation between Bill Maurer and Daniel Miller | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile |
| 09/23/11 | Keynote | Poverty Capital or Poverty Payment? Why Anthropologists Should Care About Payments Infrastructures | Financial Futures, Duke University |
| 10/08/10 | Keynote | The disunity of finance? Anthropology of Finance | IFS School of Finance and CRESC, Economic and Social Research Council (UK), London. (with Gillian Tett and Karen Ho). |
| 05/20/10 | Keynote | Interoperability, Extraction and Reimportation: Experiments with Money and Mobile Technologies | Re-embedding Finance, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. |
| 04/09/10 | Keynote | Financialization and Political Theory: Economies as Affective and Material Worlds | Rethinking Capitalism, Bruce Initiative, UC Santa Cruz |
| 10/31/09 | Keynote | A stitch in time.. | After the Crash, Beyond Liquidity, University of Virginia, Page-Barbour and Richards Lectures Committee. |
| 01/11/08 | Plenary address | Re-socialising Finance? Or Dressing it in Mufti? Calculating Alternatives for Cultural Economies | Maurer, B.. Rethinking Economic Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, and London School of Economics, London, England |