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Upcoming Events
January 21 – Brooklyn, NY. Talk for ETSY. Free with reservation. 55 Washington Street, Suite 512 in DUMBO, Brooklyn. 7p
February 1 – The Webb School, Memphis Tennessee.
February 1 – Frontline “Digital Nation” airs, PBS stations. Rushkoff is writer/correspondent.
March 12 – SWSX, Austin TX – featured talk: “Program or be Programmed.”
March 17 – Switzerland, Gottlieb Duttweiler Inst. Conference. topic: Decentralized value creation.
March 22 – Las Vegas, Gartner Group Conference. topic: Innovation.
April 16-17 – Newport Beach, CA. weekend of talks for Public Library.
April 20 – Austin, TX. Social Commerce Summit.
June 14 – Stockholm, Sweden. www.wskarlstad2010.se World Summit on Media for Children and Youth.
September 9 – Switzerland. Gottlieb Dutttweiler Inst. conference TBA.
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December 16. MediaBistro E-Book Summit. closing keynote.
November 18. Web 2.0 Convention, NY Javits. Keynote: Radical Abundance: How We Get Past “Free” and Learn to Exchange Value Again
October 28. Brooklyn Polytech Institute of NYU: The End of Narrative.
October 21. U Texas at Arlington.
September 24. The Change You Want to See Gallery, Brooklyn. Talk about radical change.
Saturday August 1, DIY DAYS: Philadelphia
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June 29th, Personal Democracy Forum
www.personaldemocracy.com/
Tuesday, July 7th, NY Tech Meetup, 7-8:30PM
www.meetup.com/ny-tech/
April 1. Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco. Keynote Speaker
Web 2.0 Information
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 8:30AM – 5PM The 5th Annual MOUSE Squad Educators Conference. Hosted by Time Inc. in Rockefeller Center, NYC
Saturday, May 9. Hudson Valley Writers. Talk about Life Inc. Tarrytown Library
Friday, May 15. Beyond the Benjamins: Complementary Currency Systems and Social Interdependence with Alex Gordon-Brander, Charles Eisenstein, and Douglas Rushkoff
Lila Center 302 Bowery @ Houston St., 3rd fl., 8- 10 pm
Feb 13, NYC: Kidscreen Summit. Keynote Speaker
Kidscreen Summit Information
Tuesday, May 26th:
Reading in Irvington, 8pm-9pm
Chutney Masala
4 West Main Street in Irvington, NY
Chutney Masala website
Sunday, May 31st:
Comp Currency Lecture, 1-5PM
St. Marks Church
2nd Ave & 10th St
Monday, June 1st:
Media Squat Radio, 7pm EST
The Media Squat
Tuesday, June 2nd:
NPR, Live Interview, 11am EST
OnPoint Radio
www.onpointradio.org/
OnPoint Radio
Boston Public Library, book reading, 6pm
700 Boylston St., Boston MA
Boston Public Library website
Thursday, June 4th:
Air America Radio, 3:10pm EST live interview
Air America
Friday, June 5th:
KPFA Radio, Interview, 3pm – 4pm EST
KPFA Radio website
Sunday, June 7th:
Life Inc. Book Party, open to public
Comfort Restaurant
583 Warburton Ave, Hasting-on-Hudson, NY 10706
Comfort Restaurant
Monday, June 8th:
Mediasquat Radio with Harvey Pekar, 7pm EST
The Media Squat
Tuesday, June 9th:
Booksmith, reading and signing, 7pm – 8pm PST
1644 Haight St, San Francisco, CA
Booksmith website
Wednesday, June 10th
NPR, KQED Radio, The Forum with Michael Krasny, 10am – 11am PST
The Forum on KQED website
ANWF Educational Seminar on the Financial Crisis, Lecture and Q&A,
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. PST
Mechanics Institute Library
57 Post Street at Montgomery, San Francisco
more info
Monday, June 15th:
The Media Squat, 7pm EST
The Media Squat
Tuesday, June 16th:
Mancow Radio, Live, 8am – 9am
Mancow Radio
McNally Jackson Books, book reading and signing, 7pm – 8pm
52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
McNally Jackson Books website
Thursday, June 18th:
Blue Stockings, book reading and party, 7pm
172 Allen St, New York, NY 10002
Blue Stockings website
Nov 21. London. UK OF-COM and Lehman Brothers conference.
Nov 14. NYC. Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture, Institute of General Semantics. The Princeton Club. (Free and open to the public.) I went to this about ten years ago, with Richard Metzger, Genesis P-Orridge, and Parker Posey to see Robert Anton Wilson deliver this lecture. Very strange to be the one asked to do the lecture this year. I feel honored and old.
Oct 14. Lake George, NY. Applied Brilliance Conference, opening keynote.
Oct 8. Shreveport. Centenary College of Louisiana.
Oct 7. Shreveport. Cyber-Awareness Summit.
Sept 28. Baltimore. Virginia Real Estate Association (a non-profit organization of real estate agents).
Sept 16. NYC. New York Television Festival. “The Web Effect: How the Internet Has Shaped Television.” 1:30 pm.
Aug 11. Las Vegas. Meeting Professionals Conference
June 30. Washington, DC. Speech at Library of Congress about ScreenAgers. Open to the public. Part of Digital Natives series.
June 23-4. NYC. Personal Democracy Forum. Opening Keynote, June 24.
June 12. Toronto. CMA Conference.
May 6. Boston. Boston Ventures Conference.
May 1. NYC. On Copyright. Panel with Jonathan Lethem, Suzanne Vega, Clay Shirky.
April 22. NYC. Producers Guild of America. The Core Club.
April 18. NYC. Scott McCloud and Douglas Rushkoff. ComicCon panel.
April 2. NYC. Religions as Brands. Panel at CUNY.
March 12. NYC. Sabbath Panel. Temple Emmanuel. 6:30 P.M. Greenwald Hall (One East 65th Street)
Feb 11. NYC. O’Reilly Tools for Change conference. Morning keynote.
Feb 4. Frankfurt. Rezidor Conference.
Jan 29. NYC. Edge.org panel on What are you optimistic about and why? Borders, Columbus Circle. 7pm
Nov 15. New York. 92nd Street Y.
Nov 12. East Tennessee State University. “The Global Challenge: Open Markets vs. Open Minds.” 7pm, Brown Hall. Followed by reception.
Nov 7. Toronto, MSN Canada, Online and On Target Conference.
Sept 25. Rochester. Nazareth College Distinguished Speakers Series (rescheduled from last year).
August 13. Chicago. American Society of Association Executives.
June 25. St. Louis. National Media Education Conference website.
June 21. Edmonton, Alberta. Association for Manufacturing Excellence.
June 5. New York. Sony Music.
June 4. New York. Borders, Columbus Circle. Nerve Reading (FutureSex Anthology).
June 2. New York. NYC. MEDIA: Overseas Conversations (IV). An International Conference on Media
Literacy-Ecology-Studies-Education. May 31 – June 2, 2007. http://www.mocnyb.org.
May 21. Denver, Colorado. TeleTech Conference.
May 10. Lewiston/Auburn, Maine. Economic Growth Council.
April 30 Temple Rodeph Shalom, Pittsburgh.
April 18. Austin. Public Television event.
April 17. Rochester. Nazareth College. Callahan Theater, 7pm.
April 12. Chicago. Associated Colleges of Illinois.
April 1. Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA.
March 27. Hewlett Packard. Arizona conference.
March 1. New York. Princeton Club. RSG Media Systems.
Feb 28. Barnes and Noble, Astor Place. 7pm. Talking about Testament (volume 2) and Get Back in the Box
Feb 23-25. New York. NYC Comic-Con. 1. Vertigo: Looking Ahead. Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, 6:30-7:30pm. 2. “Future Shocks: What Imaginative Literature Tells Us About Who We Are and Where We’re Going” is scheduled to take place on Saturday 2/24/2007 at 11:00:00 AM in Room 1E15.
Jan 31. Brooklyn. Temple Beth Elohim.
Jan 19. Washington, DC. Association of Performing Arts Presenters.
Jan 16. Chicago. Navteq.
Nov 29. Phoenix. Shopping Center Designers.
Nov 7. San Francisco mini-tour: Grey, Google, Inst. for the Future.
Oct 12. Grand Valley State University, Michigan. Free to all!
Oct 5. Hamburg. Part of Gruner + Jahr AG & Co KG conference. Deichtorhallen, Deichtorstr. 9:45am.
Aug 22. Toronto. “Meetings Canada. Metro Toronto Convention Center.
July 20-22. San Diego. Comic-Con.
June 28-30. Aspen. Brainstorm.
June 21. Indianapolis: Indiana Department of Education American Students Achievement Institute.
June 8. South Orange, NJ. Seton Hall and Lenovo. “Why Johnny Can’t Program.”
May 5. New York: GEL Conference.
March 8. Cemex. Houston, TX March 25. Greenwich Reform Temple. 4pm.
March 1. Microsoft, Seattle.
Feb 24-26. Comic-Con, NYC.
Feb 9. Media Summit NYC.
Jan 31. McNeil Nutritionals. NYC.
Jan 24. Community Books. Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Jan 17. Barnes and Noble, Chelsea. 7pm. 675 6th Avenue, New York.
Dec 7. Brand Experience Lab. New York. Special event and reception. Email mitali {at} brandexperiencelab(.)org for details.
Nov 14. Temple Dehirsch Sinai, Seattle, Washington.
Nov 3. University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Oct 27. Portland, Oregon. Pacific Northwest Conference on Corporate Growth. Keynote: “Get Back in the Box”
Oct 7. Chicago. New Trier High School.
June 22. MediaEcology Association. Lincoln Center. “The Authorship Society:Writing for People with Keyboards.”
June 16-19. DIGRA, Vancouver.
June 8. Media Literacy: Overseas Conversation. Chelsea Museum. Panel Discussion, 7pm.
May 5. Chicago. Keynote – Illinois Arts Alliance Biennial.
April 14. Ball State University, Muncie Indiana.
March 28. Center for Communication Event: “The Persuaders.” Skirball Center, New York University.
March 9. Weber State, Utah.
March 1. Las Vegas, Acxiom Corp. Event.
Oct 31. New York. Lishmah “Day of Jewish Learning.”
Oct 21-24. Maine. PopTech Conference.
Sept 8. Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania. Colloquium Series Theme: The Impact of Technology on Our Lives. The Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. 11am.
Aug 31. New York. Panel on Blogs and Politics, part of Imagine04 Festival. P.S. 122, 150 1st Ave, 7:00 pm.
Aug 28. Chicago Center for Performing Arts, Keynote. August 13-15. Omega Institute conference, lecture, workshop on spirituality. Upstate NY.
June 10-12. Rochester. Keynote for The Fifth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association.
July 15. NYC. Talk and Signing for Club Zero-G at Barnes and Noble, 6th Ave and 8th Street. 7:30pm.
July 2-3. PsychicTV in Concert. Bowery Ballroom, NYC.
June 3-5. Various talks – ABA Book Fair in Chicago.
April 22. Brooklyn. Community Books and Kolot Chayenu sponsor A ‘Rushkoff Talk’ about Nothing Sacred. Church of Gethsemane, 1012 8th Avenue (at 10th street), Park Slope. 7:30pm.
April 16. New York. Disinfo at CUNY.Rushkoff and others show how Everything You Know is Wrong.
April 4. Downtown Seder A New York seder with Lou Reid, Dr. Ruth, Steve Reich, Perry Farrel, Al Franken and friends.
March 26. Temple Emanuel of Great Neck. Speaking at evening services.
March 15. Temple Emanu El, 2 Lake Street, San Francisco, CA San Francisco.
March 6. Conservative Synagogue of Jamaica Estates in Queens. 11:30 lecture during services.
Feb 27. Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Metropolitan. 615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia. 6pm, during services.
Feb 6. NYU Center for Media And Religion. “Judaism as Media Literacy.”
Dec 18. New York. Hebrew Union College. “Nothing Sacred.”
Nov 20. Vienna. “Social Currency.” Mobilcom Conference.
Nov 15. New York University Law School. “State of Play” conference. Afternoon presentation.
Nov 10. Wilmington, NC. University of North Carolina “Scared Stupid: Why America Resists Media Literacy” 7:30pm.
Nov 4. Providence, RI. Moses Brown School. Waughtel-Howe Field House, 7pm.
Oct 16. New York. Marymount College. Exploring the Media series. 7:15pm. Details (212) 774-4812.
Oct 11. London. Cybersalon Fundraiser. Dinner and conversation. London Sketch Club, 7 Dilke Street. Details.
Oct 10. London. Institute of Contemporary Art, Pall Mall.
“Open Source Democracy.” 7pm
Sept. 14. New York. Lishmah: A Day of Jewish Learning details to come.
Sept. 12. Fair Lawn, NJ. Temple Avodah
Sept 6. Washington, DC. ROAR Rally. Capitol Lawn. 4pm.
Sept 4. NYC. 7:30pm. “From God’s Word to Holy War.” Fordham, Lincoln Center. Guest of Honor of Neil Postman.
Aug 14. NYC. Industrial Design Society of America. Keynote: “Why Cool Sucks.”
Summer 2003. Nothing Sacred Book Tour.
NYC, April 2, Edgar Bronfman Center – NYU
NYC, April 3, Park Ave Synagogue
Brooklyn, April 6, Sunday at Sunny’s
NYC, April 8, B & N Upper West Side
DC, April 9, Politics and Prose
Los Angeles, April 11. UCLA Hillel
Los Angeles, April 11. Friday Night Live, Sinai Temple
Los Angeles, April 12. Congregation Adat Ari El
Los Angles, April 14. University of Judaism.
Los Angeles, April 14. Borders West Hollywood
Chicago, April 24. B & N, Diversy
Chicago, April 24. Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Cincinnati, April 30. Joseph Beth Booksellers.
SF, May 6. The Booksmith
Berkeley, May 8. Cody’s.
SF, May 10. The Hub presents Rushkoff at The Canvas
Boulder, May 13. Boulder Bookstore.
Denver, May 15. Mizel Center
Boston, May 20. Brookline Booksmith
Toronto, May 29. Holy Blossom Temple
Trenton, NJ. June 1. Temple Har Sinai
Atlanta, June 8. “In Town Jewish Center” at William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.
Miami, FL, June 5. Temple Israel.
Athens, GA. June 9. Borders, Athens.
NYC. June 11. UJA Federation New York – fundraiser for Camp Wellmet
Feb 14. NYC. Temple of Universal Judaism. 1010 Park Avenue at 85th Street, New York City.
Jan 11. New York. Park Avenue Synagogue.
Nov 21-25, 2002. New Orleans. National Communications Association. Panel on “Rushkoff’s Scholarship.”
Nov 7. Austin. University of Texas. Dept. of Rhetoric.
Oct 10. New York University. MediaEcology Program. Doctoral Colloquium. “Renaissance Now!”
Oct 4-6. Aspen, Colorado. Unified Fields Summit at the Aspen Institute. Conference on Science, Art, and Spirituality.
Aug 2-4. California. Esalen Institute. Workshop on Comparitive Religion with Erik Davis and Mark Pesce.
Aug 1. Marin, California. Marin Shakespeare Company. Storytelling and 1001 Arabian Nights with concert of Arab music to follow, $10. Forest Meadows Ampitheater at Dominical College
July 10. New York City. Exit Strategy Reading. Housing Works, Crosby Street, Soho, 6:30pm.
June 5. New York City. Presentation at the Social Science Research Council’s Symposium on Interactive Technology and Social Research.
May 19. Zagreb, Croatia. Open discussion at Club Mama.
May 18 Zagreb, Croatia. Mama Internet Cafe.
May 18. Zagreb, Croatia. Lecture at School of Dramatic Arts
May 16. Hamburg, Germany. Trendbuero Conference.
Feb 5. Hattiesburg, Mississippi. University of Southern Mississippi. Bennett Auditorium.
Jan 18. London. Cybersalon Presents Rushkoff.
Dec 11. New York University. Guest Lecture at Tisch School of the Arts.
Dec 7. Smith College. Douglas Rushkoff, Naomi Klein, Mark Crispin Miller Activism in the Aftermath: The Future of Politics in a Post-9/11 World.
Nov 1. Chicago, IL. Conference Keynote for Concourse Media.
Oct 30. Clinton, South Carolina. Russell Convocation at Presbyterian College.
Sept 27. Time/Warner Books Chat. iPublish.com.
Sept 20. The University of Tenessee. “Voyeuristic Media.”
Sept 6. The JCC in Manhattan. “Take A Stand Online: The Exit Strategy Project.”
August 3-5. Big Sur, California; Workshop at Esalen — “The Trialogues,” along with Mark Pesce and Erik Davis.
June 21. Philadelphia. Opening keynote for the Theater Communications Group’s National Conference.
June 16. New York. Closing keynote at MediaEcology Association Conference.
June 13. London. Institute of Contemporary Art, Cybersalon panel and discussion.
June 12. Brighton. Waterstones Books. “Bull” Reading and discussion.
June 11. London. Guardian event.
June 4. London. Keynote at conference at Royal Institute of British Architects.
May 30. Holland. Lecture and discussion at the University of Utrecht.
