SELECTED INVITED TALKS AND WORKSHOPS

  • Sobande, F. (2024) “Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture”, 6 March 2024. University of Maastricht.

  • Sobande, F. (2023) “The Politics of Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture”, 22 June 2023. Université Paris Dauphine-PSL.

  • Sobande, F. (2022) “Consuming Crisis: Commodifying Care and COVID-19”, 26 August 2022 [online], Seventh International Conference on Communication and Media Studies.

  • Sobande, F. (2022) “Beyond Commodified Concepts of Care (and Impact)”, 19 May 2022 [online], University of Bath.

  • Sobande, F. (2022) “Feeling At Home at Work? Inequalities and ‘Inclusiveness’ in Changing Work Environments”, 28 April 2022 [online], agiLab.

  • Sobande, F. (2022) “Remember When?: Digital Culture, Memory-Making and Remixing”, 23 April 2022, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA).

  • Sobande, F. (2021) “Marketing During Crises and in the Age of CGI Influencers”, 10 November 2021 [online], Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

  • Sobande, F. (2021) “Gender, Race, and Intimacy in British TV and Film”, 15 May 2021 [online], Moving Body Arts.

  • Sobande, F. (2021) “Spectacularized and Branded Digital (Re)presentations of Black People and Blackness”, 26 April 2021 [online] Pennsylvania State University.

  • Sobande, F. (2021) “The Internet’s [White] Boyfriend: From Ryan Gosling to Timothée Chalamet Twitter Discourse”, 20 January 2021 [online] University of Winchester.

  • Sobande, F. (2020) “Data, Race, & the Marketplace”, 12 November 2020 [online], SWCTN/Watershed. Recording available here.

  • Sobande, F. (2020) “The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain: Between creativity, community, and commodification”, 11 November 2020 [online], the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre/Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). Recording available here.

  • Sobande, F. (2020) “Data Bias”, Summer Research Student Symposium, 8 July 2020 [online], Falmouth University.

  • Sobande, F. (2020) “Black Women’s Digital and Media Experiences in Britain”, Gender & Media Lab, 1 July 2020 [online], Monash University.

  • Sobande, F. (2020) “Data Bias”, Workshop for Data Fellows, 12 June 2020 [online], South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN).

  • Sobande, F. (2020) “The Many Faces and Forms of Anti-Black Digital Racism”, HYBRA Research Seminar, 10 January 2020, University of Helsinki.

  • Sobande, F. (2019) “Unrecognised Digital ‘Work(ers)’ and Brand ‘Woke-Washing’”, 5 November 2019, S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu.

  • Sobande, F. (2019) “The Past, Present and Future of Race, Representation and Scottish Media”, Race, Representation and Scottish Media, 27 September 2019, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow.

  • Sobande, F. (2019) “The Politics of ‘Protest’ Memes, Digital Remix Culture and Resistance”, #resistance: Exploring digital protest by marginalised groups, 17 September 2019, University of Leeds.

  • Sobande, F. (2019) “More than Words: Language, Action and Addressing Challenges Involved in Anti-Racist Agendas”, Building the Anti-Racist Classroom (BARC) Organising for Liberation Workshop, 12 June 2019, Leeds Beckett University.

  • Sobande, F. (2019) “From Immediacy and Virality to Slow (Self)Work”, Creative North, 7 June 2019, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

  • Sobande, F. (2019) “Internet Culture, Gender Archetypes, and Digital Language”, Critical Workshop for Educators, 28 March 2019, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool.

  • Sobande, F. (2019) “‘Woke’ Media, Marketing Messages and Myths: Branding Black Feminism and Social Justice Activism”, Media, Film and Music research seminar series, 13 March 2019, University of Sussex.

  • Sobande, F. (2018) “Intersecting Racism, Sexism and ‘DIY’ Digital Culture”, Early Career Women’s Network, 17 December 2018, University of St Andrews.  

  • Sobande, F. (2018) “Black Women in Britain and the Media”, session co-hosted by GenSex and ErRS: Edge Hill University’s Ethnicity, Race, and Racism Seminar, 12 November 2018, Edge Hill University.

  • Sobande, F. (2018) “Femvertising, ‘Inclusive’ Marketing and Intersecting Inequalities in Consumer Culture”, and “Co-creating, Decolonising and Visualising the Classroom”, 7–8 November 2018, Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent.

  • Sobande, F. (2018) “Democratised Digital Content, Commerce and (De)monetisation”. Panellist at “Platform Politics and Digital Futures” at Mobilising New Economic Futures, 7 July 2018, Goldsmiths, University of London. 

  • Sobande, F. (2018) “Between Community and Commodification: Black Women in Britain on YouTube”. Research seminar series talk at Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, 27 June 2018, Birmingham City University.

  • Sobande, F. (2018) “Black Lives, Labour and Liberation Online: Tuning in, Turning Off and Taking Back”. Keynote address at Digital Identities: New Perspectives in the Digital Humanities Conference, 18 May 2018, King’s College London. 

  • Sobande, F. (2018) “The ‘Wokefluencers’ of ‘Diversity’ Marketing: The Commercial Co-optation of Free(ing) Online Labour”. Presented at After Work: Life, Labour and Automation, 27 January 2018, University of West London.

  • Sobande, F. (2018) “Black Feminism: Representation and Resistance Online”. Panellist at “Black Feminism and Post-Cyber Feminism”, 18 November 2017, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • Sobande, F. (2020) “Black Women's Collective Organising and Its Commodification”, International Communication Association (ICA), 22 May 2020, Gold Coast [online].

  • Sobande, F. (2020) “By Us, For Us? Black Feminist Publishing Narratives in Britain”, International Communication Association (ICA), 24 May 2020, Gold Coast [online].

  • Sobande, F. (2019) “When Digital Blackness ‘Mixes’ with Whiteness: Analyzing the Digital ‘Swirl’ Social Influencer Scene”, American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, 7 – 10 November 2019, Honolulu, Hawai’i.

  • Sobande, F. “The (Un)Recognised Business of Being a ‘User-Generated’ Content Creator”, CAMEo Conference, 5 – 6 September 2019, University of Leicester.

  • Sobande, F. (2019) “Digital Blackness Beyond Borders”, International Communication Association Conference, 26 May 2019, Washington DC.

  • Sobande, F. and Osei, K. (2019) “The Global, Racial and Cultural Politics of (Researching) Black Visual Communication and Aesthetics”, International Communication Association (ICA) Pre-Conference #CommunicationSoWhite, 23 May 2019, Georgetown University.

  • Sobande, F. (2018) “The Power and Precariousness of Black Women’s Digital Self-representation in Britain”. Presented at AADHum Conference - Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black, 18 October 2018, University of Maryland, College Park.

  • Sobande, F. (2018) “Black (British) Twitter”. Presented as part of panel on “Bridges and Boundaries: Black (British) Digital Discourses” at AADHum Conference - Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black, 20 October 2018, University of Maryland, College Park.

  • Sobande, F. (2018) “Selfies, Sonic Strategies, and Black Celebrities’ Self-Surveillance”. Presented at Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) Conference 2018, 10 – 12 January 2018, London South Bank University.

  • Sobande, F. (2017) “Resisting, Reshaping and Remembering Media as Black Women in Britain”. Presented at 2nd Annual Black Feminism, Womanism and the Politics of Women of Colour in Europe Conference, 7 October 2017, Binnenpret, Amsterdam.

  • Sobande, F. (2017) “Strange, I’ve Not Seen that Self-Effacing Grace Before: Self-Definition, Self-Reflection and Beyond Spectacle in I’ll Never Write My Memoirs”. Presented at Grace Jones Symposium, 6–7 October 2017, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.

  • Sobande, F. (2017) “By Us and for Us: Black Women’s Media Usage in Britain”. Presented at Women of Colour Researchers in Scotland: A Mentoring Symposium, 22 September 2017, University of Glasgow.

  • Sobande, F. (2017) “Transnational Black Post-Televisual Perspectives Online”. Presented at TRANS TV, 15 September 2017, University of Westminster.

  • Sobande, F. (2017) “Black Diasporic Identity (Re)Mediation”. Presented at the Consumer Culture Theory Conference, 9 – 12 July 2017, University of California, Irvine - at Disneyland California.

  • Sobande, F., Mimoun, L., and Torres, L.T., (2017) “Shadows, Shoulders, Soldiers and Superheroes: Constructing Masculinity amidst Fertility Services Marketing”. Presented at the Consumer Culture Theory Conference, 9 – 12 July 2017, University of California - at Disneyland California.

  • Sobande, F. (2017) “Beyond Black: The Diasporic Dynamics of Black Women’s Media Usage”. Presented at the Black Film British Cinema Conference, 18 – 19 May 2017, Goldsmiths, University of London/University of Greenwich/the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

  • Sobande, F. (2017) “(Accidental) Activism: On the Intersections of Race, Gender, Academia and Activism”. Presented at Educational Futures and Fractures, 24 February 2017, University of Strathclyde.

  • Sobande, F. (2016) “The Representation of Black Women in Television Dramas as an Expression of Cultural Domination”. Presented at the 41st Macromarketing Conference, 13 – 15 July 2016, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin.

  • Sobande, F. (2016) “Normativity: Beauty, Femininity and Viola Davis”. Presented at Examining Normativity in Consumer Culture and Labour Markets” BSA Regional Postgraduate Day Event, 27 May 2016, University of St Andrews.

  • Sobande, F. (2016) “Race, Subculture, Authenticity and Arts Marketing: The Case of AFROPUNK UK”. Presented at the 15th International Colloquium on Arts, Heritage, Nonprofit and Social Marketing, 16 September 2016, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham. *Best Arts Marketing Paper Award

  • Sobande, F. (2016) “Authenticating the Aestheticisation of Black Women in ShondaLand”. Presented at the 3rd International Celebrity Studies Journal Conference, 28 – 30 June 2016, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam. *Best PhD Paper Award

  • Sobande, F. (2016) “Viola Davis and (Re)mediations of Black Women on Screen”. Presented at Girls on Film: Visualising Femininities, 23 May 2016, Northumbria University, Newcastle.