Sobande, F. (2024) “(In)visible Experiences and Places of Work”, 19 November 2024, agiLab/NHS.

Sobande, F. (2024) “Black Digital Currents”, 13 November 2024, Digital Delights and Disturbances Series, John Cabot University, Rome.

Sobande, F. (2024) “Digital Cultures and (Re)imaginings of ‘Alternative’ Music”, 18 September 2024, Creative Feminist Methodologies x Emerging Digital Cultures, University of Bristol.

Sobande, F. (2024) “Nu-Metal, Old Politics: The Soundtracks and Stylings of a Subculture in Crisis”, 5 September 2024, MeCCSA Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Sobande, F. (2024) “Short Circuits of Culture: On Who and What Wires the Creator Economy”, 30 May 2024, New Circuits of Culture: Creators, Users, Platforms & Policy, University of Copenhagen.

Sobande, F. (2024) “Book Writing: From Pondering to the Page”, 23 May 2024, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL.

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. (2023) “Biases and Ethics in Digital Scholarship”, 28 November 2023, Digital Humanities at University of Oxford.

Sobande, F. (2023) “On Foggy Temporalities and Feelings: Knowing, Sensing, and Creating Beyond Linear Timelines”, 28 April 2023, WHO KNOWS? An interactive day where we move from knowledge to knowledges”, organised by We Decolonize Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

Sobande, F. (2023) “Words Have Meanings: On ‘Anti-racism’, ‘Intersectionality’, and ‘Social Justice’ in the Digital Age”, 28 April 2023, IMISCOE PhD school on “Critical Reflections on Migration Studies, Racism and Discrimination”, in Brussels.

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

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.

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).

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

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

Sobande, F. (2020) “The Many Faces and Forms of Anti-Black Digital Racism”, 10 January 2020, HYBRA Research Seminar, 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”, 27 September 2019, Race, Representation and Scottish Media, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow.

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

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

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

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

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

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”, 7 July 2018, Mobilising New Economic Futures, Goldsmiths, University of London. 

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

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

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

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.