Conference Presentations
“Excavating the self through others: Personal Narrative & Pregnancy Loss in Digital Space” – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the meeting for the International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative, Virtual Conference, January 4, 2022.
Book Talk: All My Friends Live in my Computer - Samira Rajabi
Invited book talk, Kuwait University, Department of Mass Communication, December 1, 2021.
“Introducing Complexity: Pairing classroom dynamics with social concerns" on Organized Panel, “Centering Cultural Studies in the Basic Course: Transforming Understandings of Basic Course Pedagogy and Administration" – Panelists: Shannon O’Sullivan, Patrick Johnson, Samira Rajabi, Rachel Van der merwe
Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, Seattle, WA, November 18-21, 2021
“Facebook Down: SNF Dialogues” - Panelists: Samira Rajabi, Carole Cadwalladr, Nicolas Kayser-Bril, Anna-Kynthia Bousdoukou
Panel discussion on Facebook, privacy and the attention economy, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, November 3, 2021
Book Talk: All My Friends Live in my Computer - Samira Rajabi
Invited book talk, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication, October 21, 2021.
Book Talk: All My Friends Live in my Computer - Samira Rajabi
Invited book talk, Boulder Valley Rotary Club, Boulder, CO, September 20, 2021
“Chrissy Teigen, Grief and Care Online: Mediations of Pregnancy Loss and Coping on Twitter and Instagram” - Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Virtual Conference, “Engaging the Essential Work of Care,” May 27-31, 2021
“Capturing Structural Changes and Emotional Experience Through Mediation: A Photo-Elicitation Study of Those Living With a Compromised Immune System During the COVID-19 Pandemic” - Samira Rajabi, Laura Sinko
Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Virtual Conference, “Engaging the Essential Work of Care,” May 27-31, 2021
“Academic Freedom: A Conversation” - Panelists: Samira Rajabi, Helen Norton, Andrew Therriault
Panel discussion on academic freedom, rights and responsibilities presented to the University of Colorado faculty, staff, and students, University of Colorado, December 3, 2020
“Learning from Platform Affordances: Trauma, Digital Media, and Remaking our World as we go” – Samira Rajabi
Session presented at the 2020 CU Boulder Wellness Summit, University of Colorado, October 7, 2020
“Thriving in the First Year: What I Wish I Had Known” – Panelists: Samira Rajabi, Levente Szentkirayi, Theresa Bruce
Panel discussion on how to navigate the workplace presented to the University of Colorado faculty instructors, University of Colorado, September 25, 2020
“Permission to be Human: Authenticity and Meaning-Making in a Conventional Profession” – Samira Rajabi
Keynote address at the Colorado Women’s Bar Association annual meeting, Denver, Colorado (online), May 15, 2020
“Belonging Online: Interrogating the Boundaries of Normal Through Media Ritual” – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the Center for Media, Religion and Culture conference, “Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms,” University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, January 2020
“The Search for Meaning: Memetic Logics and Making Sense of Trauma in Digital Space” – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington D.C., May 2019.
“CrossFit, Trauma, and the Digital Remaking of Ability” – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the meeting of the Popular Culture Association, Washington D.C., April 2019.
South By Southeast: Practicing Decolonization Early Career Conference
Organizing Team, curator and respondent for 2 day event held at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March 2019
“I love you America”: “Persian” Cultural Identity Making & Memes on Instagram
Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society of Media, Religion & Culture Meeting, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
August 2018
Instagramming Persian Identity: Ritual identity negotiations of Iranians and Persians in/out of Iran
Paper presented on organized panel: “Narrating Voice and Building Self on Digial and Social Media” at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Prague, Czech Republic, “Voices,”
May 2018
Digital Meaning Making and Everyday Tactics in the lives of Populations Impacted by Trump’s Travel Ban – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the meeting of the Union for Democratic Communication
May 2018
Interrogating and nuancing the #MeToo movement: Understanding mediated advocacy and protest through “Me Too” testimonies – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the meeting of the Union for Democratic Communication
May 2018
Mediating Possibility after Suffering: Meaning Making of the Micro-political through Digital Media – Samira Rajabi
Colloquium presentation at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
February 2018
The Making of 'Persian': Instagram and Cultural Identity Negotiation – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the Persianate Conference, University of California San Diego, San Diego CA
January 2018
Working towards a Feminist Theory of Trauma and Digital Media – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA
“Interventions: Communication Research and Practice”
May 2017
Panel on Cultural Production and Transnational Dialogue
Presented at University of Pennsylvania, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication
Seminar on “Digital Media and Social Change: A Transnational Public Sphere?”
October 2016
Diversity and Identity Construction: Personal Road Maps to Equity – Samira Rajabi
Training Presented at University of Colorado Graduate Teacher Program Training, Boulder, CO
October 2016
Training Presented at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Diversity training for staff, Colorado Springs, CO
November 2014
Training Presented at University of Colorado Diversity Summit, Boulder, CO
November 2013
From Mindful to Mindless: Conflicts in Self-Representation and Articulation of Media Use – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the International Society of Media, Religion and Culture Conference, Seoul, South Korea
August 2016
Paper presented at the Society of Social Studies off Science Conference, Denver, CO
August 2015
Authenticity and Social Media Engagement after Trauma: Exploring the subversive potential of online discourses – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies Biennial Conference – Disruptions; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
January 2016
Ritual and Viewing: Myths fostered by INGO representations and the gendering of victims
Paper Presented at the Center for Media, Religion and Culture’s Conference: Gender, Religion and Media, Boulder, CO
January 2016
Neda: Religious Manifestation and Social Media Resonances of a Digital Martyr – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the Global Fusion Conference, Austin, TX
October 2014
Pinning for Faith: Ritual, Gender and Meaning Making on Pinterest – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the International Society of Media, Religion and Culture Conference, Canterbury, UK
August 2014
Religion in the Gym: CrossFit Culture Online in the Third Space – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at The Global View CMRC conference, Boulder, CO
January 2014
L3C’s: Pioneering a New Media Model – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the Union for Democratic Communication Conference, San Francisco, CA
November 2013
Victim & Viewership: The Power of One Photo in Examining Conflict Imagery in DR Congo – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the George Mason Cultural Studies Conference, Fairfax, VA
September 2013
Is Pedagogy Ableist?: Exploring the intersection of disability and communication pedagogy – panel presentation
Panel presented at the Rocky Mountain Communication Association Conference Doin’ It with E’s: Extreme, Electoral and Electronic Communication, Loveland, CO
April 2013
Neda: Religious Manifestations of a Digital Martyr – Samira Rajabi
Paper Presented at the AAR/SBL/ASOR Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Regional Meeting
Boulder, CO
March, 2017
Paper presented at the Association for Internet Researchers Conference, Denver, CO
October 2013
Paper presented at the Religion and Society Conference, Tempe, AZ
March 2013
Paper presented at the Digital Religion Conference, Boulder, CO
January 2012
Paper presented at the Media, Religion and Culture Conference, Eskisehir, Turkey
July 2012
Imagined Violence, Representation, and The Hunger Games – Samira Rajabi
Paper presented at the Marist College Women in Society Conference
October 2012