Speaking & Media
Thomas S. Mullaney brings decades of research into the global history of technology, information, and design to audiences worldwide. His talks blend storytelling, humor, and deep scholarship to illuminate how technology shapes identity, culture, and what it means to be human.
Key Speaking Topics
Memory, Loss, and Disappearance
How individuals and societies forget, erase, and remember
History of Technology and Design
How technology, design, and media shape knowledge, power, and memory
Digital Language Inequality
Why thousands of languages remain digitally invisible and what can be done
Chinese and East Asian Information Technology
Mechanical, cultural, and political history of non-alphabetic writing technologies
Chinese and Global History
The history of modern China, East Asia, and the World
First-Generation Academia
Hidden rules, structural barriers, and survival strategies in higher education
Selected Appearances
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