- 2010 (May 21). “Blurring Boundaries: War & Games”. Talk at ‘(new) Media and the United States’ event organized by the Netherlands American Studies Association (NASA), Utrecht.

- 2010 (May 20). “Journalistiek & Social Media”. Talk at Kringcongres 2010 at Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen (HAN), Nijmegen.

- 2010 (May 3). “Voortdurende tegenstellingen”. Opening talk for Upload Cinema’s “All Play and No Work” edition on games, De Uitkijk, Amsterdam.

- 2010 (March 11). “De visuele taal van virtuele oorlogsvoering”. Talk at Nest for the Texture Maps exhibit, The Hague.

- 2010 (March 30). “Yes we can? Nieuwe media gebruik in “the age of Obama”. 7AM, Buitenhof Den Haag.

- 2010 (March 2). “De zin en onzin van Media- en Cultuurwetenschappen” and host for BLIK’s FAQ Masteravond Media- en Cultuurwetenschappen. Studio T, Utrecht. (All talks online here).

- 2010. (January 26). “Individu 2.0 en de media van morgen”. Debat Individu 2.0. Tituskapel, Amsterdam.

- 2010. (January 21). “Mediawetenschappers en de Media van Morgen“. Studio T, Utrecht. Video and slides.

- 2010. (January 5). “Yes We Can”. Talk at: Inspiratie & Innovatie (IN2) event at Reed Business, Doetinchem.

- 2009. (December 9). “Mijn naam is David en ik ben gamejournalist”. Talk at: Xi/Bashers debatavond: Wat game-journalistiek zou moeten zijn. CREA café, Amsterdam.

- 2009. (November 30). “Nieuwe Media: An Introduction”. Lecture for the course Mediageschiedenis. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

- 2009. (November 27). “The Cultural Games Industry”. Paper to be presented at: Participating in a mediated world. Platform for Communication, Media, and Information (CMI) within the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam.

- 2009. (November 26). “Vrienden met Obama”. Talk at the Landelijk Psychologie Symposium, organized by the Stichting Studieverenigingen Psychologie Nederland (SSPN), Academiegebouw Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht.

- 2009. (November 4). “Follow the money: New Media and Politics”. Talk at: Het mes in de democratie, Studium Generale, Hogeschool van Utrecht.

- 2009. (October 20). “Social Politics“. Workshop on politics and social media for KREM Corporate Social Networking. Zilveren Toren, Amsterdam.

- 2009. (September 7). “Nieuwe media & politiek – Obama’s campagne. Tussen hoop en hype”. Studium Generale Universiteit Utrecht. Academiegebouw Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht. Watch the lecture online here.

- 2009. (September 4). “The New Gatekeepers? On the occopational ideology of game journalists”. Paper presented at at DiGRA 2009 – Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory. At Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom. With: Tanja Sihvonen.

- 2009. (May 28, June 2, 9). “Gaming 101”. Series of keynotes for Brunel‘s Innovation Evening. Various locations in The Netherlands.

- 2009. (June 4). “Recruiting en games: America’s Army.” Talk at Connexys‘ Doeltreffend werven! Seminar. Inn Style, Maarssen.

- 2009. (May 15). “Empower yourself, do research! Playing games during times of war”. Digital Material book launch. Studio T, Utrecht.

- 2009. (May 11). “Transparantie, Communicatie & Participatie Obama en Nieuwe Media”. Talk at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The Hague.

- 2009. (April 23). “De toekomst van games”. Deelname discussie: The Future of Games. Cultuurhuis Diamantslijperij, Amsterdam.

- 2009. (April 16). “Making money online”. Hoorcollege in de reeks “Web 2.0“. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

- 2009. (April 6). “Werken (of niet) in de Creatieve Industrie”. Hoorcollege in de reeks “Oriëntatie Nieuwe media: Nieuwe media en digitale cultuur“. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

- 2009. (April 2). “”Productie versus consumptie”. Hoorcollege in de reeks “Web 2.0“. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

- 2009. (March 27). “Burgerjournalistiek. Het begin van het einde of een nieuw begin?”. Hoorcollege in de reeks “Oriëntatie Nieuwe media: Nieuwe media en digitale cultuur“. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

- 2009. (March 15). “De armchair traveller“. Impakt Festival. De Zondagsschool #7: Travel. Impakt Headquarters, Utrecht.

- 2009. (March 9). “In Obama we trust, online De marketingcampagne van Barack Obama“. Talk at Marketingdag voor de podiumkunsten at De Reehorst, Ede.

- 2008. (February 13). “The Cultural Logic of Convergence and American Presidential Politics”. Lecture at the University of Amsterdam for the course Media Worlds/World Media.

- 2008. (February 12). “Yes we can! Wat kunnen we leren van de Obama campagne?”. Talk at IKT (IKT-Werkgroep Productie, Logistiek & Techniek) in Hengelo.

- 2008. (December 2). “Obama08 – Nieuwe media gebruik in 
‘the age of Obama’”. Lecture at Stifo@Sandberg (Stimuleringsfonds Nederlandse Culturele Omroepproducties), Amsterdam.

- 2008. (December 1). “Yes We Can?! Nieuwe media gebruik in
 ‘the age of Obama’”. Lecture at the University of Amsterdam for the course Inleiding geschiedenis en audiovisuele cultuur.

- 2008. (November 13). “Fable 2 and morality”. Talk for MIT/Harvard’s Valuable Games Group at MIT.

- 2008. (October 27). “War & Games”. Lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a course on games.

- 2008. (September 24). “Looking back into the future – Some notes on virtual worlds and “those things that youngs kids do”. Keynote at Picnic 08, Amsterdam.

- 2008. (June 19). “Games as social networks”. Lecture at CSN Conference 2008 at De Industrieele Groote Club, Amsterdam.

- 2008. (May 20). “Direct Marketing & Games”. Lecture for DeMeter, an event called De Toekomst van DM at Hotel Arena, Amsterdam. In co-operation with Codemasters.

- 2008. (May 13). “Een blik op de (virtuele) toekomst – Over avatars, Vrienden en vrienden, mmorpgs en WoW”. Lecture for Vredestein Inc. in Enschede.

- 2008. (May 8). “War & Games”. Lecture at the Design Academy in Eindhoven.

- 2008. (May 8). “Marketing & Games”. Workshop session at Marketeer Congres 2008 at the TU Eindhoven.

- 2007. (November 30). “Interactivism: When Warfare Meets Video Gaming”. Lecture at University of Amsterdam for the course Media Activism.

- 2007. (November 22). “De betrokken gamer? – De inzet van inzicht uit de game cultuur voor marketing“. Workshop at CSNConference in Amsterdam.

- 2007. (November 22). “Voorbij de morele paniek – Gamecultuur anno 2007“. Lecture at Studium Generale University van Maastricht.

- 2007. (November 26). “Games FTW!”. Lecture at University of Amsterdam for the course Inleiding geschiedenis en audiovisuele cultuur.

- 2007. (November 14). “War Games: Propaganda vs Marketing”. Lecture at the Koninklijke Militaire Academie in Breda.

- 2007. (October 9). “Games & Ethiek: Propaganda vs Marketing”. Lecture at Hogeschool InHolland in Haarlem.

- 2007. (June 14). “‘Don’t sponsor a game that is a playground for criminals!’ – the many media frames of Second Life”. Lecture at Twente University at the Interdisciplinary Second Life Workshop in Enschede.

- 2007. (March 13). “Second Life nader bekeken”. Lecture at Hogeschool van Amsterdam event Pimp your web in Almere.

- 2006. (December 13). “Een dag uit het leven van een game onderzoeker – een analyse van de morele paniek omtrent games”. Lecture for Off-Screen at CREA in Amsterdam.

- 2006. (November 28). “Games and Advertisement – Beyond Banners and Billboards”. Lecture at Next Night 1.0 for Generation Next in Amsterdam.

- 2006. (October 10). “‘We want the whole world to know how great the U.S. Army is!’ – Computer Games and Propaganda”. Lecture at the NATO workshop on “Exploiting commercial games for military use”. At TNO Defensie & Veiligheid, Soesterberg.

- 2006. (October 6). “‘We want the whole world to know how great the U.S. Army is!’ – Computer Games and Propaganda”. Paper presentation at Gaming Realities – A Challenge for Digital Culture conference. Athens, Greece.

- 2006. (September 15). “The Expansion Pack Economy”. Paper presentation at Playful Subjects II: Games and Technology Colloquium.University of the West of England, Bristol.

- 2006. (September 8). “The Expansion Pack Economy”. Paper presentation at Media Change and Social Theory conference. St. Hugh’s College, Oxford.

- 2006. (June 15). “Only an Open Source Ethos? – A closer look at First Person Shooter PC-game modifications”. Presentation at Holland Open Source Conference 2006, Amsterdam. June 15-17, 2006.

- 2006. (June 12). “Hoe ver kan je gaan? vrij ver…”. Lecture at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam for an Ingame Advertising Event.

- 2006. (April 13) “The Expansion Pack Economy – The gaming industries”. Paper presentation at the Popular Culture Association (PCA/ACA) conference in Atlanta, GA. /w Shenja van der Graaf.

- 2006. (April 5) “Empower Yourself, Defend Freedom/Do Research”. Leture at Mediamatic, a cultural institution in Amsterdam, at an evening called War Salon.

- 2006. (March 29) “First Person Paradoxes”. Paper presentation at Game Set and Match II at Delft University.

- 2005. (September 8) “Observing others play – The practices of online first person shooter PC-gamers”. Paper presentation at the Young People and New Technologies conference at University College Northampton.

- 2005. (April 10) “Military Game(r)s” & “Modificatie Cultuur”. Two lectures at the Culturele Zondag organised by the Utrecht Community.

- 2005. (January 11) “Am I mod or not?” Paper presentation at the Creative Gamer Seminar at the Hypermedia Laboratory on the University of Tampere.

- 2004. (September 10) “America’s Army”. Lecture at the Dutch DiGRA chapter.

- 2004. (September 7) “America’s Army: more than a game? ”. Paper presented at ISAGA 2004 conference Bridging The Gap: Transforming Knowledge into Action through Gaming and Simulation (München: Ludwig Maximilians University).

- 2004. (May 18) “From Consumers to Users and Co-creators”. A lecture at Utrecht University for the MA course Participatory Culture by S. van der Graaf and W. Uricchio. English Text

- 2004. (February 20) “Military Game(r)s: spel of simulatie ” (Military Game(r)s: game or simulation) by David Nieborg at the Institute of Military History in Den Haag.

- 2003. (December 10) “Together We Brand: An Army of Gamers” by David Nieborg & Shenja van der Graaf at the University of Amsterdam. English Text Note: Invited presentation on the topic of war and simulation. Last presentation of the lecture session “War and Visual Culture” by Bernadette Kester.

- 2003. (December) “A First Person Analysis ” paper presented at Game Analysis Methodology course at the IT University in Copenhagen.

- 2003. (November 4) “Together We Brand: America’s Army” by David Nieborg & Shenja van der Graaf at Level-Up Conference.