Bijsterveld, K. Format Theory, or Revitalizing Science and Technology Studies. Invited Comments on Keynote Lecture by Jonathan Sterne about “MP3: The Meaning of a Format,” Presidential Plenary, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), San Diego, October 9, 2013.
Bijsterveld, K. Sonic Skills: Sound and Listening in Science, Medicine and Engineering. Presentation for the Skills Lab, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, October 1, 2013.
Bijsterveld, K. Sound and Safe: How We Found Sonic Relief in the Car. Invited Lecture for the Sound Studies Lecture Series, Tiibingen University, July 4, 2013.
Bijsterveld, K. The Amsterdam Soundscape Installation: Auditory History in the Museum Context. Invited Lecture for the Workshop Auditory Memory and Sound Archives from the Late-Nineteenth Century to the Present, University of Amsterdam, February 18, 2013.
Bijsterveld, K. What’s your Background? Intellectual Empathy and Mixed Methods in the Humanities. Invited Presentation for the Series Cross-Sections of the Humanities, Groningen Graduate School for the Humanities, Groningen University, February 15, 2013.
Bijsterveld, K. Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture and the History of Noise Abatement in 20Ih'century Europę. Invited Lecture for the Leonardo Lecture Series, RWTH Aachen, November 27,2012.
Bijsterveld, K. Acoustic Ecology, Sonic Skills, and Bridging Expert and Lay Listening. Invited Roundtable Introduction for the Workshop Sound Design & Acoustic Ecology, Sound in Media Culture Network, Instituto Europeo di Design, Milan, October 20, 2012.
Bijsterveld, K. Keep Moving: Car Sound Design, In-Car Audio and the Dream of the Magie Carpet. Invited Public Lecture for the Workshop Sound Design & Acoustic Ecology, Sound in Media Culture Network, Instituto Europeo di Design, Milan, October 19, 2012.
Bijsterveld, K. The Architecture of Roadside Noise Barriers: Designing the Invisible, 1970-2010. Paper for ICOHTEC (International Committee for the History of Technology) Symposium 2012, Barcelona, July 10-14, 2012.
Supper, A. & Bijsterveld, K. Appealing to the Ear: Taxonomies of Listening in Historical Context. Paper presented by Alexandra Supper at the Symposium: The Art of Listening: Trends und Perspektiven einer Geschichte des Musikhórens, Berlin, July 12-14, 2012.
Bijsterveld, K. What’s your Background? Intellectual Empathy and Mixed Methods in the Humanities. Invited Lecture for the Series Cross-Sections of the Humanities, Groningen Graduate School for the Humanities, Groningen University, April 11, 2012.
Bijsterveld, K., Jacobs, A., Aalbers, J. & Fickers, A. Shifting Sounds: Textualization and Dramatization of Urban Soundscapes. Paper for Workshop Soundscapes of the Urban Past, Maastricht, March 30-31,2012.