Meme Talks
INTERNET CULTURE
2026 - 2027 SCHEDULE
Columbia, MO – September 11, 2026
Springfield, MO – September 13, 2026
Indianapolis, IN – September 17, 2026
Full Description
Meme Talks blends humor, science, and cultural analysis into a fast-paced, accessible talk packed with slides to explicate how memes operate across human culture. Moving through a wide range of examples, from Hunter-gatherer to the Information Age, a clear insight begins to emerge: despite their apparent variety, memes tend to follow a surprisingly small number of recurring patterns.
How does culture evolve? How does culture affect biology? Why are memes one of the most powerful forces shaping the modern world?
Presented in-person by Andrew Baron, creator of Rocketboom and Know Your Meme.
Category
* Arts & Culture
* Live Entertainment
* Educational / Cultural Event
Tags / keywords
memes, internet culture, live show, multimedia, arts, science, memetic, genetics, storytelling, digital culture, social media, culture, comedy, lecture alternative
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Selfie Iteration) 2026
What might seem like a burden, having to constantly update classic works with the latest technology, happens on its own, as people around the world remake it again and again. They don’t coordinate or get paid; they just can’t help themselves, becoming carriers of a meme that persists through repeated imitation, within a larger process of cultural selection.
Prior Talks by Andrew Baron Including Lectures and Keynotes on Internet Culture, The Democratization of the Moving Image, and Memes
American Forum, American U, Washington DC
Analyze Boulder, Boulder, CO
Apple Computers Educational Campus, Austin, TX
Art and Commerce- Retreat, NYC, NY
Bar Camp, New York, New York
Bar Camp Block, Palo Alto, CA
Best of the Blogs (BOBs), Berlin, Germany
Beyond Broadcast, Boston, MA
Blogference, Tel Aviv, Israel
Boulder Start Up Week, Boulder, CO
Case Camp, Toronto, CA
CBI – Early Access, Philadelphia, PA
Columbia University, NYC, NY
Congressional Internet Caucus: State of the Net Conference, Washington, DC
Communications in PR, NYC, NY, Keynote
Computers, Finance, and Privacy, “Life Liberty & Digital Rights”, Washington, DC
CRV CEO Summit, Phoenix, Arizona
Democracy Project, Media Giraffe, Boston, MA
Digimart, Montreal, CA
Digital Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
Digital TV Outlook, Munich
DIY Media Festival, NYC, NY
DTV Symposium, De Moines, IA
Edelman New Media Summit, NYC
France 24, Paris, France
Friar’s Club Comedy Film Festival, NYC, NY
HBO, NYC, NY
House of Genius, Boulder, CO
IAC Village Ventures – NYC
IFP Filmmaker Conference, NYC, NY
Ignite, NYC, NY
Intel “Luz Camera Enter”, Mexico City, Mexico
Internet Week, NYC
IPTV Outlook 20, Germany, Keynote
iSummit Conference, Toronto, CA
MacWorld Expo, San Francisco, CA
Mesh, Toronto, CA
Museum of Moving Image, Brooklyn, NY
Nation Association of Broadcasters, Dallas, TX
New York Video 2.0 Group, NYC, NY
NewCo, Boulder, CO
NXNEi, Toronto, CA
NYC Web Video Round Table, NYC, NY
NYU Class, NYC, NY
NYU Journalism, NYC, NY
NY Tech Meetup, NYC, NY
NY Video 2.0, NYC, NY
One Web Day, NYC, NY
Parsons School of Design, NYC, NY
Pixelodeon, Los Angeles, CA
Picnic, Amsterdam, Holland, Keynote
Podcamp, Boston, MA and Pittsburg, PA
Podcamp Halifax, CA
Podcamp, Pittsburg, PA
Podcast Hotel, San Francisco, CA, Keynote
Podcast New Media Expo, Long Beach, CA, Keynote
Podcamp, NYC, NY
Portable Film Fest, Sydney, Melbourne.& Perth, AU
Producers Guild of America, NYC, NY
Professional Futures Discussion, Washington DC
Real-Time Stream Conference San Francisco, CA
ROFL!, NYC, NY
SIFT, Ottawa, Canada
Streaming Media East, NYC, NY
Streaming Media West, San Jose, CA
Startup Week, Toronto, CA
SXSW (South by Southwest), Austin, TX
TEDx, Sacramento, CA
University of Colorado: Media Studies, Boulder, CO
Videoblogging Workshop, DGC Members, NYC, NY
Video On the Net Conference, Boston, MA Video Journalism: Non-stop News, NYC, NY
Vloggercon, SanFrancisco, CA
Wall St Journal Digital Network Day, NYC, NY
Web Video 2.0, NYC, NY
Web 2.0 Summit, San Francisco, CA
Web 2.0, NYC, NY
Women’s Animators Group, NYC, NY
Andrew Baron
Founder of Know Your Meme
