| 2021 | Baym, Nancy; Bergmann, Rachel; Bhargava, Raj; Diaz, Fernando; Hesmondhalgh, David; Maris, Elena & Persaud, Christopher | Making sense of metrics in the music industries | Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Confernece | Virtual |
| 2021 | Maris, Elena & Wilson, Ashia | Beyond humans and machines: Mapping institutional decision-making in Automated Decision Systems | Against Platform Determinism Workshop: Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, and Data & Society | Virtual |
| 2020 | Maris, Elena | Life between worlds: Navigating Big Tech partnerships, funding, and consulting (Roundtable Panelist) | Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference | Virtual |
| 2020 | Maris, Elena, Bhargava, Raj & Hund, Emily | Welcome to #MelaninMansion: Reimagining the color of influence on TikTok. | Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference | Virtual |
| 2020 | Maris, Elena | Keeping the social in 'social distancing:' Digital strategies and challenges in navigating the social world in a pandemic (Invited Speaker) | Microsoft Women's Employee Resource Group | Virtual |
| 2019 | Maris, Elena | Old bans, new media: Industrial imaginaries, Tumblr’s NSFW ban and its legacy media precedents | Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference | Brisbane, Australia |
| 2019 | Maris, Elena | Imagining industries and users: Metrics, boycotts and other digital tactics in the struggle for influence (Invited Speaker) | School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds | Leeds, UK |
| 2019 | Maris, Elena | Digital tactics and the struggle for influence: Imagining industries and users (Invited Speaker) | Digital Society Network, University of Sheffield | Sheffield, UK |
| 2019 | Maris, Elena & Baym, Nancy | Tumblr's Fandometrics and the metricization of online communities | Data Power Conference | Bremen, Germany |
| 2019 | Maris, Elena | Desperately seeking the producer: Understanding audiences' "imagined industry" | International Communication Association (ICA) Conference | Washington, DC |
| 2019 | Maris, Elena | Activist audience groups and tactical publicness on Facebook | Media in Transition (MiT) Conference | Cambridge, MA |
| 2018 | Maris, Elena | Q&A: Platform relationships with marginalized users (Invited Speaker) | Tumblr HQ | New York, New York |
| 2018 | Maris, Elena & Baym, Nancy | Fandoms, metrics, and the market power of measurement | Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) Conference | Toronto, Canada |
| 2018 | Maris, Elena & Baym, Nancy | “Duking it out”: Tumblr’s Fandometrics and the implications of ranking online communities | International Communication Association (ICA) Conference | Prague, Czech Republic |
| 2018 | Maris, Elena, Libert, Tim & Henrichsen, Jennifer | Porn, privacy and the vulnerable: The implications of third-party tracking on porn websites | ABIDA (Assessing Big Data) Workshop on The Tracked Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches on Online Tracking | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2018 | Maris, Elena | "I am not gay, but lez-be precise" Linguistics, Hip Hop and Nicki Minaj's Queer Pedagogy | Hip Hop Symposium: Hip Hop, Race & Education California State Polytechnic University | Pomona, CA |
| 2017 | Maris, Elena | Too Old for Leather? Age, Gender, and Negotiating a Xena Reboot | The International Communication Association (ICA) Conference | San Diego, CA |
| 2017 | Maris, Elena | Remember the 507th: Online News, Memory, and the 10-year Anniversary of the Battle of Nasiriyah | The International Communication Association (ICA) Conference | San Diego, CA |
| 2016 | Maris, Elena | “Broken windows” in the Ferguson era: Original theory and contemporary discourse | The National Communication Association (NCA) Conference | Philadelphia, PA |
| 2016 | Maris, Elena | Desperately seeking the producer: Resurrecting Xena through the audience’s “imagined industry” | The National Communication Association (NCA) Conference | Philadelphia, PA |
| 2016 | Maris, Elena | Queering hip-hop: The Nicki Minaj playlist | The International Communication Association (ICA) Conference | Fukuoka, Japan |
| 2014 | Maris, Elena & Edris, Emily | Hip-hop album covers: A content analysis of similarities and differences in representations of male and female rappers | The National Communication Association (NCA) Conference | Chicago, IL |
| 2014 | Maris, Elena | Selling lesbians and post-gay politics: Media industry and lesbian-parented families in film and television | The International Communication Association (ICA) Conference | Seattle, WA |
| 2014 | Maris, Elena & van Wolferen, Michelle | Lestina? Santana Lopez and the negotiation of dual Latina/lesbian minority identity on Glee | The International Communication Association (ICA) Conference | Seattle, WA |
| 2012 | Maris, Elena | Redemption and ridicule: Wyclef Jean, Sean Penn, and Western/Haitian diasporic understandings of celebrity activism in post-earthquake Haiti | The National Communication Association (NCA) Conference | Orlando, FL |
| 2012 | Maris, Elena | Sperm stealers! …And other representations of lesbian parenting across television, Awarded Top Student Paper by LGBT Studies Interest Group | The International Communication Association (ICA) Conference | Phoenix, AZ |
| 2011 | Maris, Elena | All in the family? Heteronormative ideology in The Kids Are All Right | The National Communication Association (NCA) Conference | New Orleans, LA |
