talks | conferences
© image (Trent University), Hanjo Berressem
organisations
organizing committee member with Feride Çiçekoğlu, Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, Diğdem Sezen, Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Ebru Çiğdem Thwaites Diken, Kate Ince, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis (special advisor). Department of Film and Television, Istanbul Bilgi University, Online, April 2021.
with talks by Eugenie Brinkema (MIT), Nadine Boljkovac (Falmouth/Cologne), Abe Geil (Amsterdam). Department of American Literary and Cultural Studies in association with the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne, May 2019.
co-organized with Ferzina Banaji. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in association with the Cambridge University Film Seminar, University of Cambridge, June 2005.
invited talks (2017-2023)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Pre-constituted Panel: ‘Post-Cinematic Feminist Ecomedia.’ Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Nadine Boljkovac, chair & panelist. Felicity Colman, Sandra Danilovic, Nicholas Rombes, co-panelists. Denver, Colorado, April 2023.
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
‘Pre-Show Scholar: Little Women.’ Ent Center for the Arts, Murray & Betty Ross Lobby, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, December 2022.
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
‘Prologue: Amélie.’ Theatreworks and Theatre & Dance Forums on American Theatre. Ent Center for the Arts, Osborne Studio Theater, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, November 2022.
University of Cologne
Guest Speaker. ‘#SayHerName: Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman (1996)’ Department of American Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Cologne, June 2022.
Istanbul Bilgi University
Roundtable Speaker. ‘The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda Book Launch.’ Seung-hoon Jeong, Zizi Li, Beth Tsai, Jennifer Stob, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, co-speakers; Feride Çiçekoğlu, Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, moderators. Istanbul Bilgi University (via Zoom), May 2022.
University of Cologne
Guest Speaker. ‘Celebrating Light: Tilda Swinton, and the “fully awake and sensate spirit.”’ Department of American Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Cologne (via Zoom), July 2021.
Istanbul Bilgi University
Roundtable Speaker/Presenter. ‘Teaching Agnès Varda.’ Concluding event of ‘Teaching Women’s Filmmaking.’ Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Feride Çiçekoğlu, Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, Kate Ince, Alan Williams, Jenny Chamarette, co-speakers. Istanbul Bilgi University (via Zoom), April 2021.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
University of Cologne
Guest Speaker. ‘New Mexican Melodramas: Feminist & Queer Cinematic Approaches via María Novaro.’ Department of Romance Studies, University of Cologne (via Zoom), July 2020.
University of Cologne
Guest Speaker. ‘Experimental Cinema & Feminist Materialist Screen Art.’ Department of American Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Cologne (via Zoom), June 2020.
University of Cologne
Guest Speaker. ‘Movements between Celluloid and Digital Filmmaking.’ Department of American Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Cologne (via Zoom), June 2020.
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
University of Cologne
Guest Speaker. ‘Irreconcilable binaries? Spike Lee’s Ever-Prophetic Cinema and Multi-Racial Navigations.’ Department of American Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Cologne, January 2019.
Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies (Cologne)
'‘Chris Marker’s Posthumous Archive, a Two-Day Seminar’ (London)
Guest Speaker. ‘Regarding Chris Marker.’ Organised by Gavin Keeney. Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, June 2017.
Masaryk University
Guest Speaker. ‘“Everything is Alive”: Tracing Feminist (Self-)Portraiture.’ Organised by Tomáš Pospíšil, English Department, Literary and Cultural Studies Section, Research Seminar, Masaryk University, March 2017.
invited talks (2005-2016)
Guest Speaker. ‘Carol (Todd Haynes): Feminist (Auto-)Portraiture.’ Organised by Hanjo Berressem, Department of American Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Cologne, June 2016.
Panelist, Pre-constituted Panel. ‘Film-Philosophy.’ Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference, University of New South Wales, December 2015.
Panelist, Pre-constituted Panel. ‘Affective Ecologies, Embodiment, and Science in Contemporary Screendance.’ 54th Annual Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference (SCMS). Livia Monnet, Alanna Thain, Laura C. Balladur, Co-Panelists. Seattle, March 2014.
Panelist, Pre-constituted Panel. ‘The dancing body as postnatural body.’ 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). Sha Xin Wei, Respondent. Livia Monnet, Alanna Thain, Laura C. Balladur, Co-Panelists. University of Notre Dame, Indiana, October 2013.
Presenter. ‘Time Forms: Temporalities of Aesthetic Experience / Formes temporelles: Les temporalités de l’expérience esthétique.’ Nicholas Rombes, Co-Panelist. McGill University, Montréal, September 2013.
Postdoctoral Fellow Presentation. ‘“This indefinite life”: a cine-philosophical tracing of love through Haneke’s 2012 Amour and Guadagnino’s 2009 Io sono l’amore.’ 2012-13 Pembroke Seminar, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University, May 2013.
Postdoctoral Fellow Presentation. Pembroke Center Associates Council Annual Meeting. Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University, February 2013.
Panelist, and Invited Contributor to the Rocky Mountain Review, academic journal of RMMLA. Pre- constituted Panel/Special Topics Session: ‘Deleuze and Difference.’ 66th Annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA). Joe Hughes, Chair. Eleanor Kaufman, Levi Paul R. Bryant, Co-Panelists. Boulder, Colorado, October 2012.
Postdoctoral Fellow Bi-Annual Presentation. 2012-13 Pembroke Seminar, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University, September 2012.
Panelist, Pre-constituted Panel. ‘Philosophies of Cinema: Perception, Sensation, Affect.’ Film Studies Association of Canada / Association canadienne d’études cinématographiques, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Lee Carruthers, Chair. Carruthers, Michael Meneghetti, Co-Panelists. Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo Canada, May 2012.
Guest Speaker. ‘Sensing Time: Affect and the Moving Image.’ Film and Visual Culture Lecture Series, Fine Arts, University of Waterloo Canada, February 2012.
Guest Speaker. ‘Visible City: Project + Archive’s Working Papers Series.’ Janine Marchessault, Director. In affiliation with the Faculty of Fine Arts, York University Canada, January 2012.
Guest Speaker. ‘Deleuze and an Ethics of Cinema.’ Topological Media Lab, Sha Xin Wei, Director. Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, November 2011.
Postdoctoral Fellow Annual Presentation. Susan Manning, Director. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, November 2010.
Panelist, Pre-constituted Panel. ‘Philosophies of Cinema: Time, History, Affect.’ Film Studies Association of Canada / Association canadienne d’études cinématographiques, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Lee Carruthers, Chair. Lee Carruthers, Elena del Río, Co- Panelists. York University Canada, May 2006.
Conference Co-Organiser / Convener. ‘Cinema, War and a Society of the Spectacle,’ Opening and Closing Conference Addresses. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in association with the Cambridge University Film Seminar, University of Cambridge, June 2005.
conferences (2003-2019)
Presenter. ‘Embodied Life Writing: Bodies, Contrasts, and Complimentarity’ panel. Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies Annual Conference: ‘Contrast and Complementary Figures for Portraiture and Biography.’ University of Cologne, July 2019.
Workshop Organiser / Participant. ‘Her cine-portrait.’ Part of the ‘Screening Affect’ Workshop with Eugenie Brinkema (MIT) and Abe Geil (Amsterdam). Department of American Literary and Cultural Studies in association with the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne, May 2019.
Presenter. ‘After Chantal: An International Conference.’ The Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster, London, November 2016.
Presenter. ‘Her filmic auto-perception: nomadic subjectivity.’ The Sixth Cinematic Thinking Workshop: Deleuze & Cinema, University of New South Wales, Sydney, November 2015.
Presenter and Assigned Chair. ‘Vivian Maier and Filmic (Self-)Portraiture: Perceiving the Unbeseen’; Chair of SCMS panel: ‘There is no Sexual Relation.’ 55th Annual Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference (SCMS). March 2015.
Presenter. ‘The Territory In-Between.’ The Sixth International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Lisbon, July 2013.
Presenter and Invited Chair. ‘The Cinematic Nonhuman.’ Nonhuman: 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 2012.
Presenter. ‘Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts.’ King’s University College, University of Western Ontario with the Centre for Advanced Research in European Philosophy and McIntosh Gallery, Canada, May 2012.
Presenter, Panel Coordinator and Chair. Annual Film-Philosophy Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, July 2011.
Presenter, Invited Panel Coordinator and Chair. ‘Creation, Crisis, Critique.’ The Fourth International Deleuze Studies Conference, Copenhagen Business School, June 2011.
Presenter. ‘CONNECTDELEUZE: Transdisciplinary Perspectives.’ Second International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Cologne, August 2009.
Presenter. ‘Thomas Elsaesser Film & Associated Media Master-Class.’ Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, November 2007.
Presenter. ‘Sensing Film: Body, Genre, Audience.’ Studies in French Cinema Conference, French Institute, London, UK, April 2007.
Presenter. ‘Gilles Deleuze: Texts and Images.’ Ninth Annual International Comparative Literature Conference, University of South Carolina, April 2007. [Subsequent book collection]
Presenter. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, March 2006.
Presenter. Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, July 2005.
Presenter. ‘Sensorium: Philosophy and Aesthetics.’ University of Melbourne, June 2005.
Presenter and Invited Chair. Film Studies Association of Canada / Association canadienne d’études cinématographiques, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada, May-June 2005.
Presenter. ‘Politics of Cultural Memory.’ Manchester Metropolitan University, November 2004. Presenter and Invited Chair. Film Studies Association of Canada / Association canadienne d’études cinématographiques, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Manitoba, May-June 2004.
Presenter. Film Studies Association of Canada / Association canadienne d’études cinématographiques Graduate Conference, University of British Columbia, February 2004.
Presenter. Graduate Program in Film & Video Conference, York University Canada, November 2003.