I have been invited to give many talks, keynotes, and public lectures over the course of my career, which I regard as one of the most exciting and satisfying aspects of the work I have done as a professor of film studies.
The international invitations I have received have taken me to cities such as Rome, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Berlin, Trondheim, Zurich, Vienna, Sao Paolo, Pamplona, London, Edinburgh, Liverpool, and many others. Apart from the excitement and occasionally glamorous settings of these talks, I have met a great number of smart and gracious people in the course of giving these presentations and have had chances to try out some new ideas and learn from my colleagues. I list below a few of the talks I have given in recent years.
“Rethinking the Historical Film: Lessons from our Podcast Moving Histories.” Symposium: “Moving Histories: Public Memory and Visual Culture.” University of Windsor, October 27, 2024.
“Embedded Histories: Landscape and the Cloud-Alien in Jordan Peele’s Nope.” Emeritus Academy, Wayne State University, April 12, 2024.
“Remediation, Trauma, and ‘Preposterous History’ in They Shall Not Grow Old.” Conference: International Society for First World War Studies. University of Windsor, September 30, 2023 (Keynote).
“Pathos Signals in the Contemporary American War Film: The Transfer of Affect.” The Face of War on Film, University of Leeds, July 6, 2023 (Keynote).
“Panorama / Close-Up: Derangements of Scale in The Power of the Dog.”
Kadir Has University, Istanbul. November 24, 2022. (Invited Lecture).
“Remediation, Trauma, and ‘Preposterous History’ in They Shall Not Grow Old.” International Network for Theory of History. “Media, Mediations and Mediators: (Re) Mediating History in the 21st Century.” Puebla, Mexico, April 26, 2022. (Conference presentation.)
“Unmapping the World: Scale, Perspective and Landscape in The Revenant.” Cinepoetics Workshop: “Performative Projections, Vectors of Experience,” Berlin, December 14, 2021.
“Unmapping the World: Scale, Perspective and Landscape in The Revenant.” Department of Communication Brown Bag Series, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, November 23, 2021.
“Remediation, Trauma, and “Preposterous History’” in They Shall Not Grow Old. Centre for International film Research, University of Southampton, March 9, 2021. (Invited lecture).
“Abstraction, Bare Life, and Counternarratives of Mobility in the Refugee Films of Richard Mosse and Ai Weiwei, Incoming and Human Flow.” Columbia University Film Seminar, November 7, 2019.
“Abstraction, Bare Life, and Counternarratives of Mobility in the Refugee Films of Richard Mosse and Ai Weiwei, Incoming and Human Flow.” Wayne State University Emeritus Academy, October 18, 2019.
“Index, Abstraction, and Bare Life in the Refugee Films of Richard Mosse and Ai Weiwei: Incoming and Human Flow.” Michigan State University Colloquium, October 11, 2019.
“Index, Abstraction, and Bare Life in the Refugee Films of Richard Mosse and Ai Weiwei: Incoming and Human Flow.” Cinema and Migration; XX New Directions in Turkish Cinema Studies Conference, Istanbul, May 10, 2019. (Keynote)
“War on Film.” Presentation and public discussion with Donald Miller, Robert Burgoyne & Barry Stevens. University of Windsor, Humanities Research Group, March 28, 2019.
“The Videographic Essay as Metahistorical Film.” Film and History Conference, Madison WI, November 8, 2018 (Plenary Panel)
“Human – Creature Love in Art: The Shape of Water.” Michigan Psychoanalytic Society, Bloomfield Hills, October 28, 2018.
“The Videographic Essay as Metahistorical Film.” Moving Image Memory Cultures, Summer School, Potsdam, Germany, September 24, 2018. (Keynote)
“Intimate Violence: Drone Vision in Eye in the Sky.” 3rd Cinepoetics Lecture, Arsenal Cinema, Berlin, October 23, 2017.
“Intimate Violence: Drone Vision in Eye in the Sky.” Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, September 14, 2017.
“The Afterlife of Stereotype: Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley.” Cultural Memory Symposium, University of St Andrews, May 25, 2017.
“Forms of Time and Chronotope in The Wall Street Film.” Global Finance and the Moving Image Symposium, Pamplona, October 21, 2016.
“The Afterlife of Stereotype: The Birth of a Nation in Contemporary Visual Art.” Williamsburg, William and Mary, February 15, 2016. (Invited lecture)
“The Body at Risk: Genre Memory in War Film and Photography.” University of Zurich, December 12, 2015. (Invited lecture).
“The Body at Risk: Genre Memory in War Film and Photography.” International Conference, Cinema / History: Time, Memory and Identity in the Images of the New Millenium. Roma Tre November 26, 2015. (Keynote)
“The Afterlife of Stereotype: The Birth of a Nation in Contemporary Visual Art.” Liverpool, The Birth of a Nation Centennial Conference. November 21, 2015 (Keynote)
“The Body at Risk: Genre Memory in the work of Tim Hetherington.”
May 28, 2015, International colloquium, Land, Lens, Violence. Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies, Vienna. May 28, 2015. (Keynote)
“The Body at Risk: Genre Memory in the work of Tim Hetherington.” Norwegian University of Science and Technology, June 5, 2015.
“Douglas Gordon and Cory Arcangel, Breaking the Toy”, Embodied Encounters Symposium, Freud Museum, London (October 27, 2014).
“The Body at Risk: Genre Memory in the War Photography and Films of Tim Hetherington.” Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil (May 14, 2014).
“The Violated Body and Affect in Zero Dark Thirty.” Department of Modern Languages, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (May 9, 2014); University of Sao Paulo, (May 16, 2014).
“Impossible Images: The War Photography of Tim Hetherington.” The Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (November 14, 2013)
“Somatic War: Re-enchantment and the Body at Risk in the New War Films.” Centre for World Cinemas, University of Leeds (October 30, 2013).
“The War Film as a Mode of Historical Thinking: Generational Memory in Letters From Iwo Jima.” Inaugural Lecture, University of St Andrews (October 23, 2013).
“The Violated Body: Affect and Somatic Intensity in Zero Dark Thirty. Olomouc, Czech Republic, for the European Research Council seminar, “Re-presenting the Past: New Methods of History Representation in Arts and the Media.” (October 2, 2013).
“Somatic War: The Body at Risk in the New War Films,” Department of English and the Department of Muslim Studies, Michigan State University, February 1, 2013).
“Self-Sacrifice in Contemporary Film,” Address for The Centre for Terrorism Studies, University of St Andrews (December 6, 2012).
“Generational Memory and Affect in Letters From Iwo Jima,” Free University of Berlin, (October 18, 2012).
“Puppetry in the Musical Biopic: Gainsbourg,” Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (April 24, 2012).
“Generational Memory and Affect in Letters From Iwo Jima,” Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, (April 23, 2012).
“Generational Memory and Letters From Iwo Jima,” Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland, (November 16, 2011).
“Embodiment and Ethics in the Contemporary War Film,” Liverpool Film Seminar (October 24, 2011).
“Colour in the Epic Film: Alexander and Hero,” Rethinking Epic Conference, Lincoln, UK(July 22, 2011).
“Affect, Embodiment, and Generational Memory in Letters from Iwo Jima,” The John Orr Memorial Lecture: Film and Memory Conference, Scottish Consortium, University of Stirling, (June 9, 2011).
“Self-sacrifice in Letters from Iwo Jima,” Cinema and Philosophy, Turkish Film Studies Annual Conference, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, (May 6, 2011). (Keynote)
