“The Other Within: Poor Whites and the Purging of American
National Identity” Vietnam panel on Bringing the War Back
Home (session moderator and presenter )
Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
March 2007
“Final Moments: Death Scenes in Early American Silent Film”
(invited lecturer)
Claremont Graduate University
October 2006
“The Movie Camera as a Death Technology.” (invited
speaker)
Death and Dying Potluck, Berkeley
November 2005
“Goodbye’s Sound Space”
Visual Cultures Working Group, UC Berkeley
October 2005
“The Lady from Shanghai’s Enigmatic Plot of the Self”
Pacific Film Archive
April 2005
“The Range of Death’s Cinematic Motion”
Death in American Culture Annual Conference
November 2003
“Edison, Early Film, and the Dying Body”
Identifiable Remains: The Body and the Moving Image
Conference
October 2003
“Insecure Movies: Hollywood’s Representations of
Execution”
2003 Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
May 20003
“The Return of Silent Cinema: John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln
and the Suppressive Cut”
Pacific Film Archive
October 2002
“Brief Flesh: Suicide, Code-Era Hollywood, and the
Jury”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
March 2002
“The Jazz Singer or the
Corpse.” Music and the
Moving Image Conference, New York University. May 15, 2011.
“White Face, Redneck:
Performance and White Trash Eroticism.” 2010 Society for Cinema and
Media Studies Conference, UCLA.
“Every Afternoon.”
Invited Lecture for St. John’s College Annual Faculty Symposium,
November 2, 2009.
“Screening Dying.”
2009 American Comparative Literature Association Conference,
Harvard University.
“Bringing the War Back Home: Allegorizing Vietnam in
Film and Television.”
Panel Chair, 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago,
Il.