“The Rebirth of Suspense in Slow Cinematic Time.” Film Studies Research Seminar Series. King’s College London. November 10, 2021.

“Cinematic Lyricism: Modes Personal and Impersonal.” Cinema and Poetry. University of Maryland. College Park, MD. Canceled due to COVID-19.

“Environmental Dread: Kiyoshi Kurosawa and the Fatal Mechanics of Slow Horror.” Global Horror Studies Archival and Research Network (in connection with the George A. Romero Archival Collection). University of Pittsburgh, PA. September 30, 2021.

“Atmospheric Suspense in the Slow Horror Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa.” Whitney Humanities Center. Yale University. New Haven, CT. October 6, 2018.

“The Reinvention of Suspense: Atmosphere, Feeling, and the Viewer-Screen Interface in Slow Thrillers from Antonioni to Assayas.” Appalachian State University. Boone, NC. April 5, 2018.

“Must See in 3D: Recent Experiments in Stereoscopic Cinema from Herzog to Godard.” Furst Forum Lecture Series/Triangle Film Salon. UNC-Chapel Hill. March 8, 2016.

“Essaying the Forms of Popular Cinema.” The Filmmaker’s Voice: The Essay Film and the Circulation of Ideas.  University of Maryland. College Park, MD. April 4, 2014.

“Two Takes on the Essayistic: Marker, Godard, and the Pedagogy of Perception.” Things that Quicken the Heart – Chris Marker: A Symposium. Slought Foundation. Philadelphia, PA. March 15-16, 2013.

“Filming a Miracle: Belief, Reflexivity, and Contemplation from Dreyer to Reygadas.” Furst Forum Lecture Series/Triangle Film Salon. UNC-Chapel Hill. January 31, 2013.

“Toward an Intermedial History of the Essay.” Penn Humanities Forum. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. September 23, 2011.

See CV for conference involvement, workshops,  & colloquia