Lectures/Presentations

Partial List of Recent/Upcoming Activity

• Introduction and discussion on Aug. 6, 2022 of Josephine Baker's 1927 Siren of the Tropics (with live music by the Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra), Webster University. Part of the 2022 Robert Classic French Film Festival.
• What Now?! - a Zoom presentation around words and images, my work, Goya, Victor Hugo, James Turrell, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holtzer, Mark Lombardi - and war imagery (as the result of the war that had started two weeks earlier). Thanks to the gracious Art History Club at Boise State University.
• Introducing and discussing The Black Book by Guillaume Ribot at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum for the Rosenberg Film Series (online this year).
• Introducing and discussing The Milky Way by Buñuel at Washington University for the Robert French Film Classics Series.
• Introducing and discussing Anna-Célia Kendall-Yatzkan's film, The Yatzkan - at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center for the Rosenberg Film Series.
• Introducing and discussing Michal Jaskulski and Lawrence Loewinger's Bogdan’s Journey - at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center for the Rosenberg Film Series. Cf. Interview with one of the co-directors, Lawrence Loewinger
• Introducing and discussing Leos Carax’s The Lovers on the Bridge - at Webster University for the Robert French Film Classics Series
  
• Introducing and discussing the U.S. Premiere of Eszter Hajdu's documentary, Judgement in Hungary - a film that played in front of the European Parliament in Brussels - at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center for the Rosenberg Film Series
• Introducing and discussing the 35 mm screening of Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar, at Webster University for the Robert French Film Classics Series
• "Moving Images and Sound" - one of the new Experimental Cinema Series evenings at the St. Louis Central Library
  
• Introducing and discussing Joseph Losey's film, Mr Klein, at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center for the Rosenberg Film Series
• Introducing and discussing Jean-Pierre Melville's film, Army of Shadows, at Webster University for the Robert French Film Classics Series
• The Void and its Pressure — translated from El Vacio Y Su Presión — a two-part interview in Correo del Sur, Bolivia
• St. Louis Holocaust Museum, Introduction/Discussion: Diplomacy by Volker Schlöndorff
• The Robert Classical French Film Festival, Cinema St. Louis, Webster University, Introduction/Discussion, Robert Bresson & A Man Escaped
• St. Louis Holocaust Museum, Introduction/Discussion: As A Young Girl of Thirteen: Simone LaGrange Remembers Auschwitz
  
• Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, purchases "Say I'm a Jew" for its video collection.
• Invited guest for the month of November 2014 on the -empyre- listserv. The topic: "ISIL, Absolute Terror, Performance."
• La Muerte Tiene Rázon (Cine y Manipulación) [Death is Right (Film and Manipulation)] at Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina
• Chronicle of a Summer/Crónica de un Verano by Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, Introduction, Alliance Française, Bariloche, Argentina
• Judex by Franju, Introduction/Discussion, the Classic French Film Festival, Cinema St. Louis, Webster University
• Marton Père & Fils, Société Française de St. Louis
• Blind Flying interview published in Szombat magazine, Budapest, Hungary
• Say I'm a Jew with sociologist András Kovács, Bálint Ház (JCC), Budapest, Hungary
• Blinky and I by Tomasz Magierski, Introduction/Discussion at St. Louis Holocaust and Research Center
• Avant-Garde Film and Video, Society of Professors Emeriti of Washington University
• Beyond Belief - The Matrix panel, Media Literacy Week, Gateway Media Literacy Partners, Webster University
• Resistance, Defiance, Courage, main speaker for city-wide Holocaust Remembrance/Yom HaShoah BSKI, St. Louis (in front of 1,000 people)
• Slow Films and Sharon Lockhart’s Films, Kemper Museum, St. Louis
• Cinematic Comics: Irrelevant Irreverence? keynote presentation at Comic Book Conference, W.U. & S.L.U. at Webster U.
• The Other in Visions of War in The Arts Represent Conflict Conference, School of Visual Arts
• Across the Generations: Legacies of Hope and Meaning (Holocaust in 1,000 Years), Plenary session, General Semantics/Korzybski Conf., Fordham U. NYC
• The Holocaust in 1,000 Years, Media Ecology Association, Saint Louis University + introduction to Eric McLuhan, plenary speaker
• Perfect Edge for The Conney Project on Jewish Arts, is an educational initiative of the University of Wisconsin’s Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, thanks to Professor Douglas Rosenberg.