Selected Recent Conferences and Presentations
June 2010 Film Studies Association of Canada, Montreal. "Looking for Frontier Audiences"
May 2010 Association for the Study of Young People, Montreal. "Participatory Media: Lessons from the 1960s"
September 2009 GPO Film Unit, Manchester University. "World Without End: Griersonians Go Global"
August 2009 Visible Evidence, Los Angeles. "Frederick Wiseman's Human Comedy "
May 2009 Film Studies Association of Canada, Ottawa. "Looking for Vancouver Cinema of the 1960s"
June 2008 FSAC/CCA roundtable. "Screen Studies in Canada"
June 2008 Madness, Citizenship and Social Justice, SFU. "Frederick Wiseman's Cinema of Enclosure"
May 2008 Centre for the Study of Print and Media Cultures Symposium, SFU. "The Uses of Visual and Media Literacy"
April 2008 Interculturality and Intermediality Symposium, SFU. "World Without End: International Development in the Global Village"
March 2008 Orphans 6: Orphan films of/about/by/under 'the state', NYU Cinema Studies. "World Without End: Stories of International Development"
November 2007 Union for Democratic Communication, Vancouver. "Media Literacy: The History of a Euphemism"
October 2007 How Canadians Communicate, Banff, AB. "The Film Audience as Temporary Public: Notes on Recent Developments in English-Canadian Cinema"
July 2007 Screen, Glasgow, Scotland. "Postmodern, or just sexual? The hidden (queer) truth of recent documentaries"
May 2007 Challenge for Change, 40th Anniversary, FSAC conference, Saskatchewan. "Up Against the System"
May 2007 Canadian Communication Association, Saskatoon, SK. "UNESCO's role in the history of communication studies"
March 2007 Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago. "Film as a Teaching Machine: UNESCO's emphasis on Techno-education"
November 2006 The Documentary Tradition, Dallas, TX. "Using Anti-documentary to Explore False History: Errol Morris's Mr. Death"
August 2006 Useful Cinema: Expanding Film Contexts, Concordia University. "UNESCO, Film and Education: The Geopolitics of Usefulness"
June 2006 Canadian Communication Association, York University. Canadian Television Roundtable
March 2006 Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver. "Laughing at Authority: News Parody on Canadian Television"
January 2006 History of the Discipline of Film Studies Seminar, Concordia University. "The Rome Institute of Educational Cinematography, Reactionary Modernism and the Formation of Film Studies"
August 2005 Visible Evidence XII, Montreal. "The Forgotten Contribution to Film Studies of The Rome Institute of Educational Cinematography"
May 2004 Canadian Communications Association. "Mobile Cinema in Canada in International Perspective"
March 2004 Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta. "British Imperial Uses of Mobile Cinema"