Conferences Organized

2026-2027. Program Committee Chair & Co-Organizer, Scholars in Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine (SCMSSP) Parallel Conference, online and in Montreal, 2027. [CFP link]

2025-2026. Program Committee Chair & Co-Organizer, Scholars in Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine (SCMSSP) Parallel Conference, online and in Chicago, 2026. [program link]

Co-organizer & Artist Keynote Coordinator, CONTAINERS: 4^th Annual Cultural Analysis & Theory Graduate Student Conference. Stony Brook University, NYC. 18-19 October 2013.

Co-organizer & Poetry Panel Moderator, Global Lives: 3^rd Annual Cultural Analysis & Theory Graduate Student Conference. Stony Brook University, NYC. 13 October 2012.

Panels Organized

2025. Co-Organizer & Co-Chair, with William Brown, “Transnational Palestinian Cinema: Everyday Trouble, Trouble Every Day,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Chicago

2017. Co-Organizer & Commentator, “Dismantling Islamophobia” program and post-screening discussion with Jasmina Sinanović (Center of LGBTQ Studies, CUNY), NEW YORK FEMINIST FILM WEEK, Anthology Film Archives, NYC

Co-organizer, co-programmer, & co-moderator, with Sofia Varino, of “Global Feminist Film: Diversity on Screen” workshop with filmmakers Patricia Silva & Mila Zuo. Presenter, “Toward an Interdisciplinary Transnationalism in Cinema Studies: Citing Transnational Feminisms.” Northeastern Modern Language Association. Hartford, CT. March 2016.

Co-organizer & Co-moderator, with Michelle Ho, of an interdisciplinary panel entitled “Trigger Warnings & the Neoliberal Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy in Our Time of Precarity.” Q/F/T* Event with Michael Kimmel, Lisa Diedrich, Nerissa Balce & Kadji Amin. Humanities Institute. Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, NY. 18 February 2015.

Long Table Organizer, Kathleen Newman’s “Notes on Transnational Film Theory.” Cultural Analysis & Theory. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. 24 April 2012.

Papers Presented

“The French ‘Headscarf Affair’ in Telefilm: Performing Racialized Gender under Islamophobia Law.” Scholars in Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine (SCMSSP), online, 2026.

“Horror as a Pedagogical Tool for Critical Thinking in Interdisciplinary Courses.” Cine-Excess 2025 International Film Festival & Conference, Birmingham, UK.

“Palestinian Children’s ‘Occupied Joy’: Examining ‘Hope, Despair, Laughter: A Circus Project in Palestine.” Transnational Palestinian Cinema panel, Society for Cinema & Media Studies 2025, Chicago

“Angry People Are So Easy to Lead”: Patriarchal Artifice & Masculine Abjection in Ti West’s MaXXXine (2024).” Cine-Excess 18: Blood Ties: The Family in Cult and Horror Cinema, Birmingham City University, U.K., hybrid (virtual presentation), 2024.

“The Headscarf Affair in Non-Theatrical Film: Her Life (1995) and Mariam (2016).” Film-Philosophy, Espinho, Portugal, 2024.

“M3GAN (2023) Won’t ‘Turn Off’: AI is the New Monstrous-Feminine. Cine-Excess 17: Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness, and the Abject, Birmingham City University, U.K., hybrid (virtual presentation), October 2023.

“We Don’t Even Need the Men: Mrs. Mates, the Monstrous-Feminine, and Rape Revenge in Ti West’s X (2022). Cine-Excess 16: Reframing the Monsters Outside: Mavericks, Rebels, and Rulebreakers in Cult Film, Birmingham City University, U.K. Hybrid. October 2023.

Co-Presenter, “The Queer Crip Witch Wins: A Return to Animality in Thelma and Blue My Mind, with Cristina Ruiz-Poveda Vera, X Congreso Internacional de GECA: Cine Queer en el Mundo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Hybrid. October 2023.

Co-Presenter, “Eco-Cripping Teen Body Horror” video essay, with Ashley Rini, International Screen Studies Conference. Virtual. July 2022.

“In the Banlieue Film Archives (Carné’s Terrain vague),” French & Francophone Screen Studies Mini-Conference: Revolt, Rebellion, Revolution on Screen. Virtual. October 2021.

Co-presenter, “Beyond Revenge in Teen Body Horror: The Non-Monstrous Feminine in Thelma and Blue My Mind,” with Ashley Rini, From the Monstrous and Non-Monstrous Bodies on Screen panel, Cine-Excess 15. Virtual. October 2021.

“The Virtual as Local: Reviewing the Virtual Cinemas of Detroit.” Seminar: How to Practice Moviegoing in the Streaming Age, Society for Cinema & Media Studies. Virtual. March 2021.

Writer, “Mainstream & Marginal French Film Archives: The Cinémathèque Française & the Centre Audiovisual Simone de Beauvoir.” Seminar: Creating an Archives-Wiki: Re-thinking Archival Practice, Feminist Research & Historical Methods, Society for Cinema & Media Studies. Denver (cancelled). April 2020.

“Horror/Ideology/The Progressive Genre.” Seminar: “Rethinking Cinema/ Ideology/ Criticism.” Society for Cinema & Media Studies. Seattle. March 2019.

“The Islamic Headscarf as Ritual in Faiza Ambah’s Mariam (2015).” Women Filmmakers in France panel. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Toronto. March 2018.

“The Ecole Laïque as Transnational Microcosm.” Imagining Ethnicity, Race, and Racial Politics panel. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Atlanta. April 2016.

“Performing Laïcité: The Banlieue Public School as Theater & Prison in Skirt Day (2009).” Precarity: National Women’s Studies Association. Milwaukee. November 2015.

“The Spatial-Affective Economy of (Post)colonial Paris.” European Cinema Research Forum Annual Conference: Space & Place in European Cinema. National University of Ireland, Galway. July 2015.

“Blood Brightens the Banlieue: The Affective Economy of Caché’s Suicide Scene.” Cinema Studies Graduate Student Conference: SHOCK VALUE: Experience, Affect, and the Moving Image. Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, NYC. February 2015.

During the Q&A after presenting on Haneke’s Caché (2005) at my alma mater, NYU

Presenter, “Reclaiming Cinematic Sexuality and Varda’s Voyeurism: Woman as Object and Subject in French New Wave Cinema.” Comparative Literature Graduate Conference: Desire: From Eros to Eroticism. CUNY, NYC. November 2011.

Panels Chaired/Moderated

“Teaching Around/With Artificial Intelligence” Seminar, Society for Cinema & Media Studies Virtual Symposium. December 2023.

“Understanding Ungrading” Seminar, Society for Cinema & Media Studies Pre-Conference. Virtual. February 2023.

Participant & Annotator, “The Media Ecology Project: New Digital Tools for Networked Archival Research and Visual Culture Pedagogy” Seminar, Society for Cinema & Media Studies Pre-Conference. Virtual. March 2022.