CONFERENCE PAPERS -- Film History

"Identifying a Feminist Address in Early Cinema," Paper for the Women and Silent Screen Conference, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, November 2001.

"Race Pictures Before Race Cinema: An Analysis of A Fool and His Money (Alice Guy Blaché, Solax, 1912). Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Chicago, May 2001. Published on the Silents Majority Website at http://www.mdle.com/ClassicFilms/SpecialFeature/fool.htm.

"A Poor Man's Sound Cinema?" paper given at the Spectacular Europe 3 Conference in Warwick, UK, March 2000.

"The Quest for Motion: Cinema and Aviation" paper given at the Visual Delights Conference, Sheffield University, June 1999.

"Cinema of Attractions or poor man's sound cinema?" paper revising the cinema of attractions theory in light of early sound experiments given at Technologies of the Moving Image Conference, Stockholm University, December 1998.

Lecture and slide show on early sound experiments, DOMITOR Conference, Washington D.C.1998.

"1911: The Year of the Western," Back in the Saddle Conference, University of Utrecht, July 1997.

"Plagiarism between Pathé and Gaumont up to 1907" DOMITOR 1996 Conference, Paris.

"Voice and Voyeurism in Early Cinema" Prima dell 'Autore, Spettacolo Cinematografico, testo, autorialita dalle origini agli anni Trenta Conference sponsored by the University of Bologna in Udine, Italy March 1996

"Cross-Dressing in the Comedies of Alice Guy Blaché" the Columbia Series Seminar, November 1995.

"The Lumière/Gaumont Relationship" Congrès Lumière, Lyons June 1995.