Talks

To book Patricia for a talk or event, email her at pwhite1@swarthmore.edu

Patricia White in Rome, 2013-05-29
Patricia White in Rome, May 2013

2014

  • “She, A Chinese Director: Guo Xiaolu and Transnational Authorship.” Global Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts conference. SUNY Stony Brook. Stony Brook, NY (September 2014)
  • “It’s Not Indie, It’s HBO: Lesbian Directors and Premium Cable.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Seattle, WA (March 2014)
  • “Indie Feminism.” Grinnell College. Grinnell, IA (February 2014)

2013

  • “Women’s Cinema and Its Critical Potential.” Hokkaido University. Sapporo, Japan. (November 2013). Published in Japanese
  • “Contemporary Women’s Cinema: Global Scenarios and Transnational Contexts.” Roma Tre University. Rome, Italy (May 2013). Italian translation forthcoming
  • “Colonial Imaginaries: White Womanhood and World Cinema Authorship.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Chicago, IL (March 2013)

    Patricia White and Timothy Corrigan, SCMS 2014
    Patricia White and Timothy Corrigan, SCMS 2014

2012

  • “Independent Women Filmmakers.” Three Rivers Film Festival Symposium. Pittsburgh, PA (October 2012)
  • “Changing Circumstances: Lesbian Representation and Arthouse Cinema.” University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA (October 2012)
  • Workshop Participant. Global Queer Cinema Research Group. University of Sussex. Brighton, United Kingdom (May 2012)
  • “Changing Circumstances: Global Flows of Lesbian Cinema.” World Cinemas: Global Networks conference. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (April 2012)

    Circumstance, Dir. Maryam Keshavarz, 2011
    Circumstance (Maryam Keshavarz, 2011)
  • “Women Make Movies at 40: Cultures of Feminist Film.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Boston, MA (March 2012)
  • “Circumstantial Lesbianism: Arthouse Sexuality and Transnational Spectatorship.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Boston, MA (March 2012)
  • “From Pride to Pariah: Affective Turns in Lesbian Filmmaking.” Queer Vulnerability symposium. University of Stockholm. Stockholm, Sweden (February 2012)

2011

  • “Between Worlds.” Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Monash University. Melbourne, Australia (November 2011)
  • “Critical Strategies in Queer and Women’s Palestinian Filmmaking.” Co-organizer. Yale University and Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. New York University. New York, NY (October 2011).
  • “Women’s Rights as Human Rights.” Visible Evidence conference. New York University. New York, NY (August 2011)
  • “Cultural Capital and Diasporan Iranian Women Directors.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. New Orleans, LA (March 2011)
  • “Gender, Genre, and American ‘World Cinema’ Auteurs.” Arizona Quarterly symposium. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ (March 2011)

2010

  • Symposium. Providence Women’s Film Festival. Providence, RI (October 2010)
  • “Trans/National Spaces of Lesbian Film.” Transnationalizing LGBT Studies conference. Syracuse University. Syracuse, New York (September 2010)
  • “Asian Lesbian Directors and Trans/national Spaces.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Los Angeles, CA (March 2010)

2009

Director Claudia llosa & Cinematographer Natasha Braier
Cinematographer Natasha Braier and director Claudia Llosa
  • “Aesthetics and Politics in Transnational Latin American Women’s Cinema.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA (December 2009)
  • “Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Latin American Women’s Cinema.” Northwestern University. Evanston, IL (October 2009)
  • “The Politics of Art Cinema: Lucrecia Martel and Claudia Llosa.” University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA (October 2009)
  • “Aesthetics and Politics in Transnational Latin American Women’s Cinema.” Women in Film and Television conference. Mexico City and Sepancine, Morelia, Mexico (September 2009)

2008

Director Lucrecia Martel
Director Lucrecia Martel
  • “Women’s Cinema/World Cinema.” International Women’s Film Festival. Global Cartographies of Cine-Feminism session. Seoul, Korea (April 2008). Published in Korean
  • “‘To Each Her Own Cinema’: World Cinema and the Woman Cineaste.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Philadelphia, PA (March 2008)

2007

  • “Queer + Global.” Image + Nation 20: International Workshop on the Queer Film and Video Festival Movement. Montreal, Canada (November 2007)
  • “Women’s Experimental Cinema.” CUNY Graduate Center. New York, NY (November 2007)
  • “The Spaces of Korean/American Women’s Cinema.” American Studies Association conference. Philadelphia, PA (October 2007)
  • “‘What is This Love That We Have for the Invert?’: Girls Will Be Boys.” Pacific Film Archives. Berkeley, CA (September 2007)
  • “Lesbian Minor Cinema.” Plenary address. Queer Screens conference. Glasgow, Scotland (July 2007)
  • “Women’s Rights and Global Cinema.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Chicago, IL (March 2007)

2006

  • “Women’s Cinema as Art Cinema.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Vancouver, Canada (March 2006)

2005

  • “Feminist Independents: Women’s Filmmaking Local and Global.” Feminism and Film History conference. Meiji Gakuin University. Tokyo, Japan (November 2005)
  • “Women’s Cinema as Art Cinema: Transnational Feminism and Niche Exhibition.” Duke University. Durham, NC (October 2005)
  • “Archive for the Future: Roundtable sponsored by Camera Obscura.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. London, United Kingdom (March 2005)

2004

  • “Teaching Film and Literature.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA (December 2004)
  • “Feminist Film in the Age of the Chick Flick.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Atlanta, GA (March 2004)

2003

  •  “Remake/Remodel: Todd Haynes’s Women’s Pictures.” Cinema of Todd Haynes conference. Brown University (April 2003).

2001

  • “Girl Power/Girl Knowledge: The Seductions of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Washington, DC (May 2001).

1999

Nazimova, Salome 2
All Nazimova in Salome (Charles Bryant, 1923)
  • “Satan’s Schoolgirls.” American Studies Association conference. Montreal, Canada (October 1999)
  • Keynote Address. The Subject in Culture conference. University of Rochester. Rochester, NY (March 1999)
  • “Nazimova’s Veils: Salome at the Intersection of Film Histories.” University of Pennsylvania. Lesbian and Gay Academic Union and Institute for Contemporary Arts. Philadelphia, PA (February 1999)

1998

  • “Women in Film: Images and Image Makers.” Plenary Session. The Scholar and the Feminist conference. Barnard College. New York, NY (March 1998)
  • Respondent. Mary Ann Doane, “The Representability of Time.” Columbia Seminar on “Lesbian Cinephilia.” Center for the Humanities. Wesleyan University. Middletown, CT (February 1998)

1997

  • “Feminist Reruns: Women Make Movies at 25.” Console-ing Passions conference. Concordia University. Montreal, Canada (May 1997)

1996

  • “On Retrospectatorship.” Public Fantasy conference. English Institute. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA (October 1996)

1994

  • “Undertheorized: Lesbian Spectatorship.” Modern Language Association conference. San Diego, CA (December 1994)
  • “Authorship with a Little ‘A’.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Syracuse, NY (February 1994)

1993

  • “Don’t Ask for the Moon—We Have the Stars.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. New Orleans, LA (February 1993)

    Agnes Moorehead in Bewitched
    Agnes Moorehead in Bewitched

1991

  • “The Queer Career of Agnes Moorehead.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Los Angeles, CA (May 1991)

1990

  • “Lesbian Cinema: The Parallax View.” Queer Theory conference. University of California, Santa Cruz (February 1990)
The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)

1989

  • “Female Spectator, Lesbian Specter: The Haunting.” Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference. Yale University. New Haven, CT (October 1989)