To book Patricia for a talk or event, email her at pwhite1@swarthmore.edu
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)
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)
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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)
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)
1989
- “Female Spectator, Lesbian Specter: The Haunting.” Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference. Yale University. New Haven, CT (October 1989)