Public Speaking & Events
Upcoming
August 2013: "Shaping Real Life, Past and Present," with Andy Pederson, Jayme McGhan, and Craig Thornton, at Having Our Say: Our History, Our Future, the second national conference of the Dramatists Guild of America, Chicago, IL, August 22-25, 2013.
Past events
2013 March: "Varieties of Historical Experience: Turning History into Theatre" with Deborah Brevoort, Craig Thornton, and Lowell Williams, at the 2013 annual conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.
2012 April: Screening and discussion at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, with Douglas Blackmon, Samuel Pollard, hosted by Professors June Cross and Bill Grueskin.
2012 March: New York Sings! with musicologist Rena Kosersky and folklorist/musician George Ward, at Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany, NY.
2012 March: Screening of Slavery by Another Name followed by Q&A with Douglas A. Blackmon and me, Princeton University ,Princeton, NJ
2012, February: Screening of Slavery by Another Name followed by Q&A with Douglas A. Blackmon and me, University at Albany, SUNY.
2011, November: "Documentary Storytelling," at Plus Camerimage, Bydgoszcz, Poland. Also jurist, Short Documentary Competition (with Haskell Wexler, jury chair, and Joan Churchhill, David Kwok, and Piotr Stasik).
2011, October: Presenter/organizer, screening of Raising Renee and visit with filmmakers Jeanne Jordan and Stephen Ascher, University at Albany
2011, March: “Broadening the Discussion: Bringing Stories of Liberation to Communities through Public Media and Public Engagement,” for the Women’s History Month lecture series, A Question of Liberation, sponsored by the UAlbany Women’s Studies Department,
2011, January. Presenter/organizer, visit of filmmaker Eric Stange to the University at Albany
2010, October. Presenter/organizer/fundraiser, “Louisa May Alcott: In Print and On Screen,” visit to the University at Albany by filmmakers/authors Nancy Porter and Harriet Reisen. Funded by the New York Council for the Humanities and others.
2009, October: “Close Viewing: Strengthening Documentary Film Literacy,” for the Jean Everitt Journalism Lecture Series at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Va.
2008, November: Presenter/co-organizer, “Screening New York History,” visit to the University at Albany by filmmakers Muffie Meyer and Ronald Blumer (Middlemarch Films) for the Researching New York Conference. Funded by the New York Council for the Humanities and others.
2008, October: Presenter/organizer, “Politics on Screen,” visit to the University at Albany by filmmaker Paul Stekler (The Choice 2008, Frontline)
2008, April: "Documentary Storytelling,” Smith College Model United Nations, Northampton, Ma.
2007, October: “The ethics of archival storytelling,” panel convened and co-moderated with Kenn Rabin at the University of California, Berkeley, Ca., featuring Claire Aguilar, Jon Else, Stanley Nelson, Bill Nichols, and Rick Prelinger (to read an excerpt, click here)
2007, October: “Legal aspects of archival storytelling,” panel convened and co-moderated with Kenn Rabin at Stanford University School of Law, Palo Alto, Ca., featuring Anthony Falzone, Sam Green, Debra Kozee, Jan krawitz, Dale Nelson, Rick Prelinger, and Kristine Samuelson
2006, September: Guest presenter, “When the Levees Broke,” with filmmaker Sam Pollard. American Studies program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2006, August: Leader, two-day workshop in documentary storytelling with the media production staff, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, Pa.
2006, April: Presenter, Two Societies (Eyes on the Prize) at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.
2005, December: “Documentary Storytelling,” presentation at the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism (Harvard University), Boston, Ma., also panel, “Telling the Hard Stories,” with Orville Schell and Doug McGill
2005, November: “Archival issues,” presentation to faculty and students at Rockefeller College, Princeton University
2005, September through November: Curator and moderator, “American Visions in Documentary” public series with visiting filmmakers Ric Burns (Eugene O'Neill), Susan Froemke (Lalee's Kin); Muffie Meyer and Ronald Blumer (Benjamin Franklin); and Stanley N. Katz, Sam Pollard and me (Eyes on the Prize), as part of Anschutz Fellowship in American Studies, Princeton University
1994, December: Leader, four-day workshop in documentary storytelling with emerging filmmakers, convened at the University of Bergen, Norway
2012 April: Screening and discussion at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, with Douglas Blackmon, Samuel Pollard, hosted by Professors June Cross and Bill Grueskin.
2012 March: New York Sings! with musicologist Rena Kosersky and folklorist/musician George Ward, at Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany, NY.
2012 March: Screening of Slavery by Another Name followed by Q&A with Douglas A. Blackmon and me, Princeton University ,Princeton, NJ
2012, February: Screening of Slavery by Another Name followed by Q&A with Douglas A. Blackmon and me, University at Albany, SUNY.
2011, November: "Documentary Storytelling," at Plus Camerimage, Bydgoszcz, Poland. Also jurist, Short Documentary Competition (with Haskell Wexler, jury chair, and Joan Churchhill, David Kwok, and Piotr Stasik).
2011, October: Presenter/organizer, screening of Raising Renee and visit with filmmakers Jeanne Jordan and Stephen Ascher, University at Albany
2011, March: “Broadening the Discussion: Bringing Stories of Liberation to Communities through Public Media and Public Engagement,” for the Women’s History Month lecture series, A Question of Liberation, sponsored by the UAlbany Women’s Studies Department,
2011, January. Presenter/organizer, visit of filmmaker Eric Stange to the University at Albany
2010, October. Presenter/organizer/fundraiser, “Louisa May Alcott: In Print and On Screen,” visit to the University at Albany by filmmakers/authors Nancy Porter and Harriet Reisen. Funded by the New York Council for the Humanities and others.
2009, October: “Close Viewing: Strengthening Documentary Film Literacy,” for the Jean Everitt Journalism Lecture Series at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Va.
2008, November: Presenter/co-organizer, “Screening New York History,” visit to the University at Albany by filmmakers Muffie Meyer and Ronald Blumer (Middlemarch Films) for the Researching New York Conference. Funded by the New York Council for the Humanities and others.
2008, October: Presenter/organizer, “Politics on Screen,” visit to the University at Albany by filmmaker Paul Stekler (The Choice 2008, Frontline)
2008, April: "Documentary Storytelling,” Smith College Model United Nations, Northampton, Ma.
2007, October: “The ethics of archival storytelling,” panel convened and co-moderated with Kenn Rabin at the University of California, Berkeley, Ca., featuring Claire Aguilar, Jon Else, Stanley Nelson, Bill Nichols, and Rick Prelinger (to read an excerpt, click here)
2007, October: “Legal aspects of archival storytelling,” panel convened and co-moderated with Kenn Rabin at Stanford University School of Law, Palo Alto, Ca., featuring Anthony Falzone, Sam Green, Debra Kozee, Jan krawitz, Dale Nelson, Rick Prelinger, and Kristine Samuelson
2006, September: Guest presenter, “When the Levees Broke,” with filmmaker Sam Pollard. American Studies program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2006, August: Leader, two-day workshop in documentary storytelling with the media production staff, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, Pa.
2006, April: Presenter, Two Societies (Eyes on the Prize) at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.
2005, December: “Documentary Storytelling,” presentation at the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism (Harvard University), Boston, Ma., also panel, “Telling the Hard Stories,” with Orville Schell and Doug McGill
2005, November: “Archival issues,” presentation to faculty and students at Rockefeller College, Princeton University
2005, September through November: Curator and moderator, “American Visions in Documentary” public series with visiting filmmakers Ric Burns (Eugene O'Neill), Susan Froemke (Lalee's Kin); Muffie Meyer and Ronald Blumer (Benjamin Franklin); and Stanley N. Katz, Sam Pollard and me (Eyes on the Prize), as part of Anschutz Fellowship in American Studies, Princeton University
1994, December: Leader, four-day workshop in documentary storytelling with emerging filmmakers, convened at the University of Bergen, Norway
