Selected Conference Presentations
July 2016:
Paper at the Conference “A Hundred Years of Film Theory: Münsterberg and Beyond” at the University of Leipzig on “Cinema – Memory – Witnessing: Implications of Hugo Münsterberg's Writings for Media Memory”
Paper at the Conference “Documentary Cinema: Between Art and Politics” in Jerusalem on “Crisis and Encounters: the In/Visible and the Political in Documentary Films”
June 2016:
Paper at the Conference “Strangers to Ourselves” at the Tel Aviv University on “Blurred Enemy Lines: False Identities, Imitation and Reconstruction in Phoenix (2014) and Black Book (2006)”
Paper at the Association of Israel Studies Conference in Jerusalem on “The Gaze and the Place: Cinematic Encounters with the Land of Israel and the Ambiguity of In-Between”
May 2016:
Paper at the Conference “Writing Visual History” at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on “From Trophy to Evidence – Jerusalem 1961, a Trial as Film”
Papers at the Conference “Ethics, Culture and History: New Media, Communication Technology, Visual Culture and Cinema” at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on “Through the Lens / Facing the Screen: Appropriating an Amateur Film from 1941” and “Resonating Trauma - Entebbe 1976: Memory Frames and Memory Conflicts”
March 2016:
Paper at the Conference “New Research on East Germany” at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on “Visual Historiography from the Margins: How Films Participate in Writing GDR History”
January 2016:
Paper at the Symposium “Thomas Harlan: Leben und Werk” at the Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften Potsdam on “Aufenthalt in etwas Unmöglichem: Splitter und Spuren einer Reise nach Israel (1953)”
December 2015:
Paper at the International Walter Benjamin Conference in Tel Aviv/Jerusalem on “Inhabiting the Inter-Space: Walter Benjamin’s Porous Places as Room-for-Play”
Paper at the international conference “The Relevance of Regions and Area Studies in a Globalized World” at the Hebrew University Jerusalem on “European Docudrama between Global and National Television Cultures”
November 2015:
Paper at the conference “Le Regard du Siècle. Claude Lanzmann zum 90. Geburtstag” at the Freie Universität Berlin on “Tsahal (1994): Zwischen Shoah und Sobibor”.
October 2015:
Paper at the German Studies Association Conference in Washington, DC on “Archival Time and the Time of Memory: Claude Lanzmann’s The Last of the Unjust and the Archive”.
June 2015:
Paper at the NECS 2015 Conference “Archives of/for the Future” at the University of Lodz on “Trophy, Evidence, Document: A Journey from Atrocity to Archive”.
May 2015:
Paper at the Workshop “Land, Lens, Violence” at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Vienna on “War, Terror and Violence in Contemporary Israeli Cinema”.
April 2015:
Paper at the Workshop “Archiving Presence: From Analog to Digital” at the Hebrew University Jerusalem on “Echoes from the Archive: Accessing the Archive through Film”.
March 2015:
Paper at the Workshop “Popular Culture and International Conflicts” at the Hebrew University on “Popular Television, Transnational Media, and Conflicting European Memories: The Case of teamWorx' TV Docudrama”.
Paper at the International Conference “50 Year of German-Israeli Relations” at the Hebrew University on “Crossing Borders: Four Cinematic Journeys between Germany and Israel”.
June 2014:
Paper at the Conference "Cinematic Traces of Things to Come" at the Tel Aviv University on "Collecting Material for the Future: Thomas Heise’s Dialogue between the Present and the Future".
March 2014:
Paper at the Conference "Crossing the Disciplinary Divide: Conjunctions in German and Holocaust Studies" at the Washington University in St. Louis on "The Berlin-Street as Cinematic Memorial Place".
Nov. 2013:
Paper at the Conference "The Triumph of Nazi Cinema: 1933-2013" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on "Goebbels' Fear and Legacy: Babelsberg and the Nazi Heritage".
June 2013:
Paper at the Conference "Beyond Evidence - The Documentary in Art" at the ICI Berlin on " Meta-Cinematic Practices of Re-Presentation and Transformation of Historic Material".
November 2012:
Paper at the international conference "Digital Testimony Collections about Nazi Persecution" organized by EVZ and FU Berlin on "Whose emotion? Feelings of Uncertainty and Disturbance in encountering Holocaust Survivors’ testimonies"