Selected Recent Presentations
“Lois Weber’s ‘Feminine Hand’ at Rex”
Women and the Silent Screen, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008
"The People vs. John Doe: Early Motion Pictures and the Crusade Against Capital Punishment"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, 2008
"Exit Flapper, Enter Woman: Lois Weber on American and European Screen Types"
Border Crossings: Rethinking Silent Cinema, Berkeley, 2008
“Universal Suffrage”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, 2007
“Women’s Filmmaking: Looking Forward, Looking Back”
Keynote Address, Monterey County Women’s Multicultural Conference, 2007
“Lois Weber, Portrait of a Screenwriter”
Women & the Silent Screen, University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 2006
Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, A Couple at Work in Early Hollywood”
University of Toronto, 2006
“Is Lois Weber Modern?”
Early Cinema and Modernity Symposium, University of Michigan, 2005
“Lois Weber, Progressive Cinema and the Fate of ‘The Work-A-Day Girl’ in Shoes”
Berkeley Film Seminar Inaugural Lecture, 2004
Lois Weber, Star Maker”
Feminism
and Film History Symposium, University of Iowa, 2003
“’It's a Long Way to Filmland’: Starlets, Screen Hopefuls and Extras
in Early Hollywood”
American Cinema and Everyday Life Conference, London, 2003
“Women Film Pioneers”
Hildegard Festival of Women’s Art, California State University Stanislaus,
2003
“’A Perpetual Leading Lady’: Fashioning Hollywood’s First Celebrity Director”
American Studies Association, Houston, 2002
“Shoes and The Unshod Maiden, or Giving Progressive Cinema a Good Talking
To”
Orphans Film Conference, University of South Carolina, 2002
“Presenting the Smalleys: ‘Collaborators in Authorship and Direction’”
Women & the Silent Screen Conference, University of California-Santa
Cruz, 2001
“Feminism on the Silent Screen: Early Birth Control Films”
Women’s Studies Colloquium Series, University of Colorado at Boulder,
2001
“Taking Precautions, or Contraceptive Technology and Cinema’s Regulatory
Apparatus”
Moving Images: Technologies, Transitions, Historiographies, Stockholm,
Sweden, 2000
“Lois Weber and the Celebrity of Matronly Respectability”
Society for Cinema Studies, Chicago, 2000
“Visualizing Vice and Other Problems of the White Slave Films”
Visible Evidence Conference, Los Angeles, 1999
“Added Attractions: Female Moviegoers at the End of the Nickelodeon Era”
Opening Plenary Session, Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, Scotland,
1999
“Lois Weber in Early Hollywood”
Re-Focussing: Women Filmmakers Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 1999