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Kim Nelson has given invited presentations, talks, and conference papers across Canada, the US, and Europe.
Cinema as place: Site specific film as antidote to screen-based isolation,” Film and Media Studies Assocation of Canada, Congress, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Montreal, QC. Panel Presentation. 2024.
“Farce All the Way Down: The Implications of Satire as a Register for Moving Histories,” Society for Cinema and Media Scholars (SCMS), Boston, USA. Panel Presentation. 2024
“Live Documentary as Negotiating Ground for Audience Engagement and Documentary Truth,” Visible Evidence, Udine, Italy. Panel Presentation. 2023.
“Adaptation and Maladaptation in The Power of the Dog,” SCMS Denver, USA. Panel Presentation. 2023.
“Live Documentary as Social Cinema,” Queen’s University. Invited Talk. 2022.
“Live Documentary: Social Cinema and the Cinepoetics of Doubt,” Moving Histories, Windsor, Canada (online). Panel Presentation. 2022.
“Mediators Included: Live Documentary as a Metamodern Response to Historiophoty,” International Network for Theory of History, Puebla, Mexico (online). Panel Presentation. 2022.
“Pitas and Passports,” Food Matters and Materialities: Critical Understandings of Food Cultures, Ottawa, Canada (online). Artist Talk. 2021.
“Live Documentary as an Ephemeral and Interdisciplinary Historiophoty.” UAAC-Conference of Universities Art Association of Canada, Quebec City, Canada. 2019.
“You Had to Be There: Live Documentary as Social Cinema.” Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. 2019. Invited Talk.
“Gathering as bulwark to truth: re-engaging history through live cinema.” Screen Conference. Glasgow, Scotland. Panel Presentation. 2019.
“You Had to Be There: Engaging History as Research/Creation via Live Documentary.” Propeller Symposium, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario. Talk. 2019.
Plenary Panel with Alison Landsberg, Mia Treacey, and Robert Burgoyne. Film & History Conference, Madison, Wisconsin. 2018.
“From Voice-of-God to Ringmaster: Live Participatory Documentary and the Imperative to Create Reflexive, Collaborative, Multiperspectival Histories” Society for Artistic Research Conference, Plymouth, UK. Panel Presentation. 2018
“Proposal for a New-Old Method: A New Historiophoty of Polyvocality,” Film & History Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Panel Presentation. 2017.
“Constructing a Historiophoty for the Digital Sublunar.” Pluralities Conference, San Francisco, California. Talk. 2017.
“Embodied Audiences and Historical Truth in the Internet Age.” NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, Paris, France. Panel Presentation. 2017
“Manifesto for New Historiophoties: Off-roading Audiovisual Histories, Foregrounding Polyvocalities and Human-to-Human Interactivity via Live Participatory Documentary.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, Illinois. Panel Presentation. 2017.