R-Rated Radical. Die Filme von Stephanie Rothman, Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum Frankfurt, August 16-30, 2024; co-curation together with Gaby Babić (Kinothek Asta Nielsen) and Andreas Beilharz (DFF); retrospective of Stephanie Rothman contextualized with exploitation films from New World Pictures, Dimension Pictures and others (including Ebony, Ivory & Jade (Philippinen/USA 1976; Cirio H. Santiago), Hollywood 90028 (USA 1973; Christina Hornisher); Summer School Teachers (USA 1975; Barbara Peters) ).
Neither Chicken nor Egg: In the Beginning There Was an Omelette, screening , introduction and discussion of The French Omelette (episode 4 of season 1 of The French Chef , 1963, WGBH) and Omelette (episode 1 of season 1 of Julia, 2022, HBO Max), European Languages & Transcultural Studies department, UC Los Angeles, October 6, 2023.
For Goethe-University Frankfurt, Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) "Configurations of Film" (selection):
Why Don't You Look Somewhere Else? Klausurtagung, Kloster Eberbach, Eltville, together with Nicole Braida, Karin Fleck und Kalani Michell, June 2019.
For University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (selection):
Space, Body, Sound, film series on the occasion of re-opening of Northrop (performing arts theatre), University of Minnesota; films programmed by faculty and framed by related student presentations; April 2014
TV NOW, graduate conference, Moving Image Studies, together with Laurie Ouellette; keynote address by Elana Levine (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee); December 14, 2013.
The Time After: Exploring the Work of Jacques Rancière and Béla Tarr, event series: lecture and two workshops by Jacques Rancière, screening of The Turin Horse (HU 2013; Béla Tarr); collaboaration with Univocal Publishing, Midway Contemporary Art Gallery, and Walker Art Center (all Minneapolis); July-October 2013.
What’s Going on in the Cinema Booth?, panel discussion on the change to digital cinema projection with Joe Beres, film specialist and projectionist at the Walker Art Center, and Barry Kryshka, founder of the Trylon microcinema (Minneapolis); November 12, 2012.
Cinema of Urgency, documentary film series in collaboration with Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis St. Paul Film Society, workshop with Thomas Heise (Berlin) and related semester course at the University of Minnesota, related student internship at the Walker Art Center, students’ blogs on Walker Art Center’s website; fall 2012.
Film program included: Material (DE 2009; Thomas Heise), Die Lage (DE 2012; Heise), The Law in these Parts (IL 2011; Ra'anan Alexandrowicz); Serious Games I-IV (DE 2009-2010; Harun Farocki); Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street (US 2011; Jem Cohen).
And Yet She Moves: Reviewing Feminist Cinema, film series in collaboration with Walker Art Center, fall 2011; related semester course, workshop with Bette Gordon (Columbia University) at the University of Minnesota, related student internship at the Walker Art Center, students’ blogs on Walker Art Center’s website.
Film program included: Jeanne Dielmann, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (BE 1975; Chantal Akerman); Variety (US 1983; Bette Gordon); Surname Viet, Given Name Nam (US 1989; Trinh T. Minh-ha); Riddles of the Sphinx (UK 1977; Laura Mulvey/ Peter Wollen); One Way or Another (CUB 1977; Sara Gomez).
Moving Image Studies Graduate Colloquium, 2011-2013; with international guest speakers Natalia Almada (Mexico City), Gotot Prakosa (Jakarta Art Institute), Thomas Heise (Berlin), Genevieve Yu (Eugene Lang College, The New School), Haidee Wasson (Concordia University), and Tina Mai Chen (Manitoba University).
For Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (selection):
Film program Spotlight on Naomi Kawase, Women with Vision 2008; in cooperation with Institute for Advanced Study Film Collaborative and the Consortium for the Study of the Asias at the University of Minnesota.
Shara/Sharasoyju (JP 2003); Birth/Mother/Tarachime (JP 2006); The Mourning Forest/Mogari No Mori (JP 2007); Kya Ka Ra Ba A/ Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth (JP 2001); with guest Naomi Kawase.
Film program New Europe, Women with Vision 2007 (in cooperation with the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota)
Grbavica (CR/AT 2006; Jasmila Zbanic); As the Shadow/Come l’ombra (IT 2006; Marina Spada); Avenue Montaigne/Fauteuils d’orchestre (F 2006; Danièle Thompson); Red Road (UK 2006; Andrea Arnold); Longing/Sehnsucht (DE 2006; Valeska Grisebach); Falling/Fallen (AT 2006; Barbara Albert).
Film program Blacklisted, Women with Vision 2006
Our Daily Bread (US 1934; King Vidor); These Three (US 1936; William Wyler); Mary Ryan, Detective (US 1949; Abby Berlin); Escape (US 1940; Mervyn LeRoy); The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (US 1943; James Hogan); The Locket (US 1946; John Brahm); with guest Norma Barzman (uncredited screenwriter of The Locket).
Film program Working Girls, Women With Vision 2005
Shoes (US 1917; Lois Weber, version with Dutch subtitles), Working Girls (US 1931; Dorothy Arzner), Dance, Girl, Dance (US 1940; Dorothy Arzner), The Student Nurses (US 1970; Stephanie Rothman), The Working Girls (US 1974; Stephanie Rothman), Working Girls (US 1986; Lizzie Borden); with guest Stephanie Rothman.
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich/ Filmmuseum Munich: conference Working Girls. Zur Ökonomie von Liebe und Arbeit in der Moderne (Working Girls in film and literature), together with Sabine Biebl and Heide Volkening (both LM-University Munich), Februar 2005.
Participants included, Stefan Hirschauer (University of Mainz), Anette Keck (LM-University Munich), Helmuth Lethen (IHK Vienna), Maren Möhring (University of Cologne), Inka Mülder-Bach (LM-University Munich).
Film program at the Filmmuseum Munich: Working Girls (US 1931; Dorothy Arzner); Die Privatsekretärin (DE 1953; Martin Paul; not listed in program) / Die Privatsekretärin (DE 1931; William Thiele; fragment); Club de femmes (F 1936; Jacques Deval)
Rheinisches Industriemuseum, Ratingen, Germany: project team for the exhibition Die Frau in Weiss. Das bürgerliche Brautkleid von 1800 bis heute (History of wedding dresses, 1800 – today), August 1998-April 1999.
Producer/director, "'Traust du dich wirklich?'"; video collage for the exhibition Die Frau in Weiss. Das bürgerliche Brautkleid von 1800 bis heute.
For Feminale, Cologne (selection):
He, She, It Sucks. Vampires in Film, fall semester 2003/2004
Film program and lectures; together with Jennifer Jones and in cooperation with Marie-Luise Angerer and Kathrin Peters, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne.
Participants included Heike Behrend (University of Cologne), Annette Keck (LM-University Munich), Drehli Robnik (Journalist, Vienna), Tony Thorn (King’s College, London).
Film program: The Velvet Vampire (US 1971; Stephanie Rothman), Nadja (US 1994; Michael Almereyda), Trouble Every Day (F 2001; Claire Denis), Near Dark (US 1987; Kathryn Bigelow), Dans ma Peau (F 2002; Marina de Van), Gruft der Vampire/The Vampire Lovers (UK 1970; Roy Ward Baker; German dubbed version).
11th Feminale, October 2-6, 2002
Special program Working Single Girls. Working and Single before Ally McBeal: Working Girls (US 1931; Dorothy Arzner), The Working Girls (US 1974; Stephanie Rothman); Working Girls (US 1986; Lizzie Borden).
Kontur Blond, November 22-28, 2001
Film program included Double Indemnity (US 1944; Billy Wilder); Goin’ To Town (US 1933; Alexander Hall), Blonde Venus (US 1933; Josef von Sternberg), Niagara (US 1952; Henry Hathaway), Razzia auf Call Girls / Vice Raid (US 1959; Edward L. Cahn; German dubbed version), The Girl Can’t Help It (US 1956; Frank Tashlin; German subtitled print).
10th Feminale, October 10-17, 2000
Special program Phantasma Monoculture; together with Anja Dreschke.
Participants included Helen Lee (filmmaker, Toronto), Ella Shohat (CUNY, New York).
Film program included: Sally’s Beauty Spot (CA 1990; Helen Lee); Subrosa (CA 2000; Helen Lee); Strangers (PL 1999; Magdalena Piekorz), Performing the Border (CH 1999; Ursula Biemann), Paradise Bent (AUS 1999; Heather Croall), Overstay (US/JP 1998; Ann Kaneko).
Rewind & Fast Forward – Anniversary Lectures.
Pam Cook (University of Southampton), Alice A. Kucinar (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and Lynn Turner (University of Leeds).
Girls, Gangs, Guns, November 25-29, 1999
International conference and film program on women in exploitation films; together with Carla Despineux.
Participants included Pam Cook (University of Southampton), B. Ruby Rich (University of California, Berkeley), Stephanie Rothman (filmmaker, Los Angeles), Annette Weber (journalist, London/Berlin), Bev Zalcock (filmmaker/author, London).
Film program included The Student Nurses (US 1970; Stephanie Rothman), Group Marriage (US 1972; Stephanie Rothman), Terminal Island (US 1973; Stephanie Rothman), Caged Heat (US 1974; Jonathan Demme), She-Devils on Wheels (US 1968; Hershell Gordon Lewis), Modesty Blaise (UK 1966; Joseph Losey), Foxy Brown (US 1974; Jack Hill), The Female Bunch (US 1969; Al Adamson), The Adventures of White Trash Girl (US 1995; Jennifer Reeder), She Had Her Gun All Ready (US 1978; Vivienne Dick), SOS Extraterristria (AT 1993; Mara Mattuschka) et al.
Bildgehege, September 19-21, 1997
Film series and panel discussion on documentary filmmaking, in cooperation with the Haus des Dokumentarfilms, Stuttgart; together with Annett Busch. Participants included Annie Griffin (filmmaker, London), Elfi Mikesch (filmmaker, Berlin), Ulrike Ottinger (filmmaker, Berlin), Dana Ranga (filmmaker, Berlin).
Film program included Exil Shanghai (DE 1997; Ulrike Ottinger), East Side Stories (DE 1997; Dana Ranga), Verrückt bleiben, Verliebt bleiben (DE 1997; Elfi Mikesch).
For Lichtwerk, Bielefeld, Germany: film series on Jean-Luc Godard Was braucht man für eine Geschichte?, November-December 1993.
For AJZ-Kino-Gruppe, Bielefeld, Germany: film series Nonnen im Spielfilm / Nuns in Film (together with Micki Schwarzbach), Mai 1990.