Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations (selected)

2025 

  • October 30-31, 2025, Invited Keynote, “How Researching Southeast Asian Film Aesthetics Contributes to Decolonizing Transnational Cinema Studies.” The International Indonesian Film Studies Conference (KOFI KAFEIN), Universitas Jenderal Soedirman, Purwokerto, Central Java, Indonesia. 
     
  • June 4-7, 2025, Conference Presentation, “Leveraging the Art of Not Being Formalized: How Uganda’s Wakaliwood Decolonizes Film Production Methods.” Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. 
     
  • May 25-28, 2025, Conference Presentation, “The Colour of the Global South in Post-1997 Thai Comedy Films.” EYE International Conference 2025: The Colour Fantastic Revisited: Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics, and Archives, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 
     
  • May 2-3, 2025, Research Paper Presentation, “The Primacy of Råså: Intensified Visual Darkness and Media Atmospheres in Contemporary Indonesian Cinematography.” Media Atmospheres International Symposium, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.
     
  • March 20, 2025, Invited Lecture and Seminar, “Leveraging the Art of Underexposure: Intensified Visual Darkness in Contemporary Indonesian Film Lighting.” Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.