Noa Steimatsky Curriculum Vitæ [abridged] EMPLOYMENT Visiting Associate Professor Spring 2015 and Spring 2016 University of California, Berkeley Department of Italian Studies and Department of Film and Media Associate Professor 2008-2015 University of Chicago Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the College Associated Faculty in Romance Languages and Literatures Resource Faculty for Fundamentals: Issues and Texts Major Visiting Associate Professor Fall 2014 Stanford University Department of Art and Art History Associate Professor 2005-8 Yale University Department of the History of Art Courtesy Appointment in Film Studies Program Assistant Professor 1998-2005 Yale University Department of the History of Art Courtesy Appointment in Film Studies Program Visiting Assistant Professor 1997-8 Yale University Department of the History of Art Adjunct Professor 1991-7 New York University Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts Adjunct Professor 1994-7 School of Visual Arts, New York Department of Film and Video/Art History Guest Lecturer 1994 Vassar College Department of Drama and Film Teaching Fellow 1986-9 New York University Expository Writing Program, Department of English EDUCATION Ph.D. with distinction, Cinema Studies, New York University 1995 M.A. English Literature (Poetics Concentration), New York University 1986 B.A. cum laude, English Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1984 Steimatsky CV p.2 of 12 PUBLICATIONS Books: The Face on Film Oxford University Press, 2017. Reviewed in: Film Comment (February 2017) Seminary Co-op Bookstores (Chicago) Notable Books list (2017) Italian Locations: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Reviewed in: Leonardo (June 2008); Screen (vol. 50, no. 4, 2009) Cinecittà campo profughi Manuscript in progress; under contract with Donzelli Press, Rome Articles and Chapters: “Cinema’s Poetics of History.” Modern Italy 22.2 (2017): special issue: Cinema and the Nation. “9km South of Rome.” Essay commissioned for Festschrift (details confidential; in progress). * Expanded version commissioned for Studio Architecture anthology, ed. Brian Jacobson. University of California Press (in progress). “’A way of happening’: Cecilia Mangini’s Poetics.” Essay commissioned for anthology on contemporary women’s cinema, ed. Ivone Margulies and Jeremi Szaniawski (submitted). “Pass/Fail: the Antonioni Screen Test.” Framework Journal of Cinema and Media 55.2, Fall 2014. * Italian version: "Promossa/bocciata: Il provino." Michelangelo Antonioni: Prospettive, culture, politiche, spazi, eds. Alberto Boschi and Francesco Di Chiara. Milano: Il Castoro, 2015. * Portuguese version: “Aprovado/Reprovado: Os testes de tela de Antonioni.” Aventura Antonioni, ed. Adriano Aprà. Rio de Janeiro: Voa!, 2017. “Of the Face: In Reticence.” Film, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls? ed. Angela Dalle Vacche. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. “Incoherent Spasms and the Dignity of Signs.” Opening Bazin, ed. Dudley Andrew. NY: Oxford University Press, 2011. * French version: “Spasmes incohérents et dignité des signes: le Bresson de Bazin,” Ouvrir Bazin, eds. Hervé Joubert-Laurencin and Dudley Andrew. Montreuil (France): Éditions de l’œil, 2014. “Elemental Housing in the Postwar Imaginary.” Arts and Artifacts in Movie Techonology, Aesthetics, Communication 6 (2009). * Expanded version in Giuseppe Pagano: The Architecture, Photography, Exhibition Designs, Editorship and Resistance of a Fascist Polymath, ed. Flavia Marcello. Bristol, UK: Intellect, forthcoming 2017. “The Cinecittà Refugee Camp, 1944-1950.” October 128, Spring 2009. Reviewed in i-italy.org. * Italian version: “Cinecittà campo profughi, 1944-1950.” Part 1 in Bianco e nero 560 (Nov. 2008); part 2 in Bianco e nero 561/562 (May 2009). * Reprinted in The Place of the Moving Image, eds. John David Rhodes and Elena Gorfinkel. University of Minnesota Press, 2011. * Hebrew version in catalogue for multi-media exhibition on the Jewish- Italian immigration in the Museum Eretz Israel, Tel Aviv, 2016. Steimatsky CV p.3 of 12 “Cinecittà irreale: appunti attorno a un campo profughi” [historiographical consideration of the Cinecittà project]. Neorealismo e presente dell’immagine, ed. Luca Venzi. Rome: Ente dello Spettacolo, 2008. “Ages of the Face: Barthes, Godard, Warhol.” The Ages of Cinema: Criteria and Models for the Construction of Historical Periods, eds. Enrico Biasin et. al. Udine, It.: Forum, 2008. “What the Clerk Saw: Face to Face with The Wrong Man.” Framework Journal of Cinema and Media 48.2, Fall 2007. * Italian version “Quel che vide l’impiegata: faccia a faccia con The Wrong Man.” Dentro l’analisi: soggetto, senso, emozioni. Turin, It.: Kaplan 2008. “Un film dimenticato, una storia rimossa: Umanità” [A Forgotten Film, A Repressed History: Umanità]. Annali 8/Schermi di Pace (2006). “Visuality and Viscera.” The Five Senses of Cinema, eds. Alice Autelitano et. al. Udine, It.: Forum, 2005. “Photographic Verismo, Cinematic Adaptation, and the Staging of a Neorealist Landscape.” Film and Literature: A Reader, ed. Robert Stam. London: Blackwell Publishers, 2004. “Padre Padrone / Father and Master.” The Cinema of Italy, ed. Giorgio Bertellini. London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2004. “From the Air: A Genealogy of Antonioni’s Modernism.” Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson, eds. Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey. Amsterdam University Press, 2003. * Italian version “Dall’aere: una genealogia del modernismo di Antonioni.” Il Nuovo Spettatore 7 (2003). * Abridged version “Regionalism to Modernism: Antonioni, 1939.” Deterritorialisations: Revisioning Landscapes and Politics, eds. Mark Dorrian and Gillian Rose. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2003. “Pasolini on Terra Sancta: Towards a Theology of Film.” Yale Journal of Criticism, vol. 11, no. 1 (1998). * Reprinted in “Pasolini on Terra Sancta: Towards a Theology of Film.” Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema, ed. Ivone Margulies. Duke University Press, 2003. “The Name of the Corpse: A Reading of The Pardoner's Tale.” Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts. Vol. 15, Fall 1987. Short Pieces: “Caro Francesco....” Letter-essay commissioned for a Festschrift, La galassia Casetti. Lettere di amicizia, stima, provocazione (The Casetti galaxy. Letters of friendship, esteem, provocation), eds. Ruggero Eugeni and Mariagrazia Fanchi. Milan: Vita & Pensiero, 2017. “The Cinecittà Research Project.” Index [annual publication of the American Academy in Rome], 2005. “Preface” to Jean-Marc Gauthier, Virtual Sets. NY: Focal Press-Elsevier, 2005. “In Memoriam David Perlov.” Commemorative essay (in Hebrew) for Ha’aretz Literary Supplement [Israel], December 31, 2004. * Longer English and Portuguese versions in David Perlov Retrospective Catalog, eds. Patrícia Mourão and Ilana Feldman, Brazilian Cinematheque of São Paulo, 2011. “Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real.” Eds. David Forgacs et. al. London: BFI, 2000. Book Review for Film Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 3 (2003). Steimatsky CV p.4 of 12 HONORS AND AWARDS American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (at the senior level, toward book project The Cinecittà Refugee Camp: History and Memory of a Movie Studio, 1944-1950) 2018-9 Humanities Division Subvention Fund (for The Face on Film) 2012 Poorvu Family Interdisciplinary Teaching Award, Yale University 2006-7 Whitney Humanities Center Fellow, Yale University 2006-7 Frederick W. Hilles Publication Fund (for Italian Locations) 2006 Whitney Griswold Faculty Award (for “The Cinecittà Refugee Camp 1944-1950”) Yale University, 2005-6 National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize (for “Transitional Spaces in Postwar Cinemas”), with residence at the American Academy in Rome 2004-5 European Studies Council Faculty Research Grant (for “Ruin and Reconstruction in Italian Cinema”), Yale University 2004-5 Whitney Griswold Faculty Award (for “Revisioning Cinematic Landscapes in the 1940s”), Yale University 2004-5 Whitney Griswold Faculty Award (for “Rossellini’s Ruins”), Yale University 2002-3 Getty Research Grant (for “On the Face of Film”) 2000-1 Whitney Griswold Faculty Award (for “Pasolini’s Physiognomic Gallery”), Yale University 2000-1 Whitney Griswold Faculty Award (for “A Genealogy of Antonioni’s Modernism”), Yale University 1999-2000 Scholar-in-Residence, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University1996 Doug Tomlinson Award for Exemplary Work and Achievement Department of Cinema Studies, New York University 1995 Jay Leyda Memorial Fellowship Department of Cinema Studies, New York University 1994 George Amberg Memorial Award Department of Cinema Studies, New York University 1992-3 Graduate Forum Fellowship, New York University 1988-91 New York University Full Tuition Award, Department of Cinema Studies 1988 New York University Full Tuition Award, Department of English 1985-6 Fulbright Award (for graduate study in the United States) 1985-6 Institute of Languages, Literature, and Arts Fellowship Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1984-5 INVITED LECTURES “Cecilia Mangini’s Poetics.” * Guest lecture at the Italian Studies Program/Casa Italiana, New York University, November 2017. * Guest lecture/seminar at the Italian Studies Program, UC-Berkeley, January 2018. “The Historical Imagination and the Corporeal Image in Cinematic Time.” Invited lecture at the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, March 2017. “The Face on Film.” Invited lecture and book presentation at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), Paris, February 2017. Steimatsky CV p.5 of 12 “Roland Barthes Looks at the Stars.” Invited lecture for the distinguished speaker series at the Department of Film and Media, University of California – Berkeley, April 2016. “Historical Gestures in the Cinematic Present.” * Keynote lecture for “Cinema and History” international conference at the University of Rome/Roma III-DAMS, November 2015. * Invited lecture, Program in Critical Theory, University of California – Berkeley, April 2017. “Pass/Fail: Screen Test, Apparatus, Subject.” Lecture and colloquium at the Eikones Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland, October 2014 “Death At Work: Barthes and Warhol Look at the Human Face.” Lecture and colloquium at the Department of Art and Art History. Stanford University, November 2012. “Antonioni Screen Test.” * Invited lecture for the Visual Culture Colloquia Series. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, February 2013. * Invited lecture for centennial event on Michelangelo Antonioni. University of Ferrara, Italy, December 2012 “Nine Kilometers South of Rome.” Special panel accompanying the exhibition “Thresholds: Place and Margin in Italian Visual Culture.” Hunter College/CUNY, New York, April 2012. “History at the Editing Table.” Conference of the Sawyer Seminar, with the Mellon Foundation and the Franke Institute, “Year Zero: The World Unmade, 1945.” University of Chicago, October 2011. “From Face to Image.” Film Study Center, University of Chicago, May 2010. “Lowly Objects, Elemental Housing, Neorealism.” * Conference on post-war Italy, NYU/Casa Italiana, April 2010. * Keynote, Graduate Student Conference, “The quotidiano in Italian Studies,” University of Chicago, April 2010 “On the Face of Film.” Franke Humanities Institute, University of Chicago, November 2009. “Of the Face, In Reticence.” Symposium on Film and Art History, Clark Institute, Mass., March 2009. “Neorealism’s Transitional Spaces: From Cinema to History.” Keynote for XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, University of Otago in Dunedin, NZ, November 2008 (reviewed in sensesofcinema.com). “Cinecittà Refugee Camp.” Département de littérature comparée & Histoire de l’art et cinéma, Université de Montréal, May 2008. “Unreal City: Cinecittà.” Committee on Cinema and Media, University of Chicago, February 2008. “Face/Medium.” Conference on the Human Figure in Art, Photography, and Film, Yale University, November 2007. “Cinecittà irreale: appunti attorno a un campo profughi” [Unreal City: Notes Surrounding the Cinecittà Refugee Camp]. International conference: “Neorealismo e presente dell’immagine,” Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome, October 2007. Steimatsky CV p.6 of 12 “Rossellini: Traumatic Image to Reconstruction.” Conference on Roberto Rossellini, Yale University, April 2007. “Neorealism’s Backlot: the Double Life of Cinecittà.” Conference on Neorealism, University of Pennsylvania, December 2006. “Sets into Life.” International Conference “Moving Pictures: Morphing the Real.” Tel Aviv University, Israel, June 2006. “Ruinous Terrains in Post-War Cinema.” Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, January 2006. “What the Clerk Saw (in Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man).” Conference “The Work on Film III: Subject, Sense, Emotions,” University of Turin, Italy, December 2005. “Cinecittà Refugee Camp 1944-1950.” Department of Italian Studies and Film Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley, November 2005. “A Genealogy of Antonioni’s Modernism.” Conference in honor of Annette Michelson, New York University, February 2003. “An Archaic Cinema: Pasolini on Terra Sancta.” Department of the History of Art, Yale University, April 1998. “Adaptation, Documentation, Photography: Verga and Visconti.” Symposium on Luchino Visconti, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, February 1992. PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS “Cecilia Mangini’s Tapestry of Italian Women.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, March 2017 “Film’s Memory, Photography’s Smile: David Perlov.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Atlanta, March 2016 “Barthes's Masks: A Cinematic Anthropology of the Face, circa 1953.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Montreal, March 2015 “Pass/Fail: Screen Test, Apparatus, Subject.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, March 2013 “Elemental Housing in the Postwar Imaginary.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, LA, March 2010. “Allegory and Desublimation.” Conference on “Real Things: Matter, Materiality, Representation, 1880 to the Present,” University of York, UK, July 2007. “Ages of the Face.” Plenary panel at the XIV International Film Studies Conference, Udine, Italy, March 2007. “Ruin, Reconstruction, Habitation, and Other Elementals of Postwar Cinema.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, London, April 2005. “Visuality and Viscera.” The XI International Film Studies Conference, Udine, Italy, March 2004. “Avant-Garde Legacies and the Reconstruction of Postwar Cinematic Modernism.” Society of Italian Studies Biennial Conference, Cork, Ireland, July 2003. Steimatsky CV p.7 of 12 “Rossellini’s Ruins.” Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, Washington DC, May 2001. “Regionalism to Modernism: Antonioni, 1939.” Cross-disciplinary international conference Landscape and Politics, Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, March 2001. “Cinema’s Abattoirs.” Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, March 2000. “From the Air.” Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, West Palm Beach, FL, April 1999. “Location as Set: The Example of Visconti's La terra trema.” Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, New Orleans, February 1993. “Voyage in Italy: A Traveler's Guide.” Film/Literature Conference, Salisbury, MD, June 1990. PRESENTATIONS, PANELS, GUEST SEMINARS, and PUBLIC EVENTS “David Perlov’s Memories of the Eichmann Trial.” Initiated, introduced, and contributed to roundtable discussion. * Yale University, April 2017 * University of Chicago, October 2017 Pasolini Requiem. Conversation with Barth David Schwartz on the new edition. * Italian Studies Program, University of California-Berkeley, October 2017 * Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco, October 2017 The Face on Film. Presentation of my book at the Seminary Bookstore, University of Chicago, March 2017. “Cinema and the Construction of the Nation.” Roundtable in the international conference “Cinema and History,” University of Rome/Roma III, November 2015. “Thinking Neorealism and its Bodies, with Burri.” Panel presentation at the Italian Academy, Columbia University, on the occasion of the Alberto Burri retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, November 2015. “Refugees at Cinecittà.” Presentation and public discussion of the film based on my research: * Department of French and Italian, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, April 2015. * With director Marco Bertozzi. Film Studies Center/Logan Center, University of Chicago. February 2013. * “Meditopos” Mediterranean Topographies Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. February 2013. * With director Marco Bertozzi. NYU Casa Italiana, under the auspices of the Primo Levi Center, New York. February 2012. Published online at http://vimeo.com/36038322. “Remarks on Color.” Opening remarks for Graduate Student Conference on Histories and Theories of Cinematic Color. Dept. of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago. April 2014. Steimatsky CV p.8 of 12 “L’eclisse.” Introduction to Michelangelo Antonioni’s film at Yale conference “New Wave Europe: Circa 1962.” January 2014. “An Anthropology of the Face: Barthes in the Cinema, 1953.” Lecture to the Chicago Film Seminar, February 2012. “A Silence of the Archive: Film Unfinished.” Roundtable on Yael Hersonski’s film at the Film Study Center, University of Chicago, April 2011. Introduction to Visconti’s Ossessione. Closing evening of “Films from the Darkest Hour: Europe 1942-1943” event at Yale University, December 2010. “Israeli Cinema’s Self Image and the Documentaries of David Perlov.” Roundtable at the University of Chicago, October 2010. “Italian Locations.” Presentation of my book as part of the program of the Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival at the Cineteca di Bologna, Italy, June 2009. “Launched at the AAR: my project on the Cinecittà Refugee Camp.” Lecture at the American Academy in Rome, March 2009. “Face, Object, Image.” Guest lecture [in Italian] for PhD seminar at the Discipline dello spettacolo, Università di Roma III-DAMS, Rome, February 2009. Presentation [in Italian] of my contribution to new series of the journal Bianco e Nero on the occasion of the Rome Film Festival. Libreria Notebook, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, October 2008. “Italian Locations.” Presentation of my book at the Italian Cultural Institute, NY, with the participation of Ruth Ben Ghiat, Dave Kehr, P. Adams Sitney. April 2008. “Face to Face with The Wrong Man.” Mass Culture Workshop at the University of Chicago, February 2008. “Locations in Palestine.” Public lecture on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s documentary at the Italian Cultural Institute, NY, December 2007. “La notte.” Public lecture on Antonioni’s film at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, NY, March 2006. “Urbanism and Cinema.” Invited lecture for graduate students at the School of Architecture, Yale University, February 2006. “Film Locations.” Guest seminar at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, January 2006. “White Nights.” Introduction to Luchino Visconti’s film at Yale conference “What is Theater in What is Cinema?” December 2005. “The Cinecittà Refugee Camp.” Lecture in the Works In Progress Series, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, October 2005. “Displaced in Cinecittà.” Public lecture at the American Academy in Rome, April 2005. “Ricostruzione; neorealismo.” Invited 3-hour lecture [in Italian] at the Discipline dello spettacolo, Università di Roma III-DAMS, Rome, Italy, April 2005. Steimatsky CV p.9 of 12 “Germania anno zero.” Invited lecture [in Italian] at the Facoltà di lettere, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy, April 2005. “La dolce vita.” Public lecture on Fellini’s film at the Italian Cultural Institute, New York, April 2004. “La notte.” Public lecture on Antonioni’s film at the Italian Cultural Institute, New York, February 2004. “Rocco and his Brothers.” Public lecture on Visconti’s film at the Italian Cultural Institute, New York, January 2004. “The Gospel According to Matthew.” Public lecture on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film on the occasion of a Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives, New York, October 2000. “The Human Face in the Cinema.” Lecture to the Fellowship of Ezra Stiles College, Yale University, November 1999. “Neorealism.” Guest lecture in Romy Golan’s course “Art and Politics in 20th Century Italy,” Dept. of the History of Art, Yale University, Fall 1997. “Verismo, Photography, and Visconti's Neorealist Chorale.” Columbia Seminar for Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, March 1995. “Grigory Kozintsev’s Hamlet.” Vassar College, December 1994. “White Nights.” Public lecture on Luchino Visconti's film on the occasion of a Retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, February 1992. OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, SERVICE, AND INITIATIVES Visiting Scholar, University of California-Berkeley, 2016-18. Editorial board member of the Michelangelo Antonioni project of the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Ferrara, the Antonioni Museum, the Ferrara Arte Foundation, and the University of Ferrara, since 2016. “David Perlov: Media, Montage, Poetics.” Panel organizer and chair, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Atlanta, March 2016. “Anthropologies of the Moving Image.” Panel organizer and chair, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Montreal, March 2015 Initiation, organization, and presentation of Babette Mangolte for a guest event at the University of Chicago, February 2014. Initiation, organization, and presentation of Antonio Somaini for a guest event at the University of Chicago, February 2014. Evaluation of Tenure and Promotion for a major research university, 2013-14. Research Grant application evaluation for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Canada, 2013. Panel chair in conference in honor of Prof. Rebecca West, University of Chicago, December 2013. Steimatsky CV p.10 of 12 Panel organizer and chair for “Cinemas of the Person: Action, Reenactment, Subjectivity.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, March 2013 “Rome, Cinema, Memory.” Organized special screening at the Cineteca Nazionale and day-long seminar to graduate students and faculty of CineRoma: International Summer Seminar on Cinema and the City. Sponsored by the University of Notre Dame, the University of Rome La Sapienza, and Cambridge University. Rome, June 2012. Interviewed by BBC-4 Radio for special program on Cinecittà, aired October 19, 2012. Subject, treatment, and voice-over narration (both Italian and English versions) for documentary film Profughi a Cinecittà / Refugees in Cinecittà. Directed by Marco Bertozzi, produced by Istituto Luce and Vivo Film Production, Rome, 2012. Winner of a Nastro d’Argento, prize for archival-based films. Co-organizer of event on Yael Hersonski’s Film Unfinished (screening, workshop, and panel). Co-sponsored by Film Studies Center, Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Human Rights, University of Chicago, April 2011. Co-organizer of filmmaker Immy Humes event at the Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, November 2010. Reviewer of book manuscript for Routledge, 2010. Initiation, organization, and presentation of a lecture event with British scholar David Forgacs, co-sponsored by Romance Languages and Literature, Film Studies Center, and the Franke Institute, May 2010. Co-organizer of filmmaker Lynne Sachs event at the Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, March 2010. Committee member and panel contributor on “Nineteen Eighty Nine”: film festival/ conference at Yale University, February 2008. Reviewer for Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2007-2008. Reviewer for Cinema Journal, 2007. Reviewer for Mosaic Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 2007. Editorial board member on bi-lingual online academic journal History and Theory, published by Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel, since 2007. Committee Chair for “Sixty-Eight! Europe, Cinema, Revolution?”: film festival / conference at Yale University, February 2007. Organization and presentation of special guest speaker events at Yale University: Edward Dimendberg, Spring 2007; Avi Mograbi, Fall 2005; Tom Gunning, Spring 2004. Presentation of film event on Marco Bertozzi’s Appunti Romani, Italian Cultural Institute, NY, May 2006. Committee co-chair for “Europe at the Crossroads: Circa 1956” film festival / conference at Yale University, February 2006. Consultant for a week-long event on Cinema and Language and panel chair of colloquium at the Italian Cultural Institute, New York, October 2005. Organization and presentation of film event on Marco Bertozzi’s Appunti Romani, at the American Academy in Rome, April 2005. Initiator of yearly event series, committee member, and panel chair in “Circa 1945: Somewhere in Europe,” an inter-disciplinary film festival and conference at Yale University, February 2005. Curator and presenter of two film series, “Milan” and “Rome,” at the Italian Cultural Institute, New York, Winter-Spring 2004. Consulted research for BBC series The Human Face, Spring 2001.