Speaking

Kim Nelson has given invited presentations, talks, and conference papers across Canada, the US, and Europe.

  • “Putting the ‘Post’ in Post-Secondary,” Civil Discourse on Campus: Controversies, Challenges and Opportunities, Speaker and Panelist, Concordia University, Montreal, 2026.

  • “The Trump of it All: Satire as a Framework for Historical Reckoning. ” European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), Lisbon, Portugal, 2025.

  • “Through A Glass Comically: Satire and Comedy as a Narrative Approach to Truth in Performance-Based Historical Films,” Film and Media Association of Canada (FMSAC), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Presenter and panel chair, 2025

  • “Social Cinema: Mainstreaming the Cinema of Attractions in the Digital Age.” Society for Cinema and Media Scholars (SCMS) Chicago USA. Presenter, 2025.

  • Expanding Cinema to See(k) our Past,” Society for Cinema and Media Scholars (SCMS), Chicago, USA.

  • “It Takes a Lot to Laugh: The Historiographical Use of Satire in Moving Histories,” Moving Histories Symposium, Windsor, Ontario. Presenter and panel chair, 2025.

  • Cinema as place: Site-specific film as antidote to screen-based isolation,” Film and Media Studies Association 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.