Lecture and discussion on art, science, and technology. With Barbara Larson and Charissa Terranova. NY LASER, LevyArts, February 15, 2025.

“The Medical Gaze: Art, Corporeality, and Technology” Co-chair with Elisabeth Sherman (ICP) of a panel at CAA on medical imaging technologies and art. Featuring papers by: Cristina Albu, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Patricia J. Olynyk, Washington University in St. Louis; Hannah Forsythe, The University of Texas at Austin; and Anna R Lovatt, Southern Methodist University. CAA Annual Conference, February 13, 2025.

“Overexposed: Anatomy and Cinema” A talk with images and film clips about how the co-emergence of cinema and X-ray technology shaped modern conceptions of the body and how filmmakers, particularly contemporary women artists, have engaged with the problematics embedded in this gaze. Tate Modern, London, November 25, 2023.

“The 2023 Oscar Nominees Are Full Of Science” Conversation with Ira Flatow about science films nominated for an Oscar on Science Friday. NPR, March 3, 2023.

“Science and the Early Days of Cinema” Conversation about gallery exhibition Twitch, Pop, Bloom: Science in Action with producer Kathleen Davis on Science Friday. NPR, July 1, 2022.

“Did Soylent Green’s Predictions About 2022 Hold Up?” Conversation about Soylent Green (1973) with soil scientist Jo Handelsman and Ira Flatow on Science Friday. NPR, April 15, 2022.

“The Science Behind The Power Of The Dog” Conversation with John Dankosky on Science Friday. NPR, Feb 25, 2022.

“When Can Climate Change Be Comedy?” Conversation Don’t Look Up (2021) with disasterologist Samantha Montano and Ira Flatow on Science Friday. NPR, Dec 24, 2021.

“New Nature” Guest Lecture and Screening, “Worldbuilding” taught by Peter Burr. Sarah Lawrence College, 2021.

“The X-ray Gaze: Limitations of the Invisible Spectrum” NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Conversation with the Dean. Online, 2021.

“After Dark Online: OK With Decay—Under the Bay” Exploratorium, San Francisco. In conversation with Madeleine Thompson, director of library and archives at the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. Online, 2020.

“Underwater Films from the Department of Tropical Research: William Beebe’s Bathysphere in Haiti and Bermuda, 1927-1934” Orphan Film Symposium, planned to be hosted by the 6th Eye International Conference at the Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam. Online due to COVID-19, 2020.

“The DNA of Great Science Films.” Seminar, Middlebury College, Vermont, 2018.

“Funding Science Communication.” Guerilla Science Conference at Pratt University, Brooklyn, 2018.

“The DNA of Great Science Films.” Polytechnic Museum’s 360° Science & Technology Film Festival, Moscow, 2017.

“The DNA of Great Science Films.” Science Film Conference at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, 2017.

“Streaming Science.” Imagine Science Film Festival, BRIC, Brooklyn, 2016.

Career talk. Acadia Summer Arts Program (aka “Kamp Kippy”), Maine, 2014-2015.

“The Culture of Science.” The Child Mind Institute’s On The Shoulders of Giants Scientific Symposium Honoring Dr. Eric R. Kandel, New York, 2012.

Questions and Ideas: Long Island Experimentation. With Mark Alessi (Tesla Science Center), Mary Cascone (Babylon Town Historian), Ray Batvinis (FBI Historian), and Elise Herget (Watermill Managing Director). With a performance by Christopher Knowles. The Watermill Center, Long Island, October 24, 2024.

Convulsive States: Liz Magic Laser Screening and Discussion. Tate Modern, London, November 22, 2023.

Conversation and Q&A about Becoming Cousteau with producer Mridu Chandra. National Geographic Documentary Films, AMC Lincoln Square, New York, 2021.

“Birthing technology, the Odón device, and BUMP.” Discussion with inventor Jorge Odón, global health experts Mario Merialdi and David Milestone, director Claudia Weill, and playwright Chiara Atik. Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York, 2018.

“The Universe is a Laboratory.” Discussion with filmmakers Marleine van der Werf, Réka Bucsi, and Linnea Rundgren. Imagine Science Film Festival, Issue Project Room, New York, 2018.