Dan Leopard

Selected Presentations

• “'Pinchas Gutter:' The Virtual Holocaust Survivor as Embodied Archive," presented at the 2nd Memory Studies Association conference, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2017.

• “'Pinchas Gutter:' The Virtual Holocaust Survivor as Embodied Archive," presented at Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies conference, Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, University of Southern California, October 2017.

• “‘Pinchas Gutter’: The Holographic Holocaust Survivor as Embodied Archive,” presented at the Association for Jewish Studies 48th annual conference, San Diego, December 2016. Co-author: Noah Shenker, Monash University. 

• “Pinchas Gutter: The Figure of Holocaust Testimony as Embodied Archive and Interactive Documentary,” presented at Dr. Jan Randa Aftermath Conference 2016: Rethinking Holocaust Paradigms, Australian Center for Jewish Civilization, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, September 2016. Co-author: Noah Shenker, Monash. 
• “Pinchas Gutter: The Figure of Holocaust Testimony as Embodied Archive and Interactive Documentary,” presented at Visible Evidence XXIII, conference on documentary media, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, August 2016. Co-author: Noah Shenker, Monash University, Australia.
• “My Mummy Complex: Fusing Trauma and History in the Televisual 1960s.” Paper presentation at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society annual conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, October 2015.
• The Encounter and the Frame: Models of Reciprocal Interaction in 1960's Media Culture. (paper)
  Recollection, Repetition, and Working Through: Activism Today, Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  (October 2014)
• The Encounter and the Frame: Psychoanalysis, Cybernetics, and Humanistic Psychology as Models of Reciprocation in 1960’s Media Culture. (paper)
  Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle
  (March 2014)
• The Mind in Midcentury Media: Mentalities on the Cusp of the Digital Age. (panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
  Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle
  (March 2014)
• Machine, Code, Actor: The Virtual Humans of the ICT and the Future of Cinema. (paper)
  The Magic of Special Effects: Cinema-Technology-Reception Conference, Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal
  (November 2013)
• Teaching Machines/War Machines: Science Fiction, Media Theory, and the Virtual Humans of the ICT. (paper)
  Eaton/Science Fiction Research Association Conference, University of California, Riverside
  (April 2013)
• Scholarly Social Media: Successes, Failures, and the Future. (panel or forum member)
  Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago
  (March 2013)
• Media Studies and the Digital Humanities Movement. (panel or forum member)
  Flow Conference 2012, University of Texas at Austin
  (November 2012)
• The Dogs (and Monkeys) of War: The Documentary Artifact and the Evocative Object in Anime. (paper)
  Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston
  (March 2012)
• The iPad for Cinema and Media Studies: A Hands (and Fingers)-on Workshop. (panel or forum member)
  Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston
  (March 2012)
• Experts in the Networked World: Presence, Telepresence, and the BBC Documentary. (paper)
  Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow
  (July 2010)
• Space, Time, and the Cut: BBC Documentary and the Emergence of Global Telepresence. (paper)
  International Communication Association Annual Conference, Singapore
  (June 2010)
• The Human/Document, Simulation/World: Documentary Studies and New Media Theory. (paper)
  Society for Cinema and Media Studies 50th Annual Conference, Los Angeles
  (March 2010)
• The Ascent of Man: BBC Documentary and the Rise of Global Telepresence. (paper)
  Visible Evidence XVI, conference on documentary media, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
  (August 2009)
• Human Documents: Pedagogical Agency and New Media Technologies. (paper)
  Teachers, Teaching, and the Movies: Representations and Pedagogy in Film, Television, and New Media conference, Saint Marys College of California
  (March 2009)
• The Web, the World, the Archive, the Database: Documentary Studies and New Media Theory. (paper, panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
  Visible Evidence XV, conference on documentary media, Lincoln Unversity, Lincoln, UK
  (August 2008)
• Other Cinema: Exhibition as Appropriation. (paper)
  Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA
  (March 2008)
• Dead Miner Tales: Affect and Melodramatic Excess in Harlan County USA and King Anthracite: the Rock Man. (paper)
  Visible Evidence XIV, conference on documentary media, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
  (November 2007)
• Selling Out, Buying In: Ephemeral Constellations of Media, Art, and Power. (paper)
  Media History Conference, University of Texas at Austin
  (October 2007)
• Mobilizing Affect: Agency, Emotion, and the Politics of Interactivity in Military New Media. (paper)
  Media, War, and Conflict Conference, Marquette University
  (April 2007)
• What Can Television Studies Learn from the Radical Avant-Garde?. (panel or forum member)
  Flow Television Studies Conference, University of Texas at Austin
  (October 2006)
• STEVE and the Military-Entertainment Complex. (paper)
  Visible Evidence XII, conference on documentary media, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
  (August 2005)
• Steel Cage Death Match: Student-Produced Media as Indigenous Media. (paper)
  Fifth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (June 2004)
• French in Action: Visual Tourism and the Object of Language Acquisition. (paper)
  Multiliteracies and the Contact Zone Conference, Scientific Commission on Literacy, Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquee, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
  (September 2003)