Presentations – Laure Astourian

Invited Presentations

“A Fresh Look at 1960s French Cinema.” Lecture for Fulbright France, Paris, France, November 2021.

« Moi, un Noir : l’ethnographie française presque libérée ». Lecture in Racial Imaginaries Graduate Seminar, Department of French and Italian, Princeton University, April 2021.

“Paris Pictures, Beyond the Cliché.” Presentation with Catherine Clark (MIT), Consulate General of France in Boston, March 2021.

“Alain Resnais from Statues to Muriel.” Lecture at The Cinema Studies Institute, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, December 2019.

“Borderline: European Cinema 1959: Moi, un Noir.” Introduction and Panel Presentation in the Program for Film and Media Studies, Yale University, New Haven, March 2018.

“Jean Rouch’s Moi, un Noir in the French New Wave.” Lecture in the Department of French and Italian, Princeton University, Princeton, October 2017.

Panels Organized

“Two Shots and a Document: Experiments with the Historiography of French Cinema.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 2023. Presenters: Laure Astourian (Bentley University), Aurore Spiers (University of Chicago), James Cahill (co-chair, University of Toronto), Jennifer Row (University of Minnesota).

“Seismic Histories in Nadia Owusu’s Aftershocks.” A conversation between Nadia Owusu and Laure Astourian. September 2021. Co-sponsored by NAASR and the Department of English and Media Studies and Modern Languages at Bentley University.

“(Au) Revoir Varda.” Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts, November 2019. Presenters: Sarah Keller (UMass Boston), Catherine Clark (MIT), Laure Astourian (Bentley University), Anna Siomopoulos (Bentley University).

“Exotic x Endotic: Filming Metropolitan France in the 1960s and Beyond.” International Colloquium on Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies, Providence, April 2018. Presenters: Laure Astourian (Bentley University), Paul Fileri (New York University), T. Jefferson Kline (Boston University).

“Chris Marker and the Foreign.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 2018. Presenters: Laure Astourian (Bentley University), Steven Chung (Princeton University), Nora Alter (Temple University), Jean-Michel Frodon (Sciences Po).

Selected Conference Presentations

“Rendez-vous de juillet in the Rearview: Tracking Postwar French Cinema’s Ethnographic Appetite.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2022.

“The Soldier as Cinematograph: Archives of Algeria in Muriel.” Visible Evidence XXVI Conference, Los Angeles, CA, July 2019.

“Ethnography and National Identity in 1960s French Cinema.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, March 2019.

“Jean Rouch’s Paris Films.” International Colloquium on Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies, Providence, April 2018.

“Sunday in Peking…and Paris.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 2018.

“Youth, Media, and Memory in Contemporary France.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York, January 2018.

“Narrowing Visions of Paris in Chris Marker’s La Jetée and Le Joli mai.” International Colloquium on Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies, Bloomington, April 2017.

“The French New Wave and Sub-Saharan Africa.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, March 2017.

“Aesthetics of the Taboo: Alain Resnais and the Algerian War.” The Resnais Archipelago Conference, Duke University, Durham, October 2015.