upcoming speaking events

TBA

19 May 2026

Discussion: “Bisexual Theory: A Threesome with Tumblr, Sex, and Cinema.”

Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. Moderated by Mehmet Süzgün and Paul V. Schmidt.

11 June 2026

Discussion and screening: “Bisexuality and Transgression in Cinema: The Fourth Man / De vierde man (1983)”

CREA Amsterdam | University of Amsterdam Pre-World Pride Festival. In dialogue with Patricia Pisters.

1 June 2026

Formal response to Teagan Bradway’s lecture: “Group Work: How to Practice and Sustain Queer Kinship.”

University of Amsterdam | Queer Formalism. Moderated by Eugenie Brinkema.

past speaking events

16 April 2026

Symposium: Facing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Humanities

With Lotte Jensen and Sandra Ponzanesi.

Radboud University | Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies

26 January 2026

Book launch: Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression. With screening of She Must Be Seeing Things (Sheila McLaughlin, 1987) and interview with Professor Misha Kavka.

Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

9 December 2025

Lecture: “Fibrous Fantasies: Bisexual and Transgender Potentialities in Screen Spectatorship” / “Sledování (erotických) filmů: Vlákna bisexuální a transgenderové představivosti”

Centre for the Study of Popular Culture / Centrum pro studium populární kultury | Kavárna na Boršově, Prague, Czechia

16 April 2025

Panel discussion: Queer Bodies #4: Queer Erotica

VOX-POP | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

30 January 2026

Online book launch: Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression

Hosted by Michael M. Reinhard (Kennesaw State University). With short responses to the book from Shiri Eisner (University of Cambridge), Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee-Knoxville), Cáel Keegan (Concordia University), Javier Pérez-Osorio (University of Stirling), and Maria San Filippo (Emerson College).

25 September 2023

Talk: “Bisexuality Troubling Visibility”

University of Glasgow LGBTQ+ Staff Network, Glasgow, Scotland

30 June 2023

Keynote: “Uncertainty”

Media Makers Film Festival | OT301, Amsterdam, Netherlands

19 October 2021

Talk: “Bisexuality in Film”

Abington Art Appreciation | The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA

26 February 2021

Panel discussion: “Demystifying Bisexuality: Exploring New Research”

Goldsmiths Centre for Queer History, London, England

8 June 2020

Panel discussion: “Bisexuality and Film: Beyond the Positive/Negative Dichotomy

Bi+ Arts Festival | Ryson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada