Presentations
Conferences, Invited Lectures, and Outreach
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2023
“Rethinking Retrospectives: New Models for Arthouse Exhibition.” Doing Women’s Film and Television History. University of Sussex, June 2023.
“Classroom Controversy: Practical Strategies for Critical Pedagogy in Hostile Climates.” Workshop Co-Chair. Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Denver, CO April 2023.
2021
“From the State to the Street: Transforming the Surveillance Gaze in Sex Work.” National Communication Association. Seattle, WA.
“Project-Based Problems: Hollywood, Harassment, and Project-Based Ecologies.” Union for Democratic Communication. Virtual.
“Pushing the Limits of the Para: The Industrial Complications of Second Wave Exploitation Film Posters as Paratext.” Announcing Aesthetics: The Film Poster as Intertextual Formation in Theory and Practice. American Comparative Literature Association. Virtual.
2019
“Feminist Podcasting as MeToo Continuum.” International Association of Media and Communication Research Annual Conference. Madrid, Spain.
“The Precarity of Independence: Women’s Labor in the Neo-Art House Industry.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Seattle, WA.
2018
“The Rothman Renaissance.” Women and New Hollywood, Maynooth University. Dublin: Ireland.
Kozma, Alicia. “Women of the Art House World, Unite!” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada.
2017
“Screen or Die: Conglomerated Exhibition and Clearances During the Digital Turn.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.
“The Limits of Exceptional Women: Reframing the Rhetoric Around Women Directors.” University of Southern California Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies’ Bridging Gaps: Where is the Film Scholar in Hollywood Filmmaking? Los Angeles, CA.
2015
“The Limits of Fetish: Stephanie Rothman and the Tyranny of Cult.” 2015 Film & History Conference: Journeys, Detours, Breakdowns. Madison: WI.
Panelist “Silencing Dissent: Salaita, Academic Freedom and the Neoliberal University.” Union for Democratic Communications 2015: Circuits of Struggle. Toronto, CA.
Workshop Chair and Presenter “The Unexpected and the Possible: Methods in Creating Feminist and Queer Archives.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada.
2014
“Stephanie Rothman Does Not Exist.” 2014 Film & History Conference: Golden Ages-Styles & Personalities, Genres & Histories. Women in the Film Industry Division. Madison, WI.
2013
“Downloading Soon to a Theater Near You: Digital Film, Local Exhibition, and the Death of 35mm.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Seattle, WA.
“From Agency to Self-Exploitation: Media, Production, and the Operationalization of Sex-Positive Post-Feminism.” Society for Community Research and Action Biennial Conference. Miami, FL.
“When are we gonna have that revolution anyway? Queer Sacrifice in Jack Hill’s The Big Bird Cage.” Beyond Margins. DePaul University, Chicago, IL.
“Working to Be Someone Else: Digital Labor and the Production of Gendered Selfhoods.” Neoliberalism 2.0: Technologies, Power, Resistance Across Borders. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
“Sandra Lee is a Liar: Modeling Lifestyle Behavior and Gendered Household Citizenship on the Food Network.” Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Reality TV, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
“Managing Through Our Mouths: The Food Network as the Production and Management of Taste.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.
2012
“Leave It All Behind: The Post-Apocalyptic Renunciation of Technology in The Walking Dead.” National Communications Association 98th Annual Convention. Orlando, FL.
“Working to Be Someone Else: Digitally Mediated Self-Production in Documentary Film.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference. San Francisco, CA.
“Mapping the Monstrous: The Horrific Female Body in New French Extremism.” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts 33rd Annual Conference. Orlando, FL.
2010 and before
Kozma, Alicia. “Pinky Violence: Shock, Awe, and the Exploitation of Sexual Liberation.” Breaking Boundaries: Alternative Approaching to Japanese Film. University of Leeds, England.
Kozma, Alicia. “Outlaw Chicks.” Framed: Delimiting the Image, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. New York, NY.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES
“Filmic Excess and Aesthetics in the 1980s.” Department of Cinema and Televisual Arts, University of California, Fullerton, 2022.
“Exhibition, Archiving, and the Digital.” College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences, Simmons University, Boston, MA, 2021 & 2022.
“Entertainment and Economics: Film as Industrialized Art.” Department of Cinema and Televisual Arts, University of California, Fullerton, 2021.
“Televisual Theory and the 1970s” Department of Cinema and Televisual Arts, University of California, Fullerton, 2019.
“Deterioration in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” The Art Theater Co-op, 2017.
“Zombies Just Won’t Die.” World Fellowship Center, 2014.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Department of Media and Cinema Studies:
“Gendered Labor in the Entertainment Industries” 2015 and 2016.
“Violent Women.” 2014.
“Documentary Film, Ethics, and Issues of Exploitation.” 2012 and 2013.
“Class, Trash, and Identity in Reality Television.” 2013.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign:
“Mediating a Crisis: Media, Gender, and Rape Culture.” Campus Acquaintance Rape Education Facilitator’s Training. 2014.
“Media Images and Sexuality.” Community Health: Campus Acquaintance Rape Education. Community Health Department, 2012 and 2013.
“Media Images and Sexuality.” Gender and Women’s Studies Department, 2012 and 2013.
“Media as Social Justice Strategy.” Psychology Department, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
“College Teaching Effectiveness Network: What The Best Graduate TA’s Do.” Panelist. Center for Innovation inTeaching and Learning. 2016.
“‘There is a Light That Will Never Go Out’: Morrissey, Latina/o Fans, and Negotiations of Identity.” Lunchtime Speaker Series. La Casa Cultural Latina, 2015.
“Why Won’t You Remember Me? Searching for Women in Film.” Lunchtime Speaker Series. Women’s Resource Center, 2014.
“From Her Perspective.” Panelist. University of Illinois Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and Women of Color Event. 2013.
Kozma, Alicia and Emily Dworkin. “Seeing Sex: Representations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Popular Media.” Lunchtime Speaker Series. Women’s Resource Center, 2013.
Kozma, Alicia. “Mapping the Monstrous: The Horrific Female Body in French New Extremism.” Lunchtime Speaker Series. Women’s Resource Center, 2012.
