Conference presentations and research seminars, linked to open-access transcripts wherever possible:
Zielinski, Ger. ‘Streaming Culture, Festivals, and the Question of Approximating Their Carbon Footprint’. Research talk to graduate students at the Liverpool Screen School, Liverpool John Moores University (invited by Dr. Lydia Papadimitriou), Liverpool, United Kingdom, February 2024.
Zielinski, Ger. ‘On Steps to a Greener Film Festival Studies’. Participant in HYBRID: What Future for Hybrid Film Festivals? A Media Industries Roundtable, chaired by Dr. Kirsten Stevens and Dr. Diane Burgess. Media Industries Studies, Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 2023.
Zielinski, Ger. ‘Digital Festivality: From Online to Virtualized Film Festivals’. Conference paper at SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 2023.
Zielinski, Ger. ‘Streaming Culture, Virtualising Festivals, and the Question of Their Carbon Footprint’, hosted by Dr. Janet McCabe. Research talk, Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, November 2022.
Zielinski, Ger. ‘Pandemic Streaming: On COVID-19, Virtualized Film Festivals, and the Environmental(Ist) Turn’. Roundtable participant at the SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) Annual Conference (online), March 2022.
de Valck, Marijke and Ger Zielinski. ‘Rethinking Film Festivals after the Pandemic Era’. Roundtable co-presenters at the annual NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference, Bucharest, Romania, June 2022.
Zielinski, Ger. ‘On Greening Film Festivals: An International Roundtable on the Environmental Impact of Film Festivals and Their Future Design and Operation’ (online). Roundtable participant at and co-organizer (with Dr. Marijke de Valck) of the 7th Film Festival Research Seminar, The Creative School Catalyst, Toronto Metropolitan University, January 2022.
Zielinski, Ger. ‘Streaming Culture, Microcinemas, Their Festivals, and the Question of Their Carbon Footprint’, invited by Dr. Antoine Damiens. Graduate research seminar (online), Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, November 2021.
Zielinski, Ger. ‘Queer Film Festivals: Poiesis and Belonging: Urban Policy’. Keynote talk presented at the session Standort Wien: Kulturpolitik und/als Stadtpolitik (Place Vienna: Culture Politics and/as City Policy), SCREENFEST Symposium (online), Belvedere 21: Museum of Contemporary Art and University of Vienna, October 2020.
Zielinski, Ger. ‘What You Ask (and How You Ask It) Is What You Get’. Conference paper at the Contours of Film Festivals Research and Methodologies Conference (online). Birkbeck College, University of London, September 2020.
Zielinski, Ger. ‘On YouTubers and Their Festivals’. Research talk at Liverpool Screen School, Liverpool John Moores University (invited by Dr. Lydia Papadimitriou), Liverpool, United Kingdom, February 2020.