Invited Lectures:

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. DIA 20 de Maio (terça-feira) 15 hrs. - Palestra da Profa. Linda Erlich: "Nobody Knows and the Resonant Gesture on Screen," May 20, 2008.

Guggenheim Museum. Panel Discussion with art historian Edward Sullivan about The Quince Tree Sun (dir. Víctor Erice, 1992), New York City, March 7, 2007.

Cinematheque Ontario. Introduction to The Spirit of the Beehive (El espiritu de la colmena), Toronto, March 2006.

Cleveland Museum of Art. "Between Stillness and Motion: The Human Landscape in Japanese Photography and Film" (July 2003, in conjunction with The History of Japanese Photography exhibition)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra/Barcelona. Lecture on Japanese Cinema. 2002.

Oxford University. "The Exotic West: Cinema of Teshigahara Hiroshi," 1997.

Japan Foundation Film Series. North Carolina State University, 2001.

Pacific Film Archives, "Visions of the Dharma exhibit," University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1993.

Japan Society/N.Y. Introduction of Imamura Shohei's Kuroi ame (Black Rain). 1990. Guest lecturer, Japan Society teacher education program, 1997.

More detailed list available on Resume page.