During my studies, in particular, I had a chance to test out ideas and approaches at several conferences and seminars. Those papers gave me a chance to formulate ideas, which had up to then only existed in my head. They also allowed me to develop and improve, which allowed me to take part in engaging panels and seminars even after I left university and became a freelance writer and critic.
Below, you can find a complete list of conferences and seminars which I took part in, from the first baby steps to larger platforms.
Please feel free to contact me if you feel I could be a good addition to your conference panel or your seminar/webinar.
August 2022
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, CUTS – Der kritische Filmpodcast, Folge #30 (Special) (de)
June 2022
Gegen die Reizüberflutung – Slow Cinema ist genau das, was wir jetzt brauchen. Bayern 2 – Zündfunk Generator Podcast. (de)
February 2022
Human Cinema. Book launch of “Contemplating post-1989 Slow Cinema”, a booklet published by i2ADS in association with the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto. (en)
May 2021
SGSAH: Publishing Workshop for Film and Media Doctoral Students. Online event organised by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities.(en)
March 2021
Special: Bi Gan, CUTS – Der kritische Filmpodcast, Folge #62 (de)
February 2021
Sebastian Cordes in conversation with Dr. Nadin Mai, Cample Line, Screenings at Home. (en)
September 2020
Past. Present. – The cinema of Lav Diaz.
Arthouse Cinema Seminar, Universiti Kuala Lumpur MIIT (en)
April 2020
Slow Cinema und The Turin Horse, CUTS – Der kritische Filmpodcast, Folge #15 (de)
8 April 2019
Critical Clicks: The challenges of digital film publishing
Visions du Réel Industry Talk, Switzerland (en)
16 July 2016
Lav Diaz. History, Memory, Trauma
Lecture at Temporary Gallery/Filmforum Museum Ludwig as an introduction to the screening of Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012) (en)
8 July 2016
Introduction of Tito Molina’s “El nino y el mar”, Sorayos Prapapan’s “Souvenirs from Switzerland” and Sorayos Prapapan’s “Boonrerm” for the second Slow Cinema symposium at UCL, London (en)
22 April 2016
The Art(s) of Slow Cinema – From research blog to VoD platform, first Slow Cinema symposium, UCL London (en)
10 September 2015
“Personally, I want to cure myself of the trauma of my people”
Nadin Mai in conversation with Tom Paulus at the Cinematek Brussels, Belgium, as part of the Lav Diaz retrospective (en)
4 September 2014
The concentrationary universe in the films of Lav Diaz
Postgraduate Conference, Division of Communication, Media and Culture, University of Stirling (en)
9 April 2014
Absence and Presence in Lav Diaz’s Florentina Hubaldo CTE
Research Seminar, University of Stirling (en)
2-3 July 2013
Motion-Painting: Lav Diaz and the Fine Art of Slow Cinema
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich (en)
8 May 2013
The Eastern Philosophy of Slow Cinema
Postgraduate Research Conference, Stirling University Graduate School (en)
3 April 2013
Slow Cinema at the Museum!?
Expanded Cinema, Postgraduate Conference, University of St. Andrews (en)
8 June 2012
The mobilised venue – The uses of cinemas in Scotland, 1939-1945
Scottish Consortium for Film and Visual Studies, Birnam Institute, Dunkeld (en)