Speaking & Teaching
Anne Aghion is a sought-after speaker at universities, museums, film festivals, as well as institutes dedicated to areas ranging from the arts to policy to the study of science. Teaching has also become an important pursuit for her, with a special interest in countries with emerging film industries.
Speaking engagements
- 2022 & 2023 | UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BELGIQUE (Brussels, Belgium)
Speaker, Certificate on Transitional Justice. - 2021 | CLASSROOMS WITHOUT BORDERS (Pittsburgh, USA)
Speaker, as part of a series on genocide prevention, in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Cleveland. - 2019 | YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, CT)
Speaker, “Symposium on Women’s Representations of the Rwandan Genocide”, organized by the Council on African Studies in partnership with the African Studies and Genocide Studies Program. - 2019 | INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DU CAMBODGE (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
Speaker, “Landscape Afterwar(d)s” Conference. - 2016 | IRIBA CENTER for Multimedia Heritage (Kigali, Rwanda)
Speaker, “Les Archives du silence” Conference, in partnership with Université Paris 8. - 2015 | ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL at Barnard College (New York, NY)
Panelist, Barnard in the Biz. - 2013 | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY School of the Arts (New York, NY)
Speaker, “Creation and Post Memory” as part of Season of Cambodia Festival. - 2013 | THE ROCKFELLER FOUNDATION (New York City, USA)
Speaker at the Rockfeller Foundation Bellagio Center Alumni Panel.
Video - 2012 | STANFORD UNIVERSITY (Stanford, USA)
Keynote speaker, Stanford Interdisciplinary Conference on Conscience.
Video - 2012 | TEDx ESCP “Making a Difference” (Paris, France)
Speaker, “Filming Unanswerable Questions from Rwanda to Antarctica”. - 2011 | NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION (New York City, USA)
Panelist, “On Their Own: A conversation with women documentary directors braking barriers”. - 2010 | UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY (London, UK)
Sawyer Seminar on Human Rights: Speaker as part of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to conduct a Sawyer Seminar on the theme of “Fratricide and Fraternité: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity.” The series consisted of nine distinct seminars, each a day long, that were focused on specific themes. - 2010 | UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON (Madison, US)
Sawyer Seminar on Human Rights: Speaker on Representation and Human Rights as part of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to the Human Rights Initiative at the University to conduct a Sawyer Seminar on the theme of “Vulnerability and Resilience: Rethinking Human Rights for the 21st Century.” The series, which ran from February 2010 to April 2011, consisted of nine one day seminars that focused on different themes. - 2009 | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, USA)
Panelist, “Visible Evidence Conference: Genocide Survivor Testimony in Documentary Film”. - 2009 | UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE (Washington, DC, USA)
Participant, “Strategy Workshop on Gender, Conflict and Peace-building”, whose aim was to inform the direction of a new Gender Program. - 2008 | SAN FRANCISCO EXPLONATORIUM (San Francisco, USA)
Speaker, “Ice Stories”. - 2007 | AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (New York City, USA)
Speaker, New York City International Polar Weekend. - 2006 | BARNARD COLLEGE (New York City, USA)
Panelist, “Women and Film: Behind the Scenes”, as part of Reunion 2006. - 2005 | ECOLE SUPERIEURE DES ARTS VISUELS DE MARRAKECH (Marrakesh, Morocco)
Speaker, “Image & civilisation: représentations visuelles et identités collectives”.
Teaching & Lecturing
- 2010 to 2021 | ECOLE SUPERIEURE DES ARTS VISUELS DE MARRAKECH (Marrakech, Morocco)
Proposal Writing for Documentary Film, Master Level Course: Over the years, numerous projects presented in final pitching sessions to broadcast professionals from Europe and Morocco resulted in commitments and/or possible strong interest from the television commissioning editors. - 2020 | DOC AMAZONIE CARAÏBE (Saint Laurent du Maroni, French Guyana)
Documentary Film Writing: Two-week session conducted online (during Covid) from France with co-tutor filmmaker Laurent Bécue-Renard for half a dozen feature-length projects. - 2017 | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, USA)
Documentary film master class of part of a French culture curriculum. - 2013 to 2018 | FOKAL (Port au Prince, Haïti)
Documentary Film Proposal Writing: Intensive 2 and 3-week sessions for a dozen feature-length documentary film projects. - 2013 to 2015 | DOC EDGE (Calcutta, India)
Tutor: Part of a team of half-a-dozen tutors coaching 18 filmmaking teams for a week-long workshop on documentary film proposal development and pitching. The week culminated in the pitching of projects to an assembled panel of commissioning editors and other funders. - 2011 & 2012 | ACADEMIE LIBANAISE DES BEAUX ARTS (Beyrouth, Lebanon)
Documentary Film, Master Level Course: Coached ten 4th year film students in an intensive two-week exercise to create three ten to fifteen minute documentary films from start (identifying stories and subjects) to finish (finalizing the films) in an immersive geographical situation. - 2009 | COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO (Chicago, US)
Visiting Artist: A weeklong series of master classes and presentations in film and journalism classes, including Wayne Kumingo’s Documentary Production and Editing, Kristin Pichaske’s Documentary Arts Laboratory, Teresa Puente’s Reporting Public Affairs–International.