- The Arts in Society – History/Histories: From the Limits of Representation to the Boundaries of Narrative – San Jorge University, Zaragoza, Spain 2022
- MDOCS Forum, Skidmore College – Towards Creating Spaces of Practice and the Conditions to Imagine – 2021
- Smolarski, C. (2018), ‘Fluid identities and navigating integration: The politics of solidarity in contemporary Germany’, Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, 9:1, pp. 45–59, doi: 10.1386/cjmc.9.1.45_1 – 2018
- ECREA (European Communication Research Education Association) Diaspora, Migration and the Media Section Migration and communication flows: rethinking borders, conflict and identity through the digital – University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain – 2017
- Culture and Identity Configurations: Reflections on the XXI Century – Hofstra University, NY – 2017
- A.R.T (Archivist Round Table) Symposium – NY – 2017
- The CUNY Games Festival: A Conference on Game-based Learning in Higher Education NY – 2015
- Digital Media Conference: Freedom and Unfreedom in the Digital Age, Leslie College – Boston, Massachusetts – Screening/panel discussion – 2013
- AERA Conference Film Festival (American Education and Research Association) – Presentation and screening of “Admissions Student Stories from Undocumented America” – San Francisco – 2013
- UFVA Conference (University Film and Video Association) – Presentation and screening of “Admissions Student Stories from Undocumented America” – Columbia College – Chicago – 2012
- CRESEA Conference (Critical Race Studies in Education Association), Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, NY “Documentary, Counter Storytelling, and Undocumented Students in Higher Education.” –2012
- MobilityShifts – An International Future of Learning Summit, The New School, New York, New York. “Mobile Identities and Community Mobilization: Collaborative Digital Theater in Transnational Communities.” – 2011