International guest lectures and keynotes

• 1980: University of Göteborg, Sweden: Working-Class Culture and Literature.
• 1983: Université de Nantes, France: Theories in the Study of Working-Class Culture
• 1985: Universita di Roma, Italy: A Cinema of Passion. Carl Th. Dreyer – the International Auteur in Classical Danish Cinema
• 1985: University of Minneapolis, USA. Conference keynote: Isak Dinesen: an Aristocratic Radical
• 1986: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA: American and European Television Culture and Genres
• 1988 University of Stockholm, Sweden: Danish Cinema
• 1990: University of Bergen, Norway: On Reality TV and the Genres of Documentary
• 1994: Université de Sorbonne, Paris III, France: Documentary Theory and History
• 1994: Universita Cattolica di Milano, Italy: Film Theory and Documentary Film Genres
• 1995: University of Stockholm, Sweden: Film Theory and the Future of Film Studies
• 1997: University of Bergen, Norway: Film and Modernity
• 1997: Tampere University, Finland: Media and the Public Sphere
• 1998 Moscow State University, Russia: Danish Film History
• 1999: London Guildhall University, UK: Modern Television Documentary Forms.
• 2003: The Australian International Documentary Conference: The Social and the Subjective Look: Documentaries and Reflexive Modernity
• 2007: University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Keynote:  German film and 1989.
• 2008: Sorbonne University, Paris, The international conference on Television in the digital context: A new space for democracy? Online media and user-driven factual and documentary genres.
• 2008: Reykjavik University, Iceland: Three guest lectures on Danish Film and Television History.
• 2009: Hongkong University,  Documentary Conference. The Regional Context and Theoretical Perspectives. Keynote: Behind the Headlines. Documentaries, War on Terror and Everyday Life.
• 2012: University of Canberra, Australia, The Visible Evidence Conference: Facing Disaster? Politics, Emotions and the Environmental Documentary.
• 2013: University of Lund, Sweden: European Film Cultures, Transnational television drama – production and reception
• 2013: University of Oslo, Norway. Keynote, Nordmedia Conference: Cosmopolitan Narratives. Documentary, the Global Other and Everyday Life.
• 2013: University of Central Lancashire, UK. Three guest lectures: 1. On the European Film and Television culture; 2. Documentary and globalisation; 3. New Cinema and the multicultural challenge.
• 2014: Princeton University (US): The Mediatization of Politics in Contemporary Scandinavian Film and Television.
• 2014: University of Falmouth (UK). Keynote, World Documentary Conference: Cosmopolitan Narratives: Documentary Perspectives on Afghanistan.
• 2015: Bristol University, New directions in film and television production studies conference: Bridging Cultures. The Bridge in a Co-production Perspective.
• 2015: Princeton University, USA, Film, Democracy and Liberal Education Conference: History, Memory and Film: Edgar Reitz Heimat Project as Transformative Narrative.
• 2016: University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK: Transnational Europe: TV-drama, co-production and mediated cultural encounters.
• 2017: University of Zürich. Keynote, International conference on Observational and interactive documentary:  Being at War: Cognitive Approaches to Observational War Documentaries.
• 2017: University of Bilbao, Spain. Keynote at The 8th International conference on Small Cinemas:  Globalisation, Multicultural Reality and the Creative Diversity of Scandinavian Cinema.
• 2018: Bingham University, Utah, USA, Guest lecture: Show it, don’t Tell it. Bille August and Scandinavian Litterature, October.
• 2018: Bingham University, Utah, USA, Guest lecture: Historical Television Drama in Europe, October.