Patricia Zimmermann, professor of cinema, photography, and media arts, was a featured invited speaker at the international colloquium, Images Amateurs: Valorisation et Manipulation. The colloquium, held January 20-23, 2008, was organized by the Center National de l'audivisuel, in collaboration with the University of Luxembourg, to inaugurate the new national film archive facility in Luxembourg.

Patricia Zimmermann, professor of cinema, photography, and media arts, presented a paper, entitled "From Image to Interface: Preemptive Media Collective and the Collaborative Politics of Algorithms," at the 14th Visible Evidence Conference on Documentary at the University of Bochum in Bochum, Germany.

Patricia Zimmermann, professor of cinema, photography, and media arts, has published Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories (University of California Press).

Patricia Zimmermann, professor of cinema, photography, and media arts, delivered the keynote address at the Future Histories of the Moving Image conference at the University of Sunderland, England, on November 15. Her address was entitled "Migratory Archives."