Within the anthology "Language and Discrimination / Language Against Discrimination," a joint essay on the topic of "Cultural Expressions of Gaze and Glance" has been published. In it, Leef Hansen is focusing on the "Filmic Documentation and Re-Formation of Perspectives on Traumas in Indonesian Memory Culture" with the title: (Re-)Presenting Silence.

The contribution is based on the presentation during the international conference "Language Against Discrimination" at the Institute of Romance Studies of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, which took place from October 11 to October 14, 2022, in Halle (Saale).

The article is co-authored with Prof. Dr. Franzsika Heller, Dr. Anne Fett and Birte Joppien.

During the 37th Film and Media Studies Colloquium, which will take place from March 20 to 22, 2024, at the Institute for Theatre, Film, and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Leef Hansen will give a lecture on "Documentary Interventions" as part of Panel 4, which is dedicated to the topic of "Documentary Worldmaking."
In his presentation, he will historically situate the role and influence of "Documentary Interventions" as media practices and discuss their connections and relationships to current trends within the (Post-)Documentary movement.

"STOLPERSTEINE – Filme gegen das Vergessen // Films Against Oblivion" is a series of short films from the master's program Multimedia and Authorship at the Department of Media and Communication at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. As part of the artistic direction, Leef Hansen is responsible for the STOLPERSTEIN films, which will be produced in 2023.

Inspired by artist Gunther Demnig's project, students have been dealing with the people and stories behind the memorial stones in documentary film projects since 2007. In his introductory speech before the film screening at the historical hall of the Stadtmuseum Halle, Leef Hansen first thanked the students and their commitment. "Without you, these films and the associated memories of the Shoah and the Holocaust would not exist."

The Stadtmuseum Halle holds a film screening on the occasion of the German day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism on Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 6 p.m. Three films by students from the master's program Multimedia and Authorship at the Department for Media and Communication (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg) from the series "STOLPERSTEINE – Filme gegen das Vergessen // Films against oblivion" will be shown. As artistic director of the STOLPERSTEINE films this year, Leef Hansen will moderate the event and introduce the films to the audience.