2026
January 16
Φύλο και σεξουαλικότητα
Πρόγραμμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών Κλινικής Ψυχολογίας
Φιλοσοφικη Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Athens, Greece
2026
January 12
Σεξουαλικότητα Πέρα απο τη Συναίνεση
Annual Scientific Event, Orlando LGBT+ Greece
Athens, Greece
2026
January 10
Risk in the psychoanalytic process: ethics, exposure, eroticism Sexual Boundary Violations Panel with Elizabeth Wallace, Avgi Saketopoulou, and Charles Levin
Houston Psychoanalytic Institute
Texas, USA
2025
December 5
Gary Fisher: “Unpolished Truths” on the Erotics of Racism
Scientific Colloquium
Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis
NY, USA
2025
December 4
Against Transantagonism: Towards a Metapsychology for the Flourishing of Trans Children
History and Philosophy of Science
University of Sydney, Australia
2025
November 20
Resisting the Reparative: Moving Beyond the Trauma Industry
American Studies Association
Puerto Rico, USA
2025
November 8
Morning seminar: The draw to overwhelm: consent and risk in the consulting room
Afternoon seminar: Working clinically with overwhelm: a case study
In two-day seminar, Psychotherapeutic work with gender and sexuality now, co-sponsored by the Finnish Psychoanalytical Society and the Integrative Psychotherapy Association
Helsinki, Finland
2025
November 7
Morning seminar: Transition through and through: critiquing core gender identity without capsizing into transphobia
Afternoon seminar: Gender through the resource of traumatophilia: A case study involving intergenerational trauma
In two-day seminar, Psychotherapeutic work with gender and sexuality now, co-sponsored by the Finnish Psychoanalytical Society and the Integrative Psychotherapy Association
Helsinki, Finland
2025
November 6
A Metapsychology for the Flourishing of Trans Children: New and Queer Psychoanalytic Foundations
Scientific Meeting, Finnish Psychoanalytical Society
Helsinki, Finland
2025
November 2
Clinical presentation by Rex Kintanar with supervisory discussions by Patricia Clough and Avgi Saketopoulou
The Relational Track Series: Relational Psychoanalysis Now & Looking Forward–Dialogues on the Clinical Project
NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
New York, USA
2025
October 29
Book Launch, “Trans Sex: Nurturing Trans Erotic Embodiment and Gender Pleasure”
A conversation between Lucie Fielding and Avgi Saketopoulou
Bureau of General Service-Queer Division
The LGBT Community Center
New York, USA
2025
October 26
A conversation on “The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella” between Carolina Bianchi, Carolina Mendonça, André Lepecki, and Avgi Saketopoulou
Performance Studies Department, New York University
New York, USA
2025
October 25
Study Workshop on Carolina Bianchi’s “The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella”
Private Study Day
New York, USA
2025
October 18
Conversation with Jordan Laffrenier, director of Slave Play
Slave Play, Canadian Stage
Toronto, Canada
2025
October 7
Discussion of Avenali Lecture: Fighting Fire with Fire, with Paola Bacchetta, Eric Stanley, Damon Young, and Avgi Saketopoulou
Townsend Center for the Humanities
UC Berkeley
CA, USA
2025
October 6
Fighting Fire with Fire: Aesthetics, Exigent sadism, Insurgency
Avenali Lecture
Townsend Center for the Humanities
UC Berkeley
CA, USA
2025
October 1
Reading on exigent sadism at A night of negativity
Symphony No. -1, by Ethan Philbrick
NYC, USA
2025
September 26
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Moving Away from Repair and Toward Traumatophilia
Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute
NYC, USA
2025
September 25
Conversation with Quill Kukla about their book “Sex Beyond Yes!”
Bureau of General Services-Queer Division
The LGBT Community Center
NYC, USA
2025
September 9
Book event for Simon(e) van Sarloos’s Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto
Hive Mind Books
NYC, USA
2025
June 18
A Conversation Between Jennifer Doyle on Shadow of My Shadow (Duke University Press, August 2024) and Avgi Saketopoulou Sexuality Beyond Consent (NYU Press, February 2023)
Bureau of General Services-Queer Division
The LGBT Community Center
NYC, USA
2025
June 2
Beyond Identity: Rethinking Gender and Sexuality
Qafila: Psychosocial Support and Research
Online Event
2025
June 1
Genocide and the Screen of Irreverence
Symposium Theme: “Irreverence”
William Alanson White Institute
NYC, USA
2025
May 8
5×5 Performance Series, in conversation with Sophia Giovannitti and Rachel Ossip
99 Canal
NYC, USA
2025
April 26
Against Transantagonism: Towards a Metapsychology for the Flourishing of Trans Children
Hosted by:
The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis
Co-sponsored by:
• Black Psychoanalysts Speak
• Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)
• Committee on Gender and Sexuality (COGS) of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)
• Division 39 of the American Psychological Association (APA)
• Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility (Section IX of APA Division 39)
• Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS)
• NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (NYU Postdoc)
• New York Psychoanalytic Institute (NYPSI)
• Greene Clinic
• BIPOCAnalysis
• San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP)
• Psychoanalytic Inquiry
• Red Clinic
• Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
• New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP)
• The Wright Institute
• Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center
• Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP)
• Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)
• Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPCS)
• Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP)
• The Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS)
• Newport Psychoanalytic Institute
• American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)
• Training and Research in Intersubjective Self PsychologyFoundation (TRISP)
• The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute (TWCI)
• The American Psychoanalytic Association’s (APsA) Candidates Council
• Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC)
• Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP), NYC
• Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MITPP)
• The Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
• Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics
• Therapists of New York
• Vermont Psychoanalytic Study Group
• Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (BPSI)
Virtual Event
2025
April 14
Trans Flourishing Within and Without the Clinic: A Conversation and Open Forum with Avgi Saketopoulou
Sponsored by Liberate Mental Health and LGBT Health
Virtual Event
2025
April 7
Avgi Saketopoulou, author of Sexuality Beyond Consent, in live conversation with Kris Dittel – Fellow at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen
Innsbruck, Austria
Virtual Event
2025
April 4
Workshop- Reading Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2025
April 3
Lingering in the Wound: Sadism and Confusion As Aesthetic Practice
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Co-Sponsored by Institute of the Humanities, UMOR, and LSA DEI Office
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2025
March 22
On the Militancy of Resisting the Reparative: Wound Aesthetics, Confusional Aesthetics
In Our Decline, Keynote address
Symposium with Simone Aughterlony, Jen Rosenblit, and Jack Halberstam
The Invisible Dog Art Center
Brooklyn, USA
2025
March 3
The Psychoanalyticopolitics of Exigent Sadism: Cost, Expenditure, Repair
Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Studies Study Group
British Sociological Association
Virtual Event
2025
March 2
Introduction to Traumatophilia: A Conversation With Andrea Rimon and Sophia Mindus
Queer Intimacies Conference – The Theory and Practice of Queer(ing) Sex, Kink, and Intimacies
Karada House, Berlin
Virtual Event
2025
February 23
Disinvitations: Fascist Accelerants
Panel on Fascism with Dagmar Herzog and Sophie Lewis
Psychoanalysis <> Politics: The Impossible Relation
NYC, USA
2025
February 7
Psychoanalytic Considerations Regarding Hormone Blocking and Hormonal Treatments in Work with Transgender Children
Pink Therapy, UK
Virtual Event
2025
January 30
Exigent Sadism: Power of Leather Series
Conversation with Yin Q, moderated by Kassandra Sparks
CLAGS, The Graduate Center CUNY
NYC, USA
2024
December 5
Gender Without Identity: A Psychoanalysis for Trans Flourishing
Tavistock External Lectures on Trauma, Tavistock Trauma Service
Virtual Event
2024
December 4
Psychoanalysis as Political Theory: Exigent Sadism and Libidinal Divestment
Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Columbia University
NYC, USA
2024
November 14
To Carve Is to Care: the Wound As Site of Possibility
Panel with Eng-Beng Lim, MJ Tom, Alx Velozo, Lena Chen, Kassandra Sparks, and Avgi Saketopoulou
American Studies Association
Baltimore, USA
2024
November 8
Discussion of Julia Jarcho’s Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism, with Julia Jarcho, Amber Musser, and Avgi Saketopoulou
TAPS Fall 2024 Theatre and Performance Studies Graduate
Colloquium Speaker Series
Brown University
Rhode Island, USA
2024
November 6
Christopher Breu’s In Defense of Sex: Nonbinary Embodiment and Desire (Fordham UP, 2024), and Kirin Wachter-Grene’s Forthcoming volume Black Kenosis: the Erotic Undoing of African American Literature (Fordham UP, 2025): Authors in Conversation with Ann Pellegrini and Avgi Saketopoulou
Bureau for General Services-Queer Division
NY, USA
2024
October 26-27
Structures of Unfeeling, Keynote
Lingering in the Wound: Sadism and Confusion as Aesthetic Practice
SOHERE
Tanzhaus Zurich, Switzerland
Symposium, Risking Repetition: Aesthetics of “Survival” Conversation with Carolina Mendonça and Joshua Wicke
SOHERE
Tanzhaus Zurich, Switzerland
2024
October 17-19
Luxurious Expenditures: Bataille and Contemporary Theory
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
“Not a Luxury”
CUNY Graduate Center, Park Avenue Armory, Department of Humanities and Media Studies (HMS), School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (SLAS), Pratt Institute
NYC, USA
2024
September 28
Hormone Blocking and Hormonal Treatments in Work with Transgender Children: Psychoanalytic Considerations
The Southeast Florida Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (SEFAPP)
Virtual Event, West Palm Beach, FL
2024
September 21-22
Immersive Study Weekend, “Slave Play”
Study Group
The Red Clinic
London, UK
2024
September 14
Panel, The Panhandler Project and Interclass Contact
“In Your Face: Barbara DeGenevieve, Artist & Educator”,
SAIC Galleries
Symposium Theme “In Your Face: Transgressive Pleasures”
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2024
June 23
Exigent Sadism: A Psychoanalyticopolitical Concept
With discussions by Lisa Duggan, Noëlle McAfee, and Lara Sheehi
Virtual event by The Red Clinic, London
2024
June 17
Gender Without Identity: A Conversation between Ann Pellegrini, Avgi Saketopoulou, Christina Antoinette Neofotistou, and Athena Athanasiou
Orlando LGBT+ Greece
Athens, Greece
2024
June 2
Beyond Consent and Without Identity
A Conversation Between Simon(e) Van Sarloos and Avgi Saketopoulou
Understory, 528 8th Street
Oakland, CA
2024
May 31
Psychic Precarity: A Conversation Between Ranjana Khanna and Avgi Saketopoulou About “Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia”
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
2024
May 21
Sexuality Beyond Consent
The Guild of Psychotherapists, Race and Culture Committee
Yale Psychiatry Residents
Virtual Event
2024
May 18
Scientific Meeting, Discussant for Oren Gozlan’s Paper
The Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis
Virtual Event
2024
May 18
Resisting the Allure of the Reparative: the Ethics of Sadism, the Ethics of Responsibility
“Social Structures and their Symptoms: Psychoanalysis in Clinical Practice and Social Theory”
Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago
Chicago, USA
2024
May 16
Traumatophilia: Notes on Libidinal Fugitivity Traumatophilia: Notes on Libidinal Fugitivity
Paul A. Dewald Lecture
St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute
Virtual Event
2024
April 28
Traumatophilia Workshop, with Avgi Saketopoulou and Jyoti Rao
The Guild of Psychotherapists, Race and Culture Committee
‘Radical Roots vs Today’s Hubris’
UK
2024
April 26
Ann Pellegrini and Avgi Saketopoulou: Gender Without Identity
Psychoanalysis Study group
Leslie Center for the Humanities
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
2024
April 22
Thinking Gender Without Identity
Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Tehran, Iran
2024
April 20
Transition All the Way Down: Against Core Gender Identity
Greene Clinic
Brooklyn, NY USA
2024
April 20
Repetition and the Thirst Trap of Trauma in Carolina Bianchi’s The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella
Massachusetts Association of Psychoanalytic Psychology
2024
April 12
Gender Without Identity, Development Without Developmentalism
Denver Psychoanalytic Society
2024
April 5
Sadisms: the Ruse and the Risk
Keynote Address
Division 39 Annual Meeting, Theme: “Sex”
Washington DC, USA
2024
April 4
Meet-the-Author: Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini, “Gender Without Identity”
Division 39 Annual Meeting, Theme: “Sex”
Washington DC, USA
2024
March 30
Beyond Platitudes and Party Lines: Transness and Trauma As Generative Resource in Queer Life
Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
NYC, USA
2024
March 16
Gender Through the Resource of Traumatophilia: Psychoanalytic Ethics and Intergenerational Trauma
Psychoanalytic Soirée
IPA Vermont Psychoanalytic Study Group
Burlington, VT, USA
2024
March 13
Avgi Saketopoulou and Ed Cohen present “Sexuality Beyond Consent” and “On Learning to Heal”
P&T Knitwear Bookstore
NYC, USA
2024
March 9
Against Transantagonism: A Metapsychology for the Flourishing of Trans Children
Beata Rank Lecture
Boston Psychoanalytic Institute & Society
Boston, USA
2024
March 8
The Force of Trauma, the Force of Desire: Carolina Bianchi’s Cadela Força
Graduate Theatre and Performance Studies Colloquium
Brown University
Providence, RI
2024
March 4
Can We Think Gender Without Recourse to Identity?
Emory University Psychoanalytic Studies Program
Colloquium Series
Atlanta, GA , USA
2024
March 2
Gender, Race, and Sexuality Through the Resource of Traumatophilia
Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in Southern California
CA, USA
2024
February 24
On Taking Sides: Clinical Encounters With Nonbinary Genders
Distinguished Speaker Series
Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Virtual Event | Seattle, USA
2024
February 17
Trauma As Resource: Thinking Differently About Race, Sexuality, and Gender
KOWA group
Pittsburgh, USA
2024
February 11
Gender Without Identity: Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini with Barnaby Barratt
Thinking Psychoanalytically with Michael Benn
Live Conversation
NYC, USA
2024
January 28
Gender Identity: Critical Interrogations of a Stalemated Concept
Division 39
Kadji Amin, Ann Pellegrini, and Avgi Saketopoulou
Virtual Event
2024
January 28
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Avgi Saketopoulou in Conversation With Barnaby Barratt
Thinking Psychoanalytically with Michael Benn
Live Conversation
Johannesburg, South Africa
2024
January 20
European Book Tour
Philosophical Colloquium with Avgi Saketopoulou on “Sexuality Beyond Consent”, curated by Stefanie Rinke and Tobias Wieland
Expanding Body Thoughts, Prospectives for the Future
Institut Für Körperforschung Und Sexuelle Kultur
Berlin, Germany
2024
January 19
European Book Tour
Gender Without Identity, Authors Discuss With Ruth Ramsden-Karelse and Marta Aleksandrowicz
Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Berlin, Germany
2024
January 18
European Book Tour
Gender Without Identity, Book Presentation by Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini
Freud Museum
Vienna, Austria | Watch here
2024
January 17
European Book Tour
Keynote Event on Gender Without Identity and Transdisciplinary Roundtable with Ben Moore, Lieks Hettinga, Marija Cetinić, and Eva Hayward
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies
Trans* and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Contemporary Cultural Issues, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Netherlands School for Cultural Analysis
Gender Studies Department, Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands
2024
January 17
European Book Tour
Gender, Psychoanalysis, and Beyond: (Re)Thinking Embodiment, Culture, and Trauma – Workshop and Roundtable with Ann Pellegrini and Avgi Saketopoulou
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies
Trans* and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Contemporary Cultural Issues, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Netherlands School for Cultural Analysis
Gender Studies Department, Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands
2024
January 16
European Book Tour
Gender Without Identity, with Discussion with Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini
‘We Have Never Had Sex’ — Seminar Series (2024)
Sex Negativity, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
The Netherlands School for Cultural Analysis
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2024
January 15
European Book Tour
Gender Without Identity, with Discussion with Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini
Libreria Antigone
Milan, Italy
2024
January 13
European Book Tour
Gender Without Identity, Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini Discuss With Joanna Kellond
Event Sponsored by the Red Clinic
Brighton, UK | Watch here
2024
January 12
Sexuality Beyond Consent: A Conversation Between Adam Phillips and Avgi Saketopoulou
Freud Museum, Event Sponsored by the Red Clinic
London, UK | Watch here
2023
November 20
Sexuality Beyond Consent: a Conversation Between Avgi Saketopoulou and Lakshmi Padmanabhan
Freud Museum, London
Virtual Event
2023
November 5
Getting Turned on in the Theater: the Thirst Trap of Trauma and Ethical Sadism
In panel “Public Sex”, American Studies Association
Montreal, Canada
2023
October 28
Traumatophilia and Anti-Racist Racism: On Brushing Up Against Wounds
Distinguished Speakers Series
Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study
Virtual Event
2023
October 23
Palestine Solidarity: Speak Out/Talk Back
The Red Clinic
Online Event | Watch here
2023
October 13
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
Group Discussion
Grief, Queerness, and Disability Reading Group
University of Texas at Austin, USA
2023
October 12
Trauma As Thirst Trap: “Fuck Catharsis” and the Work of Carolina Bianchi.
Keynote “Sexuality Beyond the Law” Conference
Comparative Literary Studies
Northwestern University
Chicago, USA
2023
October 7
Gender Without Identity
Invited address with Dr. Ann Pellegrini
Psychology and the Other
Boston, USA
2023
October 5
Gender Without Identity: Book Reading and Conversation with the Authors
All She Wrote Books
Psychology and the Other
Sommerville, MA. USA
2023
October 5
Doing Things With Trauma: an Introduction to Traumatophilia
Pre-Conference Day-Long Workshop
Psychology and the Other
Boston, USA
2023
September 28
Gender Without Identity
Barnard Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Barnard Center for Research on Women
NYC, USA | Watch here
2023
July 20
Book Reading/Signing: Gender Without Identity
Books & Books, Inc.
Coral Gables FL, USA
2023
June 22
Book Reading: Gender Without Identity
With co-author Ann Pellegrini & Kadji Amin as Interlocutor
Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, Virtual Event
NYC, USA
2023
June 15
In-Person Book Launch: Gender Without Identity
With co-author Dr. Ann Pellegrini, & Griffin Hansbury as Interlocutor
Bureau of General Services, Queer Division
NYC, USA
2023
June 12
A Psychoanalysis Worth Fighting For: Towards the Flourishing of Queer and Trans Life
Queer(ing) Psychoanalysis Lecture Series
International Psychoanalytic University
Berlin, Germany
2023
June 10
Reflections on Gender and the Infantile Sexual: How We Work With Gender and How Gender Works Us
Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft / German Psychoanalytical Society
Weimar, Germany
2023
May 19
Beyond Repair: On the Sadism of Performance
Object Relations Symposium: Performance and Race at the Edge of Theory
Northwestern University
Evanston, USA
2023
May 8
Ethical Sadism and the Erotics of Racism: From Trauma to Traumatophilia
Sponsoring organizations: JPACP (The Johannesburg Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy Group) in association with the (ACPP) Association of Couples Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Groups, South Africa and SAPC (the South African Psychoanalytic Confederation)
Scientific Meeting
Johannesburg, South Africa
2023
May 7
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia Psychoanalytic Book Launch With Avgi Saketopoulou, Dominique Scarfone, Michelle Stephens, moderated by Kristen Beesley
Virtual Event | Watch here
2023
May 6
Sebastian Thrul Interviews Avgi Saketopoulou on Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
Free Association, FORWARD
Virtual Event | Watch here
2023
April 29
Meet the Author: Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
Division 39, Annual Spring Meeting
New York, USA
2023
April 26
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia; A Conversation Between Avgi Saketopoulou and Samantha Rose Hill
New York University Bookstore
New York, USA
2023
April 22
The Work of Gender and Sexuality and How Gender and Sexuality Work Us: Part II, Gender and Sexuality
Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)
Faculty Development Workshop
New York, USA
2023
April 1
Gender Without Identity, Psychoanalysis Without Etiology: On Not Harming Trans Children and on the Flourishing of Trans Life
Seminar Series
IARPP, Australian Chapter
2023
March 31
An Introduction to Traumatophilia: Race, Trauma, Transformation
Organized by The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
London, UK
2023
March 28
In Panel- Taking Time: a Psychosocial Exploration of Waiting and Care With the Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS)
Waiting Times: a Multi-Stranded Research Project on the Temporalities of Healthcare
London, UK
2023
March 23
An Evening of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Avgi Saketopoulou in Conversation With Romy Reading
Relational track event
New York University Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
New York, USA
2023
March 11-12
Candidate Seminar – Doing Things With Trauma: an Introduction to Traumatophilia
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, Visiting Scholar
San Francisco, USA
2023
March 11
Community Presentation – Dilating Psychoanalytic Trauma Discourse: on Pleasure and Poignancy
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, Visiting Scholar
San Francisco, USA
2023
March 10
Faculty Talk – One Is Not Born but Becomes Queer: the Fiction of Gender Identitya
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, Visiting Scholar
San Francisco, USA
2023
January 19
Talkback – “Slave Play”
Short North Stage
Ohio, USA
2023
January 18
Towards a Theory of Traumatophilia: Translation, De-Translation, Re-Translation
Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Quebec English Branch
Montreal, Canada
2023
January 14
The Work of Gender and Sexuality and How Gender and Sexuality Work Us: Part I, Gender
Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)
Faculty Development Workshop
NY, USA
2023
January 7
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Trans Adolescence: Puberty as Threshold
Panel: Trans and non-binary genders across the age spectrum: a symposium
honoring the memory of Dr. Don Spivak
Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
Michigan, USA
2023
January 3
Queer Desire and the Post-Colonial: Beyond Repetition Compulsion
Keynote Address
Conference on Queerness
Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis, IPA
New Delhi, India
2022
November 26
Contemporary Views on Sex and Gender: Frosso Moureli and Christina Azopoulou interview Avgi Saketopoulou
Τρόποι και τόποι αντίστασης, ασφάλειας και πολυφωνίας: Ανισότητες, βίες και καταστροφές/Modes and loci of resistance, security, and polyphony: Inequities, violences and destructions.
Εταιρεία Οικογενειακής Θεραπείας Βόρειας Ελλάδας/Institute for Family Therapy of Northern Greece
Thessaloniki, Greece
2022
November 3
Towards a Theory of Traumatophilia
In panel: Burning Down the House of Trauma.
American Studies Association
Theme: The Roof is on Fire
New Orleans, USA
2022
October 23
Puberty as Threshold: Psychoanalytic Considerations Regarding Hormone Blocking and Cross-Sex Hormones in Work With Transgender Children
Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis
LGBTQ Workshop
Washington DC, USA
2022
October 21
Trans Adolescents, Trans Embodiment: Rethinking Metapsychology, Rethinking Technique
Sexual Diversity and Gender in Children and Adolescents
First Congress on Research on Babies, Children, and Adolescents
Department of Children and Adolescents of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association
Online Event
2022
October 16
Pedagogical Issues in Training Candidates and Issues of Professional Development in Thinking About and Working With the Range of Trans Experience
Dallas Psychoanalytic Center
Faculty Training Workshop
Texas, USA
2022
October 15
Puberty as Threshold: Psychoanalytic Considerations Regarding Hormone Blocking and Cross-Sex Hormones in Work With Transgender Children
Dallas Psychoanalytic Center
Community Workshop
Texas, USA
2022
May 28
Towards a Theory of Traumatophilia: De-Translation, Re-Translation, and Limit Consent
Forum, Sociedad de Psicoterapia Psicoanalítica
Madrid, Spain
2022
April 2
Anti-Racist Racism: Trauma, Traumatism, Traumatophilia
Division 39, APA, Scholarship award paper
41st Annual meeting, Division 39
2022
April 1
On the Limits of Transcendence and Repair: a Conversation About Thinking About Intersectionality Differently
Steering Committee Invited Panel
41st Annual Meeting, Division 39
2022
March 19
They/Them: On Non-Binary Gender and Non-Binary Patients
Scientific Meeting, co-presented with Dr. Ann Pellegrini
Institute for Psychoanalytic Theory and Research, NY
2022
March 18
Sexual Trauma Play: Repetition Compulsion, Erotic Excitement, and Traumatophilia
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, NY
2022
March 12
March 13
Immersive Study Weekend, “Slave Play”
Private Study Group
Los Angeles, USA
2022
March 4
March 5
A Psychoanalytic Theory of Consent: Racialization, Overwhelm and the Detranslation of Enigma
When the Infantile Sexual Infuses Erotic Countertransferences: Ethics and the Role of the Psychoanalytic Collective
Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center
2022
February 26
Thinking and Working Relationally With Transgender Patients
Integrating Relational Theory into Clinical Practice-Keynote Lecture
Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, DC
2022
February 12
February 13
Traumatophilic Repetitions and the Suffering of Pleasure
The Alternative Sexualities Health Alliance, TASHRA
2022
January 29
On the Psychic Afterlife of Racial Slavery: Limit Consent, Repetition, and Degrees of Psychic Freedom
Oregon Psychoanalytic Center
2022
January 8
January 9
Immersive Study Weekend, “Slave Play”
Private Study Group
Virtual Meeting for NYU Postdoc Candidates, USA
2021
November 19
From Affirmative Consent to Limit Consent; Infantile Sexuality, Risk, and States of Overwhelm
George Washington University
2021
November 13
Towards a Theory of Traumatophilia: De-Translation, Sovereign Experience, Racialization
The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, London
2021
October 13
Repetition and Traumatophilia: Race, Performance, and the Sexual Drive
In Panel: Revolting Bodies, Revolting Pleasures: Sexual Excessibility
With Amber Musser, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, and Ann Pellegrini
American Studies Association, Puerto Rico
2021
October 2
From Traumatophobia to Traumatophilia: Racialization, Sovereign Experience, and the Action of De-Translation
Laplanche in the States: The Sexual and the Cultural
In conversation with Tim Dean and Eng-Beng Lim
2021
July 31
In Panel: Between the Infantile and Representation: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Limit-Experience
52 IPA Congress, Online Congress
2021
July 31
Case discussion
52 IPA Congress, Online Congress
2021
July 31
A Feminine Boy: Normative Investments and Reparative Fantasy at the Intersections of Gender, Race, and Religion
First Tiresias Award, paper co-presented with Dr. Ann Pellegrini
Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee of the IPA
52 IPA Congress, Online Congress
2021
May 13
Limit Consent and Traumatophilia: the Slave Play in Slave Play
Invited Panel: Race, Consent, and Kink: Imagining Sexual Justice
With Amber Musser, Claire Warden, Teniece Divya Johnson, and Timothy S. Jones
Theater and Performance Studies Department, Stanford University
2021
April 3
Pedagogical Considerations in Teaching Courses on Psychosexuality to Psychoanalytic Candidates
Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis
Faculty Development Workshop
2021
March 6
Classical Psychoanalytic Theory Refracted Through a Contemporary Queer and Social Justice Lens
Contemporary Freudian Society
Faculty Development Workshop
2021
February 13
In Plenary Panel: Power/Powerlessness
With Lara Sheehi, Mitchell Wilson, and Ann Pellegrini
American Psychoanalytic Association, National Winter Meeting
2021
February 12
Crisis As Opportunity: Covid, BLM, and Analytic Unsettlement
In Panel: Displacement and Disruption in our Psychoanalytic Location during the Pandemic: Daria Colombo, Anton Hart, and Avgi Saketopoulou in Conversation.
American Psychoanalytic Association, National Winter Meeting
Ticho Lecture Panel
2020
July 1
Risking Sexuality Beyond Consent: Overwhelm and the Suffering of Pleasure in Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play
William Alanson White Institute, LGBTQ Study Group
Pride Month Lecture
New York, USA
2019
December 6
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Infantile Sexuality, Chattel Slavery and Overwhelm
Keeping Our Work Alive (KOWA)
Pittsburgh, USA
2019
November 8
Limit Consent: Asymmetries of Power, Passibility and the Infantile Sexual
51st ATPPP – Scientific Meeting
Toronto Psychoanalytic Society
Toronto, Canada
2019
October 25
The Draw to Overwhelm: Psychoanalytic Considerations on Risk and Consent
Colloquium Series
Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis
NY, USA
2019
September 28
Gender, Binding and the Sexual: on the Analyst’s Countertransferential Agitation
First Study Day on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives
in Gender, Diversity and Sexualities, IPA
Brussels, Belgium
2019
July 23
Non-Binary Gender and the Erotogenic Body
In pre-conference workshop Contemporary Models of Gender and Sexuality
51st IPA Congress on “The Feminine”
London, UK
2019
July 23
The Metapsychological Work of “The Feminine”
In panel The fantasy of ‘The Feminine’(And Some Thoughts About ‘The Masculine’) in Psychoanalysis.
51st IPA Congress on “The Feminine”
London, UK
2019
June 4
States of Overwhelm: Consent, Risk and the Sexual Life and Death Drives
Scientific Meeting, Columbia Psychoanalytic Institute
NY, USA
2019
April 6
Case Discussant, Child/Adolescent Section
39th Annual meeting, Division 39
Philadelphia, USA
2019
March 16
States of Overwhelm: Consent, Risk and the Sexual Life and Death Drives
44th Symposium,
Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
MI, USA
2019
February 9
On the Analyst’s Frustration With Culture-Wide Shifts: the Social As Metapsychological Opportunity
Invited Panel: The Analyst’s Anxieties in a Skeptical Culture: Do We Still Believe in What We Do?
Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association
NY, USA
2019
February 7
Transphobic Countertransferences: Dynamic Underpinnings and Emergent New Forms
Invited Panel, Committee on Gender and Sexuality
Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association
NY, USA
2018
December 14
How the World Becomes Bigger; #MeToo, Gender and the Fate of the Social in the Après-Coup
Psychoanalyse, Etudes de Genre, Etudes Postcoloniales: Etat de l’ Arte
Diderot University
Paris, France
2018
November 21
Tζένη: Ο Ρόλος Της Μελλοντικότητας Σε Κλινική Εργασία Με Ένα Τρανς Κορίτσι Jenny: the Role of Futurity in Clinical Work With a Transgender Girl
LGBTQI rights, mental health and social implications
Orlando LGBT+
Athens, Greece
2018
November 14
Κανονιστικό Και Μη Kανονιστικό Φύλο: Εμφύτευση, Διείσδυση, Και Βαθμοί Ψυχικής Ελευθερίας (Normative and Non-Normative Gender: Implantation, Intromission, and Degrees of Psychic Freedom)
12th conference of the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Association
Athens, Greece
2018
October 27
#MeToo: Consent, Sex Panics, and Positional Believability
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Weekend Retreat
Chappaqua, USA
2018
October 20
#MeToo: Temporality, Trauma and the Après-Coup
New Center for Psychoanalysis
Los Angeles, USA
2018
October 18
Boyhood Femininity: Familial Investments and the Fantasy of Normative Gender
New Center for Psychoanalysis
Los Angeles, USA
2018
September 8
Rethinking Pornography: Depathologization and the Anxiety of Regulation
Dialogues on Pornography
New Mexico, USA
2018
June 14
Queer: the Anti-Identity Identity
In panel: Occupying the Session/Standing between Fixed and Fluid Political Identities
IARPP Annual Meeting
NY, USA
2018
May 4
Understanding the Infantile Erotic Countertransference: Ethics, Infantile Sexuality and the Role of the Psychoanalytic Collective
Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
Chicago, USA
2018
April 24
A Feminine Boy: Normative Investments and Reparative Fantasy
Institute for Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology
NY, USA
2018
March 23
How the World Becomes Bigger – Implantation, Intromission and the Après-Coup (Discussion of Paper by Jonathan House)
Metapsychological Series on the Unconscious: Jean Laplanche
William Alanson White Institute
NY, USA
2018
February 24
Understanding the Infantile Erotic Countertransference: Ethics, Infantile Sexuality and the Role of the Psychoanalytic Collective
Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis
MA, USA
2018
January 21
A Feminine Boy: Normative Investments and Reparative Fantasy
Faculty Development Workshop
Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
2018
January 20
Understanding the Infantile Erotic Countertransference: Ethics, Infantile Sexuality and the Role of the Psychoanalytic Collective in Mourning the Patient As a Sexual Object
Ethics Committee and Patient and Colleague Assistance Committee
Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
2017
December 2
A Feminine Boy: Normative Investments and Reparative Fantasy
KOWA
Pittsburgh, USA
2017
July 27
The Infantile Erotic Countertransference and the Work of Renunciation
In panel: Eros in the Consulting Room: Mourning, Ethics and Psychoanalytic Community
50th Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017
May 12
May 13
Psychosexuality: Translating Theory to Clinical Practice
Invited workshop
The Miami Consortium for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Miami, USA
2017
May 2
The Infantile Erotic Countertransference: Relinquishing Our Patients As Erotic Objects
William Alanson White Institute
NY, USA
2017
April 29
The Draw to Overwhelm: Perverse Sexuality As a Portal to Enigma
Invited Panel: Radical and Transgressive Sexualities: Dys-regulating, Un-binding and the Re-translating of Enigma
37th Annual Spring Meeting
American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis,
NY, USA
2017
April 28
Relinquishing Our Patients As Sexual Objects: Mourning As the Work of a Psychoanalytic Collective
In panel: The Therapeutic Dyad’s Erotic Presence
37th Annual Spring Meeting
American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis,
NY, USA
2017
April 27
Trans, Hatred and Disavowal
Invited panel from Committee on Sexualities and Gender Identities: Ken Corbett’s, A Murder Over A Girl
American Psychological Association
NY, USA
2017
March 18
Transgender Life: Social and Clinical Considerations
New York Psychoanalytic Institute
NY, USA
2017
February 13
A Feminine Boy, Normative Investments and Reparative Fantasy
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
San Francisco, USA
2017
February 12
Relinquishing Our Patients As Erotic Objects: the Infantile Erotic Countertransference and the Work of Renunciation
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
San Francisco, USA
2017
February 2
Clinical Issues in Working With Atypically Gendered Children and Their Families CAPTP Colloquium
William Alanson White Institute
NY, USA
2016
December 3
Erotic Countertransference and the Analyst’s Work of Mourning
KOWA
Pittsburgh, USA
2016
November 12
The Unconscious As a Precondition for Language: the Work of Jean Laplanche
In panel: The La-La Showdown: A Lacan-Laplanche Debate
Any-Body, Anybody: The Matter of the Unconscious
New School for Social Research
NY, USA
2016
November 6
Erotic Countertransference: the Analyst’s Infantile Sexuality and the Work of Renunciation
Relational Track Brunch
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
NY, USA
2016
October 23
Psychosis and the Spectrality of Gender; Working Psychoanalytically With Severely Mentally Ill Transgender Patients
Symposium: Transgender Identities: Transference and Countertransference
Institute for Psychoanalytic Therapy and Research (IPTAR)
NY, USA
2016
April 8
Freedom, Limit, and Erotics of the Consulting Room
Discussant of panel: So Sexy it Hurts: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Musings on the Erotic
36th Annual Spring Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis
American Psychological Association
Atlanta, USA
2016
February 19
Massive Gender Trauma, Psychosis and the Spectrality of Gender: Working Analytically With Severely Mentally Ill Transgender Patients
Austen Riggs Center
MA, USA
2016
January 13
Relinquishing Our Patients As Sexual Objects: a Commentary on Dimen’s “Rotten Apples and Ambivalence: Sexual Boundary Violations As a Problem of the Group”
Invited Ethics Panel
Winter Annual Meeting
American Psychoanalytic Association
NY, USA
2016
January 13
Reclaiming the Term Perversion: Transgressive Sexuality As a Portal to Unrepresented Experience
Invited Speaker, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Issues
Winter Annual Meeting
American Psychoanalytic Association
NY, USA
2015
December 5
Mourning the Body As Bedrock: Developmental Considerations in Treating Transsexual Patients Analytically
Scientific Meeting
Florida Psychoanalytic Center
FL, USA
2015
December 4
Trauma, Sexuality and Representation: the Role of Perversion
Visiting Analyst Forum
Florida Psychoanalytic Center
FL, USA
2015
November 4
Perversion’s Aspiration: Understanding the Psychic Labor Unique to Perverse and Transgressive Sexualities
Visiting Analyst Forum
Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, USA
2015
July 25
This Compromise Formation That Is Gender: Countertransferential Difficulties in Work With Transgender Analysands
49th Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association
Boston, USA
2015
July 24
Sexual Perversity Is to Sex What Camp Is to Gender: Metatheory and Clinical Practice
35th Annual Spring Meeting
American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis,
San Francisco, USA
2015
March 20
Psychoanalysis: Between Consenting Adults
Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy
NY, USA
2015
March 4
Perversion’s Aspiration: a Bid for the Enigmatic
Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy
NY, USA
2015
January 14
Working With Diverse Sexual and Gender Identities: a Case Discussion
Winter Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association
NY, USA
2014
November 20
Perversion’s Aspiration: Excess, Dysregulation, Unformulated States Fall Relational Colloquium
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
NY, USA
2014
October 14
Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Trigger Warning Debate: Signal Anxiety and the Trauma-Free Zone
Forum on “Taking Offense: Trigger Warnings and the Neo-Liberal Politics of Endangerment”
Co-sponsored by New York University Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and Studies in Gender and Sexuality
NY, USA
2014
October 8
Understanding the Psychic Labor of Perversion: Shifting From Etiology to Teleology
Psychoanalysis on Ice
Reykjavik, Iceland
2014
October 2
Working Psychoanalytically With the Transgender Patient: Developmental Considerations
Rue de Fleurus
New York Freudian Society
NY, USA
2014
September 20
On the Psychic Generativity of Perverse Sexualities
Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute
CT, USA
2014
June 13
Spectral Presences: How Massive Gender Trauma Disturbs Representational Capacity
Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference
Philadelphia, USA
2014
April 30
Suffering Pleasure: on Transgressive Sexuality’s Potential to Evoke Unrepresented Mental States
Colloquium
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Boston, USA
2014
April 26
Consent: a Doubletake on the Oedipal Complex
34th Annual Spring Meeting
Division of Psychoanalysis, APA
NYC, USA
2014
March 1
Gender: a Problem and a Solution
Symposium – Working with LGBTQ Children, Adolescents and their Families
William Alanson White Insitute
NY, USA
2014
January 15
Mourning the Natal Body: Developmental Considerations in Working With Transgender Patients
Winter Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association
NY, USA
2013
October 4
Coerced Into the Inevitable: Oedipus and the Myth of Consent
Psychology and the Other Conference
Boston, USA
2013
June 15
Developmental Fiascos: When Childhood Gender Variance Presses on Mental Health
Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference
PA, USA
2013
May 3
When a Queer Child Becomes a State of Exception: Re-Writing Oedipal Law
Worlds of Wonder: The Queerness of Childhood
Williams College
MA, USA
2013
April 27
The Pain/Pleasure Seam: Borrowing From French Psychoanalysis Global Psychoanalysis in a Social World
33nd Annual Spring Meeting
American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis,
Santa Fe, USA
2013
March 15
Binary As Symptom: the Analyst’s Unconscious
Discusssion of Barbara Tholfsen’s paper: “Can we talk? Relational and Lacanian Psychoanalysis on the brink of a conversation”
APPCSW Annual Meeting
North Carolina, USA
2013
January 27
Perversion’s Aspiration: Excess, Dysregulation, Unformulated States
Fall Relational Colloquium
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
NY, USA
2013
January 27
The Goldilocks Axiom in Sex and Gender.
Discussion of Andrea Celenza’s paper “Perverse female strategies: the creation of an objectified self”
Winter Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association
NYC, USA
2012
October 19
To Suffer Pleasure: Sexuality, Limit Experience and the Shattering of the Ego
Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, Annual Colloquium
NY, USA
2012
June 16
Thinking With Sexual Aberrations: Sexuality and Limit Experience
In panel: ‘Do we still need the concept of sexual aberrations?’
101st Summer Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Chicago, USA
2012
March 2
Playing Well With Others; Psychoanalysis and Inter-Disciplinarity
Invited panel: ‘Sex and Gender in the Relational Tradition: Two Generations Take Stock’. The Legacy of Stephen Mitchell: Sustaining Creativity in our Psychoanalytic Work
Annual IARPP Meeting
NY, USA
2012
April 21
Where Psyche Meets Culture: the Work of Alfred Lorenzer
Invited panel: ‘A Roundtable on the Contemporary Context of Clinical Practice’. The Leading Edge of Creativity
32nd Annual Spring Meeting
American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis
Santa Fe, USA
2012
February 25
Mourning the Body: Severe Mental Health Risks in Failure to Mentalize the Natal Body
Third Annual Trans-Symposium
Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy
NY, USA
2012
January 12
Bionian Work With a Gender Variant Analysand
In Discussion Group 71: A Classic Unvisited: The Clinical Value of the Ideas of Wilfred Bion
100th Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association
NY, USA
2011
December 12
Beyond Black and White: the Psychic Labor of Sexual Aberrations
Invited Roundtable Discussion: Do We Still Need the Concept of Sexual Aberrations? If yes, when? If not, why not?’
New York Medical School Psychoanalytic Institute
NY, USA
2011
October 21
Diaspora, Exile, Colonization: Masculinity Dislocated
Invited panel: ‘Diasporic Masculinities’
In Conference: “Masculinities, Complex”
Co-sponsored by CLAGS, CUNY and Studies in Gender and Sexuality
NY, USA
2011
June 29
Unpacking Consent Psychoanalytically; Fantasy, Temporality and Subjectivity
In panel: ‘Renovating Psychoanalysis: Clinical meets theoretical’
Changing Psychoanalysis for a Changing Society: Relational Perspective
Annual IARPP Meeting
Madrid, Spain
2011
April 15
Consent: Complications
In Panel: ‘19th century theory meets 21st century clinical practice’
How we Matter: Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century
31st Annual Spring Meeting
American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis,
NY, USA
2011
February 15
Race Does Gender: Lessons From the Psychodynamic Treatment of a Black, Gender Variant Child
New York University Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
NY, USA
2011
January 12
Aberrant Sexualities: Where Do We Draw the Clinical Line?
In Special Symposium: ‘Whip Smart’-Sex, Sadomasochism and Psychoanalysis
Annual Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association
NY, USA
2010
October 23
Beyond Color-Blindedness in Gender
In panel: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice
Annual Meeting of The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society
Rutgers University
NJ, USA
2010
September 23
Consent’s Enigmas and Complications; Where Trauma Meets Sexual Sadomasochism
3rd Annual Alternative Sexualities Conference: Cultural Competencies, Clinical Issues, Research. Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities, LGBT Center
San Francisco, USA
2010
September 23
Non-Consensual Consent; Under the Aegis of the Unconscious
In panel: ‘Beyond Neutrality: On Taking Sides and Speaking the Unspeakable’
Wild Analysis: Then (1910) and Now (2010)
30th Annual Spring Meeting
American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis,
Chicago, USA
2010
April 23
Immigration; Trauma in the Shadow of the State
In panel: ‘Where the Wild Things Live: The use of a Supervision Group to Contain and Elaborate Disavowed and Multiple Self-Other Configurations
\Wild Analysis: Then (1910) and Now (2010)
30th Annual Spring Meeting
American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis
Chicago, USA
2010
April 7
Non-Consensual Consent; Under the Aegis of the Unconscious
In panel: ‘Beyond Neutrality: On Taking Sides and Speaking the Unspeakable’
Critical Social Theory: Freud and Lacan for the 21st Century
The VII Annual Social Theory Forum
University of Massachusetts
Boston, USA
2010
February 25
On Consent; Race, Sexuality and Psychoanalysis
Plenary Panel on Psychoanalysis, Desire and Consent
Expanding the Relational Context
Annual Conference of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis
San Francisco, USA
2010
October 15
Ferenczi: the Analyst of Last Resort, Understanding Primitive Mental States
Clinical Case Presenter
Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the New York Freudian Society
NY, USA
2009
April 30
Child Predators: Where Psychic Panic Collapses the Seam Between Reality and Fantasy
Spectacles of Childhood: Law, Child Pornography, and Sex Panic
Co-Sponsored by NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Studies in Gender and Sexuality
NY, USA
2008
January 18
Unconscious Fantasy in Working Relationally With a Terminally Ill Patient
Clinical Case Presenter
Interpretation from a Relational Perspective
Annual Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association
NY, USA
2006
April 20
Personal and Relational Meanings in Consensual Sadomasochism: Interviews With Practitioners (video Interviews)
Love, Desire and Passions: Variety, Enigma and the Disruption of Psychoanalysis
26th Annual Spring Meeting
American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis
Philadelphia, USA
2004
November 5
Revisiting Alternative Sexualities in the Consulting Room; Interviews With Sadomasochists
Love and Desire
NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Annual Retreat
CT, USA
2002
March 13
The Contribution of Early Childhood Experience on the Marquis De Sade’s Thought and Literary Production
First International Congress on Sade
University of South Carolina
Charleston, USA
2002
March 5
What Do (Wo)men Want: Gender Confusion and Narration of (Fe)male Desire in the Works of the Marquis De Sade
Enlightenment and Modernity
26th Annual Meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
NY, USA
2001
January 13
Beyond Sade and Evil: a Psychoanalytic Exploration of Self-Other Relations
25th Annual Meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Halifax, Canada