Events and Talks
Upcoming Events
July 11-12
Psychoanalysis, (Trans)gender, and Sexuality [Livestream]
Freud Museum, London, England.
Sept 17, 2020
Respondent to Derek Hook's "On the 'Pleasure of Hating': A Critical Introduction to the Idea of Racism as 'Enjoyment'." Boston College.
Nov 20th, 2020
"Race and Psychic Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, and the Politics of Race."
The Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA.
Jan 7-10, 2021
MLA Annual Convention, Toronto.
Feb. 27th, 2021
New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center.
March 3, 2021
Rhode Island Association for Psychoanalytic Psychologies.
April 30-May 2, 2021
Lack iv, Burlington, VT.
TBA
The Sexuality Studies Association.
Recent Events
Plenary Speaker- Psychology and the Other Conference.
“Psychoanalysis, Race and American Slavery: Rereading Pleasure and Discontent in Freud and Lacan.” Boston, MA: Boston College, Oct. 2019.
Plenary Speaker- Lack iii: Psychoanalysis and Separation.
“Racialization and Sexuation: The Channels of Jouissance in the Lacanian Subject.” Worcester, Ma: Clark U, May 2019.
Invited Lecturer- Maine Humanities Council’s 23rd Annual Winter Weekend.
"‘And Learned That Way Her Sorrow’: Beloved, Race and the Reader.” Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College, March, 2020.
Invited Speaker- Screening of Toni Morrison’s The Pieces I Am.
“The White Gaze in Morrison’s The Pieces I Am.” UMass Boston. Boston MA, Feb 2020.
Invited Lecturer- The Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society.
“Racial Trauma and the Making of Black Identity in Contemporary America.” Tampa, Florida, February 2020.
Invited Workshop Leader- Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology.
“Lacan, Death, and the Mythic Structure of Race.” Dallas, TX, May 2019.
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