March 2023: Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, "The Racial Legacy of Freud's Psychoanalysis."

Dec.  2021:  Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, discussant for Daniel Gaztambide, “A People’s History of

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:
 

March 2023: "The Racial Legacy of Freud's Psychoanalysis." Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis,

 

Dec.  2021:  discussant for Daniel Gaztambide, “A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Historical Memory to Clinical Praxis.” Chicago Psychoanalytic Society.

 Sept. 2021: “Port in a Storm: A Congolese Woman in Chicago.” American Psychoanalytic Association, 110th Annual Meeting. 
                   
March 2021:  simultaneous translation from the French for Mireille Fanon Mendes-France, plenary address, Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (APA Division 39).
 
Oct. 2020: “Psychoanalysis and the Colonial Imagination,” as part of a course on “Psyche and the Social Surround.” Boston Psychoanalytic Institute & Society.
 
Sept. 2020: “The Racial Inheritance of Psychoanalysis.” Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society.

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Feb. 2020: “The Racial Inheritance of Psychoanalysis: The Question of Primitivity.” New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: 
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Feb. 2020: “Reading Freud’s Group Psychology Against the Grain.” American Psychoanalytic Association National Meeting.
 
Dec. 2019: “Facets of Race in Psychoanalysis: The Issue of the Primitive.” Workshop with Francisco González, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

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April 2019: “The Psychology and Politics of Recognition,” panel on Frantz Fanon and Issues of Race in the Clinic and Community with Steven Knoblauch and Annie Lee Jones. APA Division of Psychoanalysis Spring Meeting, Philadelphia.

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Feb. 2019: “Race and Psychoanalysis.”  A conversation with Danjuma Gibson, author of Frederick Douglass: A Psychobiography. Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.
 
January 2019: “Why Study Freud?” Center for Religion & Psychotherapy of Chicago.
 
Dec. 2017: “The Moral Third and the Law of Bare Life.” Respondent for Jessica Benjamin, The Wolf’s Dictionary: Analyzing a Predatory World View. Chicago Psychoanalytic Society.

 

April 2017: “Fanon, Race, and Psychoanalysis.” conference on Race and Resistance in a Psychoanalytic Key. Institute for Clinical Social Work, Chicago IL.
 
October 2015: “The Banality of Racism: Freud and Arendt.” Psychology and the Other Conference: Leslie College, Cambridge Mass.

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April 2015: “Towards an alternative conception of the Oedipal register,” panel with Jessica Benjamin, The Moral Third in Psychic and Social Extremity. APA Division 39 (Division of Psychoanalysis) spring conference.

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October 2013: “Witnessing and the Law of Bare Life,” with Jessica Benjamin, Psychology and the Other Conference, Leslie College, Cambridge, Mass.
 
May 7, 2011: “Culture Shock!” Bard College: Talk with students preparing to visit the Middle East.

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April 2011: “Primitive Pasts, Civilizing Practices: From racialized lives to race in psychoanalytic theory.” Panel with Lewis Aron and Karen Starr. American Psychological Association Division 39 (Division of Psychoanalysis) Spring meeting.

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March 2010: “Religion meets Religious Studies: Psychology and Religion,” panelist with Dan P. McAdams, James W. Jones Christine Helmer, Robert A. Orsi at Northwestern University.
 
February 2008: “The History of the Relationship between Religion and Psychotherapy.” Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, conference on Religion and Psychotherapy: Collaboration or Conflict?

 

Nov. 2007. University of Chicago Rockefeller Chapel Annual Memorial Address.
 
August 2006. “Paradigms for Thinking about the Psychological Functions of Religion.” Psychiatry Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
 
January 2005. "Religion and Psychoanalysis: A Discussion on Race and Gender." panelist with Françoise Meltzer and Amy Hollywood, University of Chicago Divinity School.
 
June 2004: “Race in Psychoanalysis: The Colonialist Legacy of Freud’s Thought.” American Psychoanalytic Association, San Francisco, 93rd Annual Meeting.

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March 2004. “Psychoanalysis and Cultural Identifications.” New York University, Gallatin School, Interdisciplinary Humanities Colloquium.

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Nov. 2001. “The Colonialist Heritage of Psychoanalytic Thought.” Conference on Psychoanalysis and Social Change, sponsored by the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society,
Rutgers University.
 
October 2001. “Psychologies of Enthrallment: Race, Gender, and Primitivity in the Work of Sigmund Freud.” W.E.B. Du Bois Seminar on Psychoanalysis and the African American Subject, Johns Hopkins University.

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February 2001. “Primitive Encounters: Religion, Psychoanalysis and the Question of Race.” Yale University, Department of Religious Studies.
 
June 1995. “Disguise and Disclosure: Psychoanalysis and Religion in Paul Ricoeur’s Freud and Philosophy. Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.