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September 9, 2025

Book event for Simon(e) van Sarloos's Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto 
Hive Mind Books
Brooklyn, USA | 7pm-9pm, ET

September 25, 2025

Book Launch Event for Quill Kukla's "Sex Beyond Yes!"
Conversation between Quill Kukla and Avgi Saketopoulou
Bureau of General Services-Queer Division
The LGBT Community Center
NYC, USA | 7pm, ET

 

September 26, 2025

Traumatophilia: Notes on Libidinal Fugitivity
Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute
Virtual Event | 4pm to 7pm, ET

 

October 6, 2025

Fighting Fire with Fire: Aesthetics, Exigent sadism, Insurgency.
Avenali Lecture
315 Wheeler Hall - Maude Fife Room
Townsend Center for the Humanities
UC Berkeley
Berkeley CA, USA | 5pm, 
PT
 

October 7, 2025

Discussion of Avenali Lecture: Fighting Fire with Fire, with Paola Bacchetta, Eric Stanley, Damon Young, and Avgi Saketopoulou 
220 Stephens Hall - Townsend Center Geballe Room
Townsend Center for the Humanities
UC Berkeley
Berkeley CA, USA | 5pm, PT

October 25, 2025

Study Workshop on Carolina Bianchi's "The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella"
Private Study Day
Union Square, NY | 9am to 6pm, ET
 

October 26, 2025

A conversation on "The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella" between Carolina Bianchi, Carolina Mendonça, André Lepecki, and Avgi Saketopoulou
Performance Studies Department, NYU
721 Broadway, NY| 5:30-7:30pm, ET

October 29, 2025

Book Launch of Lucie Fielding's Trans Sex: Nurturing Trans Erotic Embodiment and Gender-Pleasure,conversation Between Lucie Fielding and Avgi Saketopoulou,
Bureau of General Services-Queer Division
The LGBT Community Center
NYC, USA | 7pm, ET

 

November 2, 2025

Clinical Presentation, with 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
In-person event, 240 Greene St, New York, NY 10003 | 10am, ET

 

November 6, 2025

A Metapsychology for the Flourishing of Trans Children: New and Queer Psychoanalytic Foundations
Scientific Meeting 
Finnish Psychoanalytical Society
Helsinki, Finland | 8pm EET

 

November 7-8, 2025

Thinking and Working With Gender and Sexuality Now: Psychotherapeutic Reflections 
Seminar sponsored by: 
Finnish Psychoanalytical Society
Integrative Psychotherapy Association
Helsinki, Finland | 10am to 4:30pm EET (both days)

 

November 20-22, 2025

Resisting the Reparative: Moving Beyond the Trauma Industry
Conference Theme: Late Stage American Empire
American Studies Association
Puerto Rico | 10:30am-12pm ET

December 4, 2025

Against Transantagonism: Towards a Metapsychology for the Flourishing of Trans Children
Invited Address
History and Philosophy of Science
The University of Sydney, Australia
Virtual Event | 1pm to 2:15pm, AEDT

 

December 5, 2025

TBD 
Colloquium, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis
Bureau of General Services--Queer Division at The Gay and Lesbian Center
NYC | 7:30pm to 9:30pm, ET

 

January 10, 2026

Risk in the psychoanalytic process: ethics, exposure, eroticism 
Sexual Boundary Violations Panel with Elizabeth Wallace, Avgi Saketopoulou, and Charles Levin
Houston Psychoanalytic Institute
Virtual Event | 10am to 1:15pm CST

 

February 8, 2026

Critical Childhood Studies for Psychoanalytic Thinking
1 of 2 Teaching modules for P-HOLE (Psychoanalytic Hub for Online Liberatory Education) 
Online Event | 12pm to 3pm, ET

 

February 15, 2026

Critical Childhood Studies for Psychoanalytic Thinking
2 of 2 Teaching modules for P-HOLE (Psychoanalytic Hub for Online Liberatory Education) 
Online Event | 12pm to 3pm, ET

February 28, 2026

March 13, 2026

Exigent sadism: theoretical and clinical dimensions of leaning into the anti-reparative turn
KOWA Group
Pittsburgh, in-person | 9am to 4pm, ET

 

Working clinically with overwhelm; the cost and growth-inducing possibilities of undoing the self 
Friday Night Guest Lecture
Austen Riggs Center
Virtual event | 6:30pm to 8pm, 
ET
 

March 21, 2026

TBD 
Child Colloquium
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
Virtual event | 10am to 12pm, PT

 

April 27, 2026

TBD
Centro Psicoanalitico di Roma
Online event | 9:15pm, CET

 

May 2, 2026

TBA
Keynote Address and Roundtable 
EPPIC (Expanding Psychoanalytic Practice in Communities)
Online Event | 12pm to 3pm, ET

[Information Forthcoming]
 

May 14, 2026

Revisiting "Minding the Gap" 
Yale Psychiatry Residents
Virtual event | 7:30pm to 9pm, ET

 

April 10, 2027

TBD 
California Institute of Integral Studies
San Francisco, CA | 10am to 1pm, PT

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