LaConference 2025 Registration / Program
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LaConference 2025 will explore and honor the work of two remarkable and prolific psychoanalytic thinkers who left us too early: Anne Dufourmantelle (1964 – 2017) and Mari Ruti (1964 – 2023).
LaConference: Feminine Desire
Day 1 – Friday, October 17
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Registration & Morning Coffee
9:00 – 9:10 AM
Welcome: Hilda Fernandez
9:10 – 9:30 AM
Land Acknowledgement, Opening Remarks: Wayne Wapeemukwa
9:30 – 11:00 AM Panel 1: Feminine Threats
• Alois Sieben: The Fantasy of Babygirl
• Susanna Zhang (online): Unvoiced Ethics: Jocasta’s Secrecy and Echo’s
Disembodiment Beyond Jouissance
• Juan Luis de la Mora and Manuel Outón: Contemporary Echoes of
Feminine Ghosts
Moderator: Clint Burnham
11:00 – 11:15 AM Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 PM Panel 2: Risk
• Kenna Borland: Risking Being: The Ontology of Feminine Jouissance
• Jake Cowan: To Err is Human: Dufourmantelle, Pedagogy, and the
Dignity of Risk
• Kamla Persaud: Risk as Passive Activity in Anne Dufourmantelle’s In
Praise of Risk
Moderator: Rachel Moxham
12:45 – 2:00 PM Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:30 PM Panel 3: The Clinical
• Hilda Fernandez: Who Decides How We Die? Letter and Fate
• Ana Minozzo: Risk, Gentleness and Hospitality: Toward a Feminist Ethics
of Encounter in Catastrophic Times
• Angie Voela (online): Unconditional hospitality, responsibility and our
new nomadism.
Moderator: Am Johal
3:30 – 3:45 PM Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:15 PM Panel 4: Personal Encounters
• Erin Soros: A Vase Named Mari: On Psychosis, Longing and The World of
Fragile Things
• Nicolette Noble: He was Hungry and was Fed: Breaking Frame as an Act
of Love
• Eddy Wang: Empty Room, Spinning Center
Moderator: Hilda Fernandez
5:15 – 5:30 PM Coffee Break / Transition to Keynote
5:30 – 7:00 PM Keynote Address followed by Q&A: Noëlle McAfee.
7:00 – 8:00 PM Dinner Break / Transit to Gallery Gachet
8:00 – 10:00 PM Gallery Gachet / Curated by Dan Starling
Keynote by Carol Owens at 8:30 PM
Day 2 – Saturday, October 18
9:00 – 9:15 AM
Morning Announcements
9:15 – 10:45 AM Panel 5: The Political
• Clint Burnham: Was Mari Ruti a Lacanian Centrist or a Centrist
Lacanian?
• Fiona Fisher: The Political Potential of Feminine Desire
• Calum Matheson: Vulnerability, Risk, and Rhetoric as Equipment for
Living in the Moment of Reaction
Moderator: Cindy Zeiher
10:45 – 11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 PM Panel 6: Theology
• Ethan Yu: Psychoanalysis as Secularized Prophecy: The Lacanian
Theology of Anne Dufourmantelle
• Rayan Magon and Jaelyn Guardado: Flesh and Spirit: Dualism’s Secrets,
Feminine Jouissance, and the Ethics of Religious Explanation through
Ruti and Dufourmantelle
• Paria Rahimi: God is the Man’s Rib: Toward a Materialist Topology of
Feminine Jouissance
Moderator: Juan Luis de la Mora
12:30 – 1:45 PM Lunch Break
1:45 – 3:15 PM Panel 7: Queering Analysis
• Simone Atenea Medina Polo: The Tiresian Unconscious and Variances in
Modelling the Unconscious
• Rachel Moxham: Venus in Furs: Masochism Queering Desire with the
Feminine
• Nicole Monaco: The Singular Subject and Feminine Desire: Sidonie
Csillag’s Encore
Moderator: Nicolette Noble
3:15 – 3:30 PM Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:00 PM Panel 8: Écriture Féminine
• Cindy Zeiher: Dufourmantelle and Ruti: Living and Dying by One’s Words
• Mara Gonzalez: Encountering the Divine Other: Mystic Literature,
Feminine Desire, and Secrecy
• Suhrida Yadavalli (online): Missed Hysterics: The Voice of Feminine
Enjoyment
• Désirée Jung (online): A Poem in Three Acts
Moderator: Mandana Mansouri
5:00 – 5:15 PM Coffee Break / Transition to Keynote
5:15 – 6:45 PM Keynote Address followed by Q&A – Ana Hounie
6:45 – 7:00 PM
Closing Remarks & Farewell
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When: October 17 and 18th, 2025
Where: 149 W Hastings St (Hybrid event – also on ZOOM)
Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada
Sfu Location
Gallery Gatchet Location
