Register here. 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  For more detailed info, please click here. To download the program, please click here. 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