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Vulnerable Pleasures, a satellite art exhibition at LaConference 2025
Exhibition Hours: Friday October 17, 3 – 10pm Saturday October 18, 12 – 6pm With a special presentation by Carol Owens, Friday October 17 at 8:30pm In parallel with the LaConference on Feminine Desire, 12 clinical psychoanalysts were each given one artwork to analyze without knowing who the artist was. Their written responses are the basis of the exhibition, Vulnerable Pleasures. Drawing on Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti’s insistence that risk, tenderness, and vulnerability are…
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LaConference 2025 Registration / Program
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:…
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LaConference 2025: Call for Papers (closed)
Feminine Desire: Honoring the Life and Work of Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti Keynote Speakers: Carol Owens, Noëlle McAfee and Ana Hounie Call for Papers (CLOSED) The 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). Duformantelle and Ruti marked our zeitgeist with intellectual and emotional rigor, courageously posing…
