Awards, Prices and Fellowships

  • Oct 2022 – Dec 2023 PDM-type 1 Internal Funds, K.U. Leuven (€45.000)
  • May 2021Emory Center for Brain, Mind, & Culture Grant for BCI-installation Tender Rhythms as part of summer research project on brain-to-brain coupling in learning with Dr. Dietrich Stout ($3.300)
  • April 2021 Emory Center for Creativity & Arts Project Grant for BCI-installation Tender Rhythms  
  • July 2020 Mellon Professional Development Support Funds
  • 2019-2020 Mellon Humanities PhD Interventions Project Public Scholarship Teaching Fellowship for the                                                       2019–2020 academic year ($23.250)
  • 2019-2020 International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Muriel Dimen Fellow for Tender Rhythms dissertation andBCI-installation
  • 2019 Stephen A. Mitchell Paper Award for Towards a Tender Sexuality. From Freud’s implicit Taboo on Adult Erotic Tenderness, to the Unexplored Tender Critical Potential of Mitchell and Perel’s Clinical Practice  
  • 2019 Neuropsychoanalytic Society Best Poster Prize for the poster and interactive sound and visual installation: Tender Rhythms. Brain Correlation in Dyads. A Biofeed-back Art Installation  
  • 2018 Biennial “Micky” Nardo Paper Prize for my paper “The Taboo on Adult Erotic Tenderness. A close reading of Freud and Kristeva’s work on Sexuality.” Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society  
  • 2017-2018 Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Emory University-funded, ORDER (On Recent discoveries by Emory Researchers) Teaching Fellowship for two semesters of Freshman Seminar teaching ($2.500)
  • 2017-2018 APsaA Tuition support for Academics to attend the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute
  • 2017 Over 10 Emory Grants (among which, from Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory Center for Faculty Development and Engagement, Emory office of the Provost, Laney Graduate School “New Thinkers, New Leaders” Grant, Emory Disability Studies Initiative) to organize the conference Critical Juncture. The Work of Art. Intersections of Race, Sexuality, Gender and  Disability, Emory ($27,300)
  • 2017 IPA Sacerdotti Prize for my paper “The Taboo on Adult Erotic Tenderness. A close reading of Freud and Kristeva’s work on Sexuality.” International Psychoanalytic Association 
  • 2015 IPA-Research Training Program Fellow since 2015 
  • 2014-2019 Laney Graduate Fellowship, five years of funding for graduate studies ($ 116.000)
  • 2013 Fulbright Award to attend Johns Hopkins Humanities Centre ($ 10.000)
  • 2013 American Woman club of Brussels award to attend Johns Hopkins Humanities Centre ($5.000)

Academic Conference Presentations

  • March 2021 “Materializing Intersubjectivity and the Rhythmic Third Through Brainwave Synchronicity,” Division 39, New York. [remote due to Covid-19]
  • Sept 2020 “An Auditory Interface for Realtime Brainwave Similarity in Dyads,” Audio Mostly, remote.
  • Postp. June 2020 “Neuroscience, Relational Psychoanalysis, and BCI-Art. Unexpected Bedfellows,” International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Los Angeles. Recipient of the Muriel Dimen Fellowship. [Postponed due to Covid-19]
  • Postp, May 2020 “Re-thinking Masochism through Tenderness,” Après-Coup, New York. [Postponed due to Covid-19]
  • Oct 2019 “Tenderness or Reliance, an Alternative Economy of Desire,” Kristeva Circle, Emory.
  • July 2019 “Tender Rhythms,” Poster and Interactive Installation, NPSA, Satisfaction at Last. Neuropsychoanalysis on Sex, Drive and Enjoyment, Brussels Recipient of the Best Poster Prize.
  • Apr 2019 “Towards a Tender Sexuality. From Freud’s implicit Taboo on Adult Erotic Tenderness, to the Unexplored Tender Critical Potential of Mitchell and Perel’s Clinical Practice,” Division 39, Resonant Voices. Sameness, Difference and Mutuality in the Consulting Room, Clinic and Community, Philadelphia. Recipient of the 2019 Stephan Mitchell Award.
  • Nov 2018 “Björk’s Tender Erotics – Subverting Phallic Sexuality, and Carving out a space for a Tender Economy of Desire,” NWSA, Just Imagine. Imagining Justice, Atlanta.
  • Nov 2018 “Thinking Difference through Brain-Synchronization,” NWSA, Just Imagine. Imagining Justice, Atlanta.
  • Aug 2018 “The Feminist and Queer Potential of Tenderness, a Forgotten Hysteric Affect.” Capacious, Affect Inquiry/Making Space, Lancaster.
  • Aug 2018 “Carving out a Sonorous Space for an Alternative Subjectivity and Sociality.” Capacious, Affect Inquiry/Making Space, Lancaster.
  • May 2018 “Tender Rhythms. Rethinking the Erotic, Subjectivity and Sociality through Tenderness.” Junior Key-note. Žižek Conference, Athens.
  • July 2017 “The Taboo on Adult Erotic Tenderness. A close reading of Freud and Kristeva’s work on Sexuality.” Intimacy. 50th International Psychoanalytic Association Conference. Buenos Aires. Recipient of the 2017 IPA Sacerdoti Price.
  • June 2017 “Becoming-Tender: Deleuze and Björk on Vulnerability.” Taking Flight, Assembling, Becoming, Queering. 10th international Deleuzian Studies Conference. Toronto.
  • March 2017 “How can a Re-reading of Freud Benefit Feminist, Queer and Vulnerability Studies.” Affect and Social Justice, philoSOPHIA: Society for Continental Feminism. March 30, 2017 (workshop paper for ‘On the Idea of Vulnerability’ closed-workshop).
  • November 2016 “In Search for Adult Erotic Tenderness. A Tender re-reading of Freud, Kristeva and Bersani.” Any Body, Anybody: The Matter of the Unconscious. SIPP-ISPP (International society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy).
  • April 2016 “Adult Erotic Tenderness.” Psychoanalysis and Femininity. Psychoanalysis in our Time (NSU: Nordic University),Gdansk.
  • January 2015 “Is Tenderness the Grave? Reflections on Adult Erotic Tenderness with Freud, Bersani, Lorde and Kristeva.” Studies in Sexuality Seminar with Darieck Scott, Emory.
  • October 2015 “Looking for Tenderness in the Early Works of Freud.” Psychoanalytic Studies Program Lunch and Learn, Emory.

Artistic (conference) Performances

  • Upc, March 10th 2023 “Tender Intimacies” [retrospective highlighting my Research and Art on Tenderness in conversation with other artist-scholars] ASAP “The Sexual Feeling/Healing Edition”, PILAR, VUB.
  • April 2022 “Tender Rhythms” [BCI-interactive sound & visual-installation]. Feest van de Filosofie. Hoger Instiuut voor Wijsbegeerte. KU Leuven
  • April 2022  “Tender Rhythms” [BCI-interactive sound & visual-installation]. Maison Florida. The School, Hasselt.
  • Nov 2021“Tender Rhythms” [BCI-interactive sound & visual-installation]. “Perspectives” on Neuroscience and Art, Sint-Gorikshallen, Brussel
  • Upc, Fall 2021 “Tender Rhythms. Synchrony in Dyads” [Exhibit of pictures and videos of the BCI-interactive sound & visual-installation]. B1Contemporary, Atlanta.
  • July-Aug 2021 “Tender Rhythms” [BCI-interactive sound & visual-installation]. Emory University Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta. 
  • July 2021 “Crepuscular” and “Melancholic Lullabies” [Two immersive installation, using soundscapes, live music, live visuals and soft sculpture]. As part of GloAtl LAB, Symphony, Atlanta.   
  • May 8th, 2021 “The Melancholic Lullaby Project,” [Intimate music performance, voice and ukulele]. Virginia Highland Porchfest, Atlanta.
  • March 2020 “Tender Rhythms. Brain-synchronicity in Dyads,” [BCI-interactive sound-installation]. The Music, Art, and Technology Fair, Georgia Tech.
  • July 2019 “Lullaby in Yoni.” [Music video/short film]. Scenes of Sound, The Bakery, Atlanta.
  • May 2019 “Lullaby in Yoni.” [Interactive sound-installation]. Sensory Landscape, Ansley Park, Atlanta.
  • Dec 2018 “Musaïc. Giving voice to Affect Attunement and Brain Synchronization.” [BCI-interactive sound-installation]. Neuroscience Art Exhibition, Georgia State, Atlanta.
  • Aug 2018  “Carving out a Sonorous Space for Tenderness.” [Interactive sound-scape]. Capacious, Affect Inquiry/Making Space, Lancaster.
  • Sept 2017 “Lullaby in Yoni.” [Music video/short film]. Bodies on Display, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta.
  • Apr-May 2014  “The Lorelei, the Albatross and the Pine Tree,” [Voice and Music Composition for the poetry of Heine and Coleridge] with Moveius Contemporary Ballet and Parallel Octave, an improvising chorus. Montgomery Cultural Arts Center, Washington DC and the Arellano Theater, Baltimore.
  • 2014-2021 “The Melancholic Lullaby Project,” [Intimate music performance, voice and ukulele]. Multiple performances:
    • Pete’s Candy Story, Brooklyn NY (2014)
    • Eddies Attic, Atlanta (2014-2018)
    • Red Light Café, Atlanta (2015)
    • Little Vinyl Lounge, Atlanta (2016)
    • 539, Atlanta (2016)
    • Online on my personal Instagram (2020)