- “Rethinking the Erotic as Tender,” as part of the Panel “A hysteric Undoing of the Hole: Reclaiming the Feminine as a Tender Whole” IPA, The Feminine. London (Fortc. July 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. (Fortc. Apr 2019 )
- “Björk’s Tender Erotics – Subverting Phallic Sexuality, and Carving out a space for a Tender Economy of Desire,” NWSA, Just Imagine. Imagining Justice. (Nov 2018 )
- “Thinking difference through Brain-Synchronization,”NWSA, Just Imagine. Imagining Justice, Atlanta (Nov 2018 )
- “The Feminist and Queer Potential of Tenderness, a Forgotten Hysteric Affect.” Capacious, Affect Inquiry/Making Space, Lancaster (Aug. 2018)Aug 2018)
- “Carving out a Sonorous space for an Alternative Subjectivity and Sociality.” Capacious, Affect Inquiry/Making Space., Lancaster. (Aug. 2018)
- Junior Key-note. Zizek Conference, Athens, GA. (May 2018)
- “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. (July 2017)
- “Becoming-Tender: Deleuze and Björk on Vulnerability.” Taking Flight, Assembling, Becoming, Queering. 10th international Deleuzian Studies. Toronto. (June 2017)
- “How can a re-reading of Freud benefit Feminism, Queer Studies 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). (March 2017)
- “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). (Nov. 2016)
- “Adult Erotic Tenderness.” Psychoanalysis and Femininity. Psychoanalysis in our Time (NSU: Nordic University),Gdansk, Poland. (Apr. 2016)
- “Is Tenderness the Grave? Reflections on adult erotic tenderness with Freud, Bersani, Lorde and Kristeva.” Studies in Sexuality Seminar with Darieck Scott, Emory. (Jan 2015)
- “Looking for Tenderness in the Early Works of Freud.” Psychoanalytic Studies Program Lunch and Learn, Emory. (Oct 2015)
- “Rape: Unlawful but not Unhealthy? A Philosophical Analysis.” Good Sex, Bad sex, Inter- Disciplinary.Net, Prague. (May 2019 )