Talks & Events

Anna Fishzon, PhD, LP, FIPA
Psychoanalyst

& Conferences

Book Discussion: The Impossible Return – Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning, by Anna Fishzon (roundtable participant). 2025 Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Washington, DC, November 22, 2025.

"The Body of the Analyst: Presence, Illness, Prosthesis." Freud's 4pm Sessions. Followed by a Book Launch event for Anna Fishzon's The Impossible Return (Routledge, 2025). Freud Museum London, UK, October 24, 2025.

The Transferential Truth About Subjects: Psychoanalysis Between West Africa and Western Europe in the Sixties. Commentator for paper by Mischa Suter. Davis Center, Princeton University. October 3, 2025

Celebrating 15 Years of the Podcast New Books in Psychoanalysis. Discussion with Tracy Morgan and Anna Fishzon. Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS), New York, March 7, 2025.

“Body Modification as Sinthomatic Writing.” The All & the Not-All: Presentations Event. Après Coup Psychoanalytic Association. New York, NY, June 22, 2024.

Psychoanalysis: Ethic and Practice, Today. Roundtable participant and presenter. Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. New York, NY, September 30, 2023.

The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass. Panelist and co-organizer. IPTAR-Q book talk and panel discussion. IPTAR. June 9, 2023.

“The Analyst’s Position: Avant-garde in Act.” Jointly written with Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. VIII International Convergencia Congress: A Lacanian Movement for Freudian Psychoanalysis. Barcelona, May 24-27, 2023.

Psychoanalysis and Queer Performance Art. Panelist and co-organizer with Annie Lee Jones and Eric Shorey. Arts and Society Committee & IPTAR-Q. IPTAR. December 10, 2022.

“The Queerness of Childhood: Psychoanalysis and Queer Theory.” The LGBTQ Study Group, William Alanson White Institute (Invited Talk, with Emma Lieber). Zoom, December 7, 2022.

“Vocal Art as Sinthomatic Writing.” Lacan: Clinic and Culture Conference. Duquesne University. Pittsburgh, PA, October 14-16, 2022.

“Family, Patricide, and Hysteria: The Vicissitudes of the Oedipus Complex.” The Family Problem: Family Complexes. Parapraxis/Psychosocial Foundation (Invited Talk). Zoom Seminar, May 22, 2022.

“On Empathy.” Paper presenter and discussant on the panel, Empathy and Understanding: In History, Psychotherapy, and Our Contemporary World: Thomas Kohut, PhD. Austen Riggs Center. Webinar,
March 18, 2021.

Case Presentation on the panel, The IPTAR Asylum Seekers Program: Dyadic, Small and Large Group Experiences of Therapists Working within and at the Boundaries of the Consulting Room with Asylum Seekers. The Gould Center for Psychoanalytic Organizational Study and Consultation. IPTAR. Zoom, June 24, 2020.

“Transfemininity: The Sublime Object. Mourning, Knowledge, and the Voice in A FANTASTIC WOMAN“ (Sebastián Lelio, 2017).” Film screening and panel discussion (with Janice Lieberman and Isaac Tylim). IPTAR. New York, NY, December 6, 2019.

“On the Subject of Stealing.” Écrits: Lacan Conference and Book Launch. Psychology Department, Duquesne University. Pittsburgh, PA, October 11-13, 2019.

“The Queer Temporality of Psychoanalysis.” Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis: Intersections and
Controversies (conference). IPTAR. New York, NY, September 29, 2018.

Case Presentation with Bruce Fink as Discussant. Lacan’s R/Evolution in Psychoanalysis: Bruce Fink.
Revolutions in Technique Series. IPTAR. New York, NY, December 2, 2017.

“Screens.” NPAP Wednesday Society Meeting. National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
(Invited Talk, with Emma Lieber). New York, NY, May 17, 2017.

“The Anti-Oedipal Legacies of Late Socialism, or, What Vinni-pukh and Gary Shteyngart Have in Common” (paper) and Discussant on the panel Digital Media and the Public Sphere: Gender, Sexuality, Subjectivity. 48 th Annual National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Washington, DC, November 2016.

“Fort-Da: Contested Legacies of Psychoanalysis in Russia.” 131 st Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA). Austin, TX, January 2016.

“Queue Time as Queer Time: Occasions for Pleasure and Desire in the Brezhnev Era and Today” (paper) and “Critical Theory’s Russia/Russia’s Critical Theories.” (roundtable) American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). Austin, TX, January 2016.

“We Exist! Children-404, ‘Gay Propaganda’ and the Battle Over the Child in Putin’s Russia” and “Past, Present, and Future: Exploring Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Time” (roundtable).” 47 th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Philadelphia, PA, November 2015.

“The Place Where We Live: Playing and Playfulness in the Era of Soviet Stagnation.” Women’s Studies Program, Duke University (Invited Talk). Durham, NC, April 7, 2015.

“Temporality, Russian-American Fiction, and the Specter of Soviet Childhood.” The New Wave of Russian- Jewish (Transnational and Trans-generic) Cultural Production. Interdisciplinary Conference. Harriman Institute, Columbia University. New York, NY, December 2014.

“Vinni-pukh and the Queer Animated Life of Evgenii Leonov” and “Representations of Masculinity in Russian Children’s Literature and Film (roundtable).” 46 th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). San Antonio, TX, November 2014.

“A Space for Pleasure and Desire in the Stagnation Era, or, Why You Should Care about Late-Soviet Animation.” Literature and Culture Seminar, Davis Center, Harvard University (Invited Talk). Cambridge, MA, October 30, 2014.

“Late-Soviet Masculinity and the Animated Life of Evgenii Leonov.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)-Wisconsin Conference,
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI, October 2014.

“The Fog of Stagnation: Time, Desire, and Affect in Late Socialism.” Russian Studies Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Invited Talk). Madison, WI, October 2014.

Psychoanalysis in an International Frame. Panel Presentation. Women’s Studies
Graduate Scholars Colloquium, Duke University. Durham, NC, September 2014.

“Hysterics, Histrionics, and Hypochondriacs: Fiction and the Birth of Psychoanalysis” (discussant). 103 rd Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA). Chicago, IL, June 2014.

“Time and the Romantic Sensibility in Brezhnev-era Animation.” Romantic
Subversions of Soviet Enlightenment: Questioning Socialism’s Reason. Interdisciplinary Conference, Princeton University. Princeton, NJ, May 2014.

“Selves and Stories” (roundtable). New Thinking about the Old Empire: A Celebration of Laura Engelstein’s Career. Conference at Yale University. New Haven, CT, May 2014.

“Stagnation-era Subjectivities in Bremenskie muzykanty, Goluboi shchenok, and Cheburashka.”
Subjectivities after Stalin: The Khrushchev and Brezhnev Eras. Conference at the European University. St. Petersburg, Russia, April 2014.

“Temporality and Subjectivity in Russian and Soviet History.” History and Theory Colloquium, Cornell University (Invited Talk). Ithaca, NY, April 2014.

“Vinni-pukh and the Glorification of Failed Masculinity.” Russian Studies Seminar, Columbia University (Invited Talk). New York, NY, April 2014.

“Revolutionizing Childhood: Old and New, Image and Text, East and West” (roundtable) and “Revolutions in Theory: The Queer Turn in Slavic Studies” (roundtable). 45 th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Boston, MA, November 2013.

“Time, Affect and Stagnation-Era Animated Film.” History Workshop at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University (Invited Talk). New York, NY, October 2013.

“GLBT Rights in Russia.” Panel Discussion. Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University. New York, NY, October 2013.

“On the Queerness of Childhood.” Austen Riggs Center-Erikson Institute/Williams College Study Group, Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williamstown, May 2013.

“Re-Animating Late Socialism: The Exciting Times and Spaces of Brezhnev-Era Fairytales.” British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference (BASEES). Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, April 2013.

“Love, Transcendence, and Hippies: Bremenskie Muzykanty, or, Another Reason the Soviet Union Collapsed” and Discussant on the panel Childhood as Contested Space: Violating Boundaries and Crossing Borders. 44 th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). New Orleans, LA, November 2012.

“Sound Affects: Love, Hate, and the Gramophone in Prerevolutionary Russia.” Objects of Affection: Towards a Materiology of Emotions. Interdisciplinary Conference. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, May 2012.

Queer Studies, Past, Present, and Future: at Williams and Beyond. Faculty Colloquium. Dively Committee for Human Sexuality and Diversity 20th Anniversary Celebrations. Williams College, Williamstown, MA, April 2012.

“Stagnation As Queer Time: Children’s Culture in the Soviet 1960s and 70s.” Russian History Workshop at Columbia University (Invited Talk). New York, NY, April 2012.

“Re-Animating Stagnation: The Magical Times and Spaces of Late Soviet Children’s Culture.” Reconsidering Stagnation. European Studies Workshop. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam,
Netherlands, March 2012.

“Emotions and Selfhood Across Time and Space.” Research Seminar. National Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA). New York, NY, January 2012.

“East-West and Other Transitional Phenomena in Vladimir Vysotskii’s Alice in Wonderland.” 43 rd Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Washington, DC, November 2011.

“`Though We Mourn the Past a Little Bit, the Best, Of Course, Is Still Ahead’: Queer Aesthetics, Temporality, and Late Soviet Children’s Culture.” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (Big Berks). Amherst, MA, June 2011.

“Remembering, Repeating and Working Through Cheburashka: the Mourning of Late Socialist Temporality.” British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference (BASEES). Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, April 2011.

“Approaches to Music and Literature: Influences, Transpositions, Settings” (roundtable), and “`It’s Not Bad to Be Blue’: Queer Aesthetics in Late Soviet Animation.” 42 nd Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES, formerly AAASS). Los Angeles, CA, November 2010.

“Opera as a Way of Life and the Fan Letter as Authenticating Act in Fin-de-Siècle Russia.” Deterritorialized Culture. Interdisciplinary Workshop. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, May 2010.

“Fan Confessions and Melodramatic Devotions in Revolutionary Russia.” Eighth Biannual European Social Science History Conference, (ESSHC). Ghent, Belgium, April 2010.

“Меломаны, поклонники, любители: fandom?” Lost and Found in Translation: Concepts of History, Culture and Self in the Interdisciplinary Scholarship of Modern Russia. Workshop at the Van Leer
Institute. Jerusalem, Israel, December 2009.

“Highbrow Fans and their Middlebrow Critics: Opera Fandom as (Sub)culture in Late Imperial Russia.” 41 st National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). Boston, MA, November 2009.

“The Public Mission of the Russian Private Opera” (presenter and panel organizer) and Chair of the panel State and Individualism under Brezhnev: the Cultural Contradictions of Late Socialism and its Consequences. 40 th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). Philadelphia, PA, November 2008.

“Fan Letters, Melodrama, and the Meaning of Love.” Interpreting Emotion in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia. Annual Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum. University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, June 2008.

“Aesthetics of ‘Crisis’.” Theorizing Crisis. Shared Research Seminar at the Oakley Center for Humanities and Social Sciences. Williams College. Williamstown, MA, Spring 2008.

“The Uses of Popular Culture II” (roundtable) and Chair of the panel Music and Modernism. 39 th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). New Orleans, LA, November 2007.

“The Uses of Popular Culture” (roundtable). 38 th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). Washington, DC, November 2006.

“The Operatics of Everyday Life, or, How the Gramophone Changed Work and Leisure in Russia.” 37 th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). Salt Lake City, UT, November 2005.

“`Shaliapin’s Left Leg’ and Other Tales: Redefining Self and Authenticity in Late Imperial Russia.” 28 th Annual Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference (MASC). New York, NY, March 2004.

“Obsessions of a Psikhopatka: Gendering Opera Fandom in Late Imperial Russia.” Recontextualizing Russian Women’s History. Conference at the Harriman Institute. New York, NY, April 2003.

“Opera Celebrities of the Silver Age: Narrative and Performance On and Off Stage.” 27 th Annual Mid- Atlantic Slavic Conference (MASC). New York, NY, March 2003.

“Singing Their Way to the Top: Fame, Opera and Desire in the Silver Age.” 34 th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). Pittsburgh, PA, November 2002.