Avgi Saketopoulou, the 2025-26 Avenali Chair in the Humanities, engages in conversation with UC Berkeley faculty members Paola Bacchetta (Gender & Women's Studies), Eric Stanley (Gender & Women's Studies), and Damon Young (Film & Media and French).

Saketopoulou is a psychoanalyst, scholar, and faculty member in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at NYU. Her work addresses issues of sexuality, gender, race, and the complex aftermath of trauma. She is the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia, and co-author with Ann Pellegrini of Gender Without Identity. She has twice won the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association's annual prize for best paper — most recently in 2022, for "Anti-Racist Racism: Trauma, Traumatism, Traumatophilia.”

Reception with light refreshments to follow.

Saketopoulou delivers the Avenali Lecture on Monday, October 6.