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R. Frie (August, 2021). From Fascism to the Holocaust: Erich Fromm and Sociopolitical Psychoanalysis during the 1930s. Presentation to Div. 39 of the 2021 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC. (Virtual)

R. Frie (April, 2021). Understanding in Context and Culture: Discussion of Robert Stolorow. Invited presentation to Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, CA. (Virtual)

R. Frie (April, 2020). Living with Vulnerability: Social Trauma, Resilience and Indigenous Life. Keynote Address, Conference on Social Crises, American University of Paris, France. (Virtual)

R. Frie (February, 2020). Silencing Historical Trauma and Racism: Recognizing Psychology’s Limits. Presentation to Div. 24 of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.

R. Frie (February, 2020). Listening, But Not Hearing: On Being Implicated and Vulnerable. Presentation to Div. 24 of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.

R. Frie (February, 2020). Erich Fromm and Sociopolitical Psychoanalysis: Discussion of Lynne Layton. Invited presentation to American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY.

R. Frie (February, 2020). Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility after the Holocaust. Invited presentation to the Graduate Liberal Studies Program, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Vancouver, BC.

R. Frie (January, 2020). History, Memory, Trauma. Invited presentation to the Integrative Psychotherapy Association, Vancouver, BC.

R. Frie (January, 2020). Legacies of Perpetration: Confronting my Family’s Unspoken Nazi Past. Invited panel presentation with Angelika Bammer and Peter Rudnytsky, Annual Modern Languages Association Conference, Seattle, WA.

R. Frie. (October, 2019). Legacies of Perpetration: Confronting my Family's Nazi Past. Invited public lecture presented at Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, New York. Organized jointly by the Department of German and the University Seminar on Cultural Memory, Columbia University, New York, NY.

R. Frie. (October, 2019). Critical Engagement for Critical Times: Thinking and Reflecting in a Space of Vulnerability. Plenary panel presentation to International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, Vancouver, BC.

R. Frie. (October, 2019). Being Implicated and Embracing Discomfort: Discussion of Bhatia and Sperry. Plenary panel presentation to International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, Vancouver, BC.

R. Frie. (October, 2019). Listening, But Not Hearing: On Being Implicated and Vulnerable. Featured speaker presentation with Mark Freeman. Psychology and the Other Conference, Boston College, Boston, MA.

R. Frie. (October, 2019). Silent Histories: Erich Fromm and the Unpublished Holocaust Correspondence. Invited Presentation to the William Alanson White Institute, New York, NY.

R. Frie. (June, 2019). Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust: Personal, Clinical and Contemporary Reflections. Invited public lecture, followed by panel discussion. International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Germany.

R. Frie. (June, 2019). Erich Fromm and the Holocaust. Invited lecture. Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies Program. Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

R. Frie. (June, 2019). Unwanted Perpetrator Fragments: Memory, Silence and Inhabiting Responsibility. Invited lecture. Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies Program. Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

R. Frie. (June, 2019). The Sociocultural Turn in Psychoanalysis. Invited lecture. Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies Program and Department of Psychology. Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

R. Frie. (June, 2019). Haunting Legacies: Confronting My Family's Nazi Past. Invited lecture in Jewish Studies Program. University of California, Davis, Davis, CA.

R. Frie. (May, 2019). Intergenerational Inheritances and Trauma. Invited guest speaker in Collective Trauma and Collective Memory graduate course. Department of Sociology. University of California, Davis, Davis, CA.

R. Frie. (May, 2019). Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust. Invited public lecture in the Holocaust Across the Disciplines Lecture Series. Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and Department of Psychology. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.

R. Frie. (April, 2019). Erich Fromm and the Holocaust. Invited speaker to the Western Branch Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Vancouver, BC.

R. Frie. (April, 2019). Memory and Responsibility in the Wake of the Holocaust. Invited speaker to the Western Branch Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Vancouver, BC.

R. Frie. (February, 2019). Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust. Invited public lecture. The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.

R. Frie. (February, 2019). The Struggle of German Memory. Invited guest lecture to The German Program: Philosophy, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis and Social Psychology. The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.

R. Frie. (December, 2018). Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust. Invited speaker to the Jewish Studies Program, Fordham University, New York, NY.

R. Frie. (December, 2018). Unwanted Fragments: Listening, Witnessing and Inhabiting Responsibility. Workshop with Sue Grand and Jill Salberg. The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, New York NY.   

R. Frie. (November, 2018). History’s Ethical Demand: German Memory and Responsibility after the Holocaust. Kristallnacht Memorial Lecture. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA.

R. Frie. (November, 2018). Transmitting Trauma and Inheriting Histories of Perpetration. Seminar with Sue Grand and Jill Salberg. The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, New York NY.    

R. Frie. (November, 2018). Culture in Crisis: The Relevance of Erich Fromm. Plenary panel presentation with Jeffrey Alexander, Sandra Buechler and Mark Edmundson. Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Birth of Relationality: The William Alanson White Institute at 75. International House, Columbia University, New York, NY.  

R. Frie. (October, 2018). Sullivan, Culture and Racism. Guest Lecture at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, New York, NY.   

R. Frie. (October, 2018). History, Psychoanalysis and Nazism. Open dialogue with Thomas Kohut. Searching for Creativity in Times of Crisis: 41st International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, Vienna, Austria.

R. Frie. (October, 2018). The Presence and Absence of History. Plenary panel presentation with Thomas Aichhorn, Dagmar Herzog and Thomas Kohut, History Flows Through Us: Psychoanalysis, Historical Trauma and the Shaping of Experience. 41st International Conference on the Psychology of the Self, Vienna, Austria. 

R. Frie. (October, 2018). Discussant of Donna ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV. From Silencing to Dialogue: Learning from Interpersonalists. The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, New York NY.  

R. Frie. (September, 2018). German Memory after the Holocaust. Invited presentation to the Jewish Studies Program, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.  

R. Frie. (September, 2018). Facing History’s Ethical Demand: Memory, Denial and Responsibility. A full day workshop at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, CA.

R. Frie. (September, 2018). Private Matters: Expanding the Margins of the Lebenslauf. Writing seminar presentation. The German Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

R. Frie. (September, 2018). The Notion of Empathy and Current German Studies. A Round Table Discussion on Empathy and History with Alon Confino, Amos Goldberg, Irene Kacandes and Thomas Kohut. The German Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. 

R. Frie. (July, 2018). History’s Ethical Demand: German Memory and Responsibility after the Holocaust. Keynote Presentation to the Foundation for Genocide Studies: Holocaust and Human Behaviour Conference, co-hosted by Facing History and Ourselves Organization and the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Vancouver, BC. 

R. Frie. (June, 2018). Psychoanalysis, Persecution and the Holocaust: Erich Fromm’s Life and Work during the 1930s. Presentation to Second International Erich Fromm Conference: Putting Society on the Couch at the International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Germany.

R. Frie. (May, 2018). Confronting the Nazi Past: The Obligations of Memory. Public Lecture. Seattle University, Seattle, WA. 

R. Frie. (May, 2018). Academic seminar on Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After Holocaust. Psychology Department, Seattle University, Seattle, WA.

R. Frie. (May, 2018). Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After Holocaust. Public lecture and discussion with Philip Cushman. Vashon Island Havurah, Vashon Island, WA. http://www.vashonbeachcomber.com/news/havurah-to-host-author-contending-with-family-ties-to-nazis/ 

R. Frie. (May, 2018). Book reading and discussion of Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After Holocaust, Banyen Books, Vancouver, BC.

R. Frie. (April, 2018). Book reading and interview by Marsha Lederman. Presentation of Western Canada Jewish Book Award for Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After Holocaust. Jewish Community Centre, Vancouver, BC. 

R. Frie. (April, 2018). Public lecture and book panel discussion of Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After Holocaust with Hilda Fernandez Alvarez, Graham Forst, Endre Koritar and Annie Ross. Hosted by the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Institute of the Humanities at the Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC. 

R. Frie. (April, 2018). Confronting Language: History and Trauma in the Clinical Setting. Invited presentation to The BC Neuropsychiatry Program Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. 

R. Frie. (April, 2018). Wrestling with a Nazi Family History. Two-day seminar and workshop with Roger Frie, Scholar-in-Residence, Temple Israel, Minneapolis, MN.

R. Frie. (March, 2018). Presentation and book panel discussion of Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After Holocaust with Alon Confino, Irene Kacandes and Thomas Kohut. Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. 

R. Frie. (February, 2018). Karl Jaspers and the Contexts of Understanding. Invited Lecture, Seminar on Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, American Psychoanalytic Association Conference, New York, NY.

R. Frie. (February, 2018). Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After Holocaust. Ziegler Lecture Series, Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. 

R. Frie. (November, 2017). Witnessing the Crimes of Our Grandparents: Remembering and Responsibility in the Wake of the Holocaust. Invited Lecture, The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention, American University of Paris, France. 

R. Frie. (November, 2017). Featured book and author interview, Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility after the Holocaust, Vancouver Jewish Book Festival, Vancouver, BC.

R. Frie. (October, 2017). History’s Ethical Demand: Remembering and Responsibility in the Wake of the Holocaust. Plenary Address. Psychology and the Other Conference, Cambridge, MA.

R. Frie. (October, 2017). Psychology’s underside: The denial of difference and culture. Discussion of Sunil Batia’s History’s Ethical Demand: Remembering and Responsibility in the Wake of the Holocaust. Psychology and the Other Conference, Cambridge, MA.

R. Frie. (October, 2017). Witnessing the Crimes of Our Grandparents: Memory, Denial and Responsibility After the Holocaust. Invited lecture, William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, New York, NY.

R. Frie (May 2017). Memory between the psyche and the social: traumatic history and German family narrative. Invited public lecture. University of Essex, Colchester, England.

R. Frie (May 2017). Struggling with Memory: German Family Narrative, Traumatic History and Psychological Understanding. Invited presentation to the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies. University of Essex, Colchester, England.

R. Frie (May 2017). Struggling with Memory: German Family Narrative, Traumatic History and Psychological Understanding. Invited talk to the Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London, England.

R. Frie (May 2017). The Intersection of Philo-Semitism and Anti-Semitism: German Responses to the Nazi Past and the Holocaust. Zionism and Antisemitism International Conference, London: 24-26 May 2017, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London.

R. Frie (May 2017). Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust. Invited public seminar. Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College and the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London.

R. Frie. (January, 2017). Response to Louis Sass’s Lacan: The Mind of the Modernist. Presentation to the Seminar on Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Association 2017 National Meeting, New York, NY.

R. Frie. (September, 2016). Shaping Prejudice: The Narrative of German Suffering in WWII and its Ramifications. Paper presentation to the conference on Formenting Political Violence, University of Essex, Colchester, England.

R. Frie. (June, 2016). Remembering and Forgetting: German Family Narratives in the Wake of the Holocaust. Paper presentation to the Narrative Matters Conference at the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.

R. Frie. (May, 2016). Philosophy, Culture and Psychoanalytic Practice. Invited Presentation to the Japanese Forum of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. Hyogo, Japan.

R. Frie. (May, 2016). Clinical Case Consultation for the Japanese Forum of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. Hyogo, Japan.

R. Frie. (April, 2016). Bridging Disciplines: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Education. Invited Address to Symposium at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Konan University, Kobe, Japan.

R. Frie. (April, 2016). Clinical Case Consultation for the Graduate Psychotherapy Program, Faculty of Human Sciences, Konan University, Kobe, Japan.

R. Frie. (January, 2016). Response to Mark Freeman’s Discerning the Narrative Unconscious. Presentation to the Seminar on Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Association 2016 National Meeting, New York, NY.

Frie, R. (2015, October). Haunted Legacies: German Memory, Trauma and the Holocaust. Invited Address to the Psychology and the Other Conference, Boston College and Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.

Frie, R. (2015, October). History Flows through Us. Plenary Presentation to the 38th Annual Conference of The Psychology of the Self , Los Angeles, CA.

Frie R. (2015, May). Gerettet aber nicht Befreiht. Invited Participant at the 3. Tagung Szenisches Erinnern der Shoah am 8 und 9 Mai, 2015. Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. Frankfurt, Germany.

Frie, R. (2015, April). Karl Jaspers, Psychoanalysis and the Contexts of Understanding. Paper presented at the Karl Jaspers Society of North America. American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, BC.

Frie, R. (2015, March). Narrative, Memory and the Framing of German Suffering during World War II: The Moral Contexts of Historical Trauma. Paper presented to Division 24 of the American Psychological Association, Annual Mid-Winter Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.

Frie, R. (2015, January). Introduction to Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Psychoanalysis Panel. Paper presentation to the American Psychoanalytic Assocation 2015 National Meeting, New York, NY.

Frie, R. (2014, October). A hermeneutic view of the unconscious. Paper presented to the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC.

Frie, R. (2014, October). Limits of understanding: Psychological experience, German memory and the Holocaust. Paper presented to the 37th Annual International Conference on The Psychology of The Self, Jerusalem, Israel.

Frie, R. (2014, June). Bridging psychoanalysis and narrative: A hermeneutic perspective on the unconscious. Paper presented to the Narrative Matters Conference, Universite Paris Diderot, France.

Frie, R. (2014, June). German memory and the Holocaust. Invited presentation, Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt, Germany.

Frie, R. (2014, June). Psychoanalysis: Singular or Plural? Keynote Address to the annual conference of the Canadian Psychological Association, Vancouver, BC.

Frie, R. (2014, January). Discussion of Heidegger and Levinas: Existential-phenomenological dimensions of psychoanalytic practice and clinical ethics. Presentation to the American Psychoanalytic Assocation 2014 National Meeting, New York, NY.

Frie, R. (2013, November). Contextualizing human experience: Psychoanalysis and the sociocultural turn. Presentation to the Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and its Alternatives: “Psychoanalysis and Social Theory: From Psychoanalytical Practice to Social and Political Praxis. ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Institute for the Humanities, Vancouver, BC.

Frie, R. (2013, October). Limits of understanding: Psychological experience, German memory and the Holocaust. Featured presentation to the Psychology and the Other Conference, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.

Frie, R. (2013, October). Culture, prejudice and shame. Discussion paper presented to the Psychology and the Other Conference, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.

Frie, R. (2013, January). The limits of knowing: A hermeneutic view of the unconscious. Paper presented to the American Psychoanalytic Association 2013 National Meeting, New York, NY.

Frie, R. (2013, January). The cultural school of psychoanalysis. Invited presentation, William Alanson White Institute, New York, NY.

Frie, R. (2012, October). The self in context and culture. Plenary paper presented to the 35th Annual International Conference on The Psychology of The Self, Washington, DC.

Frie, R. (2012, May). Memory and family narrative in post-war Germany: The imperative to remember. Paper presented to the Narrative Matters Conference, The American University of Paris, France.

Frie, R. (2012, March). Ernst Becker in culture and context. Discussion paper presented to the American Psychological Association, Div. 24 Midwinter Meeting, Austin, TX.

Frie, R. (2012, January). The sociocultural turn in contemporary psychoanalysis. Clinical presentation given to the Western Branch Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Vancouver, BC.

Frie, R. (2011, October). Featured Speaker: Confronting otherness and negotiating identity. Paper presented to the Psychology and the Other Conference, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.

Frie, R. (2011, October). Attenuating otherness. Discussion paper presented to the Psychology and the Other Conference, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA,

Frie, R. (2011, October). Psychoanalysis, culture, and the legacy of individualism: Thinking and practicing socioculturally. Paper presented to the 34th Annual International Conference on The Psychology of The Self, Los Angeles, CA.

Frie, R. (2011, June). Psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis: Possibilities for convergence? Invited paper presented to the annual conference of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON.

Frie, R. (2011, May). Irreducible contexts: German-Jewish experience, culture and identity in a bilingual psychoanalysis. Clinical presentation given to the Lacan Salon, Vancouver, BC.

Frie, R. (2011, May). Beyond individualism: Responding to the needs of the other through culture. Paper presented at the Bystanders No More: Psychotherapeutic Dialogues for the Politically Silenced Conference, New York Academy of Medicine, New York.

Frie, R. (2011, May). Multiple identities, multiple languages. Clinical presentation given to the William Alanson White Institute Clinical Services, New York, NY.

Frie, R. (2011, April). The culture of individualism: Understanding persons in context. Invited lecture given to the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, CA.

Frie, R. (2011, March). Culture, language, trauma. Invited plenary address to American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, Los Angeles, CA.

Frie, R. (2011, March). Identity and Culture in the German-Jewish Experience: A Bilingual Case Study. Invited lecture given to ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Faculty of Education, Burnaby, BC.

Frie, R. (2011, January). Working with clients across cultures: Understanding cultural multiplicity and the importance of identity negotiation. Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI.

Frie, R. (2010, August). Multiplicity and identity: Negotiating cultural identity through time. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.

Frie, R. (2010, May). Changing paradigms in contemporary psychology. Invited lecture given to the Vancouver Area School Counsellors, Vancouver School Board, Vancouver, BC.

Frie, R. (2010, April). Psychoanalysis Across Contexts: The Impact of Culture, History and Identity. Clinical presentation given to the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, CA.

Frie, R. (2010, March). Psychotherapy across culture and language. Clinical presentation given to the Clinical Psychological Program, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Department of Psychology. Burnaby, BC.

Frie, R. (2009, October). Compassion and dialogue: Bridging the psychoanalytic and philosophical understanding of the other. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual International Conference on The Psychology of the Self. Chicago, IL.

Frie, R. (2009, August). Beyond phenomenological psychology: The work of Ludwig Binswanger. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, ON.

Frie, R. (2009, August). Working bilingually and biculturally. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, ON.

Frie, R. (2009, March). Working therapeutically across language and culture. Clinical presentation in Psychotherapy Lecture Series, George Washington University, Department of Professional Psychology, Washington DC.

Frie, R. (2009, January). Compassion and human nature. Invited response to Martha Nussbaum lecture: The human animal: Beyond reason and instinct. William Alanson White Institute Scientific Society Meeting. New York, NY.

Frie, R. (2008, October). Psychological agency within sociality. Paper presented at the 31st Annual International Conference on The Psychology of the Self. Baltimore, MD.

Frie, R. (2008, August). Chair of invited plenary symposium: Psychological agency across contexts. Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Frie, R. (2008, August). Invited plenary presentation: Agency in cultural context. Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Frie, R. (2008, July). The lived experience of loneliness: An existential-phenomenological approach. Paper presented at the International Association of Psychoanalytic Education Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Frie, R. (2008, June). Agency and biculturalism: A culturally variable concept of agency. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, NS.

Frie, R. (2008, June). Navigating multiplicity in therapy. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, NS.

Frie, R. (2008, April). Postmodernism and the question of agency in interpersonal psychoanalysis. Invited lecture given to New York University, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, NY.