101 Jerome Greene Hall
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, and Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Renowned critic and author Jacqueline Rose will speak on “Feminism and the Abomination of Violence.”
Feminism rightly sees one of its most important tasks as the exposure of, and struggle against, violence towards women. In the twenty first century this violence shows no sign of decreasing. In this lecture, Jacqueline Rose will argue that because the discourse on violence has tended to be appropriated by radical feminist thinking – violence is not only, but also exclusively, what men do to women – the question of violence, as part of psychic reality, has become something that feminism repudiates. Continuing her on-going engagement with psychoanalysis and feminism, she will explore two women thinkers who placed violence at the core of their life’s work: Hannah Arendt and Melanie Klein, both of whom track the complex relation between violence in the world and in the mind. How might their understanding of violence be theorised for modern feminism?
Jacqueline Rose is a world-renowned critic and one of the most influential and provocative scholars working in the humanities today. She is also among the most wide ranging, with books on Zionism, feminism, Sylvia Plath, children’s fiction, and psychoanalysis.
During the past decade, through talks and pieces that Rose has contributed to the London Review of Books, the Guardian, and other publications, she has played a vital role in public debate about the policies and human-rights record of Israel in its relation to the Palestinians. She is the author, most recently, of Women in Dark Times (2015), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (2014), and The Last Resistance (2013).
Free and open to the public. No registration necessary. First come, first seated.
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