Reading and Discussion with Jacqueline Rose | 14 Feb | 12 noon
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WiSER invites you to participate in an in-person session of reading and discussion with
Professor Jacqueline Rose (Birkbeck College, University of London)
The discussion will be focused around two readings by Rose. The first is a chapter from her book On Violence and On Violence Against Women (2021), titled ‘Feminism and the Abomination of Violence’. The second is a short chapter, ‘Living Death’ from her book The Plague (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022) focusing, in the form of a philosophical essay, on the exponential rise of male violence against women during the Covid pandemic. Rose writes on these topics with valuable depth, historical acuity, political force and uncompromising prose. Her work confronts issues relating to contemporary directions for feminism, forms of femicide and the production of fear, and rising right wing politics.
Friday, 14th February 2025
12:00 to 1:30pm
WiSER Seminar room
Jacqueline Rose is internationally recognized as one of the most important living feminist and cultural critics. She writes at the intersection of feminism, psychoanalysis and politics. She is Professor of the Humanities and co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and a public intellectual and frequent contributor to the London Review of Books, The Guardian and many other publications. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, States of Fantasy, The Last Resistance, Women in Dark Times, Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty, On Violence and On Violence Against Women and The Plague. Conversations with Jacqueline Rose came out in 2010, and The Jacqueline Rose Reader in 2011.
She will be visiting Wits University and WiSER on February 13 and 14.
The session will be convened by Professors Sarah Nuttall (WiSER) and Srila Roy (Sociology).
Please sign up for the session by emailing Najibha Deshmukh (Najibha.Deshmukh@wits.ac.za) and the readings for discussion will be sent to you to read beforehand.
Lunch will be served at WiSER for those attending the session.