Jacqueline Rose, Professor of English, Queen Mary University of London
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Friday 6 May 2011
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6.30pm - 8.00pm
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Old Theatre, Old Building
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Chair: Anne Phillips, LSE Gender Institute
An LSE public lecture presented by The Ralph Miliband Programme and the Gender Institute.
Open to all - no booking required. Followed by an informal drinks reception from 8.00pm in the Gender Institute Open Space, a short walk away from the Old Building.
Abstract
In this lecture Jacqueline Rose will argue that Rosa Luxemburg's legacy increases in importance by the day, that as a Marxist and woman she can uniquely teach us about the relationship between political struggle and the life of the mind, and that the implications of her thought resonate through the assault on education under the present UK coalition government to the seemingly interminable conflict in the Middle East.
Books
This lecture marks the launch of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg and The Jacqueline Rose Reader. Both books will be available for purchase at the event.
Biography
Jacqueline Rose is internationally known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and more recently on the politics and ideology of Israel-Palestine. Her books include, Feminine Sexuality – Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne, which she co-edited with Juliet Mitchell and translated, Sexuality in the Field of Vision (Verso Radical Thinkers), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, States of Fantasy (the Oxford Clarendon lectures), On Not Being Able to Sleep – Psychoanalysis and the Modern World, The Question of Zion (the Christian Gauss seminars), The Last Resistance and the novel Albertine. Conversations with Jacqueline Rose came out in 2010. The Jacqueline Rose Reader and Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus to the Middle East are to be published in 2011. A regular writer for The London Review of Books, Jacqueline Rose also wrote and presented the 2002 Channel 4 TV Documentary, Dangerous Liaison – Israel and the United States. She is a co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK and a Fellow of the British Academy. She teaches at Queen Mary University of London.
The Ralph Miliband Programme
The Ralph Miliband Programme was set up in 1996 through a generous anonymous benefaction to LSE from a former PhD student, who had been inspired by 'Ralph Miliband's contribution to social thought'. He specified that the funding be used in memory of his friend and mentor 'to advance his spirit of free social inquiry' and the diversity of thought that has always been the hallmark of LSE.
The donor's wishes to continue Ralph Miliband's intellectual tradition are being carried out through a combination of public lecture series and the appointment of visiting teaching fellows. These fellows also give public lectures at LSE.
Additionally, Ralph Miliband's biography by Michael Newman, Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left (Merlin Press, 2002), was launched as part of the Ralph Miliband Programme in October 2002 at LSE.