Jacqueline Rose | Two Women
Sat 21 Nov 2026 | 10:00am - 11:00am
Professor Jacqueline Rose is one of our most important feminist and cultural critics. In her latest book, Two Women, she fictionalises the lives of two remarkable people – one of whom is her sister. Both philosophers and Catholic converts from Judaism, they never met, but shared great intellect, faith, suffering and courage. Join Jacqueline to discuss the mysteries of love, loss and belonging that shape every human life.
In conversation with Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge.
Venue: Old Divinity School
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
Jacqueline Rose is internationally known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision (1986, 2006 Verso Radical Thinkers), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991), States of Fantasy (1996), The Question of Zion (2005), The Last Resistance (2007), Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus to the Middle East (2012). She is also the author of the novel Albertine (2001). Women in Dark Times was published by Bloomsbury in 2014. Conversations with Jacqueline Rose came out in 2010, and The Jacqueline Rose Reader in 2011. A regular writer for the London Review of Books, she is a co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is Professor of Humanities at Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London
Chair Biography
Lyndsey Stonebridge (FBA) is a writer, critic, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Her writing explores themes of justice, exile, and above all, the political and moral life of the mind. Her previous books include The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg, which won the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2014, and Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees which was awarded the Modernist Studies Association Best Book Prize in 2018. In 2020, she published a collection of essays, Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights, which drew on her journalism and her work with two major international research projects, Refugee Hosts and Rights4Time. She is currently working a new book, Old Women: A History of Our Future to be published by Jonathan Cape in 2027.
