Mary Wollstonecraft Annual Lecture

 

FEBRUARY 21 2011

6.00 pm

 

ALLAM LECTURE THEATRE 

EskBuilding , University of Hull

 

 

PROFESSOR LUCE IRIGARAY

THE ETHICAL GESTURE TOWARDS THE OTHER

 

Luce Irigaray  is currently the most famous feminist writer in the world.  She is an interdisciplinary thinker who works between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and linguistics. Originally a student of the famous analyst Jacques Lacan, Irigaray’s departure from Lacan in Speculum of the Other Woman, where she critiques the exclusion of women from both philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, earned her recognition as a leading feminist theorist and continental philosopher. Irigaray's writings not only provide a revolutionary re-reading of the history of philosophy, but also address urgent contemporary questions of, political and social violence, cultural conflict, and environmental degradation

 

‘SEXUAL DIFFERENCE IS PROBABLY THE ISSUE IN OUR TIME WHICH COULD BE OUR ‘SALVATION’ IF WE THOUGHT IT THROUGH.’

 

In this lecture she considers how the ethics of sexual difference can be extended to other categories of social difference.

 

 

This year’s lecture celebrates 25 years of Gender Studies at the University of Hull

 

 

Sponsors:  Faculty of Arts and Social Science

                  Centre of Gender Studies

                  Department of Humanities

                  Department of Modern Languages

                  Department of English