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*The Centre for Cultural Studies Research (CCSR)* *University of East London* *is delighted to invite you to its 2011 Annual Lecture: * *‘Total Belief – Delirium in the West’ *to be given by *Jacqueline Rose ** June 1st at* *17.30 * West Building, Ground Floor Theatre, University of East London, Docklands Campus Nearest Tube*:* Cyprus DLR Refreshments will follow the lecture * * *ALL WELCOME ADMISSION FREE * *What is the nature of our political investments?* *In what, psychically, do they consist?* In this lecture, Jacqueline Rose will return to Hannah Arendt’s analysis of totalitarianism as mental control and ask: what form of belief and passion does such subjection entail? What happens when a political belief becomes sacred? What categories of truth and falsehood, belief and disbelief, were engaged in the ideological order of the Third Reich? This lecture will suggest that there is a productive link to be forged between Arendt’s analysis and Freud’s engagement with the question of faith. Above all, by focusing on one of the darkest moments of European history, it will suggest that those who too quickly ascribe the category of the religious `fanatic’ or `extremist’ to distant cultures and worlds have much to learn from some of the most intense deliriums – lethal and transformative – of the West. * 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 *Sexuality in the Field of Vision*, *The Haunting of Sylvia Plath*, *States of Fantasy,* *On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World*, *The Question of Zion, 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 *will be published this year. A regular writer for*The London Review of Books*, she 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, a Fellow of the British Academy, and teaches at Queen Mary University of London. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------