6th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Jacqueline Rose

Prof Jacqueline Rose is internationally known as a public intellectual for her writing on feminism, literature and psychoanalysis, South Africa and Israel/Palestine. She is Professor of Humanities and co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London.  A regular contributor to The London Review of Books, and The Guardian, her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision and The Last Resistance (both published in the series Verso Radical Thinkers), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, States of Fantasy, The Question of Zion, Women in Dark Times, Mothers – an essay on love and cruelty, and On Violence and On Violence Against Women. The Plague – Living Death in Our Times will be published in the UK next Spring by Fitzcarraldo. She is a co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK, a Fellow of the British Academy and of The Royal Literary Society.  

Dr Sharon Numa originally trained as a Clinical Psychologist, working in the NHS before undertaking the training in Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic. While at the Tavistock she completed a clinical Phd on the topic of Shame.  She subsequently trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and is a Fellow of the Institute.  She has for some 30 years worked in private practice with adult patients and supervises a number of therapists.  Dr Numa is a training supervisor and therapist for the Bpf, and the ACP; she teaches clinical and theoretical seminars both here in London and in Beijing where she and a colleague have run a yearly workshop on Kleinian concepts.  She has also organised a discussion group at the Institute on Psychoanalysis and Race.  She recently edited a book which was published this year by The New Library of Psychoanalysis/Routledge on the early building blocks of identity called “On Being Oneself: Clinical Explorations on Identity from John Steiner’s Workshop” in which nine authors explore identity in the light of Kleinian theory.