TLRH | 2023 Annual Edmund Burke Lecture | Professor Joanna Bourke

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Nov 21, 2023 · 57m

Recorded November 16th, 2023. The Trinity Long Room Hub 2023 Annual Edmund Burke Lecture was delivered by Professor Joanna Bourke on ‘Contemplating Evil: “Monstrous” Women in History, Politics, and Law, 1890s to the Present’. Joanna Bourke is Professor Emerita of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is also the Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. She is the prize-winning author of fifteen books, including What it means to be Human (2011) and Fear: A Cultural History (2015), as well as over 120 articles in academic journals. In 2022…