Delve into the books that have shaped and inspired the life of award-winning writer and broadcaster Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA whose work on human rights and refugee studies draws on connections between literature, history, politics, law, and social policy.

Join us at the bar from 18:00, with the event beginning at 18:30.

Speakers:

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge’s work focuses on the 20th century, exploring contemporary literature, political theory, history, human rights, and Refugee Studies, and drawing on the interdisciplinary connections between literature, history, politics, law, and social policy.

After focusing on the effects of modern violence on the mind in the first part of her career, her more recent writing has focused on the creative history of responses to that violence in two awarding-winning books:  The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011), which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, 2014, and Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees (2018), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Best Book Prize 2018. In 2020, she published a collection of essays, Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights (2020), which drew on her journalism and her work with two major interdisciplinary research projects, Refugee Hosts and Rights4Time.

The work of the 20th-century political theorist, Hannah Arendt, has long been crucial to Stonebridge’s understanding of modern history and contemporary politics. Her new book, We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience, was published in 2024.

Event: Thursday December 5, 6:30pm-7:45pm