TLRH | 2023 Annual Edmund Burke Lecture | Professor Joanna Bourke

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, Reaktion Books published Disgrace: Global Reflections on
Sexual Violence and OUP published Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical
Education for Working People. Her Edmund Burke Lecture will draw on
the subject of her current research towards a book entitled Evil
Women. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Russian,
Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, and Greek.
The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture is supported
by a generous endowment in honour of Padraic Fallon by his family.
Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/