Free To Change the World
Lessons in Love and Disobedience

A salon with Lyndsey Stonebridge

 Ideas Festival  / Sun 1st Dec / 5-6.30 pm

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge is a writer, critic, and Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Her work focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary literature, political theory, history, Human Rights and Refugee Studies, drawing on the interdisciplinary connections between literature, history, politics, law, and social policy. Her early work was concerned with the effects of modern violence on the mind in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, while her more recent writing has focused on the creative history of responses to that violence in two awarding-winning books. The work of the twentieth-century political theorist, Hannah Arendt, has long been crucial Stonebridge’s understanding of modern history and contemporary politics. She has held fellowships and visiting positions at Cornell University, the University of Sydney and the Holocaust Research at Royal Holloway University, London. She is a fellow of the English Association and the Academia Europaea. In 2021 she was awarded a Leverhulme Major Fellowship. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in July 2023. A regular broadcaster and media commentator, she contributes to The New Statesman.

GOOD READS

Free to Change the World, Hannah Arendt's lessons in love and disobedience (2024); Writing and Righting, Literature in the age of human rights (2021); Refugees Imaginaries, Research across the humanities (2020); The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011).