Please Note: This March 19 Event Has Been Canceled

Julia Kristeva will draw from her publications about the current social malaise as depicted in The Incredible Need to Believe (2011) and The New Maladies of the Soul (1997). A panel discussion will follow including Stefania Pandolfo (Anthropology, UC Berkeley), David Marriott (History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz), and Stephen Hartman (Psychoanalyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California). 

Kristeva is Professor of Linguistics at the Université Paris VII and the author of many acclaimed works and novels, including Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (1980), Powers of Horror. An Essay on Abjection (1982), Black Sun (1992), New Maladies of the Soul (1997), Murder in Byzantium, Strangers to Ourselves, Time and Sense (1996), and Le génie féminin: la vie, la folie, les mots: Hannah Arendt, Melanie Klein, Colette (1999-2002). Her most recent publication is Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila (2014). She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize. 

Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities as part of the Thinking the Self Initiative; the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC); History of Consciousness (UC Santa Cruz); and the Program in Medical Anthropology (UC Berkeley).