Sara Ahmed: Hope Street Writer in Residence 2026: Public Lecture
Join us for a lecture by independent feminist scholar Sara Ahmed.
Common sense has been defined against many others, from idealists to sceptics. Those who threaten common sense by questioning certainties of sex and race are now called ‘woke’. In this lecture, one of our most vital political thinkers asks: can we retell the story of common sense from the point of view of its others?
Please note that this event takes place in the Yoko Ono Lennon Centre at the University of Liverpool.
Tickets are free but booking is essential.
Presented by the Centre for New and International Writing, University of Liverpool, in collaboration with Tate Liverpool.
Biography:
Sara Ahmed is an independent feminist scholar. Her work is concerned with how power is experienced and challenged in everyday life and institutional cultures. Her new book, Common Sense and Its Others, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Her most recent books are No Is Not a Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Complaining (2025) and The Feminist Killjoy Handbook (2023), both published by Allen Lane. Previous books include Complaint! (2021), What's The Use? On the Uses of Use (2019), Living a Feminist Life(2017), Willful Subjects (2014), On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012), The Promise of Happiness (2010) and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006), all published by Duke University Press.
Common sense has been defined against many others, from idealists to sceptics. Those who threaten common sense by questioning certainties of sex and race are now called ‘woke’. In this lecture, one of our most vital political thinkers asks: can we retell the story of common sense from the point of view of its others?
Please note that this event takes place in the Yoko Ono Lennon Centre at the University of Liverpool.
Tickets are free but booking is essential.
Presented by the Centre for New and International Writing, University of Liverpool, in collaboration with Tate Liverpool.
Biography:
Sara Ahmed is an independent feminist scholar. Her work is concerned with how power is experienced and challenged in everyday life and institutional cultures. Her new book, Common Sense and Its Others, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Her most recent books are No Is Not a Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Complaining (2025) and The Feminist Killjoy Handbook (2023), both published by Allen Lane. Previous books include Complaint! (2021), What's The Use? On the Uses of Use (2019), Living a Feminist Life(2017), Willful Subjects (2014), On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012), The Promise of Happiness (2010) and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006), all published by Duke University Press.
Where is it happening?
Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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