Joseph Massad: “Psychoanalysis and the Other of Liberalism”

Posted on December 19th, 2013 in Events

January 30th, 3:30 pm in Encina Hall West, Room 208 (616 Serra St., map)

Winter 2014 Workshop Series: Inside and Outside Islamic Literature?

Joseph Massad (Columbia University), “Psychoanalysis and the Other of Liberalism”

Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He teaches and writes about modern Arab politics and intellectual history in relation to civilization and identity, gender and sexuality in the Arab world, and Palestinian-Israeli politics and society. He has a particular interest in theories of identity and culture – including theories of nationalism, sexuality, race and religion. He is the author of Desiring Arabs (2007), which was awarded the Lionel Trilling Book Award; The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinian Question (2006); and Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan (2001).  His articles have appeared in Public Culture, InterventionsMiddle East JournalPsychoanalysis and HistoryCritique, and the Journal of Palestine Studies, and he writes frequently for Al-Ahram Weekly.

Papers are available to Stanford affiliates upon request.

[Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature]

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