We kindly invite you to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Tanya Serisier entitled “Public Rape and Survival Politics”, which will take place as part of the Tuesday Meetings series on Tuesday, 7 April 2026, at 11:00, in the library of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana.
Over the past decade, increasing numbers of survivors of sexual violence around the world have spoken publicly about their experiences and advocated for justice. In this talk, Tanya Serisier will discuss the emergence of the figure of the public survivor and consider what it reveals about contemporary feminist politics and responses to sexual violence.
She will ask what we can learn from the experiences of those who speak publicly about sexual violence and from their forms of political intervention. She will also raise questions about the burdens of political change that are often placed on individual survivors. The talk will suggest the need to move from an individualised form of “survivor politics” toward a more collective “survival politics” that understands sexual violence as a form of structural violence whose effects extend beyond individual survivors.
Tanya Serisier is Professor of Feminist Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. She has written and published widely on the cultural politics of sex, sexuality and sexual violence, with a particular interest in feminist and survivor politics around sexual violence. This research is part of a Leverhulme Fellowship – ‘Surviving Rape in Public: The Affects and Effects of Public Survivors’ which I am currently in the process of writing up as an academic monograph.
Contact person and event moderator: prof. dr. Renata Salecl.
Video and audio recording of the event is not permitted.
