Marina will be giving the 2026 Anna Jameson Lecture, titled ‘Rachel Weeping for Her Children’: Memories of Massacre, Flight, and Refuge. The lecture will explore the Massacre of the Innocents, the Flight into Egypt, and the representation of mothers in the search for safety. It will be fifty years since Marina published her study of the Madonna (Alone of All Her Sex: the Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, 1976); she will revisit the representation of the mater dolorosa, drawing on Anna Jameson’s work, paintings in the National Gallery, and contemporary women artists (Paula Rego, Kiki Smith, Marcelle Hanselaar).

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