Dr. Yael Pilowsky Bankirer is a psychoanalyst and poet based in Cambridge, UK. She is a Medical Doctor and has a PhD in Gender Studies and Psychoanalysis. She is a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and an editor for Sitegeist – a journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Prof. Miri Rozmarin is an Associate Professor in the Gender Studies Program at Bar-Ilan University. She is also a Senior Research Fellow and the Head of the research lab “Contemporary Feminist Political Subjectivities” at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Her research interests include political subjectivity, vulnerability theory, and maternal subjectivity. She has published extensively in these areas, including two books and numerous articles in leading journals. Her current research aims to explore how vulnerability is mobilized as a resource for contemporary political subjectivities.
Dana Lubinsky is a clinical psychologist and poet. Her debut poetry collection “Neither word, Nor Covenant”” (Bli Brit, Bli Mila”) published by Am Oved, 2014, for which she won the Ministry of Culture Award for Emerging Poets in Israel, explores the exclusion of women from the symbolic order, and the dialectics of feminine writing, amid women’s recent migration into written language.
Her second book, “Once Aflame” published this summer, delves into maternal subjectivity, challenging the widespread notion of motherhood as a renunciation of selfhood. In addition to her clinical practice and poetry, Dana also engages in writing essays and literary critiques that touch upon the interface between literature, gender, and psychoanalytic theory. She is a mother of three.
Rabbi Dr Tali Artman Partock teaches Judaism at the University of Cambridge and Leo Baeck College. She is also a community rabbi and training to be a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at AGIP. Her research focuses on trauma and recovery in religious communities of Late Antiquity. Mostly looking at reintegration after enslavement, prostitution and other forms of sexual violence. Some of these topics are discussed in ‘Agency Personhood and Rabbinic Law,’ forthcoming in Routledge, 2025.
