Everyday Humanitarianism: Ethics, Affects and Practices
Convened by Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Lisa Ann Richey (Roskilde University, Denmark)
New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn Fields, LSE
April 14-15, 2016
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Thursday, 14 April
New Academic Building, Lower Ground Floor, Wolfson Theatre
12:00-13.00 Registration
13:00-13:30 Conference Welcome
Lisa Ann Richey, Roskilde University
13.30-14.00 Keynote Speaker Craig Calhoun, LSE Director,
“When Emergencies Are Constant: Idealism, Practical and Impractical”
14.00-14.30 Keynote Speaker Lilie Chouliaraki, LSE
“Post-humanitarianism as Everyday Humanitarianism”
14:30-15:00 Discussion
15:00-15:15 Tea Break
15:15-17:45 Launch of Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power
Lisa Ann Richey, Editor, Roskilde University
15:15-15:30 Introduction to the book
15:30-16:10 Individual Chapter Highlights
Irony and Politically Incorrect Humanitarianism: Danish Celebrity-led Benefit Events
Mette Fog Olwig and Lene Bull Christiansen, Roskilde University
Ben Affleck Goes to Washington: Celebrity Advocacy, Access and Influence
Alexandra Budabin, University of Dayton
Celebrity Philanthrophy in China: the Political Critique of Pu Cunxin’s AIDS Heroism
Johanna Hood, Roskilde University
16:10-16:30 Discussant Pam DeLargy, Special Adviser, United Nations
16:30-16:50 Discussant Mirca Madianou, Goldsmiths College
16:50-17:10 Discussant Suzanne Franks, City University London
17:10 -17:45 Discussion
17:45 Wine Reception for all participants
Friday, 15 April
Thai Theatre and Wolfson Theater
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-11:00 Parallel Sessions
Track 1A: Professionalisation — The Politics and Ethics of Humanitarianism (Thai Theatre)
Chair: Mette Fog Olwig, Roskilde University
Discussant: Olivier Driessens, University of Cambridge
Humanitarianism in Socialism – Socialism in Humanitarianism. On the Practice of Giving in Late Cold War Europe
Cristian Capotescu, University of Michigan
Helping the Wounded as Religious Experience: The Free Burma Rangers in Karen state, Myanmar
Alexander Horstmann, University of Copenhagen
Humanitarian Restitution and Politics of Unrectifiable Loss: Insights from Vladimir Jankélévitch’s Concepts of Hapax and Irreversibility
Magdalena Zolkos, Australian Catholic University
Talking about time: temporality, causality and motivation for international faith-‐based humanitarian actors in South Sudan
Amy Kaler, University of Alberta
John Parkins, University of Alberta
Track 2A: Commodification — The Humanitarian Marketplace (Wolfson)
Chair: Lisa Ann Richey
Discussant: Pam DeLargy
A Responsibility to Profit? Social Impact Bonds as a Form of ‘Humanitarian Finance’
Marco Andreu, University of Warwick
The power of a warm welcome: Public representations of Syrian refugees and the forging of everyday humanitarianism
Uma Kothari, University of Manchester
Questions for Celanthropy: Hunger, Food and Poverty Interventions in the Gulf of Mexico
Jeanne K. Firth, LSE
Corporate Sustainability Governance in the Post-humanitarian era
Agni Kalfagianni, University of Utrecht
New Grammars of the Anthropocene?: Reflections on Post-Science Climate Politics, Affect and Celebrity Politics in Showtime’s The Years of Living Dangerously
Mike Goodman, University of Reading
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:00 Keynote Speaker: Miriam Ticktin, The New School (Wolfson Theatre)
“Everyday life without innocence?”
12:00-12:15 Discussant Dan Brockington, University of Sheffield
12:15-12:30 Discussion in Plenary
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Parallel Sessions
Track 3A: Technologisation — Mediatization, Spectacle and the Politics of Pity (Thai Theatre)
Chair: Lilie Chouliaraki
Discussant: Uma Kothari
The influence of foundation funding on humanitarian news: A framework for analysis
Mel Bunce, City University London
Martin Scott, University of East Anglia
(Inter)actively watching distant suffering on the news
Eline Huiberts, Ghent University
Justice and Solidarity in a Globalizing Age: The Example of Transnational Climate Justice, Indigenous Peoples and the Media
Anna Roosvall, Stockholm University
Mediating ‘unimaginable’ suffering: Cosmopolitanism in participatory documentary filmmaking
Karina Horsti, Academy of Finland/University of Jyväskylä
Track 1B: Professionalisation — The Politics and Ethics of Humanitarianism (Wolfson Theatre)
Chair: Dan Brockington
Discussant: Amy Kaler
Faith-Based Organizations: Humanitarian Duty or Religious Mission
Riham Ahmed Khafagy, Institute for Islamic World Studies, Zayed University
‘Making Their way through the World’: Casual Labour in Media/Humanitarianism
Kate Wright, University of Roehampton
“It is important to talk about soap, but can we talk about the rights of women?”: Teaching Human Rights in Nyarugusu Camp
Aditi D Surie von Czechowski, Columbia University
Post-humanitarian slum tourism? ‘City Walks’ with former street children in Delhi
Tore Elias Harsløf Mukherjee Holst, Roskilde University
Economies of Humanitarian Architecture Practice
Kai Wood Mah, School of Architecture, Laurentian University
Patrick Lynn Rivers, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
15:30-15:45 Break
15.45-17:45 Parallel Sessions
Track 2 B: Commodification — The Humanitarian Marketplace (Thai Theatre)
Chair: Suzanne Franks
Discussant: Martin Scott
Comic Relief and humanitarian aid: Doing something funny for money?
Christine Barnes, King’s College London
Justin Trudeau: Empathetic Politician or Celebrity Humanitarian?
Jane Chamberlin, University of Calgary
Human Rights, Democracy and Celebrity
Mark Wheeler, London Metropolitan University
Take Action Now: The Legitimacy of Celebrity Power in International Relations
Lena Partzsch, University of Freiburg
Track 3 B: Technologisation — Mediatization, Spectacle and the Politics of Pity (Wolfson Theatre)
Chair: Mirca Madianou
Discussant: Miriam Ticktin
"Cosmopolitan" Cities: Performing Solidarity – Mediating Space
Miyase Christensen, Royal Institute of Technology/Stockholm University
Beyond the border spectacle: Migration across the Mediterranean Sea
Pierluigi Musarò, University of Bologna
The “Need to Be There”: Humanitarian Orientalisms in Lebanon’s Emergency Crises
Estella Carpi, Trends Research & Advisory
Humanitarian Categorization of Victimhood: Tracing the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Categorization of Victimhood in the Nigeria-Biafra Conflict, 1967-70
Mie Vestergaard, Roskilde University
17:45-18:15 Concluding Plenary (Wolfson Theatre)
18:30 Conference Dinner for participants
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