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Humanitarian Communication Seminar & Book Launch

Date and time

Thursday 19. January 2023 at 12:30 to 17:00

Registration Deadline

Wednesday 18. January 2023 at 20:00

Location

DH Ø.0.89, Dalgas Have 15, 2000 Frederiksberg DH Ø.0.89
Dalgas Have 15
2000 Frederiksberg

Humanitarian Communication Seminar & Book Launch

Lilie Chouliaraki (LSE) & Anne Vestergaard (CBS) invite you to the Handbook of Humanitarian Communication Seminar & Book Launch!

 
Online participation is available. Please use the dropdown option when signing up to indicate this and a link will be sent out to you the day before the event. 
 
To celebrate the Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication, which came out in the midst of the pandemic, we invite you to a seminar with a series of short talks showcasing eight of the handbook’s 27 contributions. Please join us for a full afternoon of talks, for a few select talks or simply come toast with us at the reception.
 
The Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to research in the academic sub-field of humanitarian communication. It is broadly focused on communication that presents human vulnerability as a cause for public concern and encompasses communication with respect to humanitarian aid and development as well as human rights and "humanitarian" wars.
 
Recent years have seen the expansion of critical scholarship on humanitarian communication across a range of academic fields, sharing recognition of the centrality of media and communications to our understanding of humanitarianism as an agent of transnational power, global governance and cosmopolitan solidarity. The Handbook brings into dialogue these diverse fields, their theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches as well as the public debates that lie at the heart of the contemporary politics of humanitarianism. It consolidates existing knowledge and maps out this emerging field as an important site of interdisciplinary knowledge production on media, communication and humanitarianism.
As such, the Handbook is not simply a collection of texts sharing a similar theme. It is a coherent intellectual contribution which systematises current critical scholarship in terms of Domains, Methods and Issues and sets an agenda of emerging and evolving research priorities in the field. Consisting of 26 chapters written by international scholars, who have contributed to laying the foundation of the field, this volume provides an essential guide to the key ideas, issues, concepts and debates of humanitarian communication.
 
 
Programme
 
Thursday 19 January at Dalgas Have 15, Room: Ø.0.89
 

12:30 - 13:00 Humanitarian Communication in the 21st Century

  • Anne Vestergaard & Lilie Chouliaraki 

13:00 - 14:20 Session 1: Humanitarian Communication 

Chair: Mette Mortensen, University of Copenhagen

  • Mervi Pantti, University of Helsinki: Disaster Aid & Humanitarian Communication

  • Maria Kyriakidou, Cardiff University: The Audience of Humanitarian Communication  

  • Richard Stupart, University of Groningen: Conflicted Witnesses: Journalists and the Humanitarian Imaginary 

  • Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow: Digital War & Humanitarian Communication

14:20 - 14:40 Break

14:40 - 16:00 Session 2: Humanitarianism on Market Terms 

Chair: Bolette Blågaard, Aalborg University

  • Mehita Iqani, Stellenbosch University: Humanitarianism in the African Luxury Designer Market 
  • Lisa Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte, Copenhagen Business School: Humanitarianism in Corporate Branding. The case of Brand Aid 

  • Anke Schwittay, University of Sussex: Humanitarianism and Microfinance 

16.00 – 17.00: Reception

 

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Copenhagen Business School
Phone: +45 3815 3815
bha.msc@cbs.dk

Organizer Contact Information

Copenhagen Business School
Phone: +45 3815 3815
bha.msc@cbs.dk