With the rise in civil wars and natural disasters in the 1990s and 2000s, refugee camps, extreme poverty, and chronic violence are now the norm for millions. New global genres representing humanitarian crisis are emerging within fiction, memoir, film, art, theatre, and the internet, while humanitarian groups increasingly mobilize the arts, popular culture, and celebrities as new actors in development advocacy and relief work.

How do the arts and popular culture respond to, and engage with, humanitarian crisis? What political work do such cultural representations and interventions perform in the public sphere? What new politicized cultures and cultures of politics do they create? This workshop aims to bring together ideas across disciplinary perspectives to shed new light on culture and humanitarianism.

There is no fee associated with this workshop.

Limited places are available so please register early.

For registrations contact:
Dr Shameem Black School of Cultural Inquiry, RHSA, CASS, or
Dr April Biccum School of Politics and International Relations, RSSS, CASS.

Venue:
Seminar room 3 (1.03), Hedley Bull Centre (building 130) cnr Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU
See: Campus map

Further information is available on the School of Cultural Inquiry website at
Culture and Humanitarian Crisis: An Interdisciplinary Workshop