Our new Visual Politics event program is out. Please join us for exciting new research on topics that include art and politics, popular culture, film and humanitarian responsibilities.

This is a blog summary of an essay that Emma Hutchison and I wrote and that has now come out after Emma’s passing: a chapter on Humanitarian Photography for Tom Allbeson, Pippa Oldfield and Jolyon Mitchell (eds), Picturing Peace: Photography, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (Bloomsbury 2024).

Prof Juliet Fall, University of Geneva, discusses her new book Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography (EPFL Press / University of Chicago Press, 2025) with Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson and Roland Bleiker. 

Prof Juliet Fall from the University of Geneva will discuss her new book Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography (EPFL Press / University of Chicago Press, 2025). 

Prof Lilie Chouliaraki discusses her new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood (Columbia University Press, 2024) with Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson and Roland Bleiker.

Prof Lilie Chouliaraki will join us online to discuss her new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood (Columbia University Press, 2024)

This is Emma Hutchison’s last - posthumously published - entry into her blog “Dialysis Days".' The blog started a decade ago and chronicles her life with end-stage renal failure.

Emily Faux talks to Roland bleiker about her ongoing Ph.D. research on the role of popular imaginaries as a source of knowledge about nuclear weapons and war. The discussion focuses in particular on Emily's methods, which revolve around visual collage and other creative ways to investigate the politics of visuality and narratives.

Join us for our next Visual Politics event with Emily Faux (Newcastle University, UK) on Representing Nuclear War.