Available to Watch: Marshall Beier and Helen Berents on the Visual Economies of Childhood
Prof Marshall Beier McMaster University in Canada and A/Prof Helen Berents Griffith University discuss their longstanding and highly successful research collaboration about images of childhood as technologies in the governance of political violence.
Both Marshall and Helen are prolific researchers who have produced multiple books including a recent co-edited one called Children, Childhoods and Global Politics (Bristol University Press, 2023).
The interview was conducted by Roland Bleiker and took place as part of a seminar held on 22 April 2026 in the context of a series of events organised by the Visual Politics Program at the University of Queensland.
Our remaining Visual Politics event for 2026 will take place out of the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm. I will be in touch as soon as I can with a program, which starts on 12 June with Prof William Callahan (Singapore) discussing “Film as a Research Method in International Relations” and ends in December with Prof Lene Hansen (Copenhagen) giving the Second Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture. Further information and registration will then be available here.
