Available to Watch: Lilie Chouliaraki on The Symbolic Politics of Victimhood
Prof Lilie Chouliaraki discusses her new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood (Columbia University Press, 2024) with Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson and Roland Bleiker.
Lilie Chouliaraki is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work focuses on the ethical and political complexities of communicating human suffering in the media. She is the author of several influential books, including The Spectatorship of Suffering (2006), The Soft Power of War (ed., 2008), The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-humanitarianism (2013), The Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication (2021), and The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power (2022). This is Lilie's second appearance in our Visual Politics Program.
A few years ago she joined our Visual Politics Program with Prof Myria Georgiou to discuss their book The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power (New York University Press, 2022). You can find a video recording on our website.
Join us for our next event: Comics as Research Method.
Prof Juliet Fall (University of Geneva) via Zoom.
Wed 4 June 2025 5-6pm
Discussion of her new book Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography (EPFL Press)
Building 39a/room 501 and online (zoom link via registration below)
