Upcoming Event: Lilie Chouliaraki on The Symbolic Politics of Victimhood
Please join us in person or online for our next Visual Politics event with Prof Lilie Chouliaraki (LSE), who will join us via video-link to discuss her new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood (Columbia University Press, 2024).
Wed 7 May 5-6pm
In Person: St Lucia Campus, Building 39a, room 501
On Zoom: Please RSVP here.
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).
Lilie joined our Visual Politics Program a few years ago together with Prof Myria Georgiouto to discuss their book The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power (New York University Press, 2022). You can find a video recording here. Both this session and the upcoming one are co-hosted by Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson and myself.
