Visual Politics Research Program
Past Events
Welcome to the Visual Politics past events collection.
Many of our events are held in a hybrid in-person and online format. Some of our past events are available in video-format here.
Marguerite La Caze on Film and Everyday Resistance
Simon Philpott and William Clapton on Popular Culture and Global Politics
Gillian Whitlock and Zhila Gholami on Refugees and the Archive
Juliet Fall on Comics as Research Method
Lilie Chouliaraki on the The Symbolic Politics of Victimhood
Emily Faux on Representing Nuclear War
Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox on Painting the Politics of Drones
Kaya Barry on Art and Migration
Federica Caso on Military Aesthetics
David Campbell and D.J. Thomson on AI and Visual Politics
Janjira Sombatpoonsiri on Digital Repression
Michael Richardson on Nonhuman Witnessing
Jordanne Edwards on Trauma and Anti-Racism Activism
Lesley Pruitt and Erica Rose Jeffrey on Dance and Peacebuilding
Caroline Wake and Samid Suliman on Performance, Resistance and Refugees
Roberto Filippello on Fashion and Activism in Palestine
Mónica Degen and Gillian Rose on The New Urban Aesthetic
Nilanjana Premaratna on The Role of the Arts in Peacebuilding
Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou on Migration, Technology and Power
Aidan McGary and Olu Jensen on the Aesthetics of Global Protest
David Campbell on Photojournalism and International Politics
Susan Best on Post 60s Body Art & Performance
Shirin M. Rai on Politics and Performance
T.J. Thomson on The Environments, Interactions and Identities Behind News Images
Duncan Bell and Bernardo Zacka on Political Theory and Architecture
Giorgia Aiello and Katy Parry on Visual Communication
Juha Vuori and Rune Saugmann on Visual Security Studies
Jane Lydon on Visualising Human Rights
Sophie Harman on Seeing Politics