This week we are delighted to host Prof. Lene Hansen from the University of Copenhagen. Prof. Hansen is known internationally for her work on communication and security, and in particular the role of images. On Wednesday she will give a talk to our research seminar. Details here:

Time: 1pm-2pm Wednesday 20th November 2019

Place: McCrae 1-13

Images and World Politics

Images are crucial to world politics. Could we imagine the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11 without the videos of the planes crashing into the towers? Or the European refugee crisis in 2015 without the photo of Alan Kurdi laying alone on the beach? Images “speak” world politics and (in)security in distinct ways. This calls for the development of new theoretical approaches and methodological strategies. This talk provides an introduction to the growing field of research on visual representations and world politics, and a series of theoretical and conceptual suggestions for how we might move forward.

All welcome!