Now in its second year, the Humanitarian Action Seminar brings together practitioners and scholars working on humanitarianism for monthly discussions of shared interest. Sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, historians and others dialogue with representatives from the United Nations, non-governmental organizations, and research institutes to reflect on such topics as humanitarianism's role in geopolitics, its narrative forms, organizational practices, and ethical commitments. Past speakers include Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF), Nicolas de Torrente; writer and researcher, Alex de Waal; and Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center, Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, and co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project, Thomas Weiss.
The Humanitarian Action Seminar is pleased to welcome Pam DeLargy, Chief of the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Humanitarian Response Group, to discuss her recent work in Gaza since returning from the field. Joining Dr. DeLargy as discussant will be Nicolas de Torrente, the former Executive Director of
In this month's seminar, David Kennedy will give a presentation entitled "After the Fall of Human Rights."
Sally Engle Merry will serve as discussant for this session. Dr. Merry is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Law and...
Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, will present a new paper, "Developing Morally Plausible Indices of Poverty and Gender Equity: a Research Program," available for download on this page.
Various indices are used to track poverty, development, and gender equity at the population...
Reception will begin at 6:00, discussion at 6:30.
For this discussion, Alexander Cooley, Associate Professor in International Relations and Foreign Policy at Barnard University has agreed to serve as a discussant.
The 1992-1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most...