[ecrea] Conference: Post-humanitarian Communication

The International Master’s programme Media and Global Communication
(MGC) is happy to welcome you
 to an international conference on Post-humanitarian Communication to
be held in Helsinki on Friday, 26 September, 2014, 10am – 15pm.

This one-day conference explores what Lilie Chouliaraki calls
‘post-humanitarian’ communication.  Such  digital media-driven
humanitarian communication moves away from other-oriented
representations of suffering that aim to foster guilt or empathy
towards self-oriented representations, which appeal to ‘us’ and invite
us to do good in order to feel well.
Thus, the ‘post’ in post-humanitarianism signifies a challenge to the
traditional moralities by introducing solidarity that is based on our
own happiness and well-being.

Whilst the concept captures something important in the nature of
contemporary communication strategies of Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs), it deserves more attention.The questions that
this conference sets to explore include: In what ways is this style
driven by and dependent upon digital media? How established is it and
how does it co-exist with other, more traditional styles of
communication? What are its key features and the contexts in which it
is produced? How do media users engage with it? Can we talk about a
post-humanitarian experience or a post-humanitarian practice of
solidarity?

The programme of the conference

9:30 Coffee and tea
 10:00 Opening of the conference, Dr. Mervi Pantti, director of Media
and Global Communication Master’s Degree Programme
 10:15 Keynote speaker: Professor Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of
Economics) “Post-humanitarianism in the digital media age”.
 11:00 Discussion

11:30-12:30 Lunch break

12:30  Dr. Anne Vestergaard (Copenhagen Business School)
“(Post)Humanitarian Communication and the Paradox of Power”
 13:00 Dr. Jonathan Corpus Ong (University of Leicester)
“Humanitarian Technologies in Typhoon Haiyan: User Experiences of Aid
Workers, Donors and Affected Communities”
 13:30 Dr. Kaarina Nikunen (University of Tampere) “Real Suffering?
Popular Politics of Humanitarian Reality TV”

14:00-14:20 Coffee Break

14:30 – 16:00 Panel discussion with the NGO experts – Inka Hetemäki
(Unicef), Kristiina Kumpula (the Finnish Red Cross) and Tiina Saukko
(World Vision) –
 will be chaired by Frank Johansson (Chairman, Amnesty International Finland).

Venue: The main building of the University of Helsinki, Fabianinkatu
33, seminar room 12.

The participation in the conference is free. Refreshments will be
served during the coffee break. Please register before 20 September.


Registration form:

https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/52867/lomake.html

Mervi Pantti                                 Marko Ampuja
 Director of MGC                         Senior Lecturer
 University of Helsinki               University of Helsinki

For further information please contact:
 Yonca Ermutlu,(yonca.ermutlu /at/ helsinki.fi)
 02941-24845

Ms. Irina Khaldarova
Doctoral Student

Faculty of Social Sciences/ Department of Social Research
Discipline of Media and Communication Studies
Unioninkatu 37 (P.O. Box 54)
00014 University of Helsinki
phone +358-(0)504 480 928, (0) 443 234 807
e-mail:(irina.khaldarova /at/ helsinki.fi)


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