In association with the Viewing Restricted: [Re]presenting Poverty exhibition, these panel discussions feature an impressive list of speakers from academia, journalism, activism and art. We hope that these panel discussions will provide plenty of scope for exploring the purpose, nature and politics of representing poverty in its many guises.
Launch of the global civil society 2009 and viewing restricted
How 'the poor' become 'poor': Debating global civil society and constructions of poverty
Date: Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Time: 6.30-8:00pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Kingsland Estate,
Hackney, 2008,
Mishka Henner
The panel explores global civil society approaches to the social problem of poverty. The ways in which poverty is articulated, how it is represented, and how the designations of the poor are important political processes with implications for people's agency, our perceptions of impoverishment, and policies to alleviate it.
Speakers
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David Campbell, Professor of Cultural and Political Geography, Durham University
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Teresa Hanley, Manager, Programme on Public Interest in Poverty, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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Ashwani Kumar, Associate Professor, TISS and Visiting Fellow at CSGG, LSE
Chair
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Mary Kaldor, Co-director of CSGG, Professor Global Governance, LSE
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk| or phone 020 7955 6043.
CSGG and LSE arts panel discussion
Picturing poverty: London past and present
Date: Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Time: 6.30-8:00pm
Venue: New Theatre, East Building
Detail from hand-coloured draft of Charles Booth's Map Descriptive of London's Poverty 1898-99, LSE Archives
How is poverty in London perceived? What role do visual depictions play in our understanding of this impoverishment? And what do these images reveal about attitudes to 'the poor', past and present? In ostensibly wealthy cities such as London, such portrayals can be contentious and challenging - but to what extent can they be insightful?
From Charles Booth's nineteenth century maps, and early photographs of East End tenements, to rich-poor divides in Hackney, this panel discussion will consider old and new ways of seeing poverty - and understanding the underlying political processes that serve to both reproduce and reduce it.
Speakers
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Sue Donnelly, Head of Archives, LSE
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Mishka Henner, photographer
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Mike Seaborne, Senior Curator of Photographs, Museum of London
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Gillian Rose, Professor of Cultural Geography, Open University
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk| or phone 020 7955 6043.
CSGG and LSE arts panel discussion
The future of picturing the world: documentary films and photojournalism in a global era
*Please note that the venue for this event has changed, it will now be taking place in the Old Theatre, Old Building*
Date: Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Time: 6.30-8:00pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Western photojournalists take pictures of a starving child during the 1992 famine caused by the civil war in Somalia, 1992, (c) Paul Lowe/Panos Pictures
Can images change the world? If pictures of suffering - poverty, disease, war - have less impact in a global age saturated by visual images, what is the role of filmmakers and photojournalists?
Faced with 'compassion fatigue', how is their practice changing? What are the implications for NGOs, the media, international institutions and donors who rely on photography and film for many varied purposes?
Could images be used differently given the logic of the mass media?
To what extent will the Internet open up new spaces and change the way in which images are used?
Speakers
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Adrian Evans, Director of Panos Pictures
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Lilie Chouliaraki, Professor of Media and Communications, LSE, and POLIS Research Director
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Renzo Martens, Artist
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Sabine Selchow, LSE Fellow
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Julian Stallabrass, Reader, Courtauld Institute of Art
Chair
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Paul Lowe, Course Director, MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, London College of Communication, University of the Arts
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk| or phone 020 7955 6043.