HCRI Landmark Lecture 2025

Title

Intersectional Beginnings and Abolitionist Endings: On the Urgency of Critical Theories in Humanitarian Studies and Practice

Abstract

The Lecture, drawing on critical concepts from Black feminist thought and postcolonial and critical race theories, provides an intersectional analysis of humanitarian intervention based on more than 15 years of ethnographic fieldwork around the world--including interviews with UN peacekeepers, humanitarian aid personnel, and local populations.

Revealing that peace interventions are not the benign, apolitical project they are often purported to be, Henry’s work encourages audiences to imagine and enact alternative futures in humanitarian contexts.

The Speaker

Prof. Marsha Henry is the Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women, Peace, Security and Justice at the Mitchell Institute.

She has published in a range of leading journals including Security Dialogue; Qualitative Research; Conflict, Security and Development and Globalizations.

Over the past 20 years, her research has concentrated on documenting the social experiences of living and working in peacekeeping missions. Her book on this ethnographic-inspired research, , University of Pennsylvania Press was published in April 2024.

Practical

• Format: Hybrid (In-person & Zoom)
• Reception to follow, at 5.30pm in University Place
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