Regarding the Pain of Others: What Emotions have to do in the History of Humanitarian Images

9:30 // INTRODUCTION Reconstructing Rivesaltes: Visual Anthropology in the Cinema of Jacqueline Veuve Brenda Lynn Edgar (iEH2, University of Geneva) Photographing the Pain of Others: For an Archive of Feelings Within the History of Humanitarianism Dolores Martín Moruno (iEH2, University of Geneva) 10:00 // KEYNOTE SPEAKER The Touch of the Image: Photography and Affect Jo Labanyi (New York University, USA) 11:00 // Coffee Break 11.30 // THE ORIGINS OF HUMANITARIAN SENSIBILITY Chair: Luís Calvo Salgado (University of Zurich) A Pictorial Approach to the Atrocities of General Juan Manuel de Rosas and the Pursuit of Empathy Moisés Prieto (Universität Bern) Emotional Politics: Photography as Vehicle of State and Philanthropic Propaganda in First World War Britain Jason Bate (Falmouth University, UK) The Queen's Medicine: Wartime Photography at l’Hôpital de l'Océan (1914-1919) Marie Leyder (iEH2/Institute of Gender Studies, University of Geneva) 13:00 // Lunch 14.30 // KEYNOTE SPEAKER Depicting What Cannot be Regarded, Showing What is Unspeakable: Disasters of War and Dehumanization Paul Bouvier (CICR/University of Geneva) 15.30 // ENGAGING EMOTIONS IN HUMANITARIAN IMAGES Chair: Gian Marco Vidor (Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva) The Race for Images of Palestinian Arab Refugees in 1949: The Emotional Impact of Filmic Advocacy Anaïs Claire-Bedouet (Université d’Orléans, France) Resolving Emotion and Technique in Michael Doheny’s Film Diaries of Humanitarian relief: Bangladesh,1972 John Manton (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) “Tu n’y changeras rien”: Pathos and Futility in Le Photographe Ariela Freedman (Concordia University, Canada) 17:00 // Reception July 5, 2019 9.00 // KEYNOTE SPEAKER Seeing and Feeling in the History of Humanitarianism Emma Hutchison (University of Queensland, Australia) 10.00 // EMOTIONAL DILEMMAS IN SELLING THE DISTANT OTHER Chair: Davide Rodogno (Graduate Institute) The Trouble of Emotion in Humanitarian Photography Sonya de Laat (McMaster University, Canada) Poverty Porn: Criticism of Humanitarian Imagery Michaela Zöhrer (University of Augsburg, Germany) Post-Humanitarian Sentiment and its Visual Culture Devika Sharma (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 11:30 // Coffee Break 12.00 // KEYNOTE SPEAKER The Visual and Affective Politics of Virtual Reality: MSF’s #NotATarget Campaign Valérie Gorin (Geneva Center for Education and Research, University of Geneva & Graduate Institute) 13:00 // Lunch 14.30 // CONTEMPORARY WAYS OF HUMANITARIAN COMMUNICATION Chair: Pascal Hufschmid (Red Cross Museum) From Emotion to Empathy:The Role of Storytelling in Representing Migration Dolors Palau-Sampio (Universitat de Valencia, Spain) Goodbye Tweets from the Siege of Alepo Jaana Davidjants (Tallinn University, Estonia) Is Virtual Reality the Ultimate Empathy Machine? Paula Dias Leite (Independent Scholar, Geneva) 16.00 // Coffee Break 16.30 // KEYNOTE SPEAKER The Politics and Ethics of Visualizing Humanitarian Crises Roland Bleiker (University of Queensland, Australia) 17.30 // Closing Remarks