Network
We are actively building a network of Humanitarian Studies researchers and practitioners. Network members will be invited to present their work at HSC events, and contribute to HSC publications.
Joining the network is both voluntary and free! Join our mailing list.
Events
16 June
KUNO Conference: The Changing
World Order and its Impact on Humanitarian Action
The conference opens up space to explore how local and (inter)national responders can continue to provide relevant and effective support to affected people. It aims to support sensemaking of fast-moving developments and to identify potential pathways for future work. Together, participants will examine the implications of the developments on the communities we work with.
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18 June
Hum-Gov webinar ‘Concurrent
Challenges: Responding to Cyclone
Mocha in Myanmar’s Rakhine State’
In this Humanitarian Governance webinar, Dr Kyungmee Kim (Visiting Researcher at ISS and Assistant Professor at the Swedish Defense University) will present a case study of the double complexities of carrying out humanitarian interventions within a conflict zone using the example of the response to Cyclone Mocha in the Rakhine State in Myanmar.
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24 June
COPE Webinar: Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research
Join HSC senior researcher Dr Kaira Zoe Cañete and others for this panel that will examine how emerging methodologies can deepen our understanding of disasters and push the boundaries of conventional research to center justice, ethics, and reflexivity.
12 September
HSC 2025 One-Day Conference ‘Humanitarian Studies: Adapting and Reworking in new Times and Contexts’
This third edition of The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre’s One-Day Conference brings together humanitarian scholars and practitioners to share their knowledge, pose questions, and exchange ideas.
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15 – 17 October
IHSA Conference Istanbul
Humanitarianism in Crisis: New Realities
in Practices and Knowledges
Now more than ever, as conflicts, disasters, and systemic inequalities intensify, both humanitarian work and academic studies play a crucial role in shaping more just, effective, and inclusive responses. Attend the International Humanitarian Studies Association 8th biennial conference.
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Every month
Monthly Hum-Gov
Webinars
From protecting aid and medical workers, to contributions from experts around the world, join us for monthly dives into the latest in Humanitarian Studies with our Humanitarian Governance webinars.
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2025 events archive
Monthly Humanitarian Governance Webinars
7 June | #NoNaturalDisasters 2nd Conference: Taking stock and looking ahead
21 May | 2nd IHSA Annual Lecture on ‘Rapid Changes Ahead: Technology and Evidence Gathering relating to Allegations of International Crimes in times of War’ by Judge Fergal Gaynor co-organised with the HSC, LMP and KUNO
15 May | Crisis in Gaza: Protecting the Population and Those Who Support Them, the Case of UNRWA with a keynote by Sam Rose, Acting Director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza
12 May | Sharing Ways of Knowing with Santiago del Hierro, PhD fellow at the HSC and the Political Ecology (PE) group of ISS, in collaboration with the Nieuwe Institute, Rotterdam
22 April | The State as a Humanitarian Actor: What will the post-liberal humanitarian system look like?: A hybrid seminar by Dr Oscar A. Gómez
1 April 2025 | Children in armed conflict: The protective role of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Children and other institutional responses co-organised by Save the Children Nederland and the Legal Mobilization Platform
26 March 2025 | Hum-Gov webinar on ‘Protecting Culture in Times of Crisis’ with Cultural Emergency Response (CER)
26 February 2025 | Ensuring humanitarian accountability: Lessons in success and failure from climate-related displaced communities in Bangladesh
19 February 2025 | USAID freeze: Impact and consequences
14 February 2025 | Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories: Conversation with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
2023-2024 events archive
Monthly Humanitarian Governance Webinars
21 October 2024 | On ‘Making Strange’ for Development- and Humanitarian- Studies: A dialogue with Raymond Apthorpe and Des Gasper
17 October 2024 | Guest Seminar by Dr Yvonne Su on ‘Reimagining Humanitarian Practice: Local Solutions for LGBTQ+ Refugees in Brazil’ with a discussion by Dr Elissaios Papyrakis and Dr Nanneke Winters
2 October 2024 | Brown Bag Lunch with Maja Janmyr on ‘Humanitarian action and visual storytelling’ with examples from the graphic novel ‘Cardboard Camp: Stories of Sudanese Refugees in Lebanon’
13 September 2024 | HSC Annual One-Day Conference ‘Humanitarian Studies: Today and Tomorrow’
20 June 2024 | Guest Dialogue with the Embassy of Chile and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Toxics, Marcos Orellana, on ‘Warfare and toxic remnants: Adverse effects on human health and the environment’
13 June 2024 | Guest Lecture by Professor Juan Ricardo Aparicio on ‘Latin American and the Caribbean Critical Thought Contributions to Understanding Crises’
12 June 2024 | The 15th Hague Roundtable on Climate & Security ‘Sustainable climate diplomacy and cooperation for disaster resilience – inclusive pathways with civil society, governments and more: special focus on Latin America and the Caribbean’
23 May 2024 | Next Level Nexus hosted in collaboration with Plan International
3 May 2024 | Brown Bag Lunch with Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings and Nadine Voelkner on’ What impact has international humanitarian engagement had in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) in the post-famine era?’
17 April 2024 | Guest Lecture by Professor Terry Canon on ‘The myth of the “community”: bogus concepts and distracted knowledge in disaster reduction and climate change’
11 December 2023 | Brown Bag Lunch with Pieter Dronkers on ‘Care Ethics in Palestine’
30 November 2023 | Peace&Justice Café #9: Humanitarian Innovation ‘Creating change from “the grassroots” and localizing decisions: Humanitarian Observatories in Context’
31 August 2023 | Launch of the HSC
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