Engage with the HSC

Monthly Humanitarian Governance Webinars

2 October | HSC One-Day Conference ‘Humanitarian Justice and The Staten of the Humanitarian System’

21 August | Rewatch the PhD Defence of Hum-Gov PhD researcher Delu Lusambya on ‘Humanitarian Governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Power and accountability in practice’

5 June | Rewatch the PhD Defence of Hum-Gov PhD researcher Gabriela Villacis Izquierdo on ‘Feminist Approaches to the Governance of Everyday Humanitarian Action in Colombia’

Multiple dates | Safety, Security and Risk Management for Fieldwork in Highly Complex Contexts

22 May | IHSA Annual Lecture at the Universidade de Los Andes, Bogota, by Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll

21 May | Hum-Gov webinar on ‘Using Data in Disaster and Humanitarian Studies’

22 April | Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar Film Screening

25 March | Hum-Gov webinar on ‘Localizing humanitarian decision making: MSF’s Field Recentralisation initiative’

11 February | Launch of the Humanitarian Observatory in Myanmar

4 February | Hum-Gov webinar on ‘The Politics of Dry Feet: The political economy of flood risk management in Indonesia’

28 January | When local actors lead: what collective action reveals about just futures panel at the JUST International Development Forum

Monthly Humanitarian Governance Webinars

11 December | Hum-Gov webinar on ‘A Tale of Two Borders: Double humanitarian standards in refugee protection – the case of Poland’

1 December | Hum-Gov webinar on ‘Beyond Integration: Revisiting the triple HDP nexus in practice’

21 November | Migration at the Crossroads: EUrope–Africa Responses to Climate Change, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian and Policy Challenges webinar

13 November | Masterclass on ‘Anticipating and responding to disasters’ with KUNO

15-17 October | IHSA Conference Istanbul Humanitarianism in Crisis: New Realities in Practices and Knowledges

3 October | Launch of the Humanitarian Observatory for Policy and Education, Southeast Asia (HOPE SEA)

2 October | Development Research Seminar ‘Micro wins, Macro failures: The governance-cohesion gap in Northern Mozambique’s youth-led transformation’ with Professor Adriano Nuvunga

1 October | Future of Solidarity-Based Partnerships in a Declining Development Sector, a joint event with KUNO

12 September | HSC Annual One-Day Conference ‘Humanitarian Studies: Adapting and Reworking in New Times and Contexts’

11 September | Launch of the Climares project

10 July | Reimagining Humanitarian Knowledge: Toward an Equitable Evidence Ecosystem with the Humanitarian Advisory Group

3 July | Hum-Gov webinar on ‘Refugees of Development’ and ‘Sacrifice Zones’: Humanitarian crisis in the Amazon, capitalist expansion and state intervention

24 June | COPE Webinar: Creative and reflexive methodologies for critical disaster research

18 June | Hum-Gov webinar on ‘Concurrent Challenges: Responding to Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar’s Rakhine State’

16 June | KUNO Conference with Clingendael Institute: The Changing World Order and its Impact on Humanitarian Action

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 | 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 | Hum-Gov webinar on ‘Protecting Culture in Times of Crisis’ with Cultural Emergency Response (CER)

26 February | Ensuring humanitarian accountability: Lessons in success and failure from climate-related displaced communities in Bangladesh

19 February | USAID freeze: Impact and consequences

14 February | Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories: Conversation with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

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