In this episode, Annenberg alum Nour Halabi talks with Lilie Chouliaraki and Minelle Mahtani, two scholars whose work touches on different aspects of the ethics of representation and care.
“All the Right Things” by Son Lux (intro)
“Never Undo” by Morcheeba
“Two Thousand and Seventeen” by Fourtet
“Rode Null” by Hauschka
“Kadourimdou” by Pierre Bensusan
“Postcard Home” by Tommy Guerrero
“Two Fish and an Elephant” by Khruangbin (outtro)
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Nour Halabi is an Assistant Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. She holds a PhD in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics. Prior to joining Leeds, Halabi was a senior resident fellow at the Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on social movements, migration and immigration policy and the political economy of communication. It has been published in Space & Culture, The International Journal of Communication and Arab Media & Society. Her most recent project, based on her dissertation, examines the concept of hospitality as an ethical framework with which to examine media coverage and policy responses to forced migration in the United States.
Lilie Chouliaraki is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her main research interest lies in the histories and challenges of mediated suffering. Her work has focused on three domains in which the human body-in-need appears as a problem of communication: disaster news, humanitarian campaigns & celebrity advocacy, war & conflict reporting. Relevant publications include Discourse in Late Modernity (1999), The Spectatorship of Suffering (2006), The Soft Power of War (ed., 2008) and The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism (2013) as well as sixty articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Her work has been published in French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Danish, Greek, and (currently) in Chinese. She is the recipient of three international awards for her publications, more recently the Outstanding Book of the Year award of the International Communication Association (ICA 2015, for The Ironic Spectator).
Minelle Mahtani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Race and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. She is former President of the Association of Canadian Studies and the winner of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee award. She is a former national television...
