Witnessing a catastrophe
Researching and writing about war. How is war experienced at the level of the body and mind? Can the experience of a still happening, active war be ritualized?
Journalists, researchers and NGO workers working in conflict and disaster
regions become witnesses to these events. They are responsible for providing
aid, gathering data and knowledge, and later - for creating a discourse about
what they saw and what they did.
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, professor at Indiana University and author of "No Path
Home", an ethically rich intervention in to the politics of international
humanitarianism, will talk about the war(s) and their dimensions that we
are not always informed about in public discourse. Co-author of the recent article
"Distributed humanitarianism. Volunteerism and aid to refugees during the
Russian invasion of Ukraine". For more than a decade, she has worked with
refugees and internally displaced people.
The meeting will be hosted by Malgorzata Łukianow, assistant professor at the
Department of Sociology, University of Warsaw, researcher and member of the
team coordinating the project "24.02.2022 5 am: Testimonies of War"
in Poland.
