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on March 11, 2016

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Talk coming up in Edinburgh next week, with the wonderful people from the In Place of War project

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Hot Topics in Humanitarian Response

Hot Topics in Humanitarian Response We are hosting a talk by Mark Lowcock, head of OCHA, 6.30pm Monday 30 April, in ALT (Paul Webley Wing) Mark Lowcock is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). He was the UK’s Permanent Secretary of DFID from 2011 to 2017. Mark has over thirty years professional experience in humanitarian and development work and will be sharing his insights and answering questions on the contemporary challenges of responding to humanitarian disasters. All welcome!

The Violence of Beauty: Relating plastic surgery prevalence in South Korea to violent developmental histories

By Chloe Elizabeth Palmer Let us imagine someone is describing plastic surgery to you without context. What words might they use? 'A painful act that violates skin and flesh.' 'Executed with knives, scalpels and saws, leaving scars and deformities that can take months to heal.' 'Occurring on a scale that totals hundreds of thousands per year.' Pictured in this way, the violent connotations of procedures are suddenly clear - lacking the mitigatory spell that a beautiful façade casts. Of course, this image misses an important ingredient: consent. When an arguably violent act is controlled and agreed to, does it disassociate itself from violence as a result? The answer to this is equivocal, relying upon each individual’s personal interpretation of violence. However, while the link between the physical act of plastic surgery and violence might be the most naturally recognisable, the intersection between plastic surgery and deep-rooted, structural violence ...

State-sanctioned sexual violence against women in the Egyptian revolution

Following from last week's post, this is another video submitted as a piece of group work by some of last year's MSc VCD students. This video, by Amée Thwaites, Flora Miskin and Olivia Lyster, investigates state-sanctioned sexual violence against women in the Egyptian revolution. https://soas.hosted.panopto. com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx? id=fb1af7ff-1720-4424-ae5b- aa3901175d7b

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