Craig Calhoun, President » Lectures http://www.ssrc.org/calhoun Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:59:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 ©The Social Science Research Council webmaster@ssrc.org (The Social Science Research Council) webmaster@ssrc.org(The Social Science Research Council) Social Science Commentary 1440 Social Science, Public Knowledge, Calhoun, Commentary Listen to the insights of sociologist and historian Craig Calhoun on pressing social and political questions. Societas is a podcast channel featuring the insights of leading sociologist and historian Craig Calhoun on current political and social issues in the United States and around the globe. Professor Calhoun heads the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the world's first national organization of all the social sciences. He is also University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University and director of its Institute of Public Knowledge. The channel features Professor Calhoun in conversation with Paul Price, the SSRC's editorial director, on the latest developments in American and world politics and society. Professor Calhoun provides perspectives not often found in mainstream media. The Social Science Research Council The Social Science Research Council webmaster@ssrc.org No no http://www.ssrc.org/calhoun/wp-content/uploads/podpress/societas_pod.jpg Craig Calhoun, President http://www.ssrc.org/calhoun 144 144 “From Common Humanity to Humanitarian Obligation: Suffering Strangers, Progress, and Emergencies” http://www.ssrc.org/calhoun/2010/03/17/%e2%80%9cfrom-common-humanity-to-humanitarian-obligation-suffering-strangers-progress-and-emergencies%e2%80%9d/ http://www.ssrc.org/calhoun/2010/03/17/%e2%80%9cfrom-common-humanity-to-humanitarian-obligation-suffering-strangers-progress-and-emergencies%e2%80%9d/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:00:15 +0000 communications http://www.ssrc.org/calhoun/?p=401 Neither the idea of extending help to distant strangers nor the conceptualization of their circumstances as humanitarian emergencies is simply given by the reality of human suffering nor explained by universalistic ethics alone. These reflect a specific history and specific ways of framing troubling events. Religious charity, colonial
rule, ideals of progress, and the rise of mass media all play a role. Considering this history gives perspective on current challenges to the field of humanitarian action and invites the question of whether it is likely to be deeply changed by the end of the era in which it flourished.

From the Love & Justice Lecture Series at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia.

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