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THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE – Alex de Waal

October 24 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

John Snow Lecture Theatre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street Building, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT and on Zoom.

Famines have returned, most prominently in Sudan and Gaza. Mass starvation challenges political leaders, the public and the academy. Drawing on these and other cases, this lecture places social anthropologists in the centre of the story of how we have come to understand humanitarian emergency, famine and mass starvation. Three fields of study frame how we represent and respond to famine, each having distinct methods and frameworks, but each owing much to anthropology. One is positivist metrics for measuring food security, malnutrition and mortality, exemplified by the United Nations-accredited Integrated food security Phase Classification initiative, which is today’s authoritative mechanism for determining ‘famine.’ Second is legal, political and economic analysis of policies, especially criminal acts, that cause mass starvation. Third is the ethnography of famine as experienced, also drawing upon history, memory studies and literature. Social anthropology is uniquely positioned to synthesize these approaches, leading to insights into famine as societal trauma, with implications for the academy, for policy, and listening to the voices of the hungry.

 

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The link for Zoom participation is: https://lshtm.zoom.us/j/92427341118

Location: John Snow Lecture Theatre
Keppel Street Building
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT

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