One Picture, One Thousand Words: pictorial storytelling in China's foreign policy

Wednesday 22 January 2025 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE

How do images shape power? This event dives into the visual strategies that influence foreign policy and global perceptions, with a particular focus on China.

By examining visualities as both a theoretical lens and a methodological tool, the discussion will explore how visualities inform social and political research. Hosting a discussion from leading experts, the event uncovers whose realities are constructed and conveyed to the world—and how these narratives reshape global politics.

Meet our speakers and chair:

Professor William A Callahan, Professor of Political Science, Singapore Management University

Professor Florian Schneider, Professor of Modern China at Leiden University

Dr Carolijn van Noort, Associate Professor in the Department of Sustainability and Planning at Aalborg University

Chair:

Dr Giulia Sciorati, LSE Fellow in the Department of International Relations at LSE.

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This public event is free and open to all. No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.

For any queries email ir.events@lse.ac.uk.

The Cost of Borders

Thursday 23 January 2025 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Wolfson Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE

Millions of displaced people attempt journeys across borders in pursuit of asylum. Though seeking asylum is a right sanctioned by international law, people on the move are often cast as rule-breakers and criminals. They are in turn forced to make incredible sacrifices — emotionally, physically, and financially — which differ at intersections of inequalities like race, gender, or physical ability.

In her new project, The Cost of Borders, Heba Gowayed, author of the award winning book Refuge, uses a multi-method approach drawing on ethnographic observations, interviews, and quantitative data on human mobility and state expenditures to ask what are the costs of borders? Focusing on the frontiers between Global North and South, Dr Gowayed examines borders as a series of transactions that are always costly and often deadly.

Meet our speakers and chair:

Dr Heba Gowayed, Associate Professor of Sociology at CUNY Hunter College.

Dr Kate Cronin-Furman, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Human Rights MA at UCL.

Chair:

Dr Stephanie Schwartz, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE

Find out more about this event

This public event is free and open to all. No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.

For any queries email ir.events@lse.ac.uk.