Showcasing the Humanitarian Archive at John Rylands Library’s 125th Anniversary Celebration

The John Rylands Library celebrated its 125th anniversary with an Open Night featuring the Humanitarian Archive. Guests viewed collections on display from the library alongside selected items from the Humanitarian Archive.

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DSAIreland Annual Conference 2026: ‘Development in the Interregnum: Past, Present, and Future(s)’

HCRI archivist Courtney Stickland will be in Dublin in January as part of a panel with Caitriona Dowd, Molly Gilmour, and DHM alum Maria Cullen on civilian targeting in conflict and crisis.

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Dangerous Writings: A Symposium on the Ethics and Practicalities of Working with Risky Texts

Flora Chatt, Archivist at the Humanitarian Archive attended the ‘Dangerous Writings’ symposium organised by the University of Manchester’s School of Social Sciences. The event explored the complex dangers associated with writing, curating, and reading, as well as the responsibilities these activities entail.

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BISA Panel: The Political Dimensions of Humanitarian Food Crises

Post-Doctoral Research Associate Maria Cullen is at Belfast as part of this panel which explores how political dynamics and conflict drive food crises and shape humanitarian responses, emphasising the need for politically informed approaches to improve understanding, response effectiveness, and long-term recovery.

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Rylands Lunchtime Seminar

Revisiting British Humanitarianism: Three Life Stories The online Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series highlights the breadth and quality of our unique Special Collections and showcases world-class…

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Humanitarian History Seminar Series: Dr Emily Scott

Now into the second year of the Humanitarian History Seminar series hosted by HCRI at the University of Manchester, in this first of 2024/25 we welcome Dr Emily Scott who will speak on: ‘Disruptive by Design: Health, Conflict, and Humanitarian Governance in the Middle East’

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Presentation to staff and students in UCD School of Politics and International Relations

Maria Cullen visited UCD to present ‘Covert warfarre and the performance of humanitarian neutrality in Cold War Central America’ This paper addresses the tensions between…

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Material Cultures of Humanitarianism in historical perspectives?

This workshop proposes to invite the advisory committee of the Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM) project and Humanitarian Archive for a series of papers and roundtable…

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Debating Humanitarianism: New Approaches and Methodologies

This event is a collaboration between the Developing Humanitarian Medicine Wellcome funded project and the ERC project HumanEuroMed. Humanitarianism and Mediterranean Europ: A Transnational and…

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The Humanitarian Archive in historical perspective

This session will explore the constitution of a new archive of humanitarian records and how historians develop a synchronous way of engaging with very contemporary…

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