The White Savior and the Waif: Listening to Humanitarianism’s Unheard

Humanitarianism has and always has had a listening problem.
A talk by historian and human rights expert Keith David Watenpaugh for the 2021 Hardt-Nickachos Lecture in Peace Studies.

In this talk, Watenpaugh draws from historical episodes, including the Armenian Genocide, and contemporary experiences in the wake of the Syrian Civil War, to asks how the tools of the humanities—history, storytelling and memoir—in particular can surface these voices. And he argues that that systematically recovering the voices of refugees, rape victims and genocide survivors in the study of humanitarianism must be a fundamental feature of efforts to create a more humane, human rights supporting and effective humanitarianism in the now.

Read more about the event and speaker Keith David Watenpaugh on the ASU Events page.