Professor Carolyn Heinrich gives the George Eastman Lecture, introduced by Professor Ngaire Woods.

“Ordeals” are a tool of public policy that have been used in public programmes to screen out potential programme beneficiaries who are considered “bad bets”—those who benefit too little to warrant the public expenditures—and “bad apples,” those who are viewed as undeserving for reasons of irresponsible, immoral, or illegal behaviour.

Intrigued by modern-day diplomacy? Join us to hear insights and behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the most tense diplomatic negotiations in recent history from Baroness Catherine Ashton, the first woman British European Commissioner and the European Union’s first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Baroness Ashton will be talking about her recent book: And Then What? Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy.

The history of humanitarianism is one of vulnerabilities, power, mobilisation and adaptation.

This has been true since humanitarian aid became an industry in its own right and continues to be so today.