The Peace Movements Project
@peacemovtsproject.bsky.social
Research group on peace movements and decolonization @leidenhumanities.bsky.social | Find us on peace.lucdh.eu | funded by @erc.europa.eu and NWO
A little photo dump from the Peace History Society Conference at Berry College. It was great to share some of our latest findings from recent research trips in Senegal, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, and India!
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A little photo dump from the Peace History Society Conference at Berry College. It was great to share some of our latest findings from recent research trips in Senegal, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, and India!
Some snapshots from our Tunis workshop! Merci à tous ceux qui nous ont rejoint !
October 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Some snapshots from our Tunis workshop! Merci à tous ceux qui nous ont rejoint !
New podcast! Listen to Maria Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou talk about gender and the nuclear age. Also, nuclear ballet and other forms of (gendered) protest! Here and on all the platforms: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
PEACE TALK WITH MARIA KYVELI
Podcast Episode · PEACE HISTORY · 10/12/2025 · 49m
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October 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
New podcast! Listen to Maria Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou talk about gender and the nuclear age. Also, nuclear ballet and other forms of (gendered) protest! Here and on all the platforms: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Join us in Tunis this Friday! Rejoignez-nous à Tunis ce vendredi!
October 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Join us in Tunis this Friday! Rejoignez-nous à Tunis ce vendredi!
Scenes from yesterday! Thank you to all who joined the talk! 🙏
October 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Scenes from yesterday! Thank you to all who joined the talk! 🙏
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📣 Today! Join us! 🕊️
How does vegetarianism link to issues of peace and (non)violence? Join us for the next session of Peace Histories with Julia Hauser on October 6th! All are welcome! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Imagining Hierarchies in Vegetarianism between Europe, the United States, and India (19th -20th Century)
In the second half of the nineteenth century, vegetarianism became a subject of intense debate in Europe and India. Protagonists in both regions often referred to each other. In Europe, vegetarians ev...
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October 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
📣 Today! Join us! 🕊️
From our podcast studio! Stay tuned for a new episode on the 12th of every month! peace.lucdh.eu/podcast/
October 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
From our podcast studio! Stay tuned for a new episode on the 12th of every month! peace.lucdh.eu/podcast/
And the Peace Movements Project goes to… #Tunisia 🇹🇳
We’re currently in Tunis, tracing the history of peace movements in Tunisia and across the Maghreb—through archives, libraries, and living memories.
Many more stories and voices coming soon—so stay tuned!
We’re currently in Tunis, tracing the history of peace movements in Tunisia and across the Maghreb—through archives, libraries, and living memories.
Many more stories and voices coming soon—so stay tuned!
October 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
And the Peace Movements Project goes to… #Tunisia 🇹🇳
We’re currently in Tunis, tracing the history of peace movements in Tunisia and across the Maghreb—through archives, libraries, and living memories.
Many more stories and voices coming soon—so stay tuned!
We’re currently in Tunis, tracing the history of peace movements in Tunisia and across the Maghreb—through archives, libraries, and living memories.
Many more stories and voices coming soon—so stay tuned!
How does vegetarianism link to issues of peace and (non)violence? Join us for the next session of Peace Histories with Julia Hauser on October 6th! All are welcome! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Imagining Hierarchies in Vegetarianism between Europe, the United States, and India (19th -20th Century)
In the second half of the nineteenth century, vegetarianism became a subject of intense debate in Europe and India. Protagonists in both regions often referred to each other. In Europe, vegetarians ev...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
September 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
How does vegetarianism link to issues of peace and (non)violence? Join us for the next session of Peace Histories with Julia Hauser on October 6th! All are welcome! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
We screened this movies 1966 predecessor (of sorts), The War Game, earlier this year (www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...). When Threads aired, The War Games had still not been shown on TV, deemed too disconcerting to show to the public. Very grim films, both.
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
We screened this movies 1966 predecessor (of sorts), The War Game, earlier this year (www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...). When Threads aired, The War Games had still not been shown on TV, deemed too disconcerting to show to the public. Very grim films, both.
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Brilliant new article by @racheljcollett.bsky.social in @mbhjournal.bsky.social further expanding knowledge & understanding of #womensgrassrootsactivism. Congratulations Rachel 👏🥳. @womenshistnet.bsky.social #skystorians
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academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp (1982–3) and after: local nuclear resistance, grassroots feminisms, and transnational solidarities
Abstract. This article explores the local specificities of Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp, established in 1982 at British Nuclear Fuels Limited on the Wirra
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September 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Brilliant new article by @racheljcollett.bsky.social in @mbhjournal.bsky.social further expanding knowledge & understanding of #womensgrassrootsactivism. Congratulations Rachel 👏🥳. @womenshistnet.bsky.social #skystorians
academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
📣 New podcast episode! Listen as Elisabeth Forster and Floris de Ruiter discuss peace discourses in modern China. Highly recommended! 🎧
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/podcasts/...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/podcasts/...
Episode 3: Peace talk with Elisabeth Forster
In this episode, we’re delighted to introduce you to Elisabeth Forster from the University of Southampton, UK, who studies the history of peace concepts in nationalist and communist China.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
📣 New podcast episode! Listen as Elisabeth Forster and Floris de Ruiter discuss peace discourses in modern China. Highly recommended! 🎧
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/podcasts/...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/podcasts/...
📣 Interesting article! 👇
Now on FirstView: Direct action as radical politics? Sean Scalmer analyzes the transnational histories of direct action and of nonviolence drawing attention to previously submerged debates of the radical interwar left
Nonviolence Meets Direct Action: A Transnational Encounter of the Interwar Years | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Nonviolence Meets Direct Action: A Transnational Encounter of the Interwar Years
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September 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
📣 Interesting article! 👇
Join us in Leiden next week as a new semester of the Peace Histories Seminar kicks off! All are welcome!
Becky Alexis-Martin will speak on the long aftermath of the Kiritimati (Christmas Island) nuclear weapons tests conducted by the UK and USA between 1957 and 1962.
Becky Alexis-Martin will speak on the long aftermath of the Kiritimati (Christmas Island) nuclear weapons tests conducted by the UK and USA between 1957 and 1962.
September 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Join us in Leiden next week as a new semester of the Peace Histories Seminar kicks off! All are welcome!
Becky Alexis-Martin will speak on the long aftermath of the Kiritimati (Christmas Island) nuclear weapons tests conducted by the UK and USA between 1957 and 1962.
Becky Alexis-Martin will speak on the long aftermath of the Kiritimati (Christmas Island) nuclear weapons tests conducted by the UK and USA between 1957 and 1962.
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My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...
Lost in Extraterrestrial Translation
The University celebrates the success of area studies alumni, all the while erasing the programs that made those careers possible.
chicagomaroon.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...
See the blog linked in this thread for historical context on these recent developments, including quotes from Greenham Women’s own experiences of non-violence direct action 👇
Quakers in Britain has joined leading civil liberties organisations in urging Attorney General Richard Hermer to delay prosecuting peaceful protesters arrested for expressing support for Palestine Action.
August 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
See the blog linked in this thread for historical context on these recent developments, including quotes from Greenham Women’s own experiences of non-violence direct action 👇
Check out this amazing global history resource! 🙌
New collections added!
• El Moudjahid Digital Archive (Algeria)
• Xiandai Funü (China)
• Xinhua ribao (China)
• Gramsci Digital Library (Italy)
• Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers
• Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers
hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...
• El Moudjahid Digital Archive (Algeria)
• Xiandai Funü (China)
• Xinhua ribao (China)
• Gramsci Digital Library (Italy)
• Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers
• Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers
hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...
radical online collections and archives
I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…
hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Check out this amazing global history resource! 🙌
The second episode of our podcast is live! Join us as Francisca de Haan's stories of women in peace movements unfold much larger histories of women's political mobilization - and of the historians who pioneered this research! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/podcasts/...
Peace talk with Francisca de Haan
In this episode, we’re delighted to introduce you to Francisca de Haan, our guest, and her fascinating research on women in peace movements.
www.universiteitleiden.nl
August 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The second episode of our podcast is live! Join us as Francisca de Haan's stories of women in peace movements unfold much larger histories of women's political mobilization - and of the historians who pioneered this research! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/podcasts/...
Dataset cleaning may not be glamorous, but it needs to happen! 💪 And we may all be at our own laptops, but it is sooooo much better to do it together!
July 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Dataset cleaning may not be glamorous, but it needs to happen! 💪 And we may all be at our own laptops, but it is sooooo much better to do it together!
This was such a wonderful gathering! Thanks @riakapoor.bsky.social, @drmargottudor.bsky.social, @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & Daniel Laqua!
(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
New Methods for New Histories (Online)
Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This was such a wonderful gathering! Thanks @riakapoor.bsky.social, @drmargottudor.bsky.social, @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & Daniel Laqua!
July 12th is the International Day of Hope. What better day to officially launch the Peace History podcast? We have SO MANY exciting guests in the pipeline, so don't forget to subscribe on Spotify (open.spotify.com/show/5KeJIye...) or Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...).
PEACE HISTORY
Podcast · PEACE HISTORY · Welcome to the one and only Peace History Podcast! We’re a warm and enthusiastic team from the Leiden University Institute for History (LUIH). Through this podcast, we share ...
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July 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
July 12th is the International Day of Hope. What better day to officially launch the Peace History podcast? We have SO MANY exciting guests in the pipeline, so don't forget to subscribe on Spotify (open.spotify.com/show/5KeJIye...) or Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...).
The Peace Movements Project is in Dakar! @iias.bsky.social have outdone themselves - what a conference!
June 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Peace Movements Project is in Dakar! @iias.bsky.social have outdone themselves - what a conference!
Collaborative Research Week in the incredible collections of @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social. If only we could do this all the time! Stay tuned for the results ✍️ 📝
June 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Collaborative Research Week in the incredible collections of @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social. If only we could do this all the time! Stay tuned for the results ✍️ 📝
Cheerful scenes from the @leidenhumanities.bsky.social podcast studio! Season 1 will drop soon! 🎙️
May 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Cheerful scenes from the @leidenhumanities.bsky.social podcast studio! Season 1 will drop soon! 🎙️
Friends, do check out this new piece by our project team member Sander van der Horst!
PhD candidate Sander van der Horst collaborated with Henna Goudzand to write about anti-colonial student resistance in Leiden in the recently published anthology 'Wereldsteden van de Lage Landen. Stadsgeschiedenis van Nederland en België.'
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Resistance against the Dutch and German Occupiers: Indonesian Students in Leiden
On the eve of World War II, Leiden was home to the largest Indonesian student community in the Netherlands. Many of these students joined the resistance against the German occupation, and later some f...
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May 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Friends, do check out this new piece by our project team member Sander van der Horst!