The Peace Movements Project
@peacemovtsproject.bsky.social
Research collective on peace movements and decolonization @leidenhumanities.bsky.social | Find us on peace.lucdh.eu | funded by @erc.europa.eu and NWO
The Spring schedule for the Peace Histories seminar is HERE! Hugh McDonnell will kick us off on Feb 16th. All are welcome!
February 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
The Spring schedule for the Peace Histories seminar is HERE! Hugh McDonnell will kick us off on Feb 16th. All are welcome!
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Episode 5 of my audiodocumentary on the Cuban Missile Crisis is live! In this episode, Dustin Walcher and I *finally* get around to discussing the crisis itself, yay! Please share and give it a listen! #history 🗃️ @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
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Episode V - Crisis
In this episode, Renata and Dustin examine the Cuban Missile Crisis and its moments of greatest danger. They speak with scholars including Carlos Alzugaray Treto, Michelle Chase, James Hershberg, Pete
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February 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Episode 5 of my audiodocumentary on the Cuban Missile Crisis is live! In this episode, Dustin Walcher and I *finally* get around to discussing the crisis itself, yay! Please share and give it a listen! #history 🗃️ @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
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📣 *New Episode!* 📣 Listen to the first episode of the new season of PeaceTalk! Julia Hauser talks to Floris de Ruiter about the complexities behind this deceptively simple question of how vegetarianism and non-violence are (and are not!) linked.
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PEACE TALK WITH JULIA HAUSER
Podcast Episode · PEACE HISTORY · 01/12/2026 · 29m
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January 12, 2026 at 12:37 PM
📣 *New Episode!* 📣 Listen to the first episode of the new season of PeaceTalk! Julia Hauser talks to Floris de Ruiter about the complexities behind this deceptively simple question of how vegetarianism and non-violence are (and are not!) linked.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
As a new nuclear power station with two reactors is preparing to be built, the building site turns out to be a 6th-7th century burial grounds (h/t @wadehistory.bsky.social): www.thetimes.com/article/1528...
Burial site ‘akin to Sutton Hoo’ sheds new light on Anglo-Saxons
The extremely rare discovery made during excavations at Sizewell C dates to the 6th or 7th century and includes a princely burial of two people and a horse
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January 12, 2026 at 12:33 PM
As a new nuclear power station with two reactors is preparing to be built, the building site turns out to be a 6th-7th century burial grounds (h/t @wadehistory.bsky.social): www.thetimes.com/article/1528...
Season 1 of PeaceTalk is a wrap! Tune in for our final episode of the year with @mysteriousdrbex.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/3c8q...
PEACE TALK WITH BECKY ALEXIS-MARTIN
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December 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Season 1 of PeaceTalk is a wrap! Tune in for our final episode of the year with @mysteriousdrbex.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/3c8q...
Write-up of our upcoming event in Leiden! If you are around next Monday, please feel welcome at our screening & discussion of Aman (1967) in Huizinga 023c.
📣 The Peace Movements Project in @mareonline.nl! 📣 www.mareonline.nl/cultuur/indi...
Nieuwsgierig geworden? Kom lekker kijken komende maandag om 15:00 in Huizinga 023C @leidenhumanities.bsky.social of DM voor meer info!
Nieuwsgierig geworden? Kom lekker kijken komende maandag om 15:00 in Huizinga 023C @leidenhumanities.bsky.social of DM voor meer info!
Indiase film laat zien: de bommen op Japan waren niet nodig
De Indiase film Aman (1967) toont een kritische blik op kernwapens. Historicus Aditya Kiran Kakati vertelt welke lessen er uit de film zijn te trekken. ‘Japan had de oorlog al verloren.’
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December 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Write-up of our upcoming event in Leiden! If you are around next Monday, please feel welcome at our screening & discussion of Aman (1967) in Huizinga 023c.
Join us for a special edition of the Peace Histories seminar! We will screen the movie Aman (1967) with a critical introduction by Aditya Kiran Kakati (IIAS). Join us, all are welcome. We will bring the snacks! peace.lucdh.eu/events/
December 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Join us for a special edition of the Peace Histories seminar! We will screen the movie Aman (1967) with a critical introduction by Aditya Kiran Kakati (IIAS). Join us, all are welcome. We will bring the snacks! peace.lucdh.eu/events/
🎧 New Episode! Irina Gordeeva talks to our colleague
@kamilask.bsky.social on peace activism in Russia, discussing Tolstoyan pacifism, transnational grassroots peace movements, and the lives of activists in the Soviet period and beyond. Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/5KeJIye...
@kamilask.bsky.social on peace activism in Russia, discussing Tolstoyan pacifism, transnational grassroots peace movements, and the lives of activists in the Soviet period and beyond. Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/5KeJIye...
PEACE TALK WITH IRINA GORDEEVA
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December 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
🎧 New Episode! Irina Gordeeva talks to our colleague
@kamilask.bsky.social on peace activism in Russia, discussing Tolstoyan pacifism, transnational grassroots peace movements, and the lives of activists in the Soviet period and beyond. Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/5KeJIye...
@kamilask.bsky.social on peace activism in Russia, discussing Tolstoyan pacifism, transnational grassroots peace movements, and the lives of activists in the Soviet period and beyond. Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/5KeJIye...
Scenes from a very productive research week in the Peace Collections at @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the results!
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Scenes from a very productive research week in the Peace Collections at @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the results!
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...
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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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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
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📣 New podcast episode! Listen as Elisabeth Forster and Floris de Ruiter discuss peace discourses in modern China. Highly recommended! 🎧
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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/...
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📣 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.
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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 👇