Visualising War and Peace
@viswarpeace.bsky.social
Last chance to register for our interactive drama workshop on Thursday (2.15-4.30, Arts Lecture Theatre, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social). Join us to work with theatre-makers from NMT Automatics on peace storytelling and performing peace, via ancient myth! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/p...
January 19, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Last chance to register for our interactive drama workshop on Thursday (2.15-4.30, Arts Lecture Theatre, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social). Join us to work with theatre-makers from NMT Automatics on peace storytelling and performing peace, via ancient myth! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/p...
On 22nd January 2026 (2-4.30pm, @ University of St Andrews), we are running an interactive drama workshop with professional theatre company NMT Automatics - join us if you can! For more information or to register, please email: vispeace@st-andrews.ac.uk. apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/r...
January 14, 2026 at 8:47 AM
On 22nd January 2026 (2-4.30pm, @ University of St Andrews), we are running an interactive drama workshop with professional theatre company NMT Automatics - join us if you can! For more information or to register, please email: vispeace@st-andrews.ac.uk. apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/r...
New podcast out now! Featuring Dr Erika Weiberg, we discuss how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four ancient Greek tragedies about war's aftermath: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
Bearing witness to women's war trauma in ancient Greek tragedy - Visualising War and Peace
In this podcast, Alice interviews Dr Erika Weiberg, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Theater Studies at Duke University. Erika has recently published a book called Demanding Witness: ...
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January 12, 2026 at 11:19 PM
New podcast out now! Featuring Dr Erika Weiberg, we discuss how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four ancient Greek tragedies about war's aftermath: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
Fancy a free drama workshop? apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/p... On 22nd Jan 2-4.30pm @uniofstandrews.bsky.social we are running an interactive drama workshop with theatre-makers NMT Automatics to explore the power of peace storytelling on stage. Email vispeace@st-andrews.ac.uk to sign up!
Performing Peace
Calling all creatives! Are you an actor, producer, playwright, choreographer or composer? Whether amateur or professional, student or teacher, please join us to explore the power of peace storytell…
apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
January 9, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Fancy a free drama workshop? apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/p... On 22nd Jan 2-4.30pm @uniofstandrews.bsky.social we are running an interactive drama workshop with theatre-makers NMT Automatics to explore the power of peace storytelling on stage. Email vispeace@st-andrews.ac.uk to sign up!
Registration to attend our inaugural Ancient Peace Studies Network conference closes on 9th January - last chance to sign up! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/
Events
New Visions of Ancient Peace Inaugural workshop for the Ancient Peace Studies Network January 20th-22nd, 2026, University of St Andrews Bringing together a mix of ancient-world researchers with exp…
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January 8, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Registration to attend our inaugural Ancient Peace Studies Network conference closes on 9th January - last chance to sign up! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/
Great questions in this article about Nolan's upcoming film, The Odyssey: theconversation.com/odysseus-the... 'Will it dare to look beyond the hero? Will it give voice to those left in his shadow?'
Odysseus the destroyer? Christopher Nolan’s new Odyssey adaptation revives an ancient moral question
The Odyssey hits cinemas in July 2026. But will it celebrate Odysseus as the clever hero – or finally confront the wreckage he leaves in his wake?
theconversation.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Great questions in this article about Nolan's upcoming film, The Odyssey: theconversation.com/odysseus-the... 'Will it dare to look beyond the hero? Will it give voice to those left in his shadow?'
📢 New podcast episode out today! Featuring Prof. Polly Low
@durhamclassics.bsky.social and Dr Hannah Cornwell @unibirmingham.bsky.social, it looks at ideas of peace and peacebuilding in ancient Greece and Rome: buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
@durhamclassics.bsky.social and Dr Hannah Cornwell @unibirmingham.bsky.social, it looks at ideas of peace and peacebuilding in ancient Greece and Rome: buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
Peace and Peacemaking in ancient Greece and Rome - Visualising War and Peace
This episode dives deep into ancient peace history, as Alice interviews Professor Polly Low, from Durham University, and Dr Hannah Cornwell, from the University of Birmingham. Polly is a historia...
buzzsprout.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
📢 New podcast episode out today! Featuring Prof. Polly Low
@durhamclassics.bsky.social and Dr Hannah Cornwell @unibirmingham.bsky.social, it looks at ideas of peace and peacebuilding in ancient Greece and Rome: buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
@durhamclassics.bsky.social and Dr Hannah Cornwell @unibirmingham.bsky.social, it looks at ideas of peace and peacebuilding in ancient Greece and Rome: buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
Calling all drama professionals, drama students, and peace storytellers! We are teaming up with theatre company NMT Automatics to deliver a FREE interactive workshop on Jan 22nd @uniofstandrews.bsky.social on dramatising peace! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/p...
December 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Calling all drama professionals, drama students, and peace storytellers! We are teaming up with theatre company NMT Automatics to deliver a FREE interactive workshop on Jan 22nd @uniofstandrews.bsky.social on dramatising peace! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/p...
So impressed by this game, CEASEFIRE!, designed by a team of mediation and gaming experts led by Rebecca Sutton @glasgow.ac.uk. It is 'an interactive training game exploring the human, legal, and emotional dimensions of peace' - well worth playing and learning from: ceasefire-theta.vercel.app
CEASEFIRE! - Experience a Humanitarian Ceasefire Negotiation
An interactive training game exploring the human, legal, and emotional dimensions of peace.
ceasefire-theta.vercel.app
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
So impressed by this game, CEASEFIRE!, designed by a team of mediation and gaming experts led by Rebecca Sutton @glasgow.ac.uk. It is 'an interactive training game exploring the human, legal, and emotional dimensions of peace' - well worth playing and learning from: ceasefire-theta.vercel.app
This comes with a content warning - but the women sharing their horrifying testimony want the world to know what has been done to them: theconversation.com/i-have-to-ta...
‘I have to talk about it so that the world can know what happened to women and girls in Sudan’ – rape and terror sparks mass migration
Hundreds of returnees and forced migrants reported being terrorised by soldiers and armed militias on both sides of the Sudan civil war.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This comes with a content warning - but the women sharing their horrifying testimony want the world to know what has been done to them: theconversation.com/i-have-to-ta...
Bringing ancient and modern peace studies into dialogue... To launch the Ancient Peace Studies Network, we are hosting an inaugural workshop @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @staclassics.bsky.social 20-22 January 2026. More info here: apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Bringing ancient and modern peace studies into dialogue... To launch the Ancient Peace Studies Network, we are hosting an inaugural workshop @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @staclassics.bsky.social 20-22 January 2026. More info here: apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/
Join us on Wednesday for the first in a series of three online workshops on Teaching Ancient War and Peace: arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-...
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Join us on Wednesday for the first in a series of three online workshops on Teaching Ancient War and Peace: arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-...
The Visualising War and Peace project is exploring current practice and future approaches to teaching ancient war and peace. To join in our discussions, please register for our online workshops (26th Nov, 1st Dec, 10th Dec) by emailing viswar@st-andrews.ac.uk. arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-...
Teaching Ancient War and Peace Online Workshops | Visualising War
arts.st-andrews.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The Visualising War and Peace project is exploring current practice and future approaches to teaching ancient war and peace. To join in our discussions, please register for our online workshops (26th Nov, 1st Dec, 10th Dec) by emailing viswar@st-andrews.ac.uk. arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-...
At a time when we need more than ever to invest in peace - indeed, to have Ministers for Peace, Secretaries of State for Peace, Departments of Peace - this happens: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Militarism does not secure anyone's future!
Trump seeks to rebrand Department of Defense as Department of War
The US president has sought to refocus the department on
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September 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
At a time when we need more than ever to invest in peace - indeed, to have Ministers for Peace, Secretaries of State for Peace, Departments of Peace - this happens: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Militarism does not secure anyone's future!
Post-conflict recovery costs so much - in so many different currencies (monetary and otherwise): theconversation.com/over-10-bill...
Over €10 billion has now been pledged for Ukraine’s recovery. It’s nowhere near enough
Ukraine has been at war for more than a decade. The task of rebuilding the country and healing its people is likely to take even longer.
theconversation.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Post-conflict recovery costs so much - in so many different currencies (monetary and otherwise): theconversation.com/over-10-bill...
It was a pleasure to interview Prof. Lauren Benton for our latest podcast episode, about so-called 'small' violence at the threshold of war and peace. Tune in here to listen to our chat about her recent book 'They Called it Peace: worlds of imperial violence': www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
'Small' violence at the threshold of war and peace, with Lauren Benton - Visualising War and Peace
In this episode, Alice interviews Lauren Benton, Professor of History and Law at Yale University. Prof Benton specialises in global legal history and the history of European empires. She has a raft of...
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August 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It was a pleasure to interview Prof. Lauren Benton for our latest podcast episode, about so-called 'small' violence at the threshold of war and peace. Tune in here to listen to our chat about her recent book 'They Called it Peace: worlds of imperial violence': www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
We have a new podcast out this week! Tune in here to listen to a fascinating discussion with Beryl Pong on experiences of warTIME and chronophobia, and on the impact of drone technologies on our habits of visualising war and peace: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
New Perspectives on WarTIME with Beryl Pong - Visualising War and Peace
In this episode, Alice interviews Dr Beryl Pong, an expert on 20th-century and contemporary war. Beryl is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Future of Intelli...
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July 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
We have a new podcast out this week! Tune in here to listen to a fascinating discussion with Beryl Pong on experiences of warTIME and chronophobia, and on the impact of drone technologies on our habits of visualising war and peace: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
Important work, incubated by @iwpr.net : www.thereckoningproject.com
The Reckoning Project
The Reckoning Project combines the power of story-telling and legal accountability to fight for justice, safeguard rights and restore truth in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
www.thereckoningproject.com
May 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Important work, incubated by @iwpr.net : www.thereckoningproject.com
We have enjoyed reading Umachandran & Ward's The Case For Forgetting Classics - but students @uniofstandrews.bsky.social have also been making strong arguments about how to de-deploy, not forget, Classics antiquity today: modernclassics.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/05/16/g...
Gaming Antiquity to Critique Modern Ideologies – Classics for the modern world
modernclassics.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We have enjoyed reading Umachandran & Ward's The Case For Forgetting Classics - but students @uniofstandrews.bsky.social have also been making strong arguments about how to de-deploy, not forget, Classics antiquity today: modernclassics.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/05/16/g...
Rays of hope here: theconversation.com/israels-peac... More commitment to 'standing together' is urgently needed.
Israel’s peace movement offers a ray of hope amid the pain of Gaza conflict
Yuval Katz recently spent time in Israel witih peace activists.
theconversation.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Rays of hope here: theconversation.com/israels-peac... More commitment to 'standing together' is urgently needed.
Excited to be able to share the latest winners of Never Such Innocence's annual competition, giving children and young people a voice on conflict. This year's theme was about preventing future wars and the entries have lots to teach us: indd.adobe.com/view/a2e068b...
Publish Online
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April 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Excited to be able to share the latest winners of Never Such Innocence's annual competition, giving children and young people a voice on conflict. This year's theme was about preventing future wars and the entries have lots to teach us: indd.adobe.com/view/a2e068b...
'If the words we use not only reflect our understanding of issues but also shape understandings, then replacing discussion of peace “agreements” with talk of peace “deals” matters a lot.' theconversation.com/language-of-...
Language of peace: why talk of ‘making deals’ rather than ‘reaching agreements’ is not helpful
The language of peacemaking is critical to the success of a settlement.
theconversation.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
'If the words we use not only reflect our understanding of issues but also shape understandings, then replacing discussion of peace “agreements” with talk of peace “deals” matters a lot.' theconversation.com/language-of-...