We're excited to welcome Prof Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social to Royal Holloway tomorrow for his talk: ‘Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting’, chaired by CVTRC Senior Fellow Dr Patrick Doyle.
Attendance is open to all.
📆25 Nov, 5:15-6:30pm in Shilling Lecture Theatre

We're excited to welcome Dr Matthew Ford
@warmatters.bsky.social to Royal Holloway next week to talk on: 'War in the Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity & the Crises at Our Fingertips' chaired by CVTRC Snr Fellow @benoloughlin.bsky.social
📆16 Oct, 5:15-6:30pm in Shilling Lecture Theatre

We look forward to hosting @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social tomorrow at Royal Holloway for her talk on ‘How Torture Became Speakable: Fractured Acknowledgements & the Social Reproduction of Denial’ chaired by CVTRC Snr Fellow Dr Yoav Galai.
Thurs 20 Feb, 5–6:30pm in Shilling Lecture Theatre. All welcome

📣 The CVTRC is pleased to announce a 1-day Symposium on 'Popular Culture and World Politics: Portraying War, Conflict & Political Violence'.
Full Programme below

📆 24/07/25 at Stewart House, London.

If you would like to attend, please get in touch: akil.awan@rhul.ac.uk

The CVTRC will be welcoming Dr Kate Cronin-Furman on Tuesday 26th November 6:15-7:30pm in the Shilling Lecture Theatre for her talk "Mass Atrocities: Documentation, Denial and Fight Over Evidence", chaired by Prof Michelle Bentley 📄🧑‍⚖️👩‍🏫
All are welcome, no sign-up necessary!

At least 51,266 Palestinians have been killed in the 18 months since the Gaza war began ~ a third of the dead are children.

Some helpful context from CVTRC Senior Research Fellow @michael-spagat.bsky.social for the BBC here on the revised casualty figures from Gaza.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ocalan’s call for Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party to lay down their weapons and disband has set in motion a profound geopolitical recalibration. New article out in @foreignpolicy.com by CVTRC Senior Research Fellow Dr Mashuq Kurt with @aktasbilalata.bsky.social
foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/16/t...

📅 📢 Save the Date! The Society for Terrorism Research 17th Annual International Conference is coming to Royal Holloway University on July 7-8, 2025.

Co-organised by CVTRC and the School of Law & Social Sciences. Call for proposals to follow shortly.

societyforterrorismresearch.org/conferences/...

Done. Thank you, @lizzypearson.bsky.social , Anthony Richards, @morrisonjf.bsky.social , and all the other kind souls from family, friends and the academic community, for your support and for sharing the journey.
#royalholloway #CVTRC #putinterrorist

Great to host Dr Kate Cronin Furman yesterday, chaired by CVTRC Fellow @michael-spagat.bsky.social. Kate's talk explored how state perpetrators of mass atrocities use denials alongside info access restriction to create a heightened burden of proof on the world stage for victims and their allies....

Royal Holloway's Conflict, Violence & Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) has arrived 👋