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The Peace Movements Project

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Research collective on peace movements and decolonization @leidenhumanities.bsky.social | Find us on peace.lucdh.eu | funded by @erc.europa.eu and NWO

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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
In conversation with Hugh McDonnell on his upcoming book, The End of Violence (Cornell University Press). New episode! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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PEACE TALK WITH HUGH MCDONNELL
Podcast Episode · PEACE HISTORY · March 12 · 36m
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We are so excited to issue this CFP! If the topic resonates with you, please consider submitting a proposal! More details here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The Spring schedule for the Peace Histories seminar is HERE! Hugh McDonnell will kick us off on Feb 16th. All are welcome!
Poster announcing three lectures at the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University on February 16, March 30, and April 20.
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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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 soundcloud.com/historiaspod...
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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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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
📣 *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...
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PEACE TALK WITH JULIA HAUSER
Podcast Episode · PEACE HISTORY · 01/12/2026 · 29m
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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...
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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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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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...
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PEACE TALK WITH BECKY ALEXIS-MARTIN
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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.
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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/
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🎧 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...
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PEACE TALK WITH IRINA GORDEEVA
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Scenes from a very productive research week in the Peace Collections at @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the results!
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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!
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Some snapshots from our Tunis workshop! Merci à tous ceux qui nous ont rejoint !
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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...
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PEACE TALK WITH MARIA KYVELI
Podcast Episode · PEACE HISTORY · 10/12/2025 · 49m
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Join us in Tunis this Friday! Rejoignez-nous à Tunis ce vendredi!
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Scenes from yesterday! Thank you to all who joined the talk! 🙏
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Carolien Stolte @carolienstolte.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
📣 Today! Join us! 🕊️
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
From our podcast studio! Stay tuned for a new episode on the 12th of every month! peace.lucdh.eu/podcast/
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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!
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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...
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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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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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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The War Game (1966) - Leiden University
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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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...
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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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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
📣 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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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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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
📣 Interesting article! 👇
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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.
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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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...
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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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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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 👇
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Check out this amazing global history resource! 🙌
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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/...
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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.
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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!
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
This was such a wonderful gathering! Thanks @riakapoor.bsky.social, @drmargottudor.bsky.social, @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & Daniel Laqua!
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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...).
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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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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Peace Movements Project is in Dakar! @iias.bsky.social have outdone themselves - what a conference!
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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 ✍️ 📝
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Cheerful scenes from the @leidenhumanities.bsky.social podcast studio! Season 1 will drop soon! 🎙️
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Friends, do check out this new piece by our project team member Sander van der Horst!
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
📣 This afternoon in Leiden: Subjective dimensions of peace- and statebuilding across Africa. @timglawion.bsky.social on ways in which peace making is imagined, and how it relates to the state. Hosted by the African Studies Centre, details here: ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-se...
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ASCL Seminar: Subjective dimensions of peace- and statebuilding across Africa | African Studies Centre Leiden
When we look at peace, security and politics in Africa, we often study the supposedly factual: how many people die, when and where, or what the state does and does not do. In this sense, peacebuilding...
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Friends! Please join us for the final Peace Histories Seminar of the semester. We're thrilled to host Maria-Kyveli Mavrokordopolou on anti-nuclearism in art! Details here: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/... #peace #decolonization
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
From the archives: anti-nuclear protest in Kyiv, 1982.
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The next session of our Peace Histories Seminar Series is one week away! All are welcome - come by and discuss changing concepts of war and peace in China with us! 🕊️🌎 www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Hi! 👋The Peace Movements Project has joined BlueSky! We're a global history research group, studying how peace movements across the decolonizing world have connected to international peace organizations from the early 1900s onwards.
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