Reposted by The Peace Movements ProjectAfrican Studies Centre Leiden @ascleiden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026🕊️ Peace Movements Project Seminar: Nuclear Power and Decolonisation in Africa (1957-1963). Guest speaker Chloë Mayoux argues that the nuclear age had a tangible and lasting influence on the ways global relations were renegotiated during decolonisation. 📆 26 October 🕓 16:00–17:30 🔗 buff.ly/eQG9IGe 001
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 12/03/2026In conversation with Hugh McDonnell on his upcoming book, The End of Violence (Cornell University Press). New episode! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...podcasts.apple.comPEACE TALK WITH HUGH MCDONNELLPodcast Episode · PEACE HISTORY · March 12 · 36m 000
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 10/02/2026We 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... 024
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 06/02/2026The Spring schedule for the Peace Histories seminar is HERE! Hugh McDonnell will kick us off on Feb 16th. All are welcome! 021
Reposted by The Peace Movements ProjectRenata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Episode 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...soundcloud.comEpisode V - CrisisIn 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 11811
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...podcasts.apple.comPEACE TALK WITH JULIA HAUSERPodcast Episode · PEACE HISTORY · 01/12/2026 · 29m 021
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 12/01/2026As 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...thetimes.comBurial site ‘akin to Sutton Hoo’ sheds new light on Anglo-SaxonsThe 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 0126
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Season 1 of PeaceTalk is a wrap! Tune in for our final episode of the year with @mysteriousdrbex.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/3c8q...open.spotify.comPEACE TALK WITH BECKY ALEXIS-MARTIN 021
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Write-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. 020
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Join 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/ 021
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...open.spotify.comPEACE TALK WITH IRINA GORDEEVA 042
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Scenes from a very productive research week in the Peace Collections at @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the results! 020
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 10/11/2025A 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! 021
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Some snapshots from our Tunis workshop! Merci à tous ceux qui nous ont rejoint ! 021
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 13/10/2025New 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...podcasts.apple.comPEACE TALK WITH MARIA KYVELIPodcast Episode · PEACE HISTORY · 10/12/2025 · 49m 041
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Join us in Tunis this Friday! Rejoignez-nous à Tunis ce vendredi! 021
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Scenes from yesterday! Thank you to all who joined the talk! 🙏 011
Reposted by The Peace Movements ProjectCarolien Stolte @carolienstolte.bsky.social · 06/10/2025📣 Today! Join us! 🕊️ 021
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 04/10/2025From our podcast studio! Stay tuned for a new episode on the 12th of every month! peace.lucdh.eu/podcast/ 031
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2025And 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! 053
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2025How 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...universiteitleiden.nlImagining 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... 021
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2025We 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.staff.universiteitleiden.nlThe War Game (1966) - Leiden University 000
Reposted by The Peace Movements ProjectCaitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Brilliant 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.comCapenhurst Women’s Peace Camp (1982–3) and after: local nuclear resistance, grassroots feminisms, and transnational solidaritiesAbstract. This article explores the local specificities of Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp, established in 1982 at British Nuclear Fuels Limited on the Wirra 193
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/...universiteitleiden.nlEpisode 3: Peace talk with Elisabeth ForsterIn 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. 021
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Join 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. 020
Reposted by The Peace Movements ProjectDaisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025My 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...chicagomaroon.comLost in Extraterrestrial TranslationThe University celebrates the success of area studies alumni, all the while erasing the programs that made those careers possible. 910456
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 26/08/2025See 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 👇 110
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Check out this amazing global history resource! 🙌 010
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 26/08/2025The 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/...universiteitleiden.nlPeace talk with Francisca de HaanIn this episode, we’re delighted to introduce you to Francisca de Haan, our guest, and her fascinating research on women in peace movements. 022
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Dataset 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! 043
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 15/07/2025This was such a wonderful gathering! Thanks @riakapoor.bsky.social, @drmargottudor.bsky.social, @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & Daniel Laqua! 122
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 14/07/2025But before we interview any guests, we want to make our own departure points clear! So for this first episode, we interview ourselves :-) Meet the team! First episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/1YC8... More to follow on the 12th of every month!open.spotify.comOUR INTRODUCTIONPEACE HISTORY · Episode 021
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 14/07/2025July 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...).open.spotify.comPEACE HISTORYPodcast · 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 ... 122
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 15/06/2025The Peace Movements Project is in Dakar! @iias.bsky.social have outdone themselves - what a conference! 021
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Collaborative 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 ✍️ 📝 061
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Cheerful scenes from the @leidenhumanities.bsky.social podcast studio! Season 1 will drop soon! 🎙️ 030
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Friends, do check out this new piece by our project team member Sander van der Horst! 010
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...ascleiden.nlASCL Seminar: Subjective dimensions of peace- and statebuilding across Africa | African Studies Centre LeidenWhen 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... 031
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Friends! 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 012
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 09/04/2025From the archives: anti-nuclear protest in Kyiv, 1982. 010
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The 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/... 023
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 31/03/2025We want to hear from researchers whose interests align with ours! We plan to host an international conference on peace movements and decolonization in Leiden in the academic year of 2026/2027, so do tell us about your work! 021
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 31/03/2025We are based at the Institute for History @leidenhumanities.bsky.social, and we are funded by the @erc.europa.eu and the Dutch Research Council. Our team members work on the international connections of peace movements in West- and North Africa, South- and Southeast Asia, Central Asia. 130
The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Hi! 👋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. 132