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
In conversation with Hugh McDonnell on his upcoming book, The End of Violence (Cornell University Press). New episode! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
PEACE TALK WITH HUGH MCDONNELL
Podcast Episode · PEACE HISTORY · March 12 · 36m
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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...
The Spring schedule for the Peace Histories seminar is HERE! Hugh McDonnell will kick us off on Feb 16th. All are welcome!
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...
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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📣 *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...
PEACE TALK WITH JULIA HAUSER
Podcast Episode · PEACE HISTORY · 01/12/2026 · 29m
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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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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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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.
Carolien Stolte@carolienstolte.bsky.social · 9mo ago📣 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!
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...
PEACE TALK WITH IRINA GORDEEVA
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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!
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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Join us in Tunis this Friday! Rejoignez-nous à Tunis ce vendredi!
Scenes from yesterday! Thank you to all who joined the talk! 🙏
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!
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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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.
The War Game (1966) - Leiden University
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Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 11mo agoTonight in 1984, the grimly realistic and harrowing nuclear war drama “Threads” was first broadcast on BBC Two. The film aired for the first time in the United States on January 13, 1985, on WTBS, thanks to station owner and disarmament advocate Ted Turner. “Threads” streams for free on Kanopy.
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...
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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📣 New podcast episode! Listen as Elisabeth Forster and Floris de Ruiter discuss peace discourses in modern China. Highly recommended! 🎧 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/podcasts/...
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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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.
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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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 👇
Greenham Women Everywhere@greenhamwomen.bsky.social · 12mo agoQuakers 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.
Check out this amazing global history resource! 🙌
Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · last yr.New collections added! • El Moudjahid Digital Archive (Algeria) • Xiandai Funü (China) • Xinhua ribao (China) • Gramsci Digital Library (Italy) • Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers • Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...
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/...
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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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!
