Great @cemirestandrews.bsky.social conversation here with Will Dalziel at Never Such Innocence and @patnabuco.bsky.social about the exclusion/inclusion of young voices on peace and conflict: cmr.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/my-life...
My Life In… Podcast | Episode 4
We are pleased to share the latest episode of My Life In…, the podcast from the Centre for Minorities Research. In this episode, Professor Alice König speaks with Will Dalziel and Dr Patrícia Martu…
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Really hard-hitting article about areas of conflict and terrorism that are covered all too rarely in Western media - with amazing photos by one of our long-term collaborators, the incredible Hugh Kinsella Cunningham: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Happy to see this article out in the world! academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
The Adult Gaze: Looking Again at Children and Young People in Peace and Conflict
Abstract. Young people are often talked about as “the future,” with the dual implication that they will inherit the results of contemporary decision-making
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Looking forward to visiting this next week! thepeacebuilding.org.uk/peace-buildi...
Our Plans - Peace Museum | The Peace Building London
The Peace Building is set to be the first ever peace museum and education centre in London. A meeting point where all generations can learn about peace.
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Do you teach ancient war or peace? If so, we'd love to hear from you! We are putting together a new Handbook for Teaching Ancient War and Peace, designed to enhance both teaching and learning experiences at all educational levels. More info here: tawp.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/04/28/h...
Handbook for Teaching Ancient War and Peace
Contributions are invited to an innovative ‘Handbook for Teaching Ancient War and Peace’ (to be published by Routledge). A wide range of authors i
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In London next weekend? Come and see a preview of the peace play we have co-developed with NMTAutomatics! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/04/26/p... Blending the myth of the minotaur with 20th-century Holocaust history, it explores one woman's life-long search to build peace in the wake of conflict.
Preview: Long After the Labyrinth
Following two years’ of research and development, our new play – Long After the Labyrinth, co-produced with NMT Automatics – is nearly ready! We will be sharing a preview of it on…
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Come along to the preview of Long After The Labyrinth, a play co-developed with NMT Automatics and the Ancient Peace Studies Network: 3rd May, 7.30pm, Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London upstairsatthegatehouse.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
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📢 New podcast! Our guest today is Dr Florence Gaub, Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College in Rome. We discuss current threats, 'future shock', and the role of speculative fiction in futures thinking: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
Speculative Fiction: NATO 2099 - Visualising War and Peace
In this episode, Alice interviews Dr Florence Gaub, Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College in Rome. A security expert and futurist, she has held key positions such as deputy dir...
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Our latest podcast has just landed! In this episode, Profs Konstantinos Nikoloutsos and Lee Brice discuss ancient warfare on film: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
Ancient Warfare on Film - Visualising War and Peace
In this episode, Alice interviews Professor Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, based at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, and Professor Lee Brice, from Western Illinois University. Konstantinos’ ...
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📢 New podcast out today! Tune in to hear Prof. John Hyland @cnucaptains.bsky.social and Dr Rhyne King @utoronto.ca discussing peace in ancient Persia: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
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...
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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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…
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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/
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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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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?
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📢 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...
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...
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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.
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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.
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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-...
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
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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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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.
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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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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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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
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