Visualising War and Peace
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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/
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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-...
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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 [email protected]. arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-...
Teaching Ancient War and Peace Online Workshops | Visualising War
arts.st-andrews.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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 [email protected]. arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-...
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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September 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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!
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.
theconversation.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Post-conflict recovery costs so much - in so many different currencies (monetary and otherwise): theconversation.com/over-10-bill...
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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August 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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...
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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July 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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...
Important work, incubated by @iwpr.net : www.thereckoningproject.com
The Reckoning Project
The Reckoning Project combines the power of story-telling and legal accountability to fight for justice, safeguard rights and restore truth in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
www.thereckoningproject.com
May 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Important work, incubated by @iwpr.net : www.thereckoningproject.com
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
modernclassics.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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...
Rays of hope here: theconversation.com/israels-peac... More commitment to 'standing together' is urgently needed.
Israel’s peace movement offers a ray of hope amid the pain of Gaza conflict
Yuval Katz recently spent time in Israel witih peace activists.
theconversation.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Rays of hope here: theconversation.com/israels-peac... More commitment to 'standing together' is urgently needed.
Excited to be able to share the latest winners of Never Such Innocence's annual competition, giving children and young people a voice on conflict. This year's theme was about preventing future wars and the entries have lots to teach us: indd.adobe.com/view/a2e068b...
Publish Online
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April 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Excited to be able to share the latest winners of Never Such Innocence's annual competition, giving children and young people a voice on conflict. This year's theme was about preventing future wars and the entries have lots to teach us: indd.adobe.com/view/a2e068b...
'If the words we use not only reflect our understanding of issues but also shape understandings, then replacing discussion of peace “agreements” with talk of peace “deals” matters a lot.' theconversation.com/language-of-...
Language of peace: why talk of ‘making deals’ rather than ‘reaching agreements’ is not helpful
The language of peacemaking is critical to the success of a settlement.
theconversation.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
'If the words we use not only reflect our understanding of issues but also shape understandings, then replacing discussion of peace “agreements” with talk of peace “deals” matters a lot.' theconversation.com/language-of-...
'The consequences of famine are lasting.' Physiological, psychological, social, political. Human-made famine, deepened by withdrawal of USAID: theconversation.com/usaid-the-hu...
USAID: the human cost of Donald Trump’s aid freeze for a war-torn part of Sudan
A snapshot of the effect of the freeze in USAID on one part of Sudan.
theconversation.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
'The consequences of famine are lasting.' Physiological, psychological, social, political. Human-made famine, deepened by withdrawal of USAID: theconversation.com/usaid-the-hu...
Excited about the upcoming publication of our edited volume, Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean: www.routledge.com/Visualising-... Out at the end of this month!
Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean: Interplay between Conflict Narratives in different Media and Genres
This volume offers novel readings of ancient conflict narratives from around the ancient Mediterranean and explores their impact on later habits of understanding and representing war, with an innovati...
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March 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Excited about the upcoming publication of our edited volume, Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean: www.routledge.com/Visualising-... Out at the end of this month!
New podcast coming out this week, introducing the Ancient Peace Studies Network! www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
Introducing the Ancient Peace Studies Network - Visualising War and Peace
temp text: In this episode of the Visualising War and Peace podcast, guest-host Zofia Guertin speaks with Dr. Alice König about her work expanding the Visualising War project to include peace stu...
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March 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
New podcast coming out this week, introducing the Ancient Peace Studies Network! www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...
Opening at the end of the month at Callendar House, Falkirk: the last stage of our exhibition, Somewhere to Stay, by artist Diana Forster: forcedmigration.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
March 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Opening at the end of the month at Callendar House, Falkirk: the last stage of our exhibition, Somewhere to Stay, by artist Diana Forster: forcedmigration.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
Excited to have been awarded a grant by the BA/Leverhulme to set up the first ever Ancient Peace Studies Network! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
Ancient Peace Studies Network
Visit the post for more.
apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
March 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Excited to have been awarded a grant by the BA/Leverhulme to set up the first ever Ancient Peace Studies Network! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
Delighted that one of the schools we have been working with has sent us an entry for our virtual Museum of Peace, featuring some youth-led peace education about Nagasaki: peacemuseum.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/03/09/p...
Paper Cranes at Downside School
In November 2024, staff and students at Downside School (near Bath in the UK) went off curriculum for a War and Peace Week. Among other activities, they spent time exploring our virtual Museum of P…
peacemuseum.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
March 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Delighted that one of the schools we have been working with has sent us an entry for our virtual Museum of Peace, featuring some youth-led peace education about Nagasaki: peacemuseum.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/03/09/p...
A great new resource on peace photography developed by visual sociologist Tiffany Fairey and team
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social: imagingpeace.org/index.php/pe... Street exhibition on The Strand coming up on 19th March!
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social: imagingpeace.org/index.php/pe... Street exhibition on The Strand coming up on 19th March!
Peace Photography Guide | Imaging Peace
imagingpeace.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A great new resource on peace photography developed by visual sociologist Tiffany Fairey and team
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social: imagingpeace.org/index.php/pe... Street exhibition on The Strand coming up on 19th March!
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social: imagingpeace.org/index.php/pe... Street exhibition on The Strand coming up on 19th March!
Super excited that the wonderful Dick Institute in Kilmarnock is launching an exhibition of young people's work (art and poetry) in response to Somewhere to Stay, the art exhibition we have been working on with Diana Forster: eastayrshireleisure.com/events/snipp... @staclassics.bsky.social
Snippets of Home
East Ayrshire Leisure Trust
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February 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Super excited that the wonderful Dick Institute in Kilmarnock is launching an exhibition of young people's work (art and poetry) in response to Somewhere to Stay, the art exhibition we have been working on with Diana Forster: eastayrshireleisure.com/events/snipp... @staclassics.bsky.social
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"Teaching Ancient War's Aftermath: Current approaches, what works well, what could be different?"
💻Online consultation hosted by @viswarpeace.bsky.social, 🗓24 February, ⏰1-2pm.
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Enquiries to [email protected]
#AncientPeace #Curriculum
💻Online consultation hosted by @viswarpeace.bsky.social, 🗓24 February, ⏰1-2pm.
👉Registration (free) forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Enquiries to [email protected]
#AncientPeace #Curriculum
February 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Teaching Ancient War's Aftermath: Current approaches, what works well, what could be different?"
💻Online consultation hosted by @viswarpeace.bsky.social, 🗓24 February, ⏰1-2pm.
👉Registration (free) forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Enquiries to [email protected]
#AncientPeace #Curriculum
💻Online consultation hosted by @viswarpeace.bsky.social, 🗓24 February, ⏰1-2pm.
👉Registration (free) forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Enquiries to [email protected]
#AncientPeace #Curriculum
