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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 1d

Scenes from yesterday! Thank you to all who joined the talk! 🙏

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Carolien Stolte @carolienstolte.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Today! Join us! 🕊️

The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 8d

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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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 9d

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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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 12d

Brilliant new article by @racheljcollett.bsky.social in @mbhjournal.bsky.social further expanding knowledge & understanding of #womensgrassrootsactivism. Congratulations Rachel 👏🥳. @womenshistnet.bsky.social #skystorians
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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 · 13d

📣 New podcast episode! Listen as Elisabeth Forster and Floris de Ruiter discuss peace discourses in modern China. Highly recommended! 🎧
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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 · 13d

📣 Interesting article! 👇

Modern Intellectual History @mihjournal.bsky.social · 15d

Now on FirstView: Direct action as radical politics? Sean Scalmer analyzes the transnational histories of direct action and of nonviolence drawing attention to previously submerged debates of the radical interwar left

Nonviolence Meets Direct Action: A Transnational Encounter of the Interwar Years | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

Nonviolence Meets Direct Action: A Transnational Encounter of the Interwar Years

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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · Sep 4

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 · Aug 30

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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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · Aug 26

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 · Aug 26

Quakers 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.

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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · Aug 26

Check out this amazing global history resource! 🙌

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

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radical online collections and archives

I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · Aug 26

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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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · Jul 16

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 · Jul 15

This was such a wonderful gathering! Thanks @riakapoor.bsky.social, @drmargottudor.bsky.social, @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & Daniel Laqua!

Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · Jun 23

(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

New Methods for New Histories (Online)

Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities

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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · Jul 14

But 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!

OUR INTRODUCTION

PEACE HISTORY · Episode

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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · Jul 14

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...).

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 · Jun 15

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 · Jun 5

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 · May 12

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 · May 1

Friends, do check out this new piece by our project team member Sander van der Horst!

Leiden Humanities @leidenhumanities.bsky.social · May 1

PhD candidate Sander van der Horst collaborated with Henna Goudzand to write about anti-colonial student resistance in Leiden in the recently published anthology 'Wereldsteden van de Lage Landen. Stadsgeschiedenis van Nederland en België.'

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Resistance against the Dutch and German Occupiers: Indonesian Students in Leiden

On the eve of World War II, Leiden was home to the largest Indonesian student community in the Netherlands. Many of these students joined the resistance against the German occupation, and later some f...

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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · May 1

📣 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...

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 · Apr 30

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 · Apr 9

From the archives: anti-nuclear protest in Kyiv, 1982.

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