The Peace Movements Project

by Floris de Ruiter L’Âge Atomique was an exhibition held from 11 October 2024 until 9 February 2025 at Musée d’Art Moderne (MAM) in Paris. The exhibition makes you relive the nuclear anxiety of the Cold War through its art. Walking through the exhibition was unnerving but also gave me the opportunity to reflect. Although…

by Pratika Dewi Traditional myths divide the world into two camps in almost every aspect of life, such as war and peace. War appears to be men’s business because militarists used the myth of war’s manliness to define and reward soldiers’ behavior. If war is masculine, peace, as the opposite of war, appears feminine because…

by Carolien Stolte In L’Âge Atomique (Musée de l’Art Moderne, Paris), the world responds to the sense of instability that was introduced to it from the moment it became known that the atom was not, in fact, its smallest component part. In this perspective, Rutherford’s discovery of subatomic particles functions as the “big bang” from…

By Carolien Stolte In November, I was a guest of the Research Excellence Cluster Global History of Anticolonial Thought at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. This is an interdisciplinary group of scholars and students at UBC who are investigating the multitude of ways that anticolonialism has taken shape across the globe in…

Pedro Aires Oliveira visited the Peace Movements Project on an Erasmus Teaching Mobility, on exchange from the Institute of Contemporary History at NOVA University (Lisbon, Portugal). His expertise on anti-war and solidarity movements during the decolonization of Portuguese-occupied Africa is of great interest to us. As our own research projects deal with peace movements and…