Join us for the Spring 2025 Seminar Series, in which we explore all the different ways in which one can write global histories of peace advocacy! All events will take place in the Lipsius Building of the Humanities Faculty. This semester’s Peace Histories seminars will take place on:
Monday 24 February
Monday 7 April
Monday 12 May
The series also includes a Film Screening on Thursday 6 March.
Between May 19-23, we will host a collaborative research workshop in the IISH archives.
First up!
On Monday 12 May, Maria-Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (VU University Amsterdam) will give the final talk of the Spring semester, entitled “Keeping the Nukes out, from Hawaii to Malta: 1980s antinuclear feminisms, in and through art.” This will be the final session of the semester. Join us, all are welcome!
What’s next?
During the week of 19-23 May, we’ll be heading into the IISH Archives with an international group of researchers, hoping to accomplish some real-time global history collaboration! Our program for the week, along with a list of participants, can be found here!
Past Events
On Monday, April 7, Elisabeth Foster compared different peace discourses in China in her talk entitled: “A Just War versus a Dignified Peace? Discourses about War and Peace in the Peace Negotiations between the Chinese Communist Party and Nationalist Party in 1949”.
On Tuesday, March 6, we screened The War Game, a 1966 British pseudo-documentary that explores the aftermath of a nuclear war in Britain. It was made for the BBC but by the time it was finished, the film was seen as so controversial that it was withdrawn before the screening date. It did win an Oscar for the Best Documentary Feature in 1967 but was not televised in Britain until 1985.
On Monday, February 24 Francisca de Haan kicked off our 2025 series with a talk on the World Women’s Committee Against War and Fascism in the years leading up to the Second World War.
On Thursday, October 7 2024, Pedro Aires Oliveira gave a talk on anti-war protests, transnational solidarity and the liberation of Portuguese-speaking Africa, c. 1961-1974.