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

You are also warmly invited to a Film Screening on Thursday 6 March.

First up!

Join our film screening of The War Game! The War Game is 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 It was made for the BBC but by the time it was finished, the film was seen as so controversial that it was withdrawn before the screening date.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 premier at the National Film Theatre in London, where it ran for three weeks before being shown at film festivals abroad – eventually winning an Oscar for the Best Documentary Feature in 1967. It was not televised in Britain, however, until the summer of 1985.

What’s next?

On Monday 7 April, Elisabeth Foster will compare 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”. All are welcome!

Past Events

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.