Visualising War and Peace

Ancient Warfare on Film - Visualising War and Peace In this episode, Alice interviews Professor Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, based at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, and Professor Lee Brice, from Western Illinois University. Konstantinos’ ...

Our latest podcast has just landed! In this episode, Profs Konstantinos Nikoloutsos and Lee Brice discuss ancient warfare on film: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

📢 New podcast out today! Tune in to hear Prof. John Hyland
@cnucaptains.bsky.social and Dr Rhyne King
@utoronto.ca discussing peace in ancient Persia: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

Last chance to register for our interactive drama workshop on Thursday (2.15-4.30, Arts Lecture Theatre, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social). Join us to work with theatre-makers from NMT Automatics on peace storytelling and performing peace, via ancient myth! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/p...

On 22nd January 2026 (2-4.30pm, @ University of St Andrews), we are running an interactive drama workshop with professional theatre company NMT Automatics - join us if you can! For more information or to register, please email: vispeace@st-andrews.ac.uk. apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/r...

Bearing witness to women's war trauma in ancient Greek tragedy - Visualising War and Peace In this podcast, Alice interviews Dr Erika Weiberg, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Theater Studies at Duke University. Erika has recently published a book called Demanding Witness: ...

New podcast out now! Featuring Dr Erika Weiberg, we discuss how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four ancient Greek tragedies about war's aftermath: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

Performing Peace Calling all creatives! Are you an actor, producer, playwright, choreographer or composer? Whether amateur or professional, student or teacher, please join us to explore the power of peace storytell…

Fancy a free drama workshop? apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/p... On 22nd Jan 2-4.30pm @uniofstandrews.bsky.social we are running an interactive drama workshop with theatre-makers NMT Automatics to explore the power of peace storytelling on stage. Email vispeace@st-andrews.ac.uk to sign up!

Events New Visions of Ancient Peace Inaugural workshop for the Ancient Peace Studies Network January 20th-22nd, 2026, University of St Andrews Bringing together a mix of ancient-world researchers with exp…

Registration to attend our inaugural Ancient Peace Studies Network conference closes on 9th January - last chance to sign up! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/

Odysseus the destroyer? Christopher Nolan’s new Odyssey adaptation revives an ancient moral question The Odyssey hits cinemas in July 2026. But will it celebrate Odysseus as the clever hero – or finally confront the wreckage he leaves in his wake?

Great questions in this article about Nolan's upcoming film, The Odyssey: theconversation.com/odysseus-the... 'Will it dare to look beyond the hero? Will it give voice to those left in his shadow?'

Peace and Peacemaking in ancient Greece and Rome - Visualising War and Peace This episode dives deep into ancient peace history, as Alice interviews Professor Polly Low, from Durham University, and Dr Hannah Cornwell, from the University of Birmingham. Polly is a historia...

📢 New podcast episode out today! Featuring Prof. Polly Low
@durhamclassics.bsky.social and Dr Hannah Cornwell @unibirmingham.bsky.social, it looks at ideas of peace and peacebuilding in ancient Greece and Rome: buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

Calling all drama professionals, drama students, and peace storytellers! We are teaming up with theatre company NMT Automatics to deliver a FREE interactive workshop on Jan 22nd @uniofstandrews.bsky.social on dramatising peace! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/p...

CEASEFIRE! - Experience a Humanitarian Ceasefire Negotiation An interactive training game exploring the human, legal, and emotional dimensions of peace.

So impressed by this game, CEASEFIRE!, designed by a team of mediation and gaming experts led by Rebecca Sutton @glasgow.ac.uk. It is 'an interactive training game exploring the human, legal, and emotional dimensions of peace' - well worth playing and learning from: ceasefire-theta.vercel.app

‘I have to talk about it so that the world can know what happened to women and girls in Sudan’ – rape and terror sparks mass migration Hundreds of returnees and forced migrants reported being terrorised by soldiers and armed militias on both sides of the Sudan civil war.

This comes with a content warning - but the women sharing their horrifying testimony want the world to know what has been done to them: theconversation.com/i-have-to-ta...

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-...

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 viswar@st-andrews.ac.uk. arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-...

Trump seeks to rebrand Department of Defense as Department of War The US president has sought to refocus the department on

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!

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.

Post-conflict recovery costs so much - in so many different currencies (monetary and otherwise): theconversation.com/over-10-bill...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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.

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...

BBC cameraman haunted by Gaza's malnourished children injured in Israeli strike Israel says it targeted top Hamas militants hiding among civilians at the Khan Younis hospital.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Children handcuffed and shot' - ex-UK Special Forces break silence on war crime claims Veterans who served with the SAS and SBS give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged executions.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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.

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...

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.

'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-...

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.

'The consequences of famine are lasting.' Physiological, psychological, social, political. Human-made famine, deepened by withdrawal of USAID: theconversation.com/usaid-the-hu...

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...

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!

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...

New podcast coming out this week, introducing the Ancient Peace Studies Network! www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...