📣 New podcast episode! Listen as Elisabeth Forster and Floris de Ruiter discuss peace discourses in modern China. Highly recommended! 🎧 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/podcasts/...

📣 Interesting article! 👇

New semester, new season of the Peace Histories Seminar at @leidenhumanities.bsky.social!

Historici boos (terecht) over epidemiologen die zich begeven op hun vakgebied www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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/...

The entrenchment of tea estates in Ceylon, with their massive need for labour, led to the migration and settlement of Indian Tamil labourers in the highlands of what is now Sri Lanka. @avtansa writes

I was this many days old when I learned @davidbowles.us has a free basic classical Nahuatl course ... don't mind if I do nahuatl.thinkific.com/courses/free...

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...).

Join us for this fascinating workshop royalasiaticsociety.org/event/the-fu... next week, July 4th at the @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social! We'll be live-streaming the keynote and panels so do join us online if you can't join in person!

New methods for new histories! 🙌Very excited for this conference. Join us!

The Peace Movements Project is in Dakar! @iias.bsky.social have outdone themselves - what a conference!

"Het water van de Indus is een wapen geworden" - mooi stuk van @lisadupuy.bsky.social over de rol van water in regionale politiek in Zuid-Azië: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

This was so fun! I was just re-reading our initial plans for the week (peace.lucdh.eu/2025/04/26/p...) and thanks to the generous group of scholars who assembled in the archives, I think we can say it worked!

𝐊𝐚𝐬𝐣𝐦𝐢𝐫: 𝐰𝐚𝐚𝐫 𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐬, 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐭 𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐧 Dr @carolienstolte.bsky.social (@leidenhumanities.bsky.social) bood tijdens het Leids Actualiteitencollege op 2 juni jl historische context over het conflict tussen India en Pakistan over de regio Kasjmir. 👇 @unileiden.bsky.social

Just sent off a forthright review, aiming to take author seriously while not dropping a piano on their head. Some time ago had the joy of writing abt reviewing- inc a link to the piano ref + one of my all time fav windups, "you will notice that I mosey." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/01/09/t...

Kashmir blijft het strijdtoneel van #India & #Pakistan, terwijl India’s groeiende invloed wereldwijd voelbaar is. Luister naar het gesprek @bnr.nl met @carolienstolte.bsky.social (@unileiden.bsky.social) 👉 𝗞𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝗽 𝟮 𝗷𝘂𝗻𝗶 𝗻𝗮𝗮𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 & 𝗣𝗮𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻 @leidenglobal.bsky.social

We've had some incredible guests this semester at the Peace Movements Project! Looking forward to sharing the results soon!

De aanleiding is grimmig. Zoals een collega in India vandaag al schreef: geweld heeft altijd iemand aan de ontvangende kant.

Looking forward to attending this 👇

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

Een bloedige aanval op toeristen in Kashmir verergert de spanningen tussen India en Pakistan. India schort het waterverdrag op, waarop Pakistan dreigend reageert: het stoppen van de watertoevoer zou een oorlogsdaad zijn. Daarover deskundigen Suzanna Koster en Carolien Stolte. bit.ly/m/Bureau-Bui...

🎤 Now live from Jakarta: Panel debate with @carolienstolte.bsky.social on "Where do we stand 70 years after the Bandung Conference? Non-alignment, bloc diversity and the role of the middle powers". This public event wraps up our Global History & Politics Dialogue in Indonesia. Watch 👉 t1p.de/o7yo9

It begins: Tonight, the Global History & Politics Dialogues open in Bandung, Indonesia - 70 years after the Asian-African Conference of 1955. We’re honoured to kick things off with the Mayor of Bandung and opening speeches that look back - and ahead. #Bandung70 #HistoryPoliticsDialogues 🧵1/4

What lessons might the Bandung moment hold, 70 years later? Really looking forward to this!👇 koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/...

It’s that time of year again @leidenhumanities.bsky.social!

The next session of our Peace Histories Seminar Series is one week away! All are welcome - come by and discuss changing concepts of war and peace in China with us! 🕊️🌎 www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...

Yay! The Peace Movements Project has joined Bluesky! Follow us as we continue our adventures 🕊️

Join us at the 15th edition of the European Social Science History Conference! Leiden University Johan Huizinga building (LUP booth) 26 - 29 March 2025 Read more about the #conference here: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en/esshc-con... #event #bookfair #book #Leiden #LeidenUniversity #history

Vandaag begint de estafettestaking tegen de bezuinigingen op hoger onderwijs en wetenschap. Als oudste universiteit, bijt Leiden het spits af. Succes aan alle Leidse collega's! 💪🏽

Go Leiden! Rake woorden én percussie bij @woinactie.bsky.social

New article out today! I wrote about the African Association - an influential network of anti-colonial activists based in the heart of Nasser's Egypt. You can read it at @historywo.bsky.social here:

The term card is out for our Peace Histories Seminar Series! Students, colleagues, and anyone interested in the history of peace movements, please join us at @leidenhumanities.bsky.social for three amazing speakers AND a film screening! Details here: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/serie...

My personal academic Valentine is "I learned a lot from your work." We need to remember to generous in our praise of our fellow scholars

🎧 Listen to our latest podcast with annegarlandmahler.bsky.social, discussing the post-Bandung period from the perspective of cultural and artistic movements open.spotify.com/episode/5B48...

Apply now for 13 #fellowship #grants at Leiden University Libraries’ Scaliger Institute to conduct research using our #SpecialCollections & #DigitalCollections @UBLeiden.bsky.social @UniLeiden.bsky.social. Deadline: 1 April 2025 More information ➡️ www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...

Nu al blij dat ik straks zoveel mooi nieuw werk mag gaan bekijken met de jury! Jonge Leidse kunstenaars in mijn netwerk: meld je aan! Inschrijving open tot vrijdag 6 april. www.lakenhal.nl/nl/verhaal/d...

Dozens Feared Dead in Stampede at Huge Hindu Festival in India www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/w...

Free webinar organised by the Association for Political History: Why and how to publish an edited volume with an international publisher. Featuring @richardtoye.bsky.social @carolienstolte.bsky.social Pasi Ihailainen, Jo Innes and Hagen Schulz-Forberg. 31 January 13:00-14:00.

Another episode from our pocast is is out! @basileboulay.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social are joined by historian Carolien Stolte to reflect on the legacies of the Bandung Spirit that shaped international relations and political economy in the 1950s and beyond open.spotify.com/episode/0mWu...

This is such a great initiative! 🙌 As part of efforts to make the field of global history more truly ‘global’, @globalhistjnl.bsky.social is hosting an online development workshop to help prospective authors through the submission process. Apply by 1 March! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

The #peacemovementsproject just visited the Âge atomique exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris. If you have a chance to see it before it closes on Feb 9th, go! It's amazing. So much to process, but for now I'll leave this here: Troglodyte with Nuclear Bomb, Stefan Rinck, 2017.

JGH is excited to welcome new editorial board members: Pierre Singaravélou, Seema Alavi, Taomo Zhou, Tawanda Valentine Chambwe, Stefanie Gänger, Carolien Stolte, John-Paul Ghobrial, and Sven Benjamin Schuster. We are looking forward to working with you in 2025!'

Why is the edited volume still a worthwhile option in the current scholarly publication landscape? Join the APH @associationpolhist.bsky.social webinar on Fri Jan 31! 👇 Contributions by ao @richardtoye.bsky.social @carolienstolte.bsky.social

Leiden friends! Join us in celebrating the VVIK Society (Kern Institute for Indology) centennial! Now: Peter Bisschop on VVIK Society founder Jean Philippe Vogel, whose portrait is straight out of a Wes Anderson film. Program: www.instituutkern.nl/agenda/3517/...

Het verslag van de Mare: www.mareonline.nl/nieuws/samen...

Een willekeurige greep uit een groeiende collectie ❤️

Very proud that our new volume on Development, Socialism, and Internationalism is now out on Open Access! Many thanks to my wonderful co-editor Nana Osei-Opare and all our contributors, & @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & David Brydan for welcoming us in their series www.bloomsbury.com/us/socialism...

Postdoc alert! Come join our wonderful Peace Movements Project team! We are looking for someone to work on the history of peace movements in the MENA region - please share widely and let me know if you have any questions! www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Two doctoral positions open with some of my favorite Global History colleagues! jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

I'm looking for a postdoc in my project! Postdoc "The Afterlife of Colonial Medicine" - Leiden University (universiteitleiden.nl)