Join us in Leiden in March 2027! Abstracts due March 9th, papers due Feb 1st, 2027. If you have questions or wonder whether your work fits, please DM or email!

The Spring schedule for the Peace Histories seminar is HERE! Hugh McDonnell will kick us off on Feb 16th. All are welcome!

📣 *New Episode!* 📣 Listen to the first episode of the new season of PeaceTalk! Julia Hauser talks to Floris de Ruiter about the complexities behind this deceptively simple question of how vegetarianism and non-violence are (and are not!) linked. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

As a new nuclear power station with two reactors is preparing to be built, the building site turns out to be a 6th-7th century burial grounds (h/t @wadehistory.bsky.social): www.thetimes.com/article/1528...

Solid advice for historians of all career levels 😊

Season 1 of PeaceTalk is a wrap! Tune in for our final episode of the year with @mysteriousdrbex.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/3c8q...

Wat een geweldige foto hier op @sleutelstad.bsky.social van het moment waarop Larissa Esvelt hoort dat ze de Doesjenel Prijs 2025 wint. Feest in de Lakenhal! De tentoonstelling loopt nog, dus ga allemaal nog even kijken deze kerstvakantie! sleutelstad.nl/2025/12/13/l...

There’s book reviews, and there’s this.

📣 The Peace Movements Project in @mareonline.nl! 📣 www.mareonline.nl/cultuur/indi... Nieuwsgierig geworden? Kom lekker kijken komende maandag om 15:00 in Huizinga 023C @leidenhumanities.bsky.social of DM voor meer info!

Join us for a special edition of the Peace Histories seminar! We will screen the movie Aman (1967) with a critical introduction by Aditya Kiran Kakati (IIAS). Join us, all are welcome. We will bring the snacks! peace.lucdh.eu/events/

🎧 New Episode! Irina Gordeeva talks to our colleague @kamilask.bsky.social on peace activism in Russia, discussing Tolstoyan pacifism, transnational grassroots peace movements, and the lives of activists in the Soviet period and beyond. Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/5KeJIye...

This was such a good conference! Thanks for the hospitality, @berrycollege.bsky.social!

Seventy years on, are we celebrating Bandung - or its myth? @carolienstolte.bsky.social‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ argues that today’s invocations reveal more about our present than the realities of 1955. Read her essay here → t1p.de/bandung%E2%8...

And a quick post-conference hike to reboot before an intense archive marathon in Swarthmore. Our brains say thank you! @carolienstolte.bsky.social

When the workshop is so good it just keeps going in the taxi and beyond 🙌

New podcast! Listen to Maria Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou talk about gender and the nuclear age. Also, nuclear ballet and other forms of (gendered) protest! Here and on all the platforms: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Join us in Tunis this Friday! Rejoignez-nous à Tunis ce vendredi!

Lots to dig into here! My own piece is in this collection is called “(Mis)remembering Bandung at 70” and argues that today’s invocations of Bandung reveal more about the present than the past.

Scenes from yesterday! Thank you to all who joined the talk! 🙏

📣 Today! Join us! 🕊️

The Doesjenel exhibit at Museum De Lakenhal is now open to the public! Come and see Jaasir, Larissa and Katerina bring their contemporary work in conversation with the building, the period rooms, and each other! Such exciting work 🙌 Details here: www.lakenhal.nl/nl/verhaal/d...

a fascinating 4-year PhD vacancy on the interwar history of blockade & sanctions werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Joining @danielepaolini.bsky.social in Tunis next week to talk about 1960s international peace activism... can't wait!

Really looking forward to this one! 👇Join us! 🕊️

📣 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/...