Visualising War and Peace
How do war stories work? And what do they do to us? Join University of St Andrews historian Alice König and colleagues as they explore how war and peace get presented in art, text, film and music. With the help of expert guests, they unpick conflict stories from all sorts of different periods and places. And they ask how the tales we tell and the pictures we paint of peace and war influence us as individuals and shape the societies we live in.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 89
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Peace and post-trauma recovery in Northern Ireland
In this episode, Visualising Peace students Otilia and Harris interview Johanna McMullan and Paul Gallagher who are trained educators at the Widows Against Violence Empowerment (WAVE) Centre. WAVE is…
Peace and Conflict in Jivana Yoga
In this episode, Otilia interviews Jonathan Fisher, a founding member of the Sadvidya Foundation, which works to preserve ancient Eastern teachings of yogic philosophy. These teachings aim to promote…
Taking love and care seriously in peace and conflict studies
In this episode, Visualising Peace student Otilia Meden interviews Dr Roxani Krystalli, a lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. Roxani's work covers a broad range of to…
A short tour of our virtual Museum of Peace
In this episode, Alice introduces the Visualising Peace project's virtual Museum of Peace. (To listen to the tour with a set of images showcasing some of the museum's contents, please follow this lin…
Images at war: conflict, peace and photography in Sri Lanka
In this episode, Alice interviews Dr Vindhya Buthpitiya, a St Andrews-based anthropologist who works at the intersection between conflict and visual culture. Her research focuses particularly on the …
Migration, Mobility and Place with Elena Isayev
This episode continues our exploration of forced migration by discussing ancient concepts of mobility, migration and place with Prof. Elena Isayev. An ancient historian by training, Elena's early res…
Refugee Integration through Language and the Arts with Alison Phipps
This episode is part of a mini series exploring forced displacement as one of the many legacies of conflict. Alice interviews Prof. Alison Phipps, a Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies a…
Mediation and Migration: from Odesa to Dundee with Hanna Dushkova
This episode is part of a mini series exploring forced displacement as one of the many legacies of conflict. Alice interviews Hanna Dushkova, a Ukrainian lawyer and trained mediator who left Ukraine …
The Ungrateful Refugee with Dina Nayeri
This episode is part of a mini series exploring forced displacement as one of the many legacies of conflict. Alice interviews Dina Nayeri, an author and lecturer in creative writing at the University…
'In the Wars' with Dr Waheed Arian
This episode is part of a mini series exploring forced displacement as one of the many legacies of conflict. Alice interviews Dr Waheed Arian, author of In the Wars – an autobiography, published in 2…
Photographing forced displacement with Dijana Muminovic
This episode is part of a mini series exploring forced displacement as one of the many legacies of conflict. Alice interviews Dijana Muminovic, a Bosnian-American documentary photographer who focuse…
Combating Reductive Refugee Narratives with Lina Fadel
This episode is part of a mini series exploring forced displacement as one of the many legacies of conflict. Alice interviews Dr Lina Fadel, an Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University. With a …
From Poland to Scotland in the wake of World War II
This episode is part of our mini series, exploring forced displacement as one of the many legacies of conflict. Research Assistant Dr Martyna Majewska interviews artist Mateusz (Mat) Fahrenholz, who …
Visualising Forced Migration through history
This episode kicks off a new series of podcasts exploring how we visualise forced displacement, one of the many legacies of war. Alice interviews artist Diana Forster about her new art installation, …
Generation Peace: the power of storytelling in peace education
In this episode, student Harris Siderfin (a member of the Visualising Peace project) explores the role that youth-focused storytelling can play in reducing conflict and promoting the building blocks …
Peace and Conflict in Space
In this week’s episode, two students from our Visualising Peace project - Harris Siderfin and Otilia Meden - talk to experts on space security.
Dr Adam Bower is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Int…
The Militarisation of Childhood with J. Marshall Beier
This episode continues our mini-series looking at how children are socialised into recurring habits of visualising war and peace. Alice interviews Prof. J. Marshall Beier, who is Undergraduate Chair …
Visualising Young People as Peacemakers with Helen Berents
In this podcast Alice interviews Dr Helen Berents, a senior research fellow in the School of Justice at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
Helen’s research focuses on the…
Civilian Resistance in Ukraine, 2014-2022, with Olga Boichak
Alice's guest on this podcast is Dr Olga Boichak, a Ukrainian-born sociologist who works as a lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney.
Editor of the Digital War Journal, Olga’s parti…
How can children and young people help us re-visualise war?
Please note: this episode was recorded before recent events in Ukraine. We stand in solidarity with everyone caught up in this terrible conflict, and our thoughts are particularly with its youngest v…