Events

The Centre for War and Peace in the Twentieth Century organises a programme of events every year. More details on our forthcoming and past events can be seen below.

Forthcoming Events:

'How Welfare Impacted Warfare in Twentieth-Century Conflicts', symposium jointly organised with the Military Welfare History Network, 1 February 2024

'South Africa and the World Wars', workshop co-organised with the University of Stellenbosch, 30 April 2024

Recent events:

‘Hiroshima and the Origins of Anti-Nuclear Activism’, international conference hosted by the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University, Japan, 8-9 December 2023

‘Anti-nuclear Movements and Initiatives in Brazil since the End of the Cold War’, international conference hosted by the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil, 26-27 April 2023

‘Anti-nuclear Activism in Africa: A Historical Perspective’, international conference hosted by the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 3-4 April 2023

‘Organising a Resistance Movement: Sweden’s Nuclear Experience in the Late Cold War Period’, international conference hosted by Stockholm University, Sweden, 26 September 2022 

‘Global Anti-Nuclear Activism, Past and Present’, public panel discussion, 26 March 2021

'Global histories of anti-nuclear and peace activism in the late Cold War', international conference, 25-26 March 2021

‘Black Poppies: Britain’s Black Community and the Great War’, lecture and discussion with Stephen Bourne, 26 January 2021

'India, Empire and First World War Culture', lecture and discussion with Professor Santanu Das, 16 November 2020

‘British imperialism in the Middle East during the First World War and its aftermath’, workshop, 5 July 2019

‘Towards an international history of the Strategic Defence Initiative’, international conference, 31 May and 1 June 2019

‘Contested Commemorations: Reflections on the centenary of the First World War, 2013-2019’, symposium, 17 May 2019

‘Humour and the First World War’, workshop, 20 June 2018

‘Nuclear diplomacy in the “Second Cold War”: New perspectives of NATO and the Euromissile Crisis’, workshop, 26 March 2018