Visualising War and Peace
Episodes
Speculative Fiction: NATO 2099
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews Dr Florence Gaub, Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College in Rome. A security expert and futur...
Ancient Warfare on Film
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews Professor Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, based at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, and Professor Lee Brice, f...
Peace and Peacebuilding in ancient Perisia
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews two academics who are part of the newly-founded Ancient Peace Studies Network: Professor John Hyland and Dr Rhyne Ki...
Bearing witness to women's war trauma in ancient Greek tragedy
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Alice interviews Dr Erika Weiberg, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Theater Studies at Duke University. Erika has recent...
Peace and Peacemaking in ancient Greece and Rome
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode dives deep into ancient peace history, as Alice interviews Professor Polly Low, from Durham University, and Dr Hannah Cornwell, from the ...
'Small' violence at the threshold of war and peace, with Lauren Benton
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews Lauren Benton, Professor of History and Law at Yale University. Prof Benton specialises in global legal history and ...
New Perspectives on WarTIME with Beryl Pong
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Universi...
Introducing the Ancient Peace Studies Network
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Visualising War and Peace podcast, guest-host Zofia Guertin speaks with Prof. Alice König about her work expanding the Visuali...
Ancient war stories and their real-world ramifications
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Zofia Guertin interviews Alice König about her recent research on ancient habits of visualising war and peace. Alice has recently c...
The End of Peacekeeping with Marsha Henry
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews Professor Marsha Henry, the Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women, Peace, Security and Justice at the Mitc...
Curating Peace: the role of museums
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews two guests about the 'peace knowledge' produced by different museums. Charlotte Houlahan joins us from Yor...
Narrative Transformation: storytelling for peace
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews Solon Simmons and Audrey Williams who respectively direct and manage The Narrative Transformation Lab. Based at the ...
Between war and peace: military involvement in peacebuilding
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Visualising Peace student Teddy Henderson interviews Lieutenant Colonel Henderson and Major McCord MBE about their experiences and un...
Peace and Politics with Lord Jim Wallace
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Visualising Peace researcher Harris Siderfin interviews Lord Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness, about his career and the relat...
Children, Childhoods and Child-Soldiering: critical lenses on war
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Alice interviews Dr Jana Tabak, an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations at the State University of Rio de ...
Transitional place-making: Palestinian refugee experiences in Lebanon
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a follow-up to an earlier conversation with Anne Lene Stein which focused on peace activism in Israel and Palestine. We invited her ...
AI-enabled military technologies: technology, ethics, trust, storytelling
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Alice interviews two guests, both based at the US Army War College and both researching AI-enabled military technologies. LTC Dr Paul ...
Visualising action: pre-battle speeches in ancient Judaism
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews Dr Joseph Scales, a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Religion, Philosophy and History at the Uni...
Conflict and Identity in ancient Judaism
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews Dr Joseph Scales, a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Religion, Philosophy and History at the Uni...
Visualising a Sustainable Future through Gaming with Mark Wong
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Visualising Peace student Madighan Ryan interviews Dr. Mark Wong, a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Research Methods, and the De...
Peace activism in Israel and Palestine
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews Anne Lene Stein, a PhD Student in the Department of Political Science at Lund University, in Sweden. With a backgrou...
Visualising peace and conflict with J.R.R. Tolkien
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Visualising Peace student Albert Surinach I Campos interviews Prof. Giuseppe Pezzini, Associate Professor of Latin Language and Liter...
Principled Impartiality and Accompaniment in Peacebuilding
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Visualising Peace student Robert Rayner interviews Debby Flack. Debby served as an Ecumenical Accompanier (EA) with EAPPI in Palestin...
War-to-Peace transitions with Jaremey McMullin
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews Dr Jaremey McMullin, a Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. Jar...
Visualising the Thirty Years' War with Steve Murdoch
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews Prof. Steve Murdoch, Head of Military History at the Swedish Defence University. Before taking up that role, Steve w...
Peace and post-trauma recovery in Northern Ireland
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Visualising Peace students Otilia and Harris interview Johanna McMullan and Paul Gallagher who are trained educators at the Widows Ag...
Peace and Conflict in Jivana Yoga
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Otilia interviews Jonathan Fisher, a founding member of the Sadvidya Foundation, which works to preserve ancient Eastern teachings of...
Taking love and care seriously in peace and conflict studies
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Visualising Peace student Otilia Meden interviews Dr Roxani Krystalli, a lecturer in International Relations at the University of St ...
A short tour of our virtual Museum of Peace
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Images at war: conflict, peace and photography in Sri Lanka
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews Dr Vindhya Buthpitiya, a St Andrews-based anthropologist who works at the intersection between conflict and visual c...
Migration, Mobility and Place with Elena Isayev
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode continues our exploration of forced migration by discussing ancient concepts of mobility, migration and place with Prof. Elena Isayev. An...
Refugee Integration through Language and the Arts with Alison Phipps
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 P...
Mediation and Migration: from Odesa to Dundee with Hanna Dushkova
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is part of a mini series exploring forced displacement as one of the many legacies of conflict. Alice interviews Hanna Dushkova, a Ukrain...
The Ungrateful Refugee with Dina Nayeri
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
'In the Wars' with Dr Waheed Arian
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Photographing forced displacement with Dijana Muminovic
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is part of a mini series exploring forced displacement as one of the many legacies of conflict. Alice interviews Dijana Muminovic, a Bo...
Combating Reductive Refugee Narratives with Lina Fadel
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Assi...
From Poland to Scotland in the wake of World War II
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is part of our mini series, exploring forced displacement as one of the many legacies of conflict. Research Assistant Dr Martyna Majewska...
Visualising Forced Migration through history
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode kicks off a new series of podcasts exploring how we visualise forced displacement, one of the many legacies of war. Alice interviews arti...
Generation Peace: the power of storytelling in peace education
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, student Harris Siderfin (a member of the Visualising Peace project) explores the role that youth-focused storytelling can play in red...
Peace and Conflict in Space
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, two students from our Visualising Peace project - Harris Siderfin and Otilia Meden - talk to experts on space security. Dr A...
The Militarisation of Childhood with J. Marshall Beier
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode continues our mini-series looking at how children are socialised into recurring habits of visualising war and peace. Alice interviews Pro...
Visualising Young People as Peacemakers with Helen Berents
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Alice interviews Dr Helen Berents, a senior research fellow in the School of Justice at the Queensland University of Technology in Bri...
Civilian Resistance in Ukraine, 2014-2022, with Olga Boichak
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 S...
How can children and young people help us re-visualise war?
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Please note: this episode was recorded before recent events in Ukraine. We stand in solidarity with everyone caught up in this terrible conflict, and ...
Visualising The Next World War with Peter W. Singer and August Cole
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice interviews two well-known authors and policy advisers on Future warfare: Peter Warren Singer and August Cole. Peter...
Visualising War on Film with David LaRocca
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice interviews Dr David LaRocca, a philosopher by training but also an author and expert on cinema. Among other publica...
Visualising War through Cosplay with Katarina Birkedal
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s podcast continues our mini-series on visualising war through gaming. Alice and Nicolas’s guest is Dr Katarina Birkedal, who holds a Ph...
World of Warcraft with Taliesin and Evitel
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our postdoctoral research assistant Katarina Birkedal (2020-21) interviews Taliesin and Evitel, the couple behind the YouTube and Twi...
Visualisations of War in Online Gaming with Iain Donald
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast, Alice and Nicolas talk with Dr Iain Donald. Iain is a Senior Lecturer in Game Production at Abertay University. His research...
Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice with Roddy Brett
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews Dr Roddy Brett, an expert on political violence and peacebuilding based at the University of Bristol. Roddy’s rese...
The Just War Tradition with Anthony Lang Jr and Rory Cox
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Alice and Nicolas interview two University of St Andrews colleagues, Prof. Anthony Lang Jr of the School of International Relations,...
Painting Invisible Threats with Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice interviews award-winning artist Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox. Kathryn started painting as a child, selling her first pi...
The Art of Peace with Teresa Ó Brádaigh Bean, Lydia Cole and Azadeh Sobout
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice interviews three researchers - Teresa Ó Brádaigh Bean, Lydia Cole, and Azadeh Sobout - who are involved in the Ar...
Conflict Textiles with Roberta Bacic
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice interviews Roberta Bacic, a Chilean collector, curator and Human Rights advocate, about the ‘Conflict Textiles‘...
War Reportage and Stories of Migration with artist George Butler
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice interviews award-winning artist George Butler. George's art covers a huge range of topics, but he specialises ...
‘Sorry for the War’: photographer Peter van Agtmael's take on the US at war
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Visualising War podcast recently interviewed award-winning photographer Peter van Agtmael. Over a career spanning 20 years, Peter has focused on r...
War and Peace Reporting in Afghanistan
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews journalists Margaux Benn and Noorrahman Rahmani, about their experiences of war and peace reporting in Afghanistan. ...
The Poetics of Rome’s Punic Wars
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast, Alice and Nicolas talk with Dr Thomas Biggs, a lecturer in Latin at the School of Classics at St Andrews, about Roman repres...
Ancient Greek warfare and its influence on modern habits of visualising war
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice talks to Drs Owen Rees and Roel Konijnendijk, two experts on ancient Greek warfare and its enduring influence. Owen has written...
Visualising Future Conflict through Storytelling with Matthew Brown, Emily Spiers and Will Slocombe
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice talks to Dr Emily Spiers, who is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Futures at Lancaster University; Dr Will Slocombe, a Senior Lect...
How War Disrupts the Experience of Time with Julian Wright
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice talks to Prof. Julian Wright, a historian of modern Europe and Head of the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University. ...
Re-presenting well-known conflicts at the Imperial War Museums: World War II and the Holocaust
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Alice and Nicolas return to the Imperial War Museum, with the second episode of our mini-series on the recently redesigned WWI, WWII and Hol...
Strategy-making and/as Storytelling with Phillips O’Brien
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast, Alice and Nicolas discuss strategy with Prof. Phillips O’Brien. Phil joined the School of International Relations at the U...
Re-presenting well-known conflicts at the Imperial War Museums: World War I
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Alice and Nicolas have a special treat for you: the first episode of a two-part mini-series on the Imperial War Museum’s recently redesign...
Gallipoli to the Somme: musical responses to WW1 with Kate Kennedy and Anthony Ritchie
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice talks to acclaimed composer Dr Anthony Ritchie about his oratorio 'Gallipoli to the Somme', which was commissioned fo...
War, knowledge and narrative from Napoleon to today
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice and Nicolas interview Prof. Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmar...
Documenting war and promoting peace in Mosul with Omar Mohammed / Mosul Eye
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews historian Dr Omar Mohammed, founder of the acclaimed Mosul Eye blog. When ISIS captured Mosul in 2014, Omar began po...
Warfare in the Digital Age with Donatella Della Ratta
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
‘The non-violent Syrian uprising that turned into an armed conflict was born digital and networked from the very moment an unarmed activist used a s...
Visualising Peace with Frank Möller
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice and Nicolas interview Dr Frank Möller, a researcher at the Tampere Peace Research Institute, Finland. Frank studies peace phot...
Afghanistan past, present and future
28 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews a journalist from Afghanistan about the events of August 2021, when the Taliban seized control of the country. They ...
Reading and Treating War Wounds with Emily Mayhew
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice talks to Dr Emily Mayhew, a historian of medicine at Imperial College, London. Emily specialises in the study of se...
War Documentaries with Sam Taplin
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice and Nicolas talk to producer and director Sam Taplin about representations of war in TV documentaries. Sam has work...
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting with Anthony Borden
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice interviews Anthony Borden, Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Founded 30 ...
Achilles on Stage with Ewan Downie
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice and Nicolas interview Ewan Downie, an actor, writer, director and co-founder of the Company of Wolves, a laboratory theatre com...
Staging Ancient and Modern War Stories with NMT Automatics
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice and Nicolas interview members of NMT Automatics, a theatre company which specialises in updating ancient myths for modern audie...
Ancient Warfare Magazine with Jasper Oorthuys and Murray Dahm
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice and Nicolas interview the editors of Ancient Warfare Magazine - Jasper Oorthuys and Murray Dahm. Founded in 2007, Ancient Warfa...
War in Children’s Books with Jill Calder, James Robertson and Jim Hutcheson
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice interviews artist Jill Calder, author James Robertson and illustrator/book designer Jim Hutcheson, who is Creative Director at...
War Writing from Antiquity to the 21st Century with Prof. Kate McLoughlin
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice and Nicolas interview Prof. Kate McLoughlin. A Professor of English at Oxford University and Tutorial Fellow at Harris Manchest...
Let’s Play: War, From Rome’s Gladiators to Warhammer
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are the cultural legacies of visualising war through wargames? Wargames are not a new phenomenon; in military exercises, as tactical plays test...
Wargaming in a Brave New World
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do crisis simulations help us understand strategy and decision-making processes? Crisis simulation exercises can take many forms, from complex l...
Letters That You Will Not Get: Women’s Voices from the Great War
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice and Nicolas interview librettist Susan Werbe and composer Kirsten Volness about musical representations of war. In ...
Soldier On and the Soldiers’ Arts Academy with Jonathan Guy Lewis
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice and Nicolas interview actor and playwright Jonathan Guy Lewis. Jonny joined the army on leaving university, but ill...
Anatomy of a Soldier with author and artist Harry Parker
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice and Nicolas interview Harry Parker, an artist, former army officer, and author of Anatomy of a Soldier - a creative...
5 Soldiers on Stage with dancer and choreographer Rosie Kay
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice and Nicolas interview dancer and choreographer Rosie Kay. Rosie began dancing at the age of three, founding the Ros...
Why We Fight: causes of conflict with Mike Martin
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice and Nicolas interview Dr Mike Martin, author of An Intimate War: an Oral History of the Helmand Conflict, 1978-2012...
Framing War at the Imperial War Museum with Eleanor Head
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice and Nicolas interview Eleanor Head, the Head of the Imperial War Museum's Institute. The Imperial War Museum i...
Iraqi Women, Art and War with Rana Ibrahim
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice and Nicolas interview Iraqi artist Rana Ibrahim. Rana trained as an archaeologist and museum curator; but her child...
Reading Trajan's Column with Jon Coulston
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice and Nicolas interview Roman historian Dr Jon Coulston. Jon is an expert on Roman military culture and ancient repre...
Capturing Conflict on Camera with Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice and Nicolas interview photojournalist Hugh Kinsella Cunningham. Hugh has spent the past two years documenting human...
Art and War with Diana Forster
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Alice and Nicolas interview artist Diana Forster. Diana has created some extraordinary conflict art based around her moth...
Never Such Innnocence with Lady Lucy French
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice and Nicolas interview Lady Lucy French, OBE, about Never Such Innocence, a charity she founded in 2014 to give children and you...
Digging in to the Visualising War project: Roundtable
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice and Nicolas introduce their colleagues Dr. Laura Mills and Dr. Ken Mavor, who are part of the Visualising War research team at ...
Introducing the Visualising War Project
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Visualising War podcast! In our introductory episode, Dr. Alice König and Dr. Nicolas Wiater explain what their exciting multidiscipli...