Visualising War and Peace

About 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.

Publisher

The University of St Andrews

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Apr 2021

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

98 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Long After the Labyrinth - a peace play

   In this episode, Alice interviews theatre makers Jennie Dunne and Jonathan D'Young about their new play, Long After the Labyrinth, which draws on ancient myth to explore post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding today. As the episode explains, the Ancient Peace Studies Network at the University of St Andrews has teamed up with theatre company NMT Automatics to create an epic new play inspired by the myth of the Minotaur and the true tale of the lost Jews of Crete. A gripping narrative told via...

2. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Hybrid peace in ancient Mesopotamia - what omens can tell us

   In this episode Alice interviews Dr Seth Richardson, who is based at the University of Chicago and Managing Editor of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies. Seth’s research focuses on ancient Mesopotamia, and ranges widely over political and economic history, theories of state sovereignty, legitimacy, rebellion and insurgency, and all kinds of violence from war to non-state and community-level violence. He has published many articles and co-authored several books, including – most recently – ‘M...

3. 

   7 Sept 2026

   Visualising Troy beyond the warfighting

   In this episode Alice interviews Dr Stephan Blum, a Research Associate at the Institute for Prehistory, Early History and Medieval Archaeology, at the University of Tübingen. Stephan is a member of the Troy Project, a long-running archaeological collaboration between the universities of Cincinnati and Tübingen, designed to shed more light on the physical remains and social history of one of the ancient world’s most evocative places. Stephan is also a member of the Ancient Peace Studies Networ...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 24 / 100

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Quality

27

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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