Events
PNRG organises research seminars and other bespoke events. Please see the details below.
What makes a Pacifist? Reflections on Rengger's biography.
6 November 2024 1pm Hybrid
Research seminar with Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (含羞草视频): "What makes a Pacifist? Reflections on Rengger's biography".
If building states make things worse, is anarchy better? Reflections on anarchist peacebuilding.
5 February 2025 1pm Hybrid
Research seminar with Professor Alex Prichard (University of Exeter): "If building states make things worse, is anarchy better? Reflections on anarchist peacebuilding".
Pacifism and Nonviolence Workshop
23-25 April 2025 Online
Three-day online workshop hosted by 含羞草视频’s Institute of Advanced Studies for scholars from around the globe to present and discuss draft papers for potential submission to the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence.
TBC
21 May 2025 1pm Hybrid
Research seminar with Dr Elisa Piras (Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research). Title to follow.
Past Events
The Relevance of Gandhian Nonviolence
22 October 2024 5:30pm Hybrid - WAVB01 and Online
IRPH Guest Lecture by Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo (Jindal Global University) titled: "The Relevance of Gandhian Nonviolence". Hosted by the Department of International Relations, Politics and History.
The Spatio-Temporal Violence of the Longue Dur茅e
24 April 2024 2pm Hybrid
Research seminar with Dr Louise Ridden (Tampere University): “The Spatio-Temporal Violence of the Longue Durée.”
Pacifism and Nonviolence Workshop
16-18 April 2024 Online
Three-day online workshop hosted by 含羞草视频’s Institute of Advanced Studies for scholars from around the globe to present and discuss draft papers for potential submission to the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence.
Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group
27 November 2023 4pm Hybrid
The first of seven weekly sessions of a Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion group. Further details here.
The Challenges of Pacifism and Nonviolence in the Twenty-First Century.
18 October 2023 5pm Hybrid
Journal launch event for the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence. Included Guest lecture by IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Richard Jackson (University of Otago), Guest Speaker Professor Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (Aberystwyth University), and IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Felicity Gray (Nonviolent Peaceforce).
Sandpit on Pacifism and Nonviolence
30 May 2023 11am In-person
Sandpit sponsored by Challenges to Democracy and the Public Sphere (CHADS) and Hidden Voices, Contested Pasts bringing together 含羞草视频 colleagues with research interests in the area.
Pacifism and Nonviolence Workshop
19-21 April 2023 Online
Three-day online workshop hosted by 含羞草视频’s Institute of Advanced Studies for scholars from around the globe to present and discuss draft papers for potential submission to the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence.
Nonviolent Protest and Resistance (Part 2)
15 September 2022 4pm Hybrid
This double seminar brought together a group of scholars to analyse different dimensions and examples of nonviolent protest and resistance, including, in the first seminar: civil resistance in Thailand, the constructive resistance of the #MeToo movement, the challenges faced by today’s social movements, and the idea of rebellion; and in the second seminar: nonviolence and cooperative power, the constructive resistance of nonviolent struggles, and Gandhian nonviolence.
Featuring the following talks:
- Dr Iain Atack, University of Dublin (Ireland) - Nonviolence and Cooperative Power
- Prof Stellan Vinthagen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA) - Constructive Resistance: Combining the YES and NO in Nonviolent Struggles
- Prof Ramin Jahanbegloo, O.P. Jindal Global University (India) - Gandhian Nonviolence: Reconciling Ethics and Politics
- Dr Javier Argomaniz, University of St Andrews - Civil resistance to non-state violence: the case of Basque Country
Nonviolent Protest and Resistance (Part 1)
15 September 2022 1pm Hybrid
This double seminar brought together a group of scholars to analyse different dimensions and examples of nonviolent protest and resistance, including, in the first seminar: civil resistance in Thailand, the constructive resistance of the #MeToo movement, the challenges faced by today’s social movements, and the idea of rebellion; and in the second seminar: nonviolence and cooperative power, the constructive resistance of nonviolent struggles, and Gandhian nonviolence.
Featuring the following talks:
- Dr Janjira Sombatpoonsiri, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) - Civil resistance in the shadow of digital repression: Insights from Thailand
- Prof Mona Lilja, University of Gothenburg (Sweden) - The constructive resistance of the #MeToo movement
- Dr Michael Loadenthal, University of Cincinnati (USA) - From Terrorization to riotization: Challenges for today's social movements
- Dr Chris Rossdale, University of Bristol (UK) - The Limits of Rebellion
Militarism
20 June 2022 3pm Hybrid
This seminar brought together a group of scholars to discuss various facets of militarism, including faith in the institutions of violence, how political philosophers overlook militarism, wargaming in the US military, and militarisation in Palestine.
Featuring the following talks:
- Dr Ned Dobos, UNSW Canberra (Australia) - Militarism and Faith in the Institutions of Violence
- Prof Cheyney Ryan, University of Oxford (UK) - How Political Philosophers Ignore Militarism
- Dr Aggie Hirst, King's College London (UK) - The Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US military
- Dr Marwan Darweish, Coventry University (UK) - Growing Militarisation in Palestine
Responding to Violence
20 June 2022, 11am Hybrid
This seminar brought together a group of scholars to examine more closely a range of concrete examples of responses to violence, including in civilian protection initiatives, with military defectors, and in responses to ‘killer robots’ and to counterinsurgency.
Featuring the following talks:
- Dr Molly Wallace, Portland University (USA) - Credible messengers, formers and military refusers: Former fighters as resources for violence and war prevention
- Prof Rachel Julian, Leeds Beckett University (UK) - Community-led protection from violence in Mindanao: how civilians are using nonviolence to be more secure
- Dr Naomi Head, University of Glasgow (UK) - Responding to counterinsurgency: Female Engagement and ‘Hearts and Minds’ in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Dr Jeremy Moses, University of Canterbury (New Zealand) - That human dignity of having a human decide to kill you
The Cult of Violence in Politics
29 April 2022 11am Hybrid
This seminar brought together a group of scholars to consider a variety of critiques of common rationalisations for violence and pacifist responses to it.
Featuring the following talks:
- Prof Richard Jackson, Otago University (New Zealand) - Pacifism and the Cult of Violence in Counterterrorism
- Prof Kimberly Hutchings, Queen Mary University of London (UK) - What is Peace Time
- Dr Helen Dexter, University of Leicester (UK) - Deferred Pacifism
- Prof Paul Rogers, University of Bradford (UK) - Systemic Ill-preparedness: The Cult of Violence in the Face of Climate Breakdown and Pandemics
Memories of Violence
28 April 2022 3pm Hybrid
This seminar brought together a group of scholars to reflect on the way violence is remembered and commemorated from the World Wars to the climate crisis.
Featuring the following talks:
- Dr Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, 含羞草视频 (UK) - Contesting the Red Poppy Today: A Pacifist Critique of Dominant Remembrance Commemorations
- Dr Peter Yeandle, 含羞草视频 (UK) - “Honour the Dead, Serve the Living”: Poppy Politics in Britain in the 1920s and ‘30s
- Dr Mathias Thaler, University of Edinburgh (UK) - Commemorating Loss in the Age of Slow Violence
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence Editorial Board Workshop
27 September 2021 9am Online
This closed workshop brought together most Editorial Board members of the anticipated Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence to discuss the journal’s remit.