From Ground Zero is a 2024 anthology film features the work of 22 distinct Palestinian directors, comprising a collection of 22 short films. This diverse compilation includes documentaries, fictional narratives, animations, and experimental pieces that explore the ongoing circumstances faced by the people of Gaza.
4-6 pm Public Roundtable — School II The Contested Black Sea Region, including: Jason Bruder (and my co-organiser), Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, formerly the Senior Staffer for Europe/Eurasia on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a State Department official Michael Cecire, inter alia previously, Senior Policy Adviser, U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in…
Radicalization continues to be addressed in binary (i.e. simplistic) ways, with involvement often considered the product of either “top-down” or “bottom up” processes. Yet these characterizations, and many others like them, have effectively obscured the role of actual recruiters in the process. Even in the smallest of terrorist groups, recruiters continue to be essential for…
Structural shifts in world politics marked by the decline of the West and the accompanying liberal world order and the rise of disparate groups of non-Western emerging powers has prompted fundamental changes in the norms and practices of global governance of peace and security. Within the wider global peace and security agenda, the peacebuilding project…
Dr Andrew Thomson is a Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast and a Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. He is also on the board of the Conflict Research Society. Andrew Thomson’s research interests reside in the areas of conflict analysis, peace studies, political violence, and US…
This year’s Octavia Elfrida Saunders Memorial Lecture will be given by accomplished photographer of international standing, Ingrid Pollard MBE. Ingrid Pollard’s 40-year career as a photographer has queried how images are staged and constructed. Working in and with archives, her work explores how the body is interpreted through gender, sexuality, race, class and beauty, and…
Dr Kate Cronin-Furman (University College London) will discuss her research approach as well as preliminary findings from “Documentation and Denial”, her project exploring how state perpetrators of mass atrocities use denials alongside information access restriction to create a heightened burden of proof on the world stage for victims and their allies. The talk is likely…
Please join us in School 2 at 5pm on the 12th of February for the Institute of Museums, Heritage and Society Annual Lecture given by Dr Sam Alberti, Director of Collections at National Museums Scotland. Abstract: Museums attract millions of people worldwide: but as well as communicating knowledge, their collections are important resources for original…
We are thrilled to welcome Ryan Arey (she/her) from the University of Georgetown, Washington D.C! Ryan oversees all matters pertaining to recruitment, admissions, scholarships, and marketing for the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS). Ryan will be in St Andrews to meet with international relations students interested in pursuing further study at Georgetown. The…
‘The Making and Remaking of Makers of Modern Strategy: war, strategy, and history’ The three editions of Makers of Modern Strategy(1943, 1986, and 2023) have shaped our understanding of war. In this talk, Dr Michael Finch considers the genesis of the ‘Makers project’ and the intellectual biographies of the people who made Makers, reflecting on…