Welcome
Over the past three years, our student team has developed The Visualising Peace Library, an online database of bibliographic references designed to promote cross-disciplinary conversations about peace and peace-building.
The Visualising Peace Library has two core aims. Firstly, it represents a footprint for our various research projects – in particular, our Museum of Peace and the series of reports, blogs, short films and interactive tools published on our project website. Secondly, it is designed not just to reflect the research that we have been doing but also to stimulate and expand future research. In bringing together a wide range of publications, from different disciplines and sectors, we aim to stretch and inspire new habits of studying, learning and thinking about peace.
We are building a growing portfolio of blogs and presentations to complement the resources we have gathered together in the Visualising Peace Library. Students from different disciplines have taken time to highlight particular items or connections and contrasts between items which have struck them as offering fresh insights into peace or peace-building. We hope that you find these stimulating as you explore the wider Library.
You can browse the resources we have gathered together via the Library button below, or click on Learning Journeys to be guided through some of our resources by members of the Visualising Peace team. You can also dip into a ‘pot luck’ selection of our latest library entries at the bottom of this page, and explore some of the themes we cover via the cloud of ‘tags’ on the right.
Habsburg’s Last War in Austrian films, 1918 to the present
Leidinger, Hannes. 2018. University of New Orleans Press. This article presents an analysis of the appearance of Habsburg monarchs and the pre-World War I Austrian Empire which was common…
Writing the dismembered nation: The aesthetics of horror in Iraqi narratives of war
Bahoora, Haytham. 2015. The Arab Studies Journal 23, no. 1: 184-208. Bahoora presents a discussion of three Iraqi novels (Luay Hamza Abbas’s Closing His Eyes, Hassan Blasim’s The Reality and…
Waltz with Bashir (2008): trauma and representation in the animated documentary
Kraemer, Joseph A. 2015. Journal of Film and Video 67, no. 3-4: 57-68. Kraemer argues the animation in Waltz With Bashir (2008) softens the real violence and atrocities committed…
What to do when you have the power; in the meantime, remember to skylark!
Vonnegut, Kurt. 2016. In If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? Edited by Dan Wakefield. New York: Seven Stories Press. A 1970 commencement speech from Kurt Vonnegut, in which…
“I Never Knew the Old Vienna”: Cold War Politics and “The Third Man.”
Carpenter, Lynette. 1986. Film criticism 11, no. 1/2: 56-65. Lynette Carpenter argues the 1949 film The Third Man serves as a warning to European political powers about the dangers…
More, Huxley, Eggers, and the utopian/dystopian tradition
Herman, Peter C. 2018. Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 41, no. 3: 165-193. Peter C. Herman argues that Thomas More’s novel Utopia, Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, and…
COMING OUT AS JEWISH: To Be or Not to Be, 1942
McCormick, Rick. 2020. In Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch, 282–307. Indiana University Press. In this book chapter, Rick McCormick discusses Ernst Lubitch’s 1942…
SCREWBALL POLITICS: American Populism and European Politics, 1935–41
McCormick, Rick. 2020. In Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch, 244–81. Indiana University Press. McCormick provides an analysis of the three most popular films…
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