Small Peace

Tag: Peacebuilding

  • Alienation-building. Counterintuitive Art Initiatives Against Culture Wars in Contemporary Poland

    Jörg Scheller was invited by the University of Groningen (NL) to present and discuss art projects from present-day Poland that oppose the rampant polarization between internationally oriented left-wing liberals and nationally oriented right-wing conservatives. His lecture “Alienation-building. Counterintuitive Art Initiatives Against Culture Wars in Contemporary Poland” focused on artists (a.o. Daniel Rycharski and Jana Shostak)…

  • Disposable Hero? Heavy Metal as Peacebuilding

    Jörg Scheller published a new article in the edited volume “Meta/Metal. Open Questions in Metal Studies“. “Disposable Hero? Heavy Metal as Peacebuilding” is connected to our research project’s interest in popular culture as a – possible – site for (implicit) peacebuilding. The article argues that heavy metal can not only enable catharsis but can also…

  • Art and Peace – Roundtable Discussion

    In this public event, Advisory Board member Gwen Burnyeat (political anthropologist, University of Edinburgh) presented her recent book, “The Face of Peace – Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia” . In the following discussion, Advisory Board member Jarosław Lubiak (researcher, Szczecin Art Academy), Jörg Scheller (art historian, Institute for Contemporary Art Research, ZHdK), Rana Yazaji (co-director CAS…

  • The research project featured in “Horizonte. Das Schweizer Forschungsmagazin”

    Jörg Scheller spoke with the Swiss National Science Foundation’s magazine about our research in (Central) Eastern Europe: “When people can openly address conflicts and criticise them, then things are generally more peaceful there than elsewhere.” Link to the article